Sydney Bottocks posted:

So this is a bit of an oddball one: back in the early 1990s, I was in the service and stationed in the UK. A buddy and I were both big music buffs and we still had record players (this was back when vinyl LPs and singles had long fallen out of fashion and well before the "boutique" vinyl industry had even begun to sprout up), so on occasion we'd stop in to a store that sold used records in the British town not far from where our base was. Usually we'd go there looking for a specific thing (they had everything from classic funk to the neckbeardiest prog to the hardest crustpunk/grindcore you could think of), but sometimes if a record was cheap enough, we'd grab it purely for novelty value if it looked like it'd be worth a few chuckles.

My friend was big into funk, R&B, and hip-hop/rap, and one day he came across a record for like £1 that he grabbed purely because he couldn't stop laughing at it. As I recall, the cover featured an elderly black man in the standard hip-hop gear of the 1980s: Adidas shoes and tracksuit and a Kangol hat, with his arms folded and striking a typical "rap" pose against a red background (the back cover had him in the same outfit, but striking a radically different pose, with one thumb in his mouth and one apparently in his rear end). The liner notes claimed he was the first ever rapper, way back in the 1950s or 1960s, and apparently he'd decided to cut a whole new set of tracks. Imagine if you took like the subjects of an old Redd Foxx standup routine, and made it a rap song. Just the filthiest, crudest poo poo that'd make Dolemite blush. I don't remember his name, or the name of the album, but I do remember one of the tracks was called "Baby Fat", which I'm sure is as crude as I remember it being.

I'm interested in finding it, even on YouTube or whatever, purely for comedy value. I remember my friend took it home, played it, and came back by my place the next day asking if I could hold on to it for him because, and I quote, "I can't have this in my house with my kids". I forget if he ever got it back or if it just got lost when I ended up moving back to the US about a year later. But I remember that particular thing every so often, not for the quality of the music, but for how we'd occasionally drink a couple of beers and laugh our asses off listening to it.

Blooster posted:

I searched every music database I could find and nothing is matching for the song "Baby Fat" with that type of artist. Are you sure that was the name of the song?

ThePopeOfFun posted:

An image of a promotional pamphlet for the 2006 movie "Accepted," encouraging application to South Harmon Institute of Technology. It came with my CCS catalog, which makes me think it shared a mailing list. Inside where juvenile puns on various classes like "woodworking." I can't find evidence of it online, but I for sure received one in the mail.

Riptor posted:

You should tweet at @NightPromoting; the whole account is focused on highlighting dumb promotional stuff for movies no one cares about

https://twitter.com/common_elf/status/1534755748596617216?s=20&t=enmK-xQHAbVq4-Po8zVzZw

https://twitter.com/NightPromoting/status/1187898973794787328?s=20&t=enmK-xQHAbVq4-Po8zVzZw

Sydney Bottocks posted:

Yeah, I mainly remember it being the name of one of the tracks on the album because of how ridiculously offensive the songs were, for some reason that title just stuck in my mind.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

I don't think so; as I recall from the one song that stuck in my memory, he just sounded like your average older black guy who has no idea of how a rap song works except that it should have plenty of rhyming. I mainly remember the song because it started out with him (or whatever character he was purporting to be in the song) telling an attractive young woman that she knows what she "has to do" if she wants money for rent and bills. It definitely wasn't a progressive-minded album, that's for sure.

Treecko posted:

Rapunzel

Treecko posted:

I'm looking for a cartoon I watched when I was young in the 90's, but it must be much older. I think it was supposed to be the story of Rapunzel, or a similar tale, but I'm not sure. I don't believe it was a Disney one, but it had that old school cel art animation style. Maybe even something closer to the way Plauge Dogs or Watership down are drawn.

I remember only that a prince climbed a tower and was thrown off by a witch? into a thorny bush, which gouged his eyes out. I distinctly remember blood dripping from his eyes as he stumbled through a thicket.

I was just reminded of this, I still have trouble watching people making wire sculptures or...heck...even trees in winter make me squint involuntary.

E: After a bit of googling it's def Rapunzel, but I haven't found the specific cartoon. The closest was the Hallmark one but in that he just got turned into a bird.

torgo posted:

Are you thinking of the anime version that aired on Nickelodeon? I think it hits most of the things you remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OTy1uQYGp4

emgeejay posted:

found a useful tool for searching lines of dialogue in obscure and forgotten media:

https://filmot.com/

It searches a database of YouTube subtitles, and I was able to use it to find a request I made earlier in the thread:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ViO18YbkykY&t=27m7s

(it was an extended version of the Subway commercial at 27:06)

Raspberry Bang posted:

“papa beaver’s story time”.

