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I saw a gold-plated one with the Ford logo on ebay. No idea if it tickles your fancy, just a heads-up.
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Thanks for the heads-up  That particular listing has an utterly insane price point, but I would've passed on it even if it were priced more appropriately. The gold one I have is in rougher shape but it's good enough for me. So if there's some other dummy like me who's also trying to put together a collection, let them have it. (I do hope nobody's crazy enough to pay anywhere close to 699 goddamn dollars though.)
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Trabant posted:Thanks for the heads-up I hope you win the lotto and complete your collection. Until then keep looking, might have more luck irl
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Feb 12, 2023 03:36
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I assume you're a member of the various vintage electronics facebook pages already?
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I know there's another 'post something you just can't find lately' thread but I can't find it so this will have to do. You know how there's that never-ending joke about how Batman is an oppressor of the poor, doesn't actually help anybody just beats up vagrants, made worse by the fact that he's a billionaire? A few years back someone on Twitter wrote out (as a tweet thread, ugh) an idea for an actually-progressive Batman plot and FWIR, it was pretty good. I'm having trouble searching for it though, anyone know what I'm talking about?
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I assume you're a member of the various vintage electronics facebook pages already? Technically yes, but so many of them have a "NO SALES" policy for... reasons, I assume. But you're right and it's a good reminder -- I'll go back and look for those that explicitly say that members are allowed to buy and sell. Milo and POTUS posted:I hope you win the lotto and complete your collection. Until then keep looking, might have more luck irl 
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Feb 13, 2023 04:11
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Trabant posted:Technically yes, but so many of them have a "NO SALES" policy for... reasons, I assume. Have you tried searching in Chinese? Weird old luxury calculators are exactly the kind of thing I'd expect a Hong Kong collector to obsess over.
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Following up 3 years (almost to the day) after I first indicated I might be able to help with this, sorry it took so long... you're still an active poster, though, so I hope you see this!doctorfrog posted:A couple decades ago, Comedy Central had 1 season of a series called "Let's Bowl." It was actually more than one season - 2 on CC, I think, but in fact, I've learned it began life as a local Minnesota show before CC picked it up. (Where have I heard that one before? I mean, wow, it even had a fan club address in Hopkins, MN!) I digitized my tape of 4 season 2 episodes from a graveyard shift rerun block in 2004 and was going to be happy enough with that but decided to check youtube for more... and there are a few dozen episodes (from channel 41 and Comedy Central seasons 1-2) available for you to enjoy! Most of them went up after your request. I've certainly been enjoying the memories/new stuff, but I won't spoil the variations. These two channels seem to be almost entirely devoted to the show (a little overlap between their offerings): https://www.youtube.com/@russbonneau9152/videos https://www.youtube.com/@cobiski/videos And there's one random extra episode (may or may not be redundant) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKpkrdbCysI My set has one single episode that did not appear to be online yet, right at the start. The others match runtimes with what's already online but I haven't compared recording quality. The more the merrier! (Also I went with production order because that's the only one I had reference to when I taped them.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxwfr85t4o By the way, I have been focusing my conversion efforts mostly on later years but I think I did see some Tough Crowd in the 2004ish tapes and I know someone else was eager to find episodes of that. I could be easily persuaded to pull those soon.
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yaffle posted:Have you tried searching in Chinese? Weird old luxury calculators are exactly the kind of thing I'd expect a Hong Kong collector to obsess over. Nope, can't say I have. Closest I've done is search Japanese auctions (through buyee.com) where I search for both "Sinclair" and シンクレア (per Google Translate). I've also searched ex-Yu sites (since I do speak those languages). There I search for "Sinclair" and "Sinkler" as some people phonetize it  Happy to try it with Chinese too... if anyone can tell me what the right search terms would be and which site will ship to the US?
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Feb 13, 2023 05:50
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I’m looking for an anthology of essays and some short fiction that was used as a textbook in my English composition class circa 1998. It had “How to say Nothing in 500 Words” by Paul Roberts and the short play “Sure Thing” by David Ives. It may have had “The Discus Thrower” by Richard Selzer and it also had an essay I barely remember describing how a woman goes from being a person to being an object back to being a person over the course of getting a physical from her doctor—I can’t locate a title or author for that one because my memory is too hazy, but it was descriptive of events followed by analysis, kind of like anthropology or sociology scholarship. It was a thick text with coated pages typical of American textbooks, but it wasn’t formatted like a textbook: it was taller than it was wide, like a normal book. It had a hard cover that was darker green swirled with either white or a lighter green, but that may not have been the original binding. I don’t think it was any of the David Bartholomae editions of Ways of Reading, although one of the problems I’m having is that there have probably been many editions of this text since the one I saw. Part of my confusion is that I had the same English teacher twice: once sophomore year for a composition course and once junior year for AP language, and my memories bleed together. I remember I had this textbook the year AMC played a marathon of Planet of the Apes movies over Labor Day weekend. How would I start looking for this?
