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during or before the aol 3.0 days, if I had a floppy disk or cd full of shareware games like some game where you're stuck in a temple and you gotta solve puzzles in every room to escape, where did I get it from? I recall going over my friends place with a butt load of games but dunno where I got them or what they were all about.
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:There’s a song it’s very energetic and has lots of stings, no words, it’s like a cross between music that would be in a western and classical. I think a late season simpsons episode used it and it’s in a lot of media. You sure that's not just the Hoedown movement of Aaron Copleand's Rodeo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajQYANLiug (The melody is from an old fiddle piece called Bonaparte's Retreat) My Lovely Horse posted:There's a story I remember only vaguely about a guy who discovers a colony of intelligent mice in his basement. They use tools and they're able to communicate. He helps them along with building stuff and they become a civilization. Initially he keeps it hidden from his wife, but one day he comes home to discover she's found them on her own and is completely enchanted with them, and it even kind of rekindles their relationship and they pretty much just grow old together and become the guardians of generations of mice. For the love of God, let me know if you ever find Mouse Friends Phy fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Aug 1, 2019 08:34
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I saw a movie as a kid that was put together archival footage of early inventors mostly failing horribly (like airplanes that imitated bird wings flapping only to fall apart immediately), combined with people doing stunts. I couldn't find it at all several years ago, so I was going to post about it here, but it looks like it was re-released on DVD. It's not only made it to YouTube, it's downloadable on the Internet Archive. For something made in the disco era, it's aged well, so I thought I'd post it: Gizmo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONwe96StEpA When you look at it now, it's the precursor for several YouTube genres: FAIL videos, fearless kids that climb to the top of tall buildings to take selfies, Simone Giertz's robots, parkour, etcetera. And it has some stuff that's prescient: one of the videos from the 50's has a prototype Roomba. The best part: that famous clip of a man strapping on a rocket backpack on ice, and falling on his rear end causing the backwash to almost set him on fire? (The last one in this video:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTRjK69Vq8 The director (Howard Smith) was interviewed on the Tonight Show, and said that skater ended up being one of the core scientists of the V2 program, and IIRC, the NASA space program. It might have been Werner Von Braun himself, but I don't trust my memory. Here's the thing: I can't find the director's Tonight Show interview any more. Does anyone else have it? thoughts and prayers fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Aug 1, 2019 09:13
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Gutter Phoenix posted:
I don’t know how helpful this is, but I’m almost positive I’ve seen this one. The kid gets progressively sicker from the beatings and lack of food. Eventually someone tosses him a “Jesus Loves You!” pin or the like, thus prompting the “Somebody loves me!” line. At the end of the track he crawls in a cardboard box and dies (but ends up in heaven, so it’s all okay). You might see is anyone near Portland OR has one, because that’s where I would have seen it. Someone really thought the art school kids needed saving, so there were a lot of them in circulation for a while (for us to laugh at).
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Aug 1, 2019 09:21
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I've got two from when I was a kid 1) it's a cartoon, I think an anime about a guy who fights in some sort of robot armor that has some timer of like 28 minutes or something. Anything longer will make him go crazy, it might have happened previously to his brother or another family member. This was on I feel like upn (or whatever wwor was previous to upn) on like a Sunday in '94 or '95 probably on a bkn block. 2) it's a movie of the week from the mid 90s I think. It's about a genius who finds out his whole life is a lie. Like his wife is a scientist who was working on the project and he's like it was all real and she's like you can do complex things but you can't do simple things try to tie your shoes and he can't. There's some sort of bomb involved that only he can solve. My parents put me to sleep before I got to see the end and I'm still curious what happened 20 years later.
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Aug 1, 2019 10:06
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Evil Vin posted:My parents put me to sleep Bit harsh.
