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Just remembered two books I read briefly from the Library. Both were writen before 1999 The first one was a cyberpunk book that begins with a two people talking about a rival gang, and one of the characters responds with, "I don't care so long as they don't stop my drugs. " The second book was about a retired telephone linemen (or worked for At&T/Bell) whose deaf son was kidnapped, all I remember is there is a scene where the dad and son arm wrestled.
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When I was very young, I had a series of "edutainment" shows on VHS from the mid-80's; I believe the series was called "School Zone" (a name which, unfotunately, makes any Google search a lesson in futility). Each VHS focused on a different them (i.e. colors, shapes, etc). One segment I clearly remember was from the shapes episode: there was a series of shapes moving down a hill one at a time. All the shapes went down the hill fine except the triangle; one of its corners got stuck in a crack, and the triangle wiggled around like crazy but was stuck. All the other shapes came back up the hill to help dislodge it. Eventually it got free, did a little dance, and they all celebrated and went down the hill together. I loved the hell out of these and wore out the VCR playing them over and over. Sadly, my parents threw all the casettes away, and my brother and sisters have no idea what I'm talking about when I ask them. Edit: Apparently my Google-Fu has gotten better over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noAb7AIuNpk&t=1781s Youth Energy fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Ugh, I hadn't ever considered the potential aesthetic power of advertisements, I still kind of mentally process them as anti-culture despite the fact that their memetic nature really is what set the standard for social media and everything else associated with it. Ad catchphrases and jingles buried their way into the zeitgeist like a goddamned tick, especially back in the 80s when most people watched free-to-air commercial television and there were way less platform options and channels and they couldn't skip the adbreaks so it was a lot easier for specific ads to become ubiquitous. I guess in 10 years people will have a similar nostalgia for memes and vines and youtube videos they saw when they were kids. Of course, there's already a huge amount of crossover between advertisements and memes and they've been cannibalizing each other for a long time already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPTZWhz46M Edit: we see a lot of meme nostalgia on SA already, there's been a bunch of times in the "Request images" threads where people have been looking for "that badly drawn comic where the kid is on the ceiling if a public restroom" or "that MSpaint image where a person has just finished making GBS threads and is dragging the toilet paper between their butt cheeks and up over their head continuously" or similar Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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Feb 11, 2020 04:35
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CarpenterWalrus posted:I'm looking for an old PC game demo from the late 90's, early 00's. It's a 3D racing game and one of the cars looked kind of like a scorpion--two wheel wells at front and one in the back. It was vaguely post-apocalyptic and it was fun, for what it was. Wanna see if a full version of it ever materialized. Are you thinking of "POD?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxlMvtKDdVo&t=1179s
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I know exactly what it is but if anyone here ever played RA2 online and type daftduck while you were in channel, it would mute you, in the same manner you'd be if you were being offensive or something and a) nobody on the internet seems to mention this b) I want to know what and why
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Ad catchphrases and jingles buried their way into the zeitgeist like a goddamned tick, especially back in the 80s when most people watched free-to-air commercial television and there were way less platform options and channels and they couldn't skip the adbreaks so it was a lot easier for specific ads to become ubiquitous. i don't know why but someone posting about that bank ad using the "i'm free" song made the entire ad play in my brain start to finish. glad i can remember that and not my anneversary, somehow.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I know exactly what it is but if anyone here ever played RA2 online and type daftduck while you were in channel, it would mute you, in the same manner you'd be if you were being offensive or something and a) nobody on the internet seems to mention this b) I want to know what and why It's probably something boring like whatever regex they wrote to try to be clever and capture not just dictionary words detects it as being modified gently caress.
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That's what I suspect. I can't remember if gently caress was off limits though
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:i don't know why but someone posting about that bank ad using the "i'm free" song made the entire ad play in my brain start to finish. glad i can remember that and not my anneversary, somehow. Someone on social media once wondered where they'd heard the song "Rhythm of Life" (originally from the musical Sweet Charity) in pop culture and I immediately remembered it was in a Dulux paint ad in the early 90s but I can never remember my mother's birthday
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Goodpancakes posted:It might be on this weird French steaming site but I don't speak French and I kind of lost interest. click at your own risk I appreciate the effort but the site is fake as gently caress. It just lists every movie ever made on IMDB and makes up fake links to streams to try to get you to download poo poo/buy poo poo.
