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Christmas related white whale: I'm looking for a group of toys that were popular when I was a little kid (late 80's/early 90's). They were simple wooden dolls that I think are sized and shaped like "little people" toys. The most specific thing I can remember about them is that they had a train and where the tracks connected were shaped kind of like the edge of a puzzle piece. There were houses and maybe like a playground set up as well. I really want to get some of these for my little one but I CANNOT freaking find these things. Maybe they don't even exist...
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https://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-Jr-Double-Side-Magnetic-Toddlers/dp/B07GBRTW48 ?
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Dec 1, 2020 00:55
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Milo and POTUS posted:https://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-Jr-Double-Side-Magnetic-Toddlers/dp/B07GBRTW48 Extremely close. Thinking maybe the company has exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks, goon! That was really dang fast.
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Dec 1, 2020 01:00
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There was an old children's book, sort of Where's Waldo style consisting of a bunch of really busy pictures where you had to look closely to find specific characters. The theme was various cartoon fictional diseases all working their way through the human body, most being killed off by parts of the immune system along the way. Started with about 50 or so cartoon diseases, by the time you get to the brain on the last page all but about 3 have been killed off. One of the only ones that survives is Sarge, who disguises himself as one of the workers in the brain. Vandal was another one who made it either to the brain and survived or died the page before that. Been passively trying to find it for the last decade or so with no luck.
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Dec 1, 2020 01:03
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Been passively trying to find it for the last decade or so with no luck.
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Dec 1, 2020 01:07
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Literally A Person posted:Extremely close. Thinking maybe the company has exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks, goon! That was really dang fast. BRIO is probably the exact brand you are looking for. Puzzle piece wooden tracks is their thing and has been forever. edit: ah wait I see the knockoff Melissa and Doug set cites its brio-compatibility already.
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Dec 1, 2020 01:20
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Xlorp posted:Sarge, Vandal, or the book? The book. Found exactly one reference to it anywhere on the internet, another guy with a vague recollection and no real details posting a Reddit thread that got no replies: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/comments/7gk4ee/childrens_wheres_wally_style_book_where_you/
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Dec 1, 2020 01:27
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shadow puppet of a posted:BRIO is probably the exact brand you are looking for. Puzzle piece wooden tracks is their thing and has been forever. This is even closer. you guys kick so much rear end.
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Dec 1, 2020 01:53
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Literally A Person posted:Christmas related white whale: BRIO trains also had a playground set  If you do a GIS for 'vintage wooden train set' there's tons and tons of photos of different old sets, there were a lot of similar ones back in the day
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Dec 1, 2020 06:34
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Literally A Person posted:Christmas related white whale: Beaten by the guy above but I had these as a kid Probably BRIO. They are a swedish toy company https://www.brio.us/
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Dec 1, 2020 06:38
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I've got a vague childhood memory of a papercraft book that had templates for sets with moving parts. One was a thing like a multi-tiered birthday cake (it may have been one) with a mouthpiece at the bottom to blow in and make something happen. Another was something like a lawnmower, maybe a tank, in any case it would have had moving wheels and potentially a mechanism connected to them. Its most distinctive design feature was that it had these stylized jackal figures on every set. They were explicitly called out as jackals. This may have been part of an overarching Egyptian theme but I don't specifically recall that. I strongly associate it with a grey, clean-cut look. Probably from the 80s, absolutely no later than mid-90s and even that's playing it safe. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Dec 1, 2020 15:42
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I'm trying to find a song that was a very minor meme maybe a couple years ago. It was a very sexual English song from a gay German solo artist in the 80s (maybe early 90s). People would joke that it was the origin of Rammstein, but it sounded more like something Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft would have made.
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Dec 1, 2020 22:00
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MachineryNoise posted:I'm trying to find a song that was a very minor meme maybe a couple years ago. It was a very sexual English song from a gay German solo artist in the 80s (maybe early 90s). People would joke that it was the origin of Rammstein, but it sounded more like something Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft would have made. By any chance would this be Klaus Nomi? He died in '83, but his music has made several small resurgences over the years. I'm not online enough to know if one of his songs became a meme at one point though. He was one of the individuals Mike Meyers used as the basis for his Dieter character, if you remember the 'Sprockets' skits on SNL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Nomi
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Dec 1, 2020 23:04
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:There was an old children's book, sort of Where's Waldo style consisting of a bunch of really busy pictures where you had to look closely to find specific characters. The theme was various cartoon fictional diseases all working their way through the human body, most being killed off by parts of the immune system along the way. Started with about 50 or so cartoon diseases, by the time you get to the brain on the last page all but about 3 have been killed off. One of the only ones that survives is Sarge, who disguises himself as one of the workers in the brain. Vandal was another one who made it either to the brain and survived or died the page before that. Was it one of the usborne puzzle adventure books? Are you certain they were diseases, not germs? Edit: Perhaps “Germs! An epic tale on a tiny scale”? Domus fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Dec 1, 2020 23:05
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kupachek posted:By any chance would this be Klaus Nomi? He died in '83, but his music has made several small resurgences over the years. I'm not online enough to know if one of his songs became a meme at one point though. He was one of the individuals Mike Meyers used as the basis for his Dieter character, if you remember the 'Sprockets' skits on SNL. Nah, this guy was way more obscure than Klaus Nomi. I know there were copies of his singles available on Discogs, but that's no help now that I can't recall his name. The song was sort of like if Man 2 Man had been one German dude instead of an American duo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-xBZxqQi0
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Dec 2, 2020 00:06
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This is seriously puzzling, cause it was a whole thing for New Wave (-adjacent) acts to specifically sing in German in the 80s. Do you think he would have had a career in Germany singing in English (not out of the question by any means), or would he have had a career abroad like Nomi?
