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This one is weird and obscure, but what the hell: when I was in third grade, I was having a tough time learning my times tables because I sucked at math. One of my mom's coworkers made a tape of Hap Palmer's Singing Multiplication Tables and it helped a lot. Included at the beginning of this tape was an answering machine message from the perspective of a cat. This was 1993, so quirky answering machine messages were a hot commodity at that time. At the end of the message, the male cat speculated what he was going to be served for dinner: "Maybe some chicken stew (?). Or maybe seafood [something], ahoy!" followed by the sound of him licking his lips. Nine year old me loved this message and listened to it every time I'd play the tape, but I eventually recorded over it - and Hap Palmer - because I was obsessed with making dumb little recordings. I'd love to find this recording again, but it's so obscure that I doubt I ever will. e: For clarity, it's the cat answering machine message I'm looking for. It's not connected to Hap Palmer at all; I think my mom's coworker just reused a tape she had been using for her answering machine. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This one is weird and obscure, but what the hell: when I was in third grade, I was having a tough time learning my times tables because I sucked at math. One of my mom's coworkers made a tape of Hap Palmer's Singing Multiplication Tables and it helped a lot. You could fish round on the Hap Palmer official website's lyrics pages to try and identify the tracks. I'm not sure if the website's still extant, but it's archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20210211205027/https://www.happalmer.com/Files/Lyrics%20and%20Activities2.html
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Apr 27, 2021 19:41
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BigBadSteve posted:You could fish round on the Hap Palmer official website's lyrics pages to try and identify the tracks. I'm not sure if the website's still extant, but it's archived: Thanks! That's really cool and didn't know such a thing existed. My white whale isn't actually Hap Palmer related, though. I think the cat answering machine message was something that was on the tape before my mom's coworker recorded the Hap Palmer stuff.
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Apr 27, 2021 20:01
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~Coxy posted:I remember this one too. He paddled a canoe up the river and somehow came into the future world. Holy poo poo, from a page ago but yes exactly! I still have no idea what the story is but I think this establishes that I did not hallucinate it. Or we're having a group hallucination. Either is good enough for me.
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Apr 28, 2021 04:10
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Funky See Funky Do posted:There was a hip-hop group in the late 90s early 2000s that use a lot of scratching and sampled a lot of horns. I want to say they were Italian or had an Italian name? I cannot remember the name of find a suitable way to google it because "early 2000s italian rap" doesn't yield anything familiar. Dr. Quarex posted:I was so sure this was going to be Us3 even though it was a few years too early, but I went back and listened to a few of their songs and I was like "O.K. there actually is no scratching so clearly this is wrong" and now I also want to know what this is i!ii!!iii!!!ii!!i! posted:For some reason this made me think of Quarashi even though they are Icelandic: https://youtu.be/kFikGb6HIso Funky See Funky Do posted:No they were from like New Jersey or maybe New York or something? They weren't obscure or anything. They weren't huge but they were big enough that people in Australia bought their CD. So sorry, when I said Italian I meant Italian-American. Are you thinking of Vinnie Paz (sicilian-american) and either of his projects Army of the Pharaohs or Jedi Mind Tricks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5No8m6skgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l75Z8wil_U Or maybe possibly the Brooklyn hiphop supergroup La Coka Nostra? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URbrlnWhCLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqJxlfqv70
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Apr 28, 2021 07:35
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Or maybe Aesop Rock or the supergroup he was with Hail Mary Mallon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gLH1ErYx8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBew8R4-L0
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Apr 28, 2021 08:13
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No it was none of those. I've read over a list of every hip-hop release that came out between 1995 to 2005 and nothing stuck out. Except Dr Octagon but I might just have been remembering Dr Octagon for the first time in years. Maybe they weren't white or maybe just the guy doing to scratching was. The album art was predominantly blue, maybe? I'm pretty sure it wasn't The Beak Junkies but it's had a very similar sound to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcibKnRYMis
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Apr 28, 2021 09:55