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Can't remember if it was from the forums or just linked from here, but I'm trying to find a post where someone's advice on how to make friends at work was to create an exclusive happy hour e-mail list, controlling who went on it and also having it at a different venue each time thus ensuring noone could just show up without being on the list. Apart from being the MO of a psychopath it was also super creepy since part of why it was such a "great" idea was that he'd make sure there were an equal amount of men and women on the list ostensibly to keep the ratio balanced but in reality it was all about skewing the odds in his favour. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Feb 12, 2020 20:52
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Komojo posted:Are you thinking of "POD?" That was my first thought too, that demo got everywhere. Has the scorpion car too. It's on GoG for like $7
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Churchill posted:Can't remember if it was from the forums or just linked from here, but I'm trying to find a post where someone's advice on how to make friends at work was to create an exclusive happy hour e-mail list, controlling who went on it and also having it at a different venue each time thus ensuring noone could just show up without being on the list. Apart from being the MO of a psychopath it was also super creepy since part of why it was such a "great" idea was that he'd make sure there were an equal amount of men and women on the list ostensibly to keep the ratio balanced but in reality it was all about skewing the odds in his favour. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Feeling left out at work, friend?
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ThePopeOfFun posted:Feeling left out at work, friend? Hah, like I'm employed 
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A "Piano Man" cover by an Asian guy who still had an accent but radically outperformed Billy Joel at it and is still easier to understand. I recall he was a well-known musician in China/Korea/Japan??
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Feb 14, 2020 06:34
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Komojo posted:Are you thinking of "POD?" That has got to be it. Thanks!
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Pick posted:A "Piano Man" cover by an Asian guy who still had an accent but radically outperformed Billy Joel at it and is still easier to understand. I recall he was a well-known musician in China/Korea/Japan?? Does he explain what the gently caress a real estate novelist is?
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crossposting from No Music Discussion's "help me find a song" thread.PHIZ KALIFA posted:hi friends, i got the last minute's worth of this song on video and i'd love to find the rest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH9O1B_QW_4 it played today at 12:30 on WCHC, it's a high pitched female(?) vocalist playing mandoline and harp, it sounds like. the lyrics mention "seceeding from the union in 81" halp? i'm hoping uploading the track will get me some kind of DMCA takedown but this is a college station so it plays Weird Stuff.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:crossposting from No Music Discussion's "help me find a song" thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Greq05zAS9g
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Feb 14, 2020 19:05
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:crossposting from No Music Discussion's "help me find a song" thread. Might be stating the obvious, but have you tried calling/emailing the station and asking? Their website says they have actual live human DJ's from 8am to 2am, so if you heard it around 12:30, chances are there's a person in the booth who knows what you're looking for. Also, from my limited experience in college radio, they keep track of what's been played for statistical/royalty purposes. FWIW, it sounds a helluva lot like Kate Bush's voice, to me anyways. edit: welp I'm totally wrong and beaten like a dead horse in the time it took me to write that post! Good job!
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drat Morris, you work quick!JacquelineDempsey posted:Might be stating the obvious, but have you tried calling/emailing the station and asking? Their website says they have actual live human DJ's from 8am to 2am, so if you heard it around 12:30, chances are there's a person in the booth who knows what you're looking for. Also, from my limited experience in college radio, they keep track of what's been played for statistical/royalty purposes. I emailed about the weird short song earlier today, yes. I don't think anyone's in the booth right now because they played "Jet Star and the Kobra Kid" by MCR like twice in the space of an hour and a half. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2GS49itnGk PHIZ KALIFA fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:drat Morris, you work quick! I thought Kate Bush too, but I interpreted part of the lyrics correctly and found it on Google Cool song, this is my first time hearing it too
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Image of a group of Asian men all sat around a table captioned with something like "well look who finally crawled out of his pit, come play mahjong with your uncles".
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Feb 14, 2020 20:12
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Speaking of stuff you've heard on college radio... Fall of1991, listening to WFMU. I was taping it because I had called and put in a request and just wanted to get a copy of hearing my name thrown out over the air, 'cause that's how us old folks amused themselves back before the internet. Grunge was juuuust starting to be a thing, so NYU's radio station was fairly cutting edge, playing this heretofore unknown band called "Nirvana" and such. They played a grungy song before getting to the Skinny Puppy I'd requested, so that's on the tape. Unfortunately, the cassette ran out of tape just as the DJ is going down the "what you just heard" playlist, saying "and before that, we had Kr-" He sounds likes he starting to say something that begins with a Kr or Cr sound, like Crust or Crunch or something on those lines. The chorus to the song sounds like "MUDHONEEEEEY", but afaik, it's not actually Mudhoney. I asked this on a music site I belonged to years ago and no one figured it out. I can hear the melody plain as day (minor key, bass-heavy, does a walking-down-the-key thing) and the only other lyric I can recall is the male vocalist screaming "walk all over meeee". And if the tape I had still exists, it's probably rotted to hell in my storage unit. Good luck, gum shoes!
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There was a web comic, I think 3 panels, about some boy infatuated with a girl and the girl recognizes that he’s emotionally stunted, or immature or something along those lines, and tells him so. The way the girl tells him this was so accurate and made so much sense to me but I can’t seem to find it.
