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I was young, my dad was driving me and him home from a trip to see extended family in another state, and over the radio I heard this song that has this one reemerging snippet that I just cannot for the life of me find or pin down. It was like some They Might Be Giants poo poo, and the closest approximation to the lyrics that I can still remember is "Cow dun, falling... hun~" I'm haunted by this poo poo it is like a constant reminder of a rad earworm I will never hear again and it makes my inner jorgles jiggle jergulously, jo.
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rear end-Haggis posted:I was young, my dad was driving me and him home from a trip to see extended family in another state, and over the radio I heard this song that has this one reemerging snippet that I just cannot for the life of me find or pin down. Is it cowtown by They Might Be Giants? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNwZ-urKgPk
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Jan 26, 2020 16:16
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rear end-Haggis posted:I was young, my dad was driving me and him home from a trip to see extended family in another state, and over the radio I heard this song that has this one reemerging snippet that I just cannot for the life of me find or pin down. It's this: https://youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI
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Jan 26, 2020 18:00
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There's this off brand Indian comic book that tells the story of Krishna and Sudama. It's in English, but the English is pretty bad. When Sudama gives Krishna the puffed rice, Krishna accepts it saying "What lovely eatable!" A buddy of mine told me about how he's been trying to find this from his childhood for ages (he probably read it 15 or 20 years ago). I'd love to be able to scare him up a copy.
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Jan 26, 2020 18:10
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Doctor Eckhart posted:Sounds like it could be Juniper Jungle: https://youtu.be/ahyNrEXziBs Not it, but this is so weird, I love that the antagonist is a dirty old mattress. MachineryNoise posted:The Smoggies! (or Stop the Smoggies in the U.S.) This is it, thank you so much! I've been thinking of this show off and on forever and could never figure it out.
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Jan 27, 2020 01:49
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What was the name of that horrendously hosed up webcomic, fluffy bunnies? Or something similar
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Jan 27, 2020 08:36
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gbs but from 2004 posted:What was the name of that horrendously hosed up webcomic, fluffy bunnies? Or something similar Bunny meat?
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Jan 27, 2020 08:42
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gbs but from 2004 posted:What was the name of that horrendously hosed up webcomic, fluffy bunnies? Or something similar mega tokyo?
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Jan 27, 2020 09:25
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You’re close, it’s fluffy ponies. If you google that you’ll find all sorts of things you’ll want to be in incognito for e: I only know this because I was a bad webcomics thread poster ok, my pony red title is unrelated Prism Mirror Lens fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 27, 2020 09:30
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Mr. Lobe posted:Bunny meat? Nah it was wayyyy hosed up
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Jan 27, 2020 10:11
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:You’re close, it’s fluffy ponies. If you google that you’ll find all sorts of things you’ll want to be in incognito for This is it. Gonna upset my friend with this today. Thanks!
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Jan 27, 2020 10:12
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Jan 28, 2020 01:08
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Science fiction, SA front page content. I remember very, very little about it, but I think the aliens could read minds, and I don't think it had a conclusion. I'm sorry for being so vague.
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Jan 28, 2020 02:33
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I’ve asked this poo poo a million times before but Arf Jason’s avatar is from some super surreal college graphic design final project and I cannot find it again on YouTube for the life of me AFAIK Jason doesn’t know what it’s from anymore either.
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Jan 28, 2020 02:35
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The Rage posted:I’ve asked this poo poo a million times before but Arf Jason’s avatar is from some super surreal college graphic design final project and I cannot find it again on YouTube for the life of me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjivgLoikcg
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Jan 28, 2020 02:51
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Oh my god thank you
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Jan 28, 2020 03:17
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Oh poo poo, speaking of books. This one has been driving me sideways for decades Around 85, I read a book for school, not a classic. All I vaguely remember is that it was about like, a couple of escaped criminals who get into a house and take a young boy or a couple of kids hostage. The criminals were kinda like, just hippies or fuckups, so they were nice-ish, and in particular there's a scene where they're gonna tell the cops to bring them pizza, and the criminal is like how hungry are you, let's just get 3 larges. I remember loving nothing else about the drat thing
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Jan 28, 2020 04:43
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Batterypowered7 posted:Science fiction, SA front page content. I remember very, very little about it, but I think the aliens could read minds, and I don't think it had a conclusion. I'm sorry for being so vague. Probably one of Zack parsons's stories. Maybe the one with the angels vs unfolders?