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Feb 14, 2023 00:45
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Are you in touch with any of your former classmates? That's where I would start.
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I AM GRANDO posted:I’m looking for an anthology of essays and some short fiction that was used as a textbook in my English composition class circa 1998. It had “How to say Nothing in 500 Words” by Paul Roberts and the short play “Sure Thing” by David Ives. It may have had “The Discus Thrower” by Richard Selzer and it also had an essay I barely remember describing how a woman goes from being a person to being an object back to being a person over the course of getting a physical from her doctor—I can’t locate a title or author for that one because my memory is too hazy, but it was descriptive of events followed by analysis, kind of like anthropology or sociology scholarship. Look up the curriculum for that year.
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Feb 14, 2023 01:00
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Trabant posted:Technically yes, but so many of them have a "NO SALES" policy for... reasons, I assume. I want a curta so I know your pain Mister Speaker posted:I know there's another 'post something you just can't find lately' thread but I can't find it so this will have to do. There's the internet necromancy thread but I'm not sure if this counts as a solve on my end. This one is much more busy https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3958247
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Oh man, I read a great essay about the curta, that would be a really cool thing to own.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Oh man, I read a great essay about the curta, that would be a really cool thing to own. It's basically insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loI1Kwed8Pk
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Milo and POTUS posted:I want a curta so I know your pain big_oof.jpg Hell, you have it worse.
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If there's a like 'find me an SA thread' thread maybe this would be better for that but in some thread there was a goon who ?knew? a guy who had this very strict idea of what the perfect mens suit "should" be and posted photos of the finished product and it was like this tall lanky white guy with long blonde hair in a mao-collared suit of a garish red and gold brocade fabric he may or may not have been wearing combat boots with it another lost SA thread is an E/N thread by a guy who'd never celebrated christmas before and needed to know what people's traditions were so he could make christmas special for his boyfriend
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beep by grandpa posted:Been thinking about a particular scene from an old movie from the 80s or 90s that I can't quite place. I want to say it was a young girl but what I do remember vividly is she had to go to some giant, enormous library where they keep records of like every newspaper ever made and she was searching for something, and she had to have someone help her get this giant, giant books with every single newspaper they ever made in them so she could scan through them for something. I remember this being so cool, but my searches don't lead me anywhere. Closest thing I can think of is maaaaaybe that old nickelodeon movie harriet the spy, but I don't have a way to watch it to check. Not a movie so it’s kind of a long shot, but maybe it might have come from this old PBS show? Here’s the first episode in case that helps either jog your memory or eliminate it as a possibility: https://youtu.be/6DzzPDnIKtQ
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Reading that Wikipedia page was about a hundred times more amazing than I was expecting and I am now watching the episode and entirely convinced it makes no sense that this exists at all "World Wide News: Final Edition" drat I wish I had seen this as a kid
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Killingyouguy! posted:another lost SA thread is an E/N thread by a guy who'd never celebrated christmas before and needed to know what people's traditions were so he could make christmas special for his boyfriend
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Killingyouguy! posted:If there's a like 'find me an SA thread' thread maybe this would be better for that but in some thread there was a goon who ?knew? a guy who had this very strict idea of what the perfect mens suit "should" be
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This is a strange one: Years ago I had been accepted to college and there was something I had somewhere with a very specific mention of something regarding my admission. A school administrator, a few months later, changed it in their computer so it looked like it never existed. I threw out a bunch of my old college stuff years ago, but I stumbled upon a letter from nearly 2 decades ago that gives me hope that I STILL have it somewhere because it would literally be in writing from the school and considering the school told me, "If you don't have it in writing, it's your word against a staff member, and we'll believe a staff member over you." it would be great to find.