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Dec 2, 2020 00:32
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Domus posted:Was it one of the usborne puzzle adventure books? Are you certain they were diseases, not germs? Isn't that or any of the Usborne Puzzle books, but thanks for looking. It was fictional germs, the book had no real story element that I can recall. Would have seen it in Australia some time in the early-mid 90's, I don't think it was anything all that popular and wouldn't be surprised if there are no traces of it anywhere online.
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Dec 2, 2020 01:25
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This indoor garden that was kind of a green tunnel kinda deal. White walls, curved in the distance. I had a great picture but I'm positive it was on an older comp. Great wallpaper material!
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Dec 2, 2020 07:39
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Forums justice for Seraph84. I demand a trial by combat! Who will be my champion?!
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Isn't that or any of the Usborne Puzzle books, but thanks for looking. It was fictional germs, the book had no real story element that I can recall. Would have seen it in Australia some time in the early-mid 90's, I don't think it was anything all that popular and wouldn't be surprised if there are no traces of it anywhere online. e: reprinted https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Stanleys-Puzzle-Body-Stanley/dp/1483483614 Splicer fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Dec 2, 2020 |
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Dec 2, 2020 23:42
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Splicer posted:Puzzle Body? Holy poo poo that's it. Been thinking about this on and off since early childhood and never had any luck tracking it down, absolutely getting myself a copy now. What did you search for to find it?
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Dec 2, 2020 23:51
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Holy poo poo that's it. Been thinking about this on and off since early childhood and never had any luck tracking it down, absolutely getting myself a copy now. What did you search for to find it? e: not like in person there's a pandemic on Splicer fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Dec 2, 2020 23:53
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Splicer posted:where's wally style books germs (no quotes) dumped me out into a goodreads thread about it. Please check your local book retailer before buying from amazon! Think I still have a gift card to Powell's Books somewhere and looks like they actually have it in stock. I'd searched like 20 times for things like "Where's Wally children's book germs" "Where's Wally diseases book Australia" and various combinations without getting it.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Think I still have a gift card to Powell's Books somewhere and looks like they actually have it in stock. I'd searched like 20 times for things like "Where's Wally children's book germs" "Where's Wally diseases book Australia" and various combinations without getting it. Splicer fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Dec 3, 2020 00:35
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My Lovely Horse posted:This is seriously puzzling, cause it was a whole thing for New Wave (-adjacent) acts to specifically sing in German in the 80s. Do you think he would have had a career in Germany singing in English (not out of the question by any means), or would he have had a career abroad like Nomi? Not sure. There were definitely English albums in the area at the time. DAF's English album, for example. I remember looking him up on last.fm and seeing a fairly low number of listeners. The comments on the Youtube video were all amused "haha, gay!" types and "wow, Rammstein sounded different back then" jokes. There's literally tens of thousands of releases in the dozen genres it could have been thrown into on Discogs (Hi-NRG, Synthpop, Disco, etc.), and the half-decent matches I've seen (Ernest Kohl, Kay Franzes, Paul Lekakis, Xalan) are either not gay enough, or not German enough. At this point, I'm willing to believe that I misremembered every single detail and it's actually a Czech song from the 2000s. MachineryNoise fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Dec 3, 2020 00:45
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A full recording of a 1985 ice skating Christmas special called "The True Gift of Christmas," produced by Canadian figure skater Toller Cranston. I had the first 20 minutes or so of this recorded on a home-made "holiday" VHS tape, before it cuts out. But I would watch those 20 minutes over. and over. and over. as a kid. I dreamed of being an ice skater, grew up to become an unemployed museum person instead. Finding the full version of this would be a literal Christmas miracle for me. It looks like someone else was in the same spot I am: https://imgur.com/gallery/3Upb98N as of two years ago. That post has a LOT more information and pictures, hopefully it rings a bell for anyone who might have it on some dusty VHS tape or knows how to track a copy down!