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Jan 28, 2020 04:46
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There's an emo/indie band from the late 2000s (2007-2009) that I used to be obsessed with. I'm going off of the most vague of memories and I can't recall anything other than the lyrics "you get me" were part of the chorus of one of the songs- their only single I think. That's all I got, and it's been killing me for months now trying to remember the name of the band.
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Jan 28, 2020 05:21
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Batterypowered7 posted:Science fiction, SA front page content. I remember very, very little about it, but I think the aliens could read minds, and I don't think it had a conclusion. I'm sorry for being so vague. Milo and POTUS posted:Probably one of Zack parsons's stories. Maybe the one with the angels vs unfolders? Or the "Instructions for a Thing/Mans from Below" series.
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Jan 28, 2020 05:25
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I’m usually the one who figures out other people’s white whales but I have a few of my own. 1) A book, almost certainly a Dell style chapter book from the 80’s, about a girl who’s family was very eccentric and she was the only one with any kind of self-awareness about it. She naturally angsts about this a bit but two specific things I remember are: * - The family meets a runaway and convinces her to go home. * - The main character encounters a skunk. Since she’s by herself and doesn’t know what else to do, she sits very still and smiles at the skunk so it isn’t frightened and won’t spray her. After a little while she reflects on how mortifying it would be if anyone saw her like this, and didn’t see the skunk... 2) This one is a song that I heard once ever on Nick Rocks (early 80’s music compilation show on Nickelodeon) and appears to either be lost forever or impossible to find. It sounded a little bit similar to “Right on Track” but the lyrics I can remember were, “I’ll be your flying cowboy / I’ll carry you away!” So far I’ve had no luck at all finding it because it turns out there are a lot of country songs about flying cowboys and my lost song is definitely none of them. 3) I could probably fill the rest of this post with Weird poo poo From The EARLY Early Days Of Nickelodeon, but I’ll end with this one for now. It was an animated short that was maybe ten minutes long about two kids who want to take their dog along on a school trip. Somehow their dog turns into a human (I think they made a wish?) and can go along - except he still acts like a dog and hilarity ensues until he changes back. The thing is, this short had a long opening credits sequence, in another language, that suggested it might be one episode of a whole series?
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Jan 28, 2020 07:08
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This is a very vague long shot. For a period of time in my high school years(late 00's) during family car trips my dad would always torture us with a recording he had made of one of the hammiest musicians I had ever heard(I know gently caress all about music, it was a single acoustic guitarist, wasn't country). I assume he was the sort of low-mid level guy that would make an appearance on a pbs broadcast in his golden years. He was playing in front of an audience in what sounded like a small indoor location. His vocals weren't identifiable words but sustained, escalating animal sounds that he'd milk to the point where it brought to mind a Chris Farley sketch, the guy was a real meatloaf's meatloaf. The cd is lost and my dad has no recollection of his identity.
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Jan 28, 2020 09:10
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Sounds like Tom Waits.
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There's a post in one of the Dutch threads in which another poster claims that peppers/spicy food is mainly a third world thing used to mask the taste of spoiled meat/veg. I'm 100% sure I've seen this post somewhere between 2012 and 2015, and multiple other thread regulars say they remember it as well. However, after spending 2 years searching for it and physically clicking through almost every page of the various 1-2k page long Dutch threads in SAL, I haven't found it. Nobody wants to claim the post, nobody remembers who exactly posted it.
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Jan 28, 2020 10:03
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A young adults book which I remember reading in local library early 1990s. Scifi, about a huge (good) empire sending a (multi-decade) diplomatic mission to newly discovered neighbor civilizaiton. Was not a cartoon, but was mostly cool (now-retro) futuristic illustrations about space exploration, looking like this: I remember two specific things happening on the way: - One was some sort of hostile life form on some planet, with siren type of trap, and an illustration very much similar to D&D magic mouth (with a mouth appearing on a rock or something). I remember this as when I played D&D later, it seemed like someone was copying this from somewhere.. - The neighbour was a very advanced (semi-evil?) empire, which tried to keep the envoys as “guests” and if I remember right, they had to use some trickery to escape. Not much to go forward, I know, but bothers me still..
