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Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

A kids show that aired on, and was maybe produced by WGBH in Boston (a PBS station) called A Likely Story which was about a lady who drove a bookmobile and took kids on adventures into story books they were reading, by jumping into something called "the magic book" which was a four foot tall green screen book thing

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 13:23

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 02:20

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

Conan O'Brien used to have this ongoing gag where this clip would play of an old-ish bald man yelling either "YES!!!" or "NO!!!" or something over a techno beat. It would keep looping over and over on top of this techno beat. The guy kind of looked like that wacked out guy from Heaven's Gate cult but it wasn't him. I would say this was late 90s Conan. Searching yields nothing and I would love to see this again. I've been looking for it for 20 years but it's a pretty hard thing to search for

Was it his old announcer Joel Goddard? They used to use him in sketches quite a bit on late night

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 13:25

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

DerekSmartymans posted:

I also forgot mine. My dad used to find books for me by author or picture on the cover. On visitation day one summer he brought me 7 or 8 from new authors who �seemed� like sci-fi based on cover. He brought me a book with a man in a snowy background while wearing a white coverall/hat and holding some futuristic gun. The book was about memes, but this was back in high school before the web really existed and memes were more scholarly-based and dangerous. A computer AI (not the only one) learned how to use memes (pronounced meems) to overwrite human brains. The AI was trying to use memes to take over the world, and a resistance had formed against it.

Again, this is NOT memes like we think of them. They were more like radio jingles and cell towers and subliminal TV commercials. The early version of the word that the modern meaning of them from which it grew.

I ended up in restraints while I was halfway through the book. My Psychiatrist got rid of all 100 or so books because they were mostly sci-fi/fantasy and causing delusions interfering with my treatment plan. I still hate that doctor but I always wanted to finish that book.

Are you thinking of Snow Crash?

# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 00:20

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

I remember a story from easily 15+ years ago, something that would now be called creepypasta, where a guy was writing about how he was being tormented by a group of people who had all sorts of sophisticated high frequency audio equipment, where they could make these sounds appear in his house but they could also monitor everything being said in his house so he couldn't call the cops or anything. He supposedly didn't know who these people were or what they wanted, just that they were targeting him for some reason

Anyone have any idea?

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 15:43

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Arrhythmia posted:

That's just a generic gangstalking loony

The audio equipment part of this was very central to the story

# ¿ Aug 17, 2019 17:40

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

Gutter Phoenix posted:

"vintage skeleton toilet poster"

please don't doxx me

# ¿ Sep 4, 2019 03:28

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SalTheBard posted:

I'm looking for a time travel movie. I know people are going to say Primer but reading the synopsis of Primer I don't think that's it.

Here is what I remember:
Advertised heavily online and especially YouTube. Came out between 2009 and 2013
It was a movie about a group that builds a time machine.
It turns out that the person we think is "current time" guy is actually from the future and he's secretly trying to sabotage (or he travels from the future secretly trying to sabotage the machine).
I remember that you basically see them test the machine and it fails, then towards the end of the movie you see the same scene from a different perspective and you see the sabotage happening.
The movie is really dark (like it's a dark movie from a lighting perspective)

Is it in Spanish? It might be Cronocrimenes which was called Time Crimes in the US. Came out in 2007

# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 16:31

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Angelwolf posted:

Is Primer the one where they get eaten by some monster in the end as a result of their time travel?

You thinking of the drat Langoliers?

# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 17:37

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

Yeah it's awesome

# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 19:24

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

uh yeah I'm looking for that too

# ¿ Dec 6, 2019 03:12

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Comrade Koba posted:

A PC game from the late 90s/early 00s where you controlled one of three different vehicles (I think it was an attack helicopter, a tank, and a jeep?) and tried to destroy or capture your opponents base. At any time you could return to your own base and switch vehicles. Top-down view, 2D or isometric graphics.

Nuclear Strike or one of its predecessors?

# ¿ Dec 7, 2019 13:34

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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:

It was quite a bit more melancholy than either of those but I appreciate the guesses.

Also appreciated but it isn't that.

Only other things I remember were that the video was in color (I have a mental image of a brunette wearing green and it being dark around her but I can't be sure) and the tone was like... cinematic? But melancholy? It's really hard to describe, especially since it was 22 years ago and I was 8.

And my parents flipping off the TV doesn't mean too much since I think they pretty much always did that when they were watching MTV and I wandered in, but for whatever reason this song stuck with me and I always wanted to figure out what it was. To be honest I'm not 100% certain I would be able to remember it just from the song, but I know if I saw the video I would.

"bound and broken on the floor" from Torn by Natalie Imbruglia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 22:01

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jayzlie posted:

There was this PC Game back in the mid 90's where you could customize robot fighters and then play 1v1 street fighter style with them. My asian friend back in the day had it at his house and we would play for hours, was a fantastic game for it's time, for the life of me I can't recall what it was called.

Super Asian Friend Battles

# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 08:36

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

There was a series of prank calls i listened to easily 20 years ago now where the "punchline" was always the caller screaming that they were "alone! In a room! With a gun!" which always confused the people they were calling since it sounded like a threat but really wasn't.

Definitely wasn't Longmont Potion Castle or the Jerky Boys or any other famous prank callers

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 01:02

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

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?

