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Wall Balls posted:

this pre-youtube internet comedy skit about a guy who clicks a pop up ad for pony porn at work and it slowly destroys his life to the point of attempting - and failing - suicide. i only remember the line "the one with the ponies?"

It's called Farm Sluts and it stars Chris Parnell. I haven't watched it in forever, but I remember it being pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snjCj0ntG8E

# ¿ Aug 1, 2019 03:26

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 15:00

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lol

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# ¿ Aug 3, 2019 04:47

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8 Ball posted:

When I was a kid in the mid 90s I had two arcade flightsim PC games that I’d love to find again. One was a biplane dogfighting game where you could maybe be the pilot or the gunner (I mostly remember the gunner part), it was in first person behind the machine guns and I believe the guns could jam? The title screen was an airfield with the planes lined up I’m pretty sure. I think you could pick different planes and get after action reports with your score but I’m a bit hazy on that part

I don't know your game, but this triggered my own white whale memory of a biplane dogfighting game from the 90s.

I grew up in a game studio, my dad ran multiple game companies out of our house over the course of my childhood. As a kid I made my money by beta testing software for my dad and his friends, getting paid by the bug.

Somewhere in 1991-1993 I tested a game that I really enjoyed, it was a cartoony side scrolling biplane dogfighting game with a sense of humor.

I think that I only tested the first level, but I think that you had full freedom to fly up, down, left, and right and you could fly loops. Also, I think you had some kind of objectives beyond just destroying enemy planes, I wanna say that you had to bomb a train.

One thing I'm very sure of, is that the level ended with a boss plane who could take a lot of damage, but as you damaged it the paneling broke off until the plane was just a skeleton around a pilot in his underwear. The first boss may have been called the Red Baron.

Also, the planes were pretty large on screen, and all the art had a really cool and detailed (for the time) art style, very exaggerated and cartoony.

This was a DOS game, and I don't remember who the developer was, but most likely it was one operating in the Phoenix metroplex in the early 90s.

When I search for this I just find a bunch of older stuff like The Island of Dr. Destructo or Sopwith. It's also not Triplane Turmoil.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2019 22:51

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Breakfast All Day posted:

This tripped some memory in me too, and after going through a bunch of poo poo where i had to convince myself, "I remember it looking great but based on the time it must've looked worse than that" (like Boogie Wings), I think it's:

Skunny: Desert Raid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YsPOreqh5A

Thanks, but that's definitely not it.

The game that I played had much larger airplane sprites that took up more of the screen, and the detail level was somewhere between Boogie Wings and this. Also, I'm pretty sure that you could fly up to where you couldn't see the ground anymore, and also turn around and go back to the left.

It's especially annoying because I was a tester on it, and never saw it again, so for all I know they failed to finish the game or never found a publisher.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 20:19

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yippeekiyaymf posted:

There was this show back in the late 80s/early 90s called The new adventure of beans Baxter. I have never met another person who has heard of it and gave up internet searching years ago.

There are multiple episodes on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0UpEC57jSuc

# ¿ Aug 11, 2019 06:55

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symbolic posted:

2. An indoor amusement place like Chuck E. Cheese, but far more elaborate: I can recall a pirate ship, a foam block pool, automated cars on a track that you could ride, and dressed-up mascots. This would have been around 2000 or 2001 in the eastern Pennsylvania/western New Jersey area most likely. I might have dreamed this one since I was quite young, but it feels far too vivid to just be a dream, and I've been tearing my hair out for at least a decade trying to figure it out.

Was it Jungle Jim's Playland? I loved this place when I was a kid, and it was apparently a national chain.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2019 17:12

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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

Wait...there was a Gremlins 2 the movie the video game the book?