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Funky See Funky Do posted:No it was none of those. I've read over a list of every hip-hop release that came out between 1995 to 2005 and nothing stuck out. Except Dr Octagon but I might just have been remembering Dr Octagon for the first time in years. Maybe they weren't white or maybe just the guy doing to scratching was. The album art was predominantly blue, maybe? poo poo, sorry holmes, I brought what I could figure to the table. Lemme go deeper. I might find something. I'd hoped that one of those could spark something. It wasn't DJ Shadow was it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ His other stuff is real accessible, maybe look through the catalogue? Or maybe Thievery Corp? OH poo poo. Was it Handsome Boy Modeling School with DJ Shadow and Prince Paul? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMmaL7vbPaM spookykid fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Apr 28, 2021 10:15
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Funky See Funky Do posted:No it was none of those. I've read over a list of every hip-hop release that came out between 1995 to 2005 and nothing stuck out. Except Dr Octagon but I might just have been remembering Dr Octagon for the first time in years. Maybe they weren't white or maybe just the guy doing to scratching was. The album art was predominantly blue, maybe? Is the album An Evening With The Sound Providers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNYZZKPY8g
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Apr 28, 2021 10:33
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NO WONDER HE'S AN ORGAN DONOR, THE SOUND HAS SO MUCH BODY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E60Ffa9yQ Organ Donor is so good maybe you just got horns mixed up with pipe organ?
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Apr 28, 2021 10:41
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The only other rap album I can think of with lots of scratching, lots of horn samples, and an album with primarily blue art is Bang For The Buck by Ugly Duckling, but I dunno. That was released in 2006 and it has a really different sound from what was linked
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None of this is it. Thanks for trying though. It's just gone from my memory. My brain won't pull up the details. All I can say is very strong New York feel to it. Possibly white guy/s. If the album or the guy/s were known it would have been for the scratching and samples not the vocals. Dr Octagon may have been involved? The album art was blue and possibly a painted cityscape. Thanks for trying. I'm sure one day I'll be falling asleep and it'll just come to me.
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Apr 28, 2021 10:52
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 Well hopefully you got a east coast umm... experience from some of these guys. lol gently caress. Don't go into into any of Vinnie's most recent poo poo. It's super-duper CHUD and I don't want to be associated with it. spookykid fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Apr 28, 2021 11:07
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spookykid posted:NO WONDER HE'S AN ORGAN DONOR, THE SOUND HAS SO MUCH BODY: this owns
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There was an MSpaint thread once, either in GBS or (less likely) PYF, where a goon did a little MSPaint/memeface comic about trying to order a pizza while extremely stoned. All I remember is the pizza guy asking the goon what they wanted on their pizza, and the goon sits there for a panel, and then says, "... mayonnaise?"
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Phy posted:There was an MSpaint thread once, either in GBS or (less likely) PYF, where a goon did a little MSPaint/memeface comic about trying to order a pizza while extremely stoned. All I remember is the pizza guy asking the goon what they wanted on their pizza, and the goon sits there for a panel, and then says, "... mayonnaise?" Same guy who ended up in the wrong side of the counter, trying to order from a customer who was trying to order from him, correct?
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Isolationist posted:Same guy who ended up in the wrong side of the counter, trying to order from a customer who was trying to order from him, correct? Legorobot? Or maybe I'm just saying that because he's the only MS Paint goon I remember by name.
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There is a DOS game I played a lot with my brother around when windows 3.1 came out. The game is a top-down shooter where you are a human spaceman fighting aliens and stuff. It had lots of level and weapons pickups. I don't know the name of the game but it was on the base directory of my father's computer as WAR.EXE. There were 2 other games named APACHE.EXE and MARS.EXE. What could WAR.EXE have been? My father was big on battletech and later mechwarrior but this game was neither of those. DOS game, top-down, huge spaceship, shooting aliens. There was a rocket launcher, I think the pickups were random but I might be imagining that. MARS.EXE was this game, I know that much:   I learned how to use DOS before I could read so I know the name of the copy my father left in the C:\ directory but I'm unsure the name of the game because I let my older brother read all the wordy computer games for me.