# ¿ Apr 14, 2020 04:23

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Last Visible Dog posted:

Yeah, that one's Simpsons.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8iglhkgiQSQ

Thank you!

# ¿ Apr 14, 2020 16:07

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manofsloth posted:

Mainly for Phil Hartman, giving it 100% as always:
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/portrait-of-the-artist-pablo-picasso/2868073

the kid in that sketch is Jonathan Larroquette of Uhh Yeah Dude

# ¿ Jun 10, 2020 15:36

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Metaline posted:

Does anyone know where I can find the edit from the film Amadeus in which every shot of sheet music has been replaced with drawings of dicks? It�s Salieri�s perfect dictation scene.

Are you thinking of the 30 rock episode where tracey and frank are both trying to crack how to do a porn video game? They parody that scene in it

# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 17:11

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TrixRabbi posted:

Hey, does anyone remember that goon project where the poster cut together Obama's audiobooks to have him narrate this mythical tale of a dog-headed man? I can't remember what it was called or where to find it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvg7-2jgT0

# ¿ Sep 21, 2020 17:24

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Chicken posted:

There was also NorthSound records which apparently released new age and nature sounds albums up to the early 2000s and primarily sold in kiosks. I remember one at the Calgary Zoo gift shop as a kid which lead me to this image:

That lovely woman is mostly blocking the view of the kiosk but it's definitely what I remember.

Nancy Pelosi has had a strange career

# ¿ Jan 9, 2021 03:57

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Mr. Lobe posted:

There's a dark comedy cooking show parody YouTube where this guy, who is barely keeping it together, does a rather poor job of preparing whatever he is cooking but during one of the waiting periods the camera pans over a hoarder hovel (I remember a lot of boxes) which he looks out upon in quiet despair

I think he was blond but it's been years since I saw it

Henry's Kitchen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSXQsP-VQY

# ¿ Jan 13, 2021 19:29

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

Wasn't that mic fights that schmorky did a thing for

# ¿ Jan 28, 2021 02:51

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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW posted:

Lostprophets

But that dude was a pedophile right

# ¿ Feb 9, 2021 01:19

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Ha ha, this reminds me of this youtube video I just watched about the internet's white whale obsession over tracking down the "lost" TV series which the burning skier clip in the Malcolm In The Middle opening credits was taken from.

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

if you can't find a clip within 5 minutes of googling for it, it is LOST MEDIA

# ¿ Mar 6, 2021 00:17

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Milo and POTUS posted:

Nope, a catboat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catboat

I'd never hear of it before either. Apparently they're really popular in the region

I"M USING THE CATBOAT?!?!?!

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 16:01

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

There was a UK radio show that i listened to as a podcast where, I think, the concept was that people brought in new inventions and lobbied for them to be included in a museum or collection of some kind. It was a comedy show, to be clear, with a very dry sense of humor

One dude brought in the concept of revising how we think of opposites, and had some outlandish examples i can't think of, but also had examples of things that are the opposite of themselves, like stairs (since they can bring you both up and down) which I think he called "prime opposites". It was very funny and i thought googling prime opposites would make it easy to find but no dice

# ¿ Jul 24, 2021 23:24

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

can we not have this thread turn into a weird defense of rush god damned limbaugh

# ¿ Nov 10, 2021 19:17

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twit666 posted:

There was a house music song from the early 90s that had a woman say, in a rather haughty voice, "Let's do drugs and have some fun!". I have no idea who the artist was or the name of the song. I would very much like both.

Are you thinking of Trip Like I Do by the Crystal Method? "I want you to trip like me and we'll have fun"

# ¿ Dec 1, 2021 22:17

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Yoshi Jjang posted:

Several years back, my mother-in-law (rest her soul) visited Argentina and brought over some yerba mate tea. It was specifically this Chamana brand:

It was the first time I had yerba mate. I vaguely remember it tasting very sweet and fruity (for lack of a better description, it reminded me somewhat of the taste of milk after a bowl of Froot Loops). One of the best teas I've ever had!

I haven't been able to find that brand of tea ever since. I don't know if it's still being produced, even in Argentina. I tried looking for more yerba mate, but I only come across Guayak� brand, and it tastes like I faceplanted on the ground at a petting zoo.

Even if the tea is discontinued, I'll be happy with any recommendations that's similar.

that says "Earl Grey Mate", so its likely a blend of yerba mate and earl grey. have you tried that? Mate on its own is pretty similar to green tea; it's bitter and grassy and not anywhere near froot loops. It might be the bergamot you were tasting

# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 15:17

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

Anyone remember from right at the beginning of covid there was a video of a big muscley guy getting his nose swabbed, and he was thrashing around and freaking out as if it was the most arduous torture anyone had ever been submitted to? It was absurd at the time but looking back now I'm sure it'd be moreso

# ¿ Jan 20, 2022 16:10

Riptor: Apr 13, 2003; here's to feelin' good all the time

i'll poke around but primarily i'm fascinated why you are so interested in that book

# ¿ Mar 21, 2022 20:54

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shadow puppet of a posted:

And whatever is the Harvard of Vermont

Harverm

# ¿ Mar 22, 2022 00:36

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 02:20

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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.

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

# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 21:23

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