# Which fictional mystery would you like to be solved? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498 "2017-01-18T22:50:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/81 "2017-01-21T02:38:15Z")
How can a man, or more precisely, a _soul man_, learn how to love before he could eat? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/82 "2017-01-21T04:53:57Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > Who shot Nice Guy Eddie (Reservoir Dogs)? Mr. White. A frame-by-frame viewing shows that he fires two shots. One into Joe Cabot, and one into Eddie. The confusion is Harvey Keitel’s fault. He doesn’t bring his arm up enough to show it convincingly. Or, according to [this](http://www.pulpfiction.com/reservoir-dogs-nice-guy-eddie), it’s a mistake, and no one does. but then why would there be a squib on Chris Penn? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/83 "2017-01-21T04:57:51Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > What was the deal with The Colorado Kid? Don’t give me any of that Haven lore. That doesn’t count. FWIW, the [mystery](http://ciphermysteries.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man) that inspired _The Colorado Kid_ was never solved, either. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/84 "2017-01-21T05:03:15Z")
Who killed Edwin Drood? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/85 "2017-01-21T06:17:36Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > How can a man, or more precisely, a _soul man_, learn how to love before he could eat? Well, he’d have to be educated from good stock, that’s for damn sure. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/86 "2017-01-21T06:36:21Z")
> [@Karen\_X2](#): > > What WAS the frequency, Kenneth? That one’s [not fictional…and also has (possibly) been solved](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#.22Kenneth.2C_what_is_the_frequency.3F.22) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/87 "2017-01-21T09:00:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Much of his backstory is explained in [the comic books](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(comics)#The_Shepherd.27s_Tale), although I can’t remember off the top of my head what was said about the Operative if anything. I don’t recall that much, or anything, was said specifically in the backstory comics about operatives. Shepherd Book was so wildly successful in his undercover role in the war that he knew a great deal about how the Alliance operated. He may have known a lot, or just a few things, about operatives specifically, but since he rose so high in the Alliance ranks, even if he didn’t know much, he could make very educated ‘guesses’ to fill in some blanks. Personally, I think he knew a fair bit about operatives. After all, it was his job to ferret out info, and he ended up in a position of power and trust. For years, people have posited that he WAS an operative in the war. Even since the comic backstory, I’ve read someone insist the comics were wrong. :dubious: I don’t know how you can claim canon is wrong, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/88 "2017-01-21T15:00:09Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Who was the queen the jester sang for? > [@JKellyMap](#): > > Joan Baez? She dated Dylan. > [@drad\_dog](#): > > He sang for the _ **king** _ and queen. So who was the king then? I can’t see the king and queen as Elvis and Joannie. Doesn’t really work. I had the same thought myself. I think McLean used “queen” because it goes with “king” (Elvis) and he needed a rhyme for “James Dean,” who is the only person mentioned by their full name in the whole song. “While Lenin (Lennon) read a book on Marx” could refer to Vladmir or John and Karl or one of the Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/89 "2017-01-21T15:39:18Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > So why _is_ a raven like a writing-desk? Both are NEVAR seen back-to-front. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/90 "2017-01-21T16:11:51Z")
How can I get, or develop, a pompatus of love? A list of all the ingredients for ‘Lobster a la Riseholme’ would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/91 "2017-01-21T16:29:55Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > That one’s [not fictional…and also has (possibly) been solved](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#.22Kenneth.2C_what_is_the_frequency.3F.22) From your cite: > [@](#): > > In 1997, a TV critic writing in the New York Daily News solved the mystery, publishing a photo of the alleged assailant, William Tager, who received a  12 1⁄2 to 25-year prison sentence for killing NBC stagehand Campbell Montgomery outside The Today Show studio in 1994.[95] Rather confirmed the story: “There’s no doubt in my mind that this is the person.”[95] New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said, “William Tager’s identity as the man who attacked Mr. Rather was established in the course of an investigation by my office.”[96] Tager claimed he thought television networks were beaming signals into his brain;[97] when he murdered the stagehand, Tager was trying to force his way into a CBS studio with a weapon, in order to find out the frequency the networks were using to attack him, so that he could block it. As to why he said “Kenneth”, Tager was Jewish, and may have actually been using the Yiddish word “goniff”, meaning “thief”.[98] Tager was paroled in October 2010 and is believed to be living in New York City. So he’s on the loose again. We may have to start beaming those signals in to keep him from becoming violent. We lack a crucial piece of information. So the question is still unanswered – What _IS_ the frequency? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/92 "2017-01-21T16:43:53Z")
Did we ever get the skinny on Fonzie’s parents? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/93 "2017-01-21T16:59:06Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Did we ever get the skinny on Fonzie’s parents? Fonzie’s mother was referenced, and possibly appeared in an episode-- the Cunninghams initially fixed up their attic as an apartment for Fonzie’s mother, because she was living with him (Fonzie) and driving him crazy. Somehow, Fonzie ended up in the attic, and his mother took his old apartment. How the hell do I remember that? More important is, what happened to Napoleon Dynamite’s parents? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/94 "2017-01-21T17:05:38Z")
Uncle Rico ate them. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/95 "2017-01-21T19:25:06Z")
Fonzie’s father left when Fonzie was a child. In a later episode, Fonzie’s unknown half brother turns up, saying the father recently died. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/96 "2017-01-22T01:20:04Z")
Elvis, of course, was the King. According to reports that I’ve heard, the “Queen” was Little Richard. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/97 "2017-01-22T02:16:14Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > In the “Moonlighting” tv Series the Anselmo case was mentioned early on (first episode I think) and when it finally ground to a halt, they noted it was never solved The Pederasty case? They caught the guy, but the punk got away. No thanks to that Danger character… ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/98 "2017-01-22T02:18:00Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > How can a man, or more precisely, a _soul man_, learn how to love before he could eat? You obviously weren’t brought up on a side street. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/99 "2017-01-22T02:28:02Z")
I’ve always wanted to know what caused all the men to die in Y: The Last Man, though I think BKV had a good reason for never divulging the cause (and whatever it ended up being would probably feel lamer than the mystery itself). ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-mystery-would-you-like-to-be-solved/777498/100 "2017-01-22T14:07:39Z")
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