What's your white whale? Post something you've been trying to find for ages

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Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Rikimaru posted:

There was some youtube video I saw 5-6 years ago. It was the end of some show and there were two puppets singing this song I can't get out of my head. The song was some endless loop song and the end lyric of every verse was "Omeeeegggaaaaaaa". The song went on and on and on. It's been driving me crazy trying to find this video and I'm almost convinced I made it all up in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhcxht077Bs

Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Apr 29, 2020

# ¿ Apr 29, 2020 05:49

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 14:45

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

proctorbot posted:

There's a comic strip that was posted on here years ago, like a white business man, sweating profusely, who can't stop thinking about sex. Vague description I know. I've tried googling a few times but can't find it. Does anyone remember this?

This one?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2020 20:13

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Eason the Fifth posted:

Looking for a .gif I lost a long time ago. Its from The Critic and shows Jay Sherman flipping through his planner, where the days say Binge and Purge. Trying to find this .gif led me to discover 1) there are a depressingly great number of websites about eating disorders and 2) a depressingly small amount of Critic .gifs.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of this?

# ¿ May 1, 2020 15:40

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Brolander posted:

NOW, can anyone find proof of an M&M's ripoff called BC's, that were like Sixlets but not round, came in boxes at the movie theater. I wonder if it was some kind of Regal Cinemas house brand. This would be like 93-96ish

The only reference I can find is in the book Sundance to Sarajevo, which says they were made by (and named after) a company called Banner Candy:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb9qKvhqiD4C&q=bc%27s#v=snippet&q=bc%27s

Milo and POTUS posted:

Same. The Way is an insanely solid tune and I have no clue where I first remember hearing it but it was at least a decade after the fact. It might have been from here

It has a unique subject matter too: it's a positive interpretation of the true story of two old people who disappeared and were later found dead in a ravine.

# ¿ May 25, 2020 00:32

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Rahonavis posted:

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...

I think this is Me and the Weirdos by Jane Sutton.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 23:30

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

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.

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

There are some places that sell and catalog old dinnerware, like Replacements. You can search what they have by color and other criteria.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2020 03:22

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

That was an episode of Masters of Science Fiction called �The Discarded,� based on a story by Harlan Ellison.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2021 06:47

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

kntfkr posted:

My dad worked for con ed during a historic time and he really treasured this toy bucket truck that he received before retiring https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/conedison-bucket-truck-dg-productions-1964682624

My mom let my 2.5 yr old son play with it and he pretty much smashed it to poo poo and I dunno how to repair plastic toys, only break them. Can't find it nowhere. Looked on EBAY and other internet places, called up some of his old coworkers. Ain't no one got it. Would make a nice Father's Day gift if I could replace it.

This place supposedly has it, or something similar:

https://www.apason.com/trucks

# ¿ May 11, 2021 03:26

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Mixed blessing?

# ¿ Aug 20, 2021 00:14

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Milo and POTUS posted:

Looking for the joke from a tv show (likely) or movie (far less so) about being a part of a one child one laptop program in africa that rapidly became a one warlord one thousand laptops program. I think it was 30 rock but I can't remember for certain

It was Archer:

quote:

"Then there's Nourish A Child, Shoe A Child, Bespectacle A Child, umm, One Laptop Per Child Soldier...."

"Wait, what?"

"Which, unfortunately, soon became One Thousand Laptops Per Warlord."

# ¿ Aug 22, 2021 01:43

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

It was advertising the band Barkmarket.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2021 22:39

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

My godmother had this book of sci-fi short stories in her house, and I've been trying to find it for years. She doesn't remember it, and nobody I've described it to has recognised it, and I'm starting to think my brain just totally made it up.

I remember the cover had a dude fighting a sorta mosquito-bear creature on it, it was drawn like one of those old 50s men's magazines where the dude is fighting weasels or whatever.

There was a story in it called "The Happy Pills" that was ... I have no idea whether this came out before or after They Live but it looked older than it, and the story was basically just They Live except instead of sunglasses, my guy got some wild-rear end antidepressants that let him See True Reality, and to avoid the monster infiltrators he kept taking more and more pills until his heart loving exploded.

Are you sure of the title? It's not in the ISFDb.

Also there's another thread you can try that's specifically for finding books and stories: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2704537

# ¿ Nov 13, 2021 16:56

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

JediTalentAgent posted:

In the 80s there was some sporting event where aliens came for a goofy little music song/dance number or something. No one remembers this, but I could have sworn I saw a cartoon years later with aliens doing something similar that makes me think it was real and the cartoon was parodying it.

Does anyone else remember football game with an little green men halftime show?

The 1984 Olympics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdW_4O7u3Gc

The Simpsons did something like it:

https://twitter.com/dailysimpsons/status/1224056084811407360

Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Jun 2, 2023

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 21:05

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Sometimes older books that are still in print are modernized to change out-of-date terms (and possibly offensive content).

Childhood's End (1953) takes place vaguely in the future and begins with a space race between the USA and USSR trying to land on the Moon; the revised version from 1990 has people instead trying to land on Mars.

Sometimes an author will reinstate cut material in later editions of a book, like The Stand by Stephen King, the expanded version of which also did some modernization.

JRR Tolkien changed the encounter with Gollum in The Hobbit somewhat to go along better with Lord of the Rings, though the original version is still included in some editions.

Then there was the infamous 2011 version of Huckleberry Finn that removed every instance of the n-word.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2023 16:21

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

emSparkly posted:

My roommate was trying to remember this movie that traumatized her as a kid. She said the scene she remembered had 2 people in a car, then they hit a deer and the passenger gets impaled on it's antlers so the driver gets out of the car and kills it. It sounds completely absurd but she insists it wasn't some screwball dark comedy thing.

The Long Kiss Goodnight.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2024 14:47

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Erin M. Fiasco posted:

3. This movie I only vaguely remember:

North Country?

# ¿ Feb 24, 2024 19:45

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

KennyMan666 posted:

So after stumbling into the Transformers Wiki today, I remembered an old Transformers toy I or rather my older brother had, but after looking around a bit, I couldn't find it. I don't want to find the actual toy again, I think it probably still exists in a box somewhere, but I never actually knew the name of that particular character, so I figure it might be time to solve that old, old mystery.

While I would have played with it in the first half of the 1990's, it might have been from earlier than that, since it belonged to my older brother. It was... of decent size, not one I'd call either notably big or small, but I also don't know what different sizes Transformers came in back in those days. Its vehicle form was a military-like vehicle, no normal kind of car, but it wasn't a tank either, and it might have had a third form but I am very unsure about this. The colour of the vehicle form's hull was mainly dark green, with some red "windows". It had a grey rocket that could be attached to the top of the vehicle, and also split in two to serve as large guns for the robot form. It also had a mini-bot in its stomach, which I remember as light gray with kinda thin orange arms and legs, which you folded in when putting it in its slot on the robot. I don't remember if it was an Autobot or Decepticon.

Doubledealer

https://tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Doubledealer/doubledealer.htm
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Doubledealer#The_Transformers

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 21:08

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 14:45

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

Looks like the Fabulous Four Pack came with both Dark Legions and Archon Ultra, plus two military games:

# ¿ Apr 9, 2024 03:54

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