Reminds me of this book I own:

Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Francis Ford Coppola Film: Official Movie Edition
The novel of the film by Fred Saberhagen and James V. Hart
Based on the screenplay by James V. Hart from the Bram Stoker novel

With an Afterword by Francis Ford Coppola and 8 pages of full-color movie photos

It's basically the definitive version of Dracula.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2019 04:02

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Moai Ou posted:

I've posted about this in other white whale & identify this song threads for nearly a decade now, and still, bupkis.

There's a song on my PC that I don't remember downloading:

BOA - money.mp3

Googling the lyrics doesn't come up with anything. Shazam doesn't recognize it. I've looked through every band on Discogs with the name "Boa" and none of them have a song called "Money" or even including the word money. I've asked countless people and nobody has ever heard it.

If anyone can actually find out who this is, what album it's from and where to buy it, I'll buy you a forums upgrade of your choice.

Upload it to YouTube and if it's from any of the major labels you'll get a copyright claim on it within 24 hours that will tell you the song title and artist.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2019 03:00

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Axolotl posted:

I'm looking for the name of this cartoon my wife and I saw about 5-6 years ago that we only caught the tail end of and have only vague memories of. We feel like it was Family Guy, or Bob's Burgers, or something like that but can't find any actual episodes that match what we half-remember of it.

1. There were obviously main characters, which we think might have been two kids and a dad or grandfather. There may have been an animal companion who is also a main character and otherwise acts like a human.
2. It was set on a boat, we think with multiple levels like a cruise ship or an old paddlewheel steamboat.
3. We *think* the main characters were saving the boat passengers and/or themselves from a flood or storm, or maybe even the end of the world. This might have involved time travel.
4. We think one or more of the passengers might have been a ghost or spirit or something. We half-remember that she might have been dressed in a fancy late 1800s style. Maybe.
5. I think they saved the people and themselves and maybe returned to their own time.
6. I don't think this is an obscure cartoon. We would have seen it on the Disney Channel or Cartoon Network or something like that. This happened in 2014, and the show seemed like it was recent.

Please help us with this mystery. You're our only hope.

Gravity Falls maybe?

# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 00:38

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Sir Not Appearing posted:

This isn't the first time Pandora has played weird things while displaying the original album cover like a version of Green Day's Brain Stew I heard a few times that for some reason had random elephant sounds through the song....

I can solve that mystery for you, it's the Godzilla soundtrack version:
https://youtu.be/AgEPJRWfP7c

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 21:17

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Jenny Agutter posted:

Lmao I cant believe they have that on rotation on Pandora

e: the Godzilla green day song

They're always playing weird versions of stuff, I think it must be cheaper for them. They drive me insane with that poo poo, if you listen to a Johnny Cash station on there half of it is the Walk the Line soundtrack being sung by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 21:30

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Brolander posted:

I think I asked about this in an earlier iteration of this thread, not sure that anyone ever got it...

Basically I think it's a short claymation Nickelodeon Short thing, where a little orange guy lives in the wall behind a kitchen sink, pretty sure the tiles are blue. I don't really remember what happens specifically but those details I am like 95% on. I'm pretty sure he had a one-word name like GRANK or some such.

I'm pretty sure you're talking about Mr. Bogus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVSq2H9S6s

quote:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bogus

Mr. Bogus is an animated television series created by Peter Keefe, directed and produced by Tom Burton with Claudia Burton of Zodiac Entertainment, and was only aired in syndication from September 28, 1991 to November 22, 1993. The show ran on Fox Family Channel on August 23, 1998. It is loosely based on the French / Belgian clay animation series of shorts simply titled, Bogus. Each episode is separated into two distinct parts, one using mostly traditional cel-based animation and another using what the show is based on, which are 42 localized versions of the 300 original clay animation shorts. Characters often walked around on a kitchen counter having various adventures with common household items.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 01:27

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It's reminding me of a TV ad jingle were they work the phone number into the song

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ

(I know it's not Australian, but you triggered this for me)

# ¿ Mar 25, 2020 22:56

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Back around 2002 or 2003 I saw a thing on the internet with a pair of boots singing/talking over a simple beat. The lyrics went something like, "I'm boots, you know that's the troots, I'm boots". There was more to it, but that's what I remember best. It continues on from there, the boots had kind of an attitude and maybe made threats about what they would do if you didn't believe them.