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Phy posted:There was an MSpaint thread once, either in GBS or (less likely) PYF, where a goon did a little MSPaint/memeface comic about trying to order a pizza while extremely stoned. All I remember is the pizza guy asking the goon what they wanted on their pizza, and the goon sits there for a panel, and then says, "... mayonnaise?" The 'wrong side of the counter' guy was Flavor Bear, anyway: https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/paint-embarrassing-moments/1/ I don't remember the mayonnaise one, though.
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Sanctum posted:There is a DOS game I played a lot with my brother around when windows 3.1 came out. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YW3BHqQS2UU Splicer fucked around with this message at 11:12 on May 1, 2021 |
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May 1, 2021 11:00
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Please help me find a kids show that was on in Australia in the early/mid 1990s. From memory it was black and white, either a hand drawn or a kind of linotype/cross hatched animation, and had a boy and a girl in it (possibly siblings). What really made it stick in my brain was that each episode ended with the girl saying "it's a good thing XXXX saved us kor something similar) because something much worse might have happened". I definitely remember the last part of that sentence and being weirded out about what a strange ending this show had. It could have just been this one episode, but "something much worse might have happened" is stuck in my brain being said by a little girl (maybe English) and I really want to know WTF this show was!
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May 1, 2021 11:17
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Sanctum posted:There is a DOS game I played a lot with my brother around when windows 3.1 came out. My blind guess would be Alien Syndrome, which had a DOS release in '89 and fits with the top-down perspective and the weapon upgrades. It seems unlikely it'd be named WAR.EXE, though?
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Picayune posted:The 'wrong side of the counter' guy was Flavor Bear, anyway:
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Last Visible Dog posted:My blind guess would be Alien Syndrome, which had a DOS release in '89 and fits with the top-down perspective and the weapon upgrades. It seems unlikely it'd be named WAR.EXE, though? Space Crusade looks very familiar but Alien Syndrome is def. the game I remember playing.
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May 1, 2021 19:56
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Two dumb internet videos. The first is a guy who designs posters for movies. It's mocking the floating heads trend. He's just sliding cutouts of actors heads around on a piece of paper. The second is a man pitching a movie to bewildered execs. He wants to make the little mermaid but on land. He sings a version of "under the sea" but it's "up on the land".
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Negostrike posted:These last few months I've been looking for a PDF, disc iso or even a mention about a computer magazine that had the Neverhood main character on the cover, probably from late 1996 or early 97. I'm almost sure it was a British issue of PC Zone. It included a CD with a yellow label with demos of Neverhood, Timelapse, Amok, also some Quake mods, a trial version of MAGIK music maker, and some other crap. I loving finally found it! After what seemed to be an eternity.  Seriously, even searching for "neverhood magazine" on Google Images I had to scroll a lot to spot that cover. Looks like PC Home wasn't an extremely popular CD mag. Also the name is similar enough to "PC Zone" I could swear it was one of those. Now my new white whale is a complete scan of that issue and the CD image.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:It seems to fit the rhythm of a poem I found a while back in my Dad's childhood scrapbook from the 1950s. Except his was about Pepsi and how it made you pee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJzrGgCjeU
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I guess this is the correct thread. My friend found this toy and wants to know what kids show it's from.  E: it's Battle Star Galactica Kosmo Gallion fucked around with this message at 23:06 on May 4, 2021 |
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May 4, 2021 23:02
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Kosmo Gallion posted:I guess this is the correct thread. *Original BSG. I had one of these and lost it in a move. What was the dumb-rear end kid’s name?