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Aug 1, 2019 10:11
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The Dregs posted:Corsendonk Abbey Brown ale. They stopped exporting it to the states years ago and I haven't seen it since. They sometimes some one called pater something that the beer store says is the same but it's not. IT"S NOT. For a 8 million procent markup I'll send you some  Also I just remembered a totally random one that I haven't thought about in years. When I was like 10-12 me and my parents went on holiday, the plan was to get u at 2-3 am and drive all night. I decided to stay up so that I'd fall asleep in the car. I ofcourse watched TV and stumbled upon some porn cartoon of a girl that could become invisible or something? And her name was something with butter in it iirc? Anyway, this was in the late 90s I guess and I'd love to watch it again for the lol factor.
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Aug 1, 2019 10:50
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Telemaze posted:It's called The Wish Giver, I read this too.
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Aug 1, 2019 11:08
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This film about a black teenager who plays the piano, except he doesn't have a piano, he just imagines and drums his fingers on a desk. His name was Julian or something. And his friend is involved with a gang, and one day the gang leader orders him to burn someone to death with a tyre round his neck but he says no. And everyone calls their house "my planet" I just remember seeing it on TV nearly 20 years ago when I visited Canada but could never find it anywhere after to see if it was actually any good. It probably isn't.
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Aug 1, 2019 11:33
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i found a song i heard on the radio one time that was based on silence of the lambs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20z4edLGxHE
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Aug 1, 2019 11:34
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Phy posted:You sure that's not just the Hoedown movement of Aaron Copleand's Rodeo? Yes that’s it, I’ve been trying to figure that one out for awhile now thank you!
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Aug 1, 2019 11:48
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Dell_Zincht posted:Bit harsh. it was for the best.hve u read his posts?
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Aug 1, 2019 11:51
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Wall Balls posted:this pre-youtube internet comedy skit about a guy who clicks a pop up ad for pony porn at work and it slowly destroys his life to the point of attempting - and failing - suicide. i only remember the line "the one with the ponies?" Farm Sluts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snjCj0ntG8E
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Aug 1, 2019 11:54
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General Ledger posted:I think it was this game, I remember playing the same demo. https://archive.org/details/Handkerchief This is totally it -- thank you! Now to have my rose-tinted glasses shatter when I get home and actually play it.
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Aug 1, 2019 12:24
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Saw a movie late at night on cable (this would have been around 1991?). It was foreign, and subtitled. I only remember two scenes from it: 1.) A kid (I think) says something along the lines of "I never liked this painting. In fact, I hate it!" and slashes it up with a knife. 2.) An outdoor scene at night in which someone says "And now for the fireworks!" and they set off, like, four bottle rockets and everyone oohs and ahhs over it.
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Aug 1, 2019 12:41
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curlingiron posted:I don’t know how helpful this is, but I’m almost positive I’ve seen this one. The kid gets progressively sicker from the beatings and lack of food. Eventually someone tosses him a “Jesus Loves You!” pin or the like, thus prompting the “Somebody loves me!” line. At the end of the track he crawls in a cardboard box and dies (but ends up in heaven, so it’s all okay). I appreciate the help, but you are probably thinking of the version that is still in print, and has been since 1970. The one I am looking for is from 1965, larger than a normal Chick tract (approx. 4x5" instead of 2.5x5"), and is mostly text on the cover. That being said, I often used to find Chick tracts on the street when I lived in Portland, so who knows? If anyone sees the 1965 version, please buy it & send it to me. I will make it worth your while.
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Aug 1, 2019 14:50
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Discovered a new star. P cool. 
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Aug 1, 2019 15:03
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oh dope posted:My first post had to do with what are apparently called "animutations" but I couldn't find the particular one I was looking for. I can only remember the line "MUSCLE MUSCLE TYPOWRITE". Did it feature Colin Mochrie's head?
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Aug 1, 2019 15:22
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A D Sports commercial from around 2000. It's at a basketball game and the coach yells "Give me some D" and the players start singing a song that is just "D's" D Sports went soon after during the original .com bubble. Every time I hear someone mention "D" during a sporting event, I immediately start singing the song. No one remembers it so I can't reference it to prove I'm not insane.
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Aug 1, 2019 15:27
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FactsAreUseless posted:One of the Ultimas? A Wizardry? Shadowgate? definitely shadowgate. cheers.