The boots were a drawing, and they were minimally animated. I remember thinking that the voice sounded like H. Jon Benjamin.

I just did some fresh googling on it and I found almost nothing. The one thing I found is what I'm pretty sure is a reference to it on someone's blog from 2005.

http://becklectic.blogspot.com/2005/02/what-strange-thing-to-say-as-you-pass.html?m=0

quote:

H. Jon Benjamin = human version

I'm Boots. I just shot you.

As soon as I read that I was 99% sure that "I'm boots, I just shot you" is how the song ends, but googling that brings up nothing. Funnily enough, it doesn't even bring up that blog (which I found by googling "I'm boots" and "h Jon Benjamin").

# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 22:08

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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.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2020 03:32

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Who Is Paul Blart posted:

I once saw a clip on TV about something called Skullbone. It is apparently a form of barekunckle boxing where you’re only allowed to hit above the shoulders. I might have dreamt it.

https://skullbonia.com

quote:

The History of Skullbonia

In the early, and throughout, the 1800’s bare knuckle boxing matches were common place throughout the United States.

But one very special place was born, whose own name stemmed from this manly and noble art of pugilism, and it is rightfully called Skullbonia.

Skullbonia is the only place on the planet named after this unique style of gloveless boxing during this time. Originally known as "fist and skullbone" fighting, it was later shortened to "fist and skull.”

The champions of fistiana from Skullbonia were rarely defeated individually, and never as a team, and thus grew in fame throughout the area.

Because of its popularity, Skullbonia was home to national championship bouts until some nosey politician in Washington D.C. was finally able to get the sport declared illegal.

# ¿ May 31, 2020 04:01

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amechanicalapple posted:

There was this browser game I think I found on here a long time ago, it was 8 bit art but pretty nice for the time, and you were an orb or ball or something, and you would explore this world and gain capabilities (being another colored orb), unlocking new areas, etc. It was charming.

Sounds similar to a DOS game I played as a kid, Oxyd. It's not really a browser game, but you can find it playable in the browser on a bunch of sites like this:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/oxyd-1ha/play-1ha

# ¿ Jul 18, 2020 20:37

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pooch516 posted:

I have a movie scene that I THOUGHT was from Poltergeist, but I just saw that fully for the first time last night, and this wasn't in it. Is it maybe from the sequel?

It's a scene where a kid gets pulled into a TV playing static. But you actually see it happen- a hand made of static reaches out of the TV and extends across the room. I think later on, the parents have to actually step into the TV to rescue the kid.

I also don't think it's The Ring, since I watched some scenes from that and couldn't find one where the screen is playing static when she comes out.

Nightmare on Elm Street 3?
https://youtu.be/FyHQnzcqnlA

Not a kid, but Videodrome feels kinda close...

# ¿ Aug 21, 2020 00:26

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pooch516 posted:

Ahh, I think it was Videodrome! That second gif is pretty much what I was thinking of. I had seen that years ago in a hotel and I guess just assumed it was Poltergeist since it's a spooky television set. Thanks!

Nice! Videodrome is a great movie, such a weird fever dream.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2020 01:10

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kupachek posted:

Also in the same vein are Leviathan, 1989 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/
and Screamers, 1995 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/

Hah, someone was just white whaling Screamers in the Trump thread like an hour ago.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940821&pagenumber=1024&perpage=40&userid=0#post509471321

Edit: and of course I was linking to a post you wrote, lol

# ¿ Nov 1, 2020 23:41

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IAmThatIs posted:

An ooooooold (6 years maybe?) thread on this forum, that was some sort of participation let’s play. It was set in some sort of norse post apocalypse, but also heavily featured wright patterson Air Force base?