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Cruxxed Up posted:A full recording of a 1985 ice skating Christmas special called "The True Gift of Christmas," produced by Canadian figure skater Toller Cranston. I had the first 20 minutes or so of this recorded on a home-made "holiday" VHS tape, before it cuts out. But I would watch those 20 minutes over. and over. and over. as a kid. I dreamed of being an ice skater, grew up to become an unemployed museum person instead. CBC has pretty good archives, so it's likely that it still exists - have you tried contacting them? I also did some googling and it appears that the University of Toronto has a VHS copy of it in the Fisher Library collection: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/sites/fisher.library.utoronto.ca/files/finding_aids/dafoef49b.pdf If you have a friend who has access to a university librarary, especially a canadian one, you can possibly get access to it through Interlibrary Loan. For items like that often they'll just digitize it for you instead of shipping it around!
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Milo and POTUS posted:This indoor garden that was kind of a green tunnel kinda deal. White walls, curved in the distance. I had a great picture but I'm positive it was on an older comp. Great wallpaper material! I actually found this one btw!. It turns out it was on my computer! It probably was on one of my old ones though
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Dec 3, 2020 07:44
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serph i will champion you in the goon thunderdome for 5.09btc
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Dec 3, 2020 08:39
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Who What Now posted:I'm always looking for the perfect pair of tiddies. I fear it is a hunt that will take me to my grave. It's this op More specifically it is an porno that i saw a clip from. A Charlie's Angels parody, the angels were receiving a briefing from the speaker, and then a Russian defector arrived and she was the one who possessed the perfect pair of tiddies. After the angels strip searched her to make sure she wasn't wearing a wire she made then play nude twister because that was the only way to train for their top secret mission. Please i need help this must be found
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The White Dragon posted:serph i will champion you in the goon thunderdome for 5.09btc I'll do it for 5 flat.
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Saw in these forums years ago... a cartoon of Spiderman shooting webs out of his butt in a bathroom stall. Couple of other superheroes look on in horror. I think there was some Japanese in it.
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Dec 3, 2020 20:44
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MachineryNoise posted:I'm trying to find a song that was a very minor meme maybe a couple years ago. It was a very sexual English song from a gay German solo artist in the 80s (maybe early 90s). People would joke that it was the origin of Rammstein, but it sounded more like something Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft would have made.
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KennyMan666 posted:Any chance it's actually Günther - Ding Dong Song you're thinking of? It came out in 2004 and despite the name and accent Günther is Swedish, but it was based on a song from 1984 by a Dutch artist, Phil & Company - Tralala. Another no, sadly. But if I never stumble upon this obscure fellow or the in-jokes about his music again, I at least came across this song in my search, and I consider that a win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mgbmVhaBkk
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Recently I have been on the hunt for semi-antique (circa 1980s) stone wear plate and coffee mug that I grew up with. I have two pieces left in my posession,1000 miles away at home. This is very stylistically similar: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Haniwa-sto...ZQAAOSwSQheY83h But if I had to describe I would say it had a thin (1/2" or 1/4") brown line on the outside followed by blue (Maybe 1" thick) followed by a stone wear with a very light blue speckle on it. A stone wear that is speckled blue similar to this cup...(but again, should be a thin dark brown stripe followed by dark blue, similar to that plate) https://www.ebay.com/itm/White-Brown-Trim-Stonewear-Creamer-Made-In-Japan/273484933024?hash=item3facf8e7a0:g:8ogAAOSwcTlbrlJh
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Senor P. posted:Recently I have been on the hunt for semi-antique (circa 1980s) stone wear plate and coffee mug that I grew up with. There are some places that sell and catalog old dinnerware, like Replacements. You can search what they have by color and other criteria.
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There was a flash (?) movie about three asylum patients who break out to take a day trip to a tree where they had carved their initials and taken a Polaroid. There was a hilarious set of orderlies chasing them with nets and poo poo, like literal dog catchers. The patients steal and crash an ambulance and lots of other hijinks. But the most important thing was the song, which I think was French? It was a very sweet video about friends staging a small rebellion to update their Polaroid of themselves and the tree. I can't find it any where! Halp!
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Dec 4, 2020 11:15
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Senor P. posted:Recently I have been on the hunt for semi-antique (circa 1980s) stone wear plate and coffee mug that I grew up with. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Carousel-C...P0AAOSwgmBfqaI8 or https://www.ebay.com/itm/Otagiri-St...l4AAOSwuehbMUO9 ? Here's the latter pattern on the site Action Jacktion posted: https://www.replacements.com/china-otagiri-mariner/c/74090
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I need some help identifying some science books. I had these books in the 80s that were some sort of science annual, they were hardcover, and had a light green spine iirc. They were not kids books, I’m not sure if they were some kind of textbook or a journal. I’m pretty sure the 1984 annual had a picture of a boy on the cover holding a primitive joystick, he is using it to control a big robot that I think is holding an apple or something on a platter. There are rainbow coloured streaks behind the robot insinuating movement. I can’t remember if all these articles were in this one volume, but I remember reading about the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, the then-new AIDS epidemic, some early computer graphics stuff where this guy took a photo of his pet lizard and shopped it to look like a dragon, and wolverines, among others. I’d really love to track those down again if anyone knows what I’m talking about.
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Is this where I request porn that I can't find?
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