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This is very unlikely to be found because I don't think this was a mass produced object. 10-15 years ago, there was a painting hanging at the local pool hall. It was of an 8-ball jumping over the cue ball while playing an electric guitar.
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1. My biggest white whale: a YA novel (possibly a series) about a boy and a graphing calculator. I got this/these from the library in the early-mid 90s, and considering the tech involved they could have been up to a decade or so old. This kid's mom is doing research in the jungle or something and then goes missing (dad too?), possibly kidnapped. Through a dialup BBS he finds or is contacted by something that turns out to be an AI program that wants to help him out, and the AI gives him instructions to mod his graphing calculator to both host the AI and augment its abilities, so it can scan through satellite images of the jungle and stuff. Perennial searches with various keywords have come up dry. (It, by the way, is not The Computer That Ate My Brother, though maybe that title is someone else's WW.) 2. A commercial (late 90s?) for Dr. Pepper where a couple of smart-rear end kids have rigged a vending machine to redirect its output so people put coins in and get no soda out, get mad at the machine, etc. The main parts I remember are a background song something like "gimme that, gimme that, gimme gimme gimme that thing", and the girl proclaiming one of the angry adults to have "no self-control!" in mock horror. 3. A radio ad jingle for a Philadelphia-area army-navy surplus store, "Harry's Army-Navy" (The Place Where Outdoor Fun Begins!). 4. Deleted scenes from Clifford (with Martin Short), as would be seen on TV versions. In particular, one where he plays deaf for charity at an airport or something and winds up with a Walkman. (Actually, same for TV extensions of the Naked Gun movies!) 5. "Library Report", a 70s-ish short live-action film about how to write a term paper, laying out your ideas on index cards and whatnot. The idea is that it's The Future, and the whole house is run by some sort of robot with a name like Glitch or Gizmo, and this kid asks it to write the paper, but it goes wild and spews paper everywhere and is no substitute for the human mind. Better to do your own work with your drat index cards. 6. A full set of the cheesy high school German tapes we had to watch. They went with a textbook series called Deutsch Aktuell, and they followed the adventures of Thomas, Andrea, und Claudia. Through them, we learned that "Rockmusik ist toll!" (compared to classical) and that sexual tension is universal. All I can find from that set is one episode (how to order ice cream): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx5NWINdeok 7. The identity of a puzzle book I saw an older kid working on about 1990. I think it had the structure of a CYOA book, but it was primarily made up of detailed illustrations, and I think there was a series of glass tunnels with cameras all over and you had to avoid being seen or determine which cameras to take out. Monkeys may have been involved. Are we cool with porn/erotica or avoiding that? Guesses and hunches Did we ever figure out who wrote the story of the boy who turned into a gas pump? The tone (and possible illustration style) reminds me of Shel Silverstein. But I don't have any of his collections on hand (Where the Sidewalk Ends, etc.). BattyKiara posted:3. A British show for children. Live action movies of stories from mythology. I remember one where there was a prisoner of some sort who could save the life of his child (The child was going to sacrificed to some monster) if he could thread a fine thread through all the windings of a large snail shell. He solved it by dripping honey into the shell until it dripped out of a hole at the very top. Then he tied string to an ant, and let the ant eat the honey. The ant ate all the way, and pulled the string with it. This makes me think of Jim Henson's The Storyteller (a short season 2 focused on mythology), but the story doesn't sound like part of any of the 4 myths covered. Still, just in case: http://web.archive.org/web/20160405161234/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/storytellercoll.php TheAardvark posted:An older song that goes "yippy ai oh ai eyyy" like the letters I O I A, trading back and forth with a main singer. I think that it may have been the exact same thing just from a deep voice. "YIPPY AI OH AI EYY" "yippy ai oh ai eyyy" People have suggested possibilities, including I'm an Old Cowhand, which seems solid. Can I throw in Disney's Pecos Bill song? About 1:10 in here, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QIOZAsCxZ8 symbolic posted:2. An indoor amusement place like Chuck E. Cheese, but far more elaborate: I can recall a pirate ship, a foam block pool, automated cars on a track that you could ride, and dressed-up mascots. This would have been around 2000 or 2001 in the eastern Pennsylvania/western New Jersey area most likely. I might have dreamed this one since I was quite young, but it feels far too vivid to just be a dream, and I've been tearing my hair out for at least a decade trying to figure it out. The Jungle Jim whatever place is probably a better guess, but could it by any chance be Discovery Zone? They had insanely catchy commercials and jingles, and they were definitely in that geographic area. Things I might have on tape and digitize in a while I'm not very far along in my long-postponed digitizing adventure, and the boxes aren't organized especially well. If I have something here, it might take a while (months?) to locate it and get to converting it, but I can reach out later when it's done. Late 90s and early 2000s are next anyway. Zamboni Rodeo posted:Also when I was younger and UHF was still a thing (my fam didn’t get cable until way later), I could occasionally pull in this channel that aired music videos by request. The way it worked was, there was a continuous scroll of songs and each one had a 3-digit code. You’d call this 900 number and enter the code, and the video would air. Each video was probably like 99 cents or something. I think the channel might have even been called Jukebox. As previously mentioned, it might be The Box. I have a few tapes of music videos that might include some menu samples and so on. doctorfrog posted:A couple decades ago, Comedy Central had 1 season of a series called "Let's Bowl." I loving loved that show. It's possible, but not 100% likely, that I taped an episode or two. Goodpancakes posted:A few years ago I tried to find some old Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn episodes because I thought it was a pretty funny show. Cannot find a single loving episode of that show online anywhere. Almost positive I have a few episodes of that (usually when a favorite comedian was a guest). I also have a three-minute snippet on DVD, because Comedy Central's 2000s DVDs included "Comedy Central Quickies" promoting their other shows with completely random clips. 2003's Lewis Black Unleashed DVD has one for Tough Crowd, and it's the only one that jumps immediately to mind. But I've ripped it, and I can toss it on youtube if you want just a taste.