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Aug 1, 2019 15:28
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I have two things that have eluded me for years: The first is an old SNL sketch where Adam Sandler plays Bill Cosby in an episode of You Bet Your Life. I know it’s from season 18 where the guests were Christina Applegate and Midnight Oil but I cannot find a video of it anywhere. I saw the sketch once with some friends back in 2000 and I remember it being one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. Probably won’t hold up but still, I’d love to see it again. The second is a commercial for seatbelts or something like that. This would have been probably the late 80s, and I lived in Northern Ontario, in Canada. From what I remember, the commercial showed various kids being interviewed about why you should wear a seatbelt one at a time while sitting on a chair. Some of the quotes I remember are “your skin could probably... zip off,” and a kid listing places to drive to “California, Palm Springs..,” and it ends with a little girl saying “they make you safe. They make you safe. They do.” I cannot recall who made the commercial but my friends and I still quote the skin zipping off bit and I’d love to see that again as well.
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Aug 1, 2019 15:34
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Gutter Phoenix posted:2) Somebody Loves Me: The Story of a Beggar Boy by Jack Chick (1965)
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PetraCore posted:I swear I've read that one on an online archive, but it might have been a similar Chick tract. The normal version is very common. The cover of the 1965 version would look like this:  Again, I truly appreciate the help.
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I remember as a child on a trip to some semi rural place in Mexico having Montezumas Revenge and the only english channel was showing some Space Marine style movie (not starship troopers). Might have been called Space Marines, but I could never find a place to rent it back in the VHS days afterwards. The only places that maybe stocked it were "video stores" fronting as porn places so no 12 year old could waltz in.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:The normal version is very common. The cover of the 1965 version would look like this:
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Let me tell you a story. About 25 years ago, i went to visit my friends in australia. we had a long flight, with a few layovers, one of which was in malaysia for about 8 hours. I remember touching down at about 2 am, stopping into the bar at the airport for a beer, since it was like 95 degrees inside, despite being late as heck. drank my beer, had a burger, and walked back to the hotel room to rest before the flight. everyone was jetlagged like crazy, so we couldn't sleep, and we decided to watch some tv. I remember flipping through the few channels available, until we found this ridiculous martial arts movie. it was subtitled in 5 different languages, and english was NOT one of them. the one thing i remember from the movie was a scene where the protagonist (i think?) was in a casino, playing cards against the villain. a fight breaks out, and he grabs the deck of cards off the table, and then in some of the worst 90's special effects, proceeds to spin the deck in a circle in midair, making the cards hover there, before punching them, sending them flying all over the room. then they start grabbing cards as they fly past, and throwing them at each other. it was so absolutely ridiculous that i still remember it clearly, all these years later. No idea what that drat movie was called, or what it was about, but god drat was it memorable.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:37
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In the mid 90's an friend used to play Witchhaven all the time on his PC, which was basically Hexen but worse. It came with a trailer for something else that had some weird bright colour visuals I cant remember, and said 'your life started as a dream, but it will end as a nightmare' before playing a terrible midi techno song. Both of us recall this but its not enough information for Google to turn anything up. I think about it every so often and try to find it again.
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I used to watch a ton of Nickelodeon in the very early days, around 1985. They did a lot of PSA type stuff for kids and teens between shows. There was a series that would start with a question a kid might ask about growing up, then it would show regular kids hanging out in playgrounds giving their best answers. One was a boy asking “how do I get girls to like me?”. Then cut to different kids all saying stuff along the lines of “just be yourself”. The last kid they showed was an absolute goofball sitting on a wall surrounded by his friends. He had on an enormous pair of sunglasses shaped like lightning bolts. His answer to how to get girls to like you was “Steal their comb. It works.” All his friends die laughing while he just sits there with this smartass look on his face. That response made more sense to eleven year old me than anything anyone else said. I wanted to be that kid. I have had no luck finding the clip. My memory has cast him looking like Dustin from Stranger Things with lightning bolt shades but I’m sure he looked nothing like that.
