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curlingiron posted:I just googled and found this: https://youtu.be/pfI2VkNBjQc Oh poo poo, that's it, thanks! I literally googled every variation on "h Jon Benjamin" and "boots" that I could think of today and nothing, but now when I Google it it's the top result. It's like Google is trying to make a fool out of me.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Can you give us an approximation of the year you read it? That'll help whittle away anything published after that. I probably read it when I was 14 or so, so around 1998. And thanks for the tip! I'll try there too.
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just another posted:A British crime show about a doctor who solves crimes, also he rides a bicycle. Came out maybe around 2005? This sounds like Father Brown, except the bicycle riding amateur sleuth is a Catholic Priest, and it started in 2013.
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BBC has a shitton of series about crime solving non-police and the men all have curly brown hair. the one i remember most features a magician's assistant working for Anthony Stewart Head. Giles, from Buffy. He plays a stage magician.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:BBC has a shitton of series about crime solving non-police and the men all have curly brown hair. the one i remember most features a magician's assistant working for Anthony Stewart Head. Jonathan Creek. Owned until Caroline Quentin left after Series 3. Also Anthony Head was only in the Pilot episode. Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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I just remember watching it with someone I was dating at the time, who was also watching Dr Who and a bunch of other British shows about sad boys with floppy brown curls, when it dawned on me that I was a sad boy with floppy brown curls, and that probably she wasn't coming back to me after her years in Oxford.
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Okay, this one's bugging me and my search-fu is failing. I want to say it's from Mr. Show, or a similar sketch show. Someone quotes/paraphrases the famous Khrushchev line of "the survivors will envy the dead" (some Googlin' has it as "the living"). I know Krusty says it in a Simpsons episode, but I'm looking for a live action guy saying it while mugging at the camera. Any ideas?
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There's some movie or tv show with a joke about how someone's famous last words were something to the effect of, "they'll never take us alive, Ralph" (or some other name) but no one knows who Ralph is. I think it might be a simpsons joke? Any idea?
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I’m hoping to one day come across a particular piece of kitsch from my childhood. It was a hideous, wall mounted, motorised singing fish, however it was not your standard big mouth billy bass. It was a 90s Chinese ripoff of the same, and it only played the one 30 second audio snippet - a definitely unlicensed, hastily recorded cover of Proud Mary played on a comically out of tune guitar, and sung by a man who presumably had the English language vaguely described to him just prior to them hitting record. It was called a “Sing n Swing Fish” and it was both awful and wonderful.
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The Dirtiest Harry posted:It was called a “Sing n Swing Fish” and it was both awful and wonderful. This? The first result after googling: "proud mary" fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2W-l-bG_xI Or is it a knockoff of this version that is even worse?
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I think it was a collection of short stories I read in high school in the late 80's. One was about time travel and had a character was named Benedict. Another story, I'm pretty sure from the same book, was about some water spouts appearing that went up into the sky out of sight, the main character got abducted and kept as a pet in what was basically large gold fish bowl, but could never see his captors or anything around him. Could never remember the name of the book or the author but would like to read it again.
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kalamaf posted:I think it was a collection of short stories I read in high school in the late 80's. One was about time travel and had a character was named Benedict. Another story, I'm pretty sure from the same book, was about some water spouts appearing that went up into the sky out of sight, the main character got abducted and kept as a pet in what was basically large gold fish bowl, but could never see his captors or anything around him. Could never remember the name of the book or the author but would like to read it again. That sounds a lot like a mixed up memory of slaughterhouse-five
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Jenny Agutter posted:That sounds a lot like a mixed up memory of slaughterhouse-five Hmm, nope, don't believe I've ever read that one, and the plot descriptions don't ring any bells. The hunt continues!
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kalamaf posted:I think it was a collection of short stories I read in high school in the late 80's. One was about time travel and had a character was named Benedict. Another story, I'm pretty sure from the same book, was about some water spouts appearing that went up into the sky out of sight, the main character got abducted and kept as a pet in what was basically large gold fish bowl, but could never see his captors or anything around him. Could never remember the name of the book or the author but would like to read it again. sounds like Goldfish Bowl by Robert Heinliem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish_Bowl
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frankee posted:sounds like Goldfish Bowl by Robert Heinliem kalamaf, if that sounds right you can find a list of publications here: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46526 Perhaps one of the many editions of The Menace from Earth, which included a time travel story with a character called Diktor? (By His Bootstraps)
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frankee posted:sounds like Goldfish Bowl by Robert Heinliem uvar posted:kalamaf, if that sounds right you can find a list of publications here: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46526 These are the two, thanks goons!
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CountryMatters posted:I don't have a lot to go on to describe this, but me and my twin sister played an educational/kids game when we were little that we bring up sometimes because we can't for the life of us figure out what the gently caress it was. This turned out to be Storyland 2, and it was a fun little nostalgia trip emulating it. Turns out it was a weird animal rights propaganda thing, which explains a lot about my sister and I haha
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Riptor posted:There's some movie or tv show with a joke about how someone's famous last words were something to the effect of, "they'll never take us alive, Ralph" (or some other name) but no one knows who Ralph is. I think it might be a simpsons joke? Any idea? Yeah, that one's Simpsons. https://youtube.com/watch?v=8iglhkgiQSQ
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Last Visible Dog posted:Yeah, that one's Simpsons. Thank you!
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There was a top down shooter from the late nineties or early 2000's where you aimed with the mouse and got fallout-esque traits in between rounds. I know that's annoyingly vague but I don't remember much else about the game. Happen to jog any memories?