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FWIW the other song I was looking for was Two Veils Hide My Face by Passion Pit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZE2w_23q4 No Music Discussion's "find my song" thread is REALLY GOOD y'all.
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TheAardvark posted:An older song that goes "yippy ai oh ai eyyy" like the letters I O I A, trading back and forth with a main singer. I think that it may have been the exact same thing just from a deep voice. "YIPPY AI OH AI EYY" "yippy ai oh ai eyyy" "The Look of Love" by ABC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNEdxZURTaI EDIT: Oh wait there was also a hip-hop song that went "O I O I A" I might know exactly what you're talking about MorrisBae fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 21:58
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Harvey TWH posted:The Jungle Jim whatever place is probably a better guess, but could it by any chance be Discovery Zone? They had insanely catchy commercials and jingles, and they were definitely in that geographic area. I've considered it might've been Discovery Zone, but they were already on their last legs by the time I would've gone and it never rang a bell. I won't rule it out, though I wish there was some way to see where there used to be DZ locations.
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symbolic posted:I've considered it might've been Discovery Zone, but they were already on their last legs by the time I would've gone and it never rang a bell. I won't rule it out, though I wish there was some way to see where there used to be DZ locations. Leaps & Bounds was McDonald's competitor to DZ that died a quick death after a national expansion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaps_and_Bounds_(playplace)
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MorrisBae posted:Leaps & Bounds was McDonald's competitor to DZ that died a quick death after a national expansion I was born after they merged with DZ, unfortunately, but I appreciate the help.
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Naw, it was much more guitar-oriented and grungy (almost metal) than that. Appreciate your effort, though! 
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Looking for the name a song and who it's by. Indie-folksy song by a female solo act, first-person narrative lyrics, contains a line about using something to hide the taste of poison in her (unwell?) lover's drink because they hate each other now.
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People requesting songs should be required to perform a mouth guitar & mumbled vocal impression of what bits they can remember in a linked mp3. If not to help us search then simply to create joy
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Speaking of stuff you've heard on college radio... http://everynoise.com/engenremap-grunge.html The only one I found was: Cracker Bash? https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mudhoney-mn0000509223/related
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Harvey TWH posted:2. A commercial (late 90s?) for Dr. Pepper where a couple of smart-rear end kids have rigged a vending machine to redirect its output so people put coins in and get no soda out, get mad at the machine, etc. The main parts I remember are a background song something like "gimme that, gimme that, gimme gimme gimme that thing", and the girl proclaiming one of the angry adults to have "no self-control!" in mock horror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9zezJ7g5qE I recognised the song from your description at "Gimme Dat Ding" by The Pipkins, I heard it over and over in my childhood back in the late 70s because my dad used to love playing 'wacky song' LPs that had that and stuff like "My Friend The Witch Doctor" and "Yakety Yak Don't Talk Back" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNrmR6M1KtI Edit: I just googled it and apparently "Gimme Dat Ding" was written for a 1970s British TV show called Little Big Time which had a weekly live segment called "Oliver in the Overworld" which was super fuckin' weird and starred the lead singer from Freddie and the Dreamers Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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shadow puppet of a posted:People requesting songs should be required to perform a mouth guitar & mumbled vocal impression of what bits they can remember in a linked mp3. If not to help us search then simply to create joy Every time I post in this thread, you assholes make up new loving rules.
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Does anyone know of a children’s video (early 90s VHS era) that had a song at the end that was a ‘teach your kid their address’ song? I remember (•=beat, but this may have been my address’s song that my parents made for me): ### ••• Street Name •• Anywhere, USA •••••• The anywhere, USA part I remember well, since that’s where your parents are supposed to insert their city name.
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