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Jan 28, 2020 13:35
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^^^^^ The illustration is in style of Stewart Cowley. He wrote and illustrated a couple of books in the 1980s.
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Jan 28, 2020 15:27
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Sometime around 2007/early 2008 I saw a youtube video of an American TV news spot where they were doing man-on-the-street interviews about the upcoming election and there was this part where this white woman said something along the lines of "I don't think we're ready to have a president from The Other Race because we've always historically had problems with The Other Race" and I've occasionally looked for it over the years but it's never turned up
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Jan 29, 2020 07:23
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My folks were gifted a copy of a cassette of a 1980s comedian. He was a Crank Yankers type of guy that'd call up random businesses to rile them up. The bits all flow together now, but one dealt with him calling up a business that supposedly sold him a pair of boots. He described what was wrong with the boots and wanted them replaced. Another bit saw the guy on the other end not be docile and threatened to kick the caller's rear end. The part I remember is that the caller threatened to bring his brother along to this fight. The shop owner/worker replied, asking if he needed his brother to hold his hand. Who was this?
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Jan 29, 2020 07:32
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Milo and POTUS posted:Probably one of Zack parsons's stories. Maybe the one with the angels vs unfolders? Just looking up "Zack Parsons angels" got me there, thank you. I was his "That Insidious Beast" series.
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Jan 29, 2020 15:49
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Okay, big rear end edit here, because just after posting, the words to the song suddenly came back to me, and I managed to dig up this 1980's track from another country that I only have on an unlabeled cassette tape from 1995 or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7eJTj7-O70 Hope I didn't waste anyone's time! I guess just typing it out managed to make some neurons re-connect and HOLY poo poo I found the song! JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Jan 29, 2020 20:06
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Posters should be required to go back a dozen pages and try to solve before asking for A FREE LUNCH
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Jan 29, 2020 22:49
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oh look someone called the wahmbulance
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Jan 30, 2020 03:52
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RC and Moon Pie posted:My folks were gifted a copy of a cassette of a 1980s comedian. He was a Crank Yankers type of guy that'd call up random businesses to rile them up. Longmont Potion Castle?
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Jan 30, 2020 05:41
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I want to know the name of one song I hate. There is a lady singing and when she says sings one sentence and a guys answer "HAYYY HOOO!". Before the refrain the lady does a musical stair (like the piano exercise when you sing from low octave c to high octave c) with her voice. I think it's one of those highly vocoded songs. It used to be on the radio a few years ago (up to 2017) but I really want to know what it was.
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Jan 30, 2020 08:50
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~Coxy posted:Longmont Potion Castle? HEY! Don’t sully his work by associating him with the phrase “comedian”. Longmont is a Saint and a level 15 wizard.
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Jan 30, 2020 17:35
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Late 90's/Early 2000's spanish language talk show. Either univision or telemundo, I think. The only thing that I remember EXTREMELY VIVIDLY is that the entire audience was made up of people who were, for lack of a better term, mega ugly. The audience was seriously like a freakshow. Would love to find that show again.
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Literally A Person posted:Late 90's/Early 2000's spanish language talk show. Either univision or telemundo, I think. The only thing that I remember EXTREMELY VIVIDLY is that the entire audience was made up of people who were, for lack of a better term, mega ugly. The audience was seriously like a freakshow. Would love to find that show again. Is this it? Haste En Las Mejores Familias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWkG6BqdR-c
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cookiefulloarsenic posted:Is this it? Haste En Las Mejores Familias It so totally is. Now to see if I can find somewhere that streams it....
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Jan 31, 2020 00:07
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wheres the topic about walking across wales
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There’s a game I’ve been trying to remember for a while. I don’t know when it came out, but it was I believe before 2010 since I think I played it in college. It was a low budget computer game. The gameplay was pretty much tower defense from what I remember, but set in space. The plot of the game, though, basically had you committing atrocities. Like you were part of some space was and these were innocent ships you were destroying or something. You were very clearly the bad guy. The game was fine from what I remember but the thing that stuck with me was a quote from the developer when he was asked why we couldn’t be a good guy. He basically says you had the option to not be evil any time you wanted; it was your choice to continue playing. Deciding you couldn’t go on doing that stuff was a perfectly valid “ending.” I’ve thought about that a lot while playing games over the years, but I can’t remember the name of the game.
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