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Freebird? I found it!!! It's called "Weisselklenzacht" by Procol Harum (the same guys who did AWSOP). The version I found on youtube has only 450 views, I just started tabbing through every Procol Harum song one by one on spotify and found it there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2p4992Vm4
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I've been curious about a book I read back in elementary school. This was during the early eighties, I remember reading a book about ghosts and paranormal stuff. I believe the book was for kids. It was larger than a regular book, more like the size of a magazine. The cover was like a trade paper back book. It also was completely illustrated. This book might have been part of a series, but I'm not sure. Not sure if anyone has a clue on where to even start looking for such a thing.
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There is a series of books about a world overrun with mutants and monsters that I got for free when an old dude in town died and his estate was sold. I remember some of the monsters had like buzzsaw limbs, and one of the characters in the book styled hair .. pubes I think,as weird as that is. This book came out in maybe the 70s or early 80s based on how old I was, and the quality of the paperback. I really want to find this to find out if it's as loving weird as I remember
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There is this 90's alt-rock song i used hear every once and a while, i cant sing any of the lyrics, i just know the notes of the chorus that is followed by a guitar riff answer that goes back and forth a couple times. Seemed like it was in the same vein as the Toadies or Screaming Trees or Silverchair. I am assuming it is an obscure one hit wonder, drives me loving nuts I heard it played randomly on the radio like 7 years ago but the DJ never said what it was afterwards. Since then I have never heard it again
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Willfrey posted:There is this 90's alt-rock song i used hear every once and a while, i cant sing any of the lyrics, i just know the notes of the chorus that is followed by a guitar riff answer that goes back and forth a couple times. Seemed like it was in the same vein as the Toadies or Screaming Trees or Silverchair. I am assuming it is an obscure one hit wonder, drives me loving nuts I heard it played randomly on the radio like 7 years ago but the DJ never said what it was afterwards. Since then I have never heard it again this is extremely something i could help with can you think of anything else?
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:this is extremely something i could help with can you think of anything else? When I get home I will flex the golden pipes and post a soundcloud or something
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Okay so there's a movie I saw back around 1999-2001 and I'm pretty sure it would have been on Showtime because that's the only movie channel we had back then. I honestly don't remember the major plot points of the movie other than there was a black kid (teenager?) and he wanted to play the piano but they lived in the projects and they were too poor and his mom was really mean to him about it. So he took the white tablecloth and drew a piano keyboard on it and would sit there and "practice" on the piano by tapping on the kitchen table like a real keyboard. And I'm pretty sure there was like an element of the whole thing where he could hear the music in his head? The movie was kind of sad but also interesting and they used to show it really late so I only always caught the first part of the movie before I had to go to bed.
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Willfrey posted:When I get home I will flex the golden pipes and post a soundcloud or something yeah if you can get the melody conveyed in some way i feel pretty good about knowing what it is.
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Willfrey posted:There is this 90's alt-rock song i used hear every once and a while, i cant sing any of the lyrics, i just know the notes of the chorus that is followed by a guitar riff answer that goes back and forth a couple times. Seemed like it was in the same vein as the Toadies or Screaming Trees or Silverchair. I am assuming it is an obscure one hit wonder, drives me loving nuts I heard it played randomly on the radio like 7 years ago but the DJ never said what it was afterwards. Since then I have never heard it again do you remember ANY of the lyrics? even just a few, Lyric Finder Might be able to find it, or at least narrow it down!
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Xarthor posted:Okay so there's a movie I saw back around 1999-2001 and I'm pretty sure it would have been on Showtime because that's the only movie channel we had back then. Somebody has asked about this film in this very thread, you should PM them and swap notes!
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Captain Splendid posted:This film about a black teenager who plays the piano, except he doesn't have a piano, he just imagines and drums his fingers on a desk. His name was Julian or something. Dell_Zincht posted:Somebody has asked about this film in this very thread, you should PM them and swap notes! I loving FOUND IT! The Planet of Junior Brown (aka "Junior's Groove") - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125460/ I had forgotten about the mom cutting all the strings out of the piano until just now. That's why he had to play on the table. Hopefully it's on one of the streaming services so I can watch the end of the movie after like 18 years haha edit: Oh wait, the whole thing is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDYy_OHWXu8
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