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DerekSmartymans posted:*Original BSG. I had one of these and lost it in a move. What was the dumb-rear end kid’s name? Was the kid Boxy or was the ... bear thing boxy? Also if you actually watch the original BSG there are only Cylons in like 4 episodes. *edit It was Boxey. HE WAS ALSO ATREYU.
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A podcast that would have begun before 2016, and could still be going now, which was mainly one young-sounding American guy recording himself while he walks places. I can't really remember what he spoke about but you could hear from the ambiance and the slight rhythmic tremble in his voice that he was walking while he recorded. There is one heart-rending episode in particular that I remember where he sobs as he talks about his brother who is addicted to heroin. I haven't got the first clue what it's called. I would like to listen again, but most of all I'd like to know that the guy is doing okay. The DPRK fucked around with this message at 23:27 on May 5, 2021 |
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May 5, 2021 23:13
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This horseshoe shaped cliff landform in france that looks like someone cut a circle in half and dropped it about a half a kilometer. Looks pretty cool. An escarpment, maybe? But it doesn't look like any I see on wikipedia. Could have swore it contained "cross" in french in some manner in the name but maybe it was just similar. I don't think it's cote d'or. It was pretty heavily forested and a very dramatic cliff.
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Look up "Restless Sea at Étretat" and see if that jams your jam I have never been able to forget that cliff arch's name (well, the painting's name, no clue what the arch is called) thanks to Mom making me stand in the same angle as the painting for a photo Edit: What the hell is going on, that search in Google only produces one hit, a Christian Science Monitor article from the 1980s. And it is talking about the right painting. But... Uhhhh... One hit? Near-Mandela Effect? It is by Monet and of the cliffs at Étretat, but beyond that I no longer know anything, and since you are looking for the natural feature rather than the painting that should do you fine Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 05:00 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 04:53
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It's typically titled 'Stormy Sea in Étretat' from what I can see. Or 'rough sea at.' I guess it isn't famous enough to be standardized?
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May 6, 2021 05:38
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Anyone know of PC game from the Win 98-era. It was FPS or 3rd person shooter with like water guns and water balloons? I think it was some kind of arena shooter. It was from what I remember quite colorful.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:None of this is it. Thanks for trying though. It's just gone from my memory. My brain won't pull up the details. All I can say is very strong New York feel to it. Possibly white guy/s. If the album or the guy/s were known it would have been for the scratching and samples not the vocals. Dr Octagon may have been involved? The album art was blue and possibly a painted cityscape. 3rd Bass?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0F1sgtRgU
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I'm looking for a segment of one of Conan O'Brien's "Actual Items" skit where it zooms in on a caption under a photo of a gravy boat. "This festive gravy boat will help float your gravy navy! I gravy hate myself."
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Funky See Funky Do posted:None of this is it. Thanks for trying though. It's just gone from my memory. My brain won't pull up the details. All I can say is very strong New York feel to it. Possibly white guy/s. If the album or the guy/s were known it would have been for the scratching and samples not the vocals. Dr Octagon may have been involved? The album art was blue and possibly a painted cityscape. https://www.discogs.com/Blockhead-Downtown-Science/master/47586 album art fits, blockhead is sort of instrumental hip hop, but it's from 2005, not new yorky and not much vocals. what you describe sounds more like 3rd bass above, who had two albums (no cityscapes), 2 extremely brooklyn-sounding white MCs and a very good scratch DJ but were only active '88-'93 b) album art on this from 2003 fits, and it has a lot of RJD2 sample production and scratching, although I wouldn't call Diverse very NY-sounding vocally https://www.discogs.com/Diverse-One-AM/release/205020 Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 17:53 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 17:49
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Dr. Quarex posted:Look up "Restless Sea at Étretat" and see if that jams your jam Well it was landlocked and that's what made it stand out to me.
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It was switzerland, not france  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creux_du_Van Apparently means hollow. Kinda closs to croix I guess. And it's only like 7 miles from the border so kinda close to france too
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