!Klams posted:

Kind of dumb, but I have this weird obsession with lime green and black as a colour combo. Everything in my house where I get to choose the colours is in that combination. I have almost exclusively Razer products in the office, and while I'm more than happy with their performance it's entirely an aesthetic thing. My kitchen is all joseph joseph green stuff, my tools are all Ryobi, etc etc. Like, yeah, it's super lame, but the thing is it just always looks the best to me. I appreciate it's not everyone's taste, and so the living room and general decor is all up to my wife.

Splicer posted:

This activated something in me. Incredible sense memory of something that up until a moment ago I had completely and utterly forgotten about.

Milo and POTUS posted:

magic cactus posted:

this one has been bugging me for a minute. I want to know the song playing around the :07 seconds mark in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY97J9k1wc4

nothing comes up on soundhound and youtubing "drum and bass song go" is obviously not getting any traction. It seems like a cool song. There were a couple of other folks in the comments asking for the track ID but they also didn't get any replies.

Saint Freak posted:

I yelled at my phone and it said this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9XWeae0OYI

Enderzero posted:

Trying to remember a kid's/teen horror story collection.

Cassius Belli posted:

This is a little far back but I was buying a gift for a friend today, saw this in the 'related items' recommendations, and thought of you.

https://pinsandaces.com/products/green-splatter

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

This is kind of a dumb one: my dad had a shareware will program for his IBM PS/2 called "Will Power". When I was a kid I enjoyed making wills that listed my school friends as executors and heirs to my (limitless, as I'm sure you can imagine) 7 year old estate. Because the program had such a generic name, though, I've never managed to find it online. It'd be pretty cool to fire it up in DosBox for old time's sake.

Kesper North posted:

Executor Assist sounds like an add-on feature on a star destroyer, ngl

JediTalentAgent posted:

I think I might have found something or found something you might have already found or a happy accident:

1990 computer program according to the library of congress (so this would have been PS/2 era) named "WillPower"

https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/P...624014107&SID=5

The LOC copyright info contains the name of a creator, who has a linkedin account

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-michael-30286718?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

This lists as part of his career: " Developed a Will writing program "WillPower" for Jacoby & Meyers"

Searching for "WillPower Jacoby & Meyers" seems to open up a few more doors, including a few magazine references (ads, reviews, mentions)

edit: I know you said it was shareware, but it's possible they put out a SW version in addition to a full-retail one.
edit2: On another search I found a reference in the latter 90s to a Kiplingers Will Power/Willpower, so maybe the assets changed hands or were rebranded by late 90s? Your comment specifically on executors made me take notice of a blurb on the back on box for a copy of this, stating as a 'bonus feature' it includes an 'Executor Assist'.

eating only apples posted:

A UK public safety film that I saw in primary school in 1993-1998 in Norwich, if anyone local might recall it

It was a building site one, but not Building Sites Bite, I've watched that one and it's just not the same. I remember it being more modern than 70s also. The bits I remember of it were in first-person perspective of a kid wandering across a building site, like balancing across a wooden beam which fell, and digging in a heap of sand that collapsed on them. There must have been third-person bits too, because I remember the kid being dark-haired, gender non-specific. Does anyone remember this? I'm not expecting to find it but even someone else recalling it would be great.

quote:

Alright, I've got a book that I read once and have no idea how to identify. It was a sort of introduction to optical illusions for kids, framed as a story of a bug(?) lady(?) who is trying to make her way home(?), and keeps being blocked by the illusions drawn on the page. The only one I remember is the ol' grid of black boxes, where you see grey spots in the aisles between them. And she complains, "I can't get home, there are these grey dots in my way!" But the narrator tells her to look at the dots individually and they disappear. By the end of the book, she goes crazy or something.

The book was prefaced with a line saying "All the illusions in this book were made with ordinary white paper and ordinary black ink," and was so excited by learning this privileged information that I asked my mom if we could get some "ordinary black ink" so I could make my own.

I think I'd read it around '89 or '90.
Every time I try to look for it, I get a little more skeptical that it even ever existed, but who knows?

Dell_Zincht posted:

"Game Over" by HSE, from 1997

https://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/4420/lost-building-site-splaat-named?page=1

(I remember watching this in secondary school, when we were past the age of playing on building sites!)

Last Visible Dog posted:

Next goal, the chicken soup song!

Hirayuki posted:

Do you mean the Carole King song from the musical "Really Rosie," an adaptation of a handful of Maurice Sendak's books?

e: https://youtu.be/r9VvlI6sHJw

Last Visible Dog posted:

Next goal, the chicken soup song!