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Eason the Fifth posted:There was a top down shooter from the late nineties or early 2000's where you aimed with the mouse and got fallout-esque traits in between rounds. I know that's annoyingly vague but I don't remember much else about the game. Happen to jog any memories? Crimsonland? Any of the zombie/alien shooter series? I used to dig those style games, so if it’s not either of those I’ll check my steam list and see what else I’ve got from that genre. E: do you know if you controlled a person or a spaceship, and if it was more stylized or realistic art style?
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Slothful Bong posted:Crimsonland? This is it. Thanks!
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It was a made for TV disaster movie about people trapped on the middle of a high bridge after both ends had collapsed. This would have been 1984-87 I think. There were people in a helicopter trying to rescue them, and terrorists trying to stop the rescue or maybe blow up more of the bridge. It's a very fuzzy childhood memory of mine, where my friend had told me to go home and watch The A Team on channel 5 because it was awesome but I didn't have cable and watched this mysterymovie instead by accident. E: well poo poo that was easy never mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvdTgJ04JqM Another Bill fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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Bold Robot posted:That poster is your white whale now. It could be somwhere in the Interactive Fiction Archive: https://ifarchive.org
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Not a white whale because I know exactly what it is, but it's a late 90's game by Ravensoft called "Mageslayer". Plays just like Gauntlet, and there's a couple videos on youtube. The challenge for goons is seeing if they can find a copy. I don't have a windows 95/98 or whatever machine lying around so a physical copy won't do me any good, but if anyone can find it on like, an abandonware site or something, I would be very grateful.
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Arrhythmia posted:Not a white whale because I know exactly what it is, but it's a late 90's game by Ravensoft called "Mageslayer". Plays just like Gauntlet, and there's a couple videos on youtube. The challenge for goons is seeing if they can find a copy. I don't have a windows 95/98 or whatever machine lying around so a physical copy won't do me any good, but if anyone can find it on like, an abandonware site or something, I would be very grateful. Somebody posted about this upthread (hope it wasn't you), and it seems like it's a bitch and a half to get working on Win10 (dunno about using VMs or anything), but there are YouTube videos out there of it happening. I'll try to dig up a link to the game later. E:PM'd you
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The shakespeare quote "all is ready if the mind be so" is mentioned in a wikipedia article about... something. I thought it was for serendipity but I didn't see it. Or the role of chance in discovery. I don't know; I can't remember
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Teketeketeketeke posted:Somebody posted about this upthread (hope it wasn't you), and it seems like it's a bitch and a half to get working on Win10 (dunno about using VMs or anything), but there are YouTube videos out there of it happening. I'll try to dig up a link to the game later. Does DOSBox not work anymore? Been awhile since I've done any emulating stuff.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Does DOSBox not work anymore? Been awhile since I've done any emulating stuff. We got it working, don't worry.
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I think it was just hard to get running in Win7... Works fine in an emulated Windows 95 environment within DOSBox in Win10!
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E: quote is not edit. I literally never made that mistake before this phone app...
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Okay, this one's bugging me and my search-fu is failing. I want to say it's from Mr. Show, or a similar sketch show. Someone quotes/paraphrases the famous Khrushchev line of "the survivors will envy the dead" (some Googlin' has it as "the living"). The Devastator? https://youtu.be/p5Oi57fqdU0
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I have two, both related. They were bumpers that aired in between programs during daytime children's shows on I thiiiink PBS in the early to mid 90s. One was animated, with these weird alien/monster creatures on a black background. A voice would state the number of them and identify the type of creature, with each group getting bigger by one so as to teach you how to count (???). The other was live-action with an armless dude painted a bright color demonstrating through song and example that excluding different people is wrong. At one point a cop yells at him "Put your hands up!" to which he responds "But I don't have any" in an odd, dreamy tone.
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In the spirit of Take A Penny Leave A Penny, this is an informational video about AIDS that I spent my entire internet existence searching for only to come across recently. The creepy virus infiltrator repeatedly murmuring "He's okay, let him goooo" found a cavity in my memory bank and just nestled its rear end in there for twenty-odd years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RgUgd0HvWg
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Milo and POTUS posted:The shakespeare quote "all is ready if the mind be so" is mentioned in a wikipedia article about... something. I thought it was for serendipity but I didn't see it. Or the role of chance in discovery. I don't know; I can't remember https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/henryv/page_186/
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Hearts of Darknesses's song "glycerine (demo)", which got lost in the MySpace fallout.
olives black fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Apr 18, 2020 |
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DoombatINC posted:In the spirit of Take A Penny Leave A Penny, this is an informational video about AIDS that I spent my entire internet existence searching for only to come across recently. Holy poo poo they showed us this tape in first grade!
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DiabloNachos posted:I've been trying to find a Conan O'Brien intro that goes like : I know this isn't a big help but there is a guy on YouTube named Bobblehead Conan who uploads a ridiculous amount of 90s Conan. If anyone has it, he does. One Conan sketch I'm dying to find (I can't even find anyone on the internet talking about it) was from the late 90s where he makes some lame joke, I think about Jennifer Lopez's rear end. It was a terrible joke and then all of a sudden the show turns into a courtroom setting where they debated whether or not the joke sucked. It was absolutely hilarious and was one of the few things besides George Carlin that both me and my mother bonded over in terms of comedy. I wish I could find it if only to show it to her again.
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No i meant the wikipedia article lol
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