
2023 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool - The Game Room - Straight Dope
Dec 1, 2022 · It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! This past year has been a strange one, in many different ways, and 2023 hopefully will be better. Okay, as usual, let’s get the rules out of the way and get to playing. The Rules: You pick 13 celebrities (that’s thirteen, not ten) whom you predict will die within the calendar year 2023. If any of …
What was Phys Ed/Gym like in your school? - Straight Dope
Jan 13, 2025 · I’m assuming we all had to suffer thru this class in high school. For reference, please include when and where you attended. And I’ll start. Baltimore county public schools - high school was '69-'72. PE was mandatory every year. Boys and girls were segregated - no cross contamination allowed! We had uniforms. I don’t remember what the boys wore, since I never saw them - duh! Girls had to ...
What Was Your First Day At University Like? - Straight Dope
Dec 22, 2024 · My first day of classes was as follows. I studied at the University of Toronto and, being from Toronto, lived at home while doing so. I kind of remember the day as if in a dream. I think I woke up early and full of forward-thinking enthusiasm, and caught the subway in North York to get to Bloor-Yonge, a central interchange station in downtown Toronto. I remember looking Westward down Yonge ...
People in vegetative states - Great Debates - Straight Dope
Dec 5, 2011 · The attempted intervention by Governor Jeb Bush, the US Congress, and even President George HW Bush takes the case into the realm of ridiculous. While it is understandable that the parents were loath to bid farewell to their daughter, they simply should have stepped aside and let Terri’s husband make whatever legal decisions he felt necessary.
Hearts in Atlantis movie thread (spoilers) - Straight Dope
Oct 2, 2001 · So what’d you think? I thought it was passable. Anthony Hopkins, as usual, was outstanding. Anton Yelchin (the main character) did a pretty good job too (laid back, not too melodramatic). I got the feeling that the movie was trying very hard to be nostalgic but it never really hit the right note. King likes to write about childhood friends growing up in the early '60s (“The Body” and ...
Were DRAGNET Episodes Really Based On True Stories?
Feb 3, 2003 · I’m pretty sure they weren’t…but then how did Jack get away with saying they were? Please don’t cite the episode about the King assassination–I wanna know if a doped-up couple really did let their baby drown in a bathtu…
Rabbits & Carrots - Factual Questions - Straight Dope
Feb 13, 2020 · It seems pretty well accepted that carrots (other than the leafy part) are not a natural food for rabbits and they shouldn’t be fed too much of it. (e.g. here, but all other sources I’ve seen seem consistent about this.) Question then is how this myth would have gotten started. A lot of sources (e.g. here) attribute it to Bugs Bunny, and …
2025 [THEMED] Celebrity Death Pool - Straight Dope
Dec 3, 2024 · NOTE: As we started in 2019, Themed Death Pool Lists will be posted and tracked in a separate thread. If you are looking for the 2024 Celebrity Death Pool thread, click here phungi (aka: the Death Shroom) checking in as your 20245Death Pool chaperone. In case anyone is new to this game, the rules are outlined below. There are a …
Did Loretta Lynn really break down on stage? - Straight Dope
Dec 30, 2011 · According to several online bios I found, she collapsed several times. No idea if it was just like the movie, but there ya go.
Justify Adobe Acrobat Pro - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope
Sep 12, 2008 · At work I have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro. Nice program, has some decent features, I’d rather have it than not. But the price tag is something like $450 for this thing! Compared to, say, Photoshop or other very expensive programs, I just can’t figure out what justifies the price of Acrobat. Most of the functions I’m aware of are things that can be done in other programs (review/track ...