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JediTalentAgent posted:This is a strange one: Years ago I had been accepted to college and there was something I had somewhere with a very specific mention of something regarding my admission. Do you want goons to come search your house or something
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Killingyouguy! posted:If there's a like 'find me an SA thread' thread maybe this would be better for that but in some thread there was a goon who ?knew? a guy who had this very strict idea of what the perfect mens suit "should" be Was it this?  I couldn't find the original thread but I found this one which says it was originally posted by Dienes and also has more pictures. Zathril fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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Feb 18, 2023 15:52
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Zathril posted:Was it this? gently caress YES IT IS THANK YOU e; and the thread links to his deviantart which is full of other fashion decisions, incredible Killingyouguy! fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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Killingyouguy! posted:gently caress YES IT IS THANK YOU Nice, for the other person asking I searched the site for mandarin collar and it came up.
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Zathril posted:Was it this? Buddy looks like Marilyn Manson tried to climb the curtains
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Zathril posted:Nice, for the other person asking I searched the site for mandarin collar and it came up. CommonShore posted:Buddy looks like Marilyn Manson tried to climb the curtains
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Feeling that old guy in the back
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This is a real longshot, but I've been searching for info on this for years and haven't been able to find info on it, especially the name which I've forgotten. It was some kind of colorful flower, like "Petunias" or "Peonies" and that was the entire name. In the 1999-2000 season (I'd estimate 2000 if I had to pick a year), at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, I saw a theater performance. I (and some friends) had intended to see a play that a friend was cast in, bought tickets, and went into a show, but there was a mistake somewhere along the lines and it wasn't the correct one, which we realized about 15 minutes in when we couldn't find our show in the playbill. I imagine this show was put on elsewhere, but I saw it in Berkeley. The show was somewhere between avant garde theater, interpretive dance, and ballet. Extremely minimalist, the costumes were mostly leotards and tights. I remember there were several movements where people would mimic animals, moving like they were giraffes or deer or lions. I remember at a few points in the performance, all of the other performers and music would stop, and a naked woman holding a giant accordion (so covering herself) walked onstage in silence, turned to face the audience, and said the name of the show, then the lights would turn off and she would leave for a stage reset. The climax of the show was most of the cast spending 10 minutes piling a huge amount of cardboard moving boxes into a giant structure, one at a time, also in silence. When they finished, they wheeled up a multi-story ladder, someone climbed to the top, and then swan dived into the pile of boxes, crushing them. Does anyone know what this show is called or have any background on it? Infinite Karma fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:BrutMcD's current av is thsi: Hell yes, thank you!
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I am looking for a video of the spiderman cartoon but its dubbed in another language. Its spiderman falling and hes supposed to be screaming for his life but the VA is doing the most dead pan scream aaaaa aaaa aaa aaaaa I always lost my poo poo when watching it but now youtube sucks and i can find it.
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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. It's based on the short story 'Mason's Rats' by Neal Asher.
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Hihohe posted:I am looking for a video of the spiderman cartoon but its dubbed in another language. Its spiderman falling and hes supposed to be screaming for his life but the VA is doing the most dead pan scream Is it this?
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Infinite Karma posted:This is a real longshot, but I've been searching for info on this for years and haven't been able to find info on it, especially the name which I've forgotten. It was some kind of colorful flower, like "Petunias" or "Peonies" and that was the entire name. It could be Nelken, by Pina Bausch. Its english translated name is Carnations. I found it on the archived website for Zellerbach Hall and there's definitely a very lightly dressed lady with an accordion. https://web.archive.org/web/19991013073306/http://calperfs.berkeley.edu/9900season/dance/pinabausch.html You can read more about the play here: https://www.pinabausch.org/work/nelk I haven't been able to find it in its entirety on youtube, but here's a piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKy9MiOey_s
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I’ve been looking for a video from January 2021 of a very upset trump voter crying into her phone camera begging “president trump” to “save us” from Biden. I remember her saying that biden had some kind of strange flag at his inauguration that wasn’t the American flag and her angrily saying “this is our country!” although she was basically weeping the entire time. She had a slight southern accent. I can find a few videos that comment on it and show clips, but I’m having a lot of trouble finding the original.
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engessa posted:Dunno if this is still your white whale but check this out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20239370/?ref_=tt_mv_close but that's a really good episode though, cheers!
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In 1985 I stayed in a youth hostel in the uk and there was an arcade cabinet that had in its teaser animation a sideways view of a very pixelated dwarf, wizard, barbarian and I'm thinking a bow and arrow lady. Like the top third of the screen maybe. Which might be the first time I saw a computer game. I didn't get to play it. It'd be lovely to know what it was called.
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Was it gauntlet?
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Could it be Golden Axe?
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