Was it this?

Wes Scantlin's Run-ins With Law Enforcement... & Let's Play Ace Combat 5

There's a lot in there, but it does mention norse mythology and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Also, gotta note the subtitle to the thread:
AKA: Donald Trump’s America Simulator 2017 – Let’s Play Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War

Posted in 2013. :aaaaa:

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 07:04

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Lazyhound posted:

No, the thread is from 2017.

Ah drat it, you're right. I googled it and pulled it up in Android chrome even though I usually read on the awful app and I read the wrong date. It was the op's reg date, not post date.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 07:17

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Archer666 posted:

Something I kinda gave up on since its incredibly generic, but maybe you guys can figure it out. An old animated movie I watched in the early 90s. Not really sure what style of animation it was, but might have been French or anime (tho it'd be like early 80's style)

It was a very generic kung fu story: kid lives happily with his parents, evil kung fu man comes and kills the parents, kid survives in the wild and gets found by an old kung fu master, who trains him (2 training sequences I somewhat remember was grabbing tiny pellets while in the Snake stance and walking on a field of poles) until the kid's a teenager/adult, then evil kung fu man attacks again and the kid and him fight, kid wins and is about to kill evil kung fu man, but doesn't because he's not about that.

Could it be Thunder Prince? It's also known as Black Dragon King and Asylum Baluster.

I found the full movie on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qG6dOA6wRKU

It seems to match up almost exactly.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2020 12:18

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Archer666 posted:

Holy poo poo, that's it. I used to be obsessed about this movie as a little kid. Never thought I'd be able to rewatch it, thanks a lot!

Edit: Looked up the vhs cover and yeah, 100% this is it. Looking at it now, its kind of hilarious. Looking forward to rewatching it.

Nice!

Some of the scenes I watched flipping through it were pretty hilariously bad. Especially the fights, some really bizarre animations in there.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2020 12:48

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Sab Sabbington posted:

Extremely weird that Kermit popped up just a few posts ago but that's weird coincidences I guess. I've been searching for mine off and on for a while now and have doubled down recently combing through old poo poo trying to find it, but it was a comic strip--probably just a few years old now--that was Fozzie Bear and Kermit and involved (spoilering because it's gore-y gross, there's no weird sex stuff) Fozzie Bear using a plastic tube or straw to inflate Kermit until he pops, viscerally and it despite it feeling like something I made up in a fever dream my buddies also saw it and I know it exists out there, somewhere.

That actually is a weird sex thing.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2020 04:18

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!Klams posted:

In fairness, I haven't looked in over ten years, but "a black and green trucker cap, that is ONLY black and lime green / similar shades, with no text or other colours, but with some kind of abstract design".

I remember saying this was a white whale to my friend at uni, and he was like "my mate has a skate shop, I'll hook you up". Saw him a few days later, he was wide eyed "you're right, theres no such thing!!!"

These days with etsy and the like I'm sure I can find one, and so now I'm off to try.

/edit: hmmmm, still not immediately obvious...

I found some possible options.

https://www.amazon.com/Baseball-Geometry-Digital-Futuristic-Snapback/dp/B07WS3TMCB

https://hitadouble.com/products/oc-...AiABEgIHNvD_BwE

https://www.sweetorspicy.com/products/tribal-tree-of-life-trucker-hat

# ¿ Jan 5, 2021 01:00

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CaptainBeefart posted:

Back in the late 90's I remember seeing these kiosk displays in Walmart and Meijer that were selling new age music. There were buttons that you could press to listen to a track sample from multiple cds available for sale. For some reason I remember them being by the poster sections but I could be wrong. I'm trying to find a video or at least an image of them to show a friend. Does anyone remember these?

Somewhat similar: Walmart had CD listening stations where you could put on headphones and scan a cd's barcode to listen to it.

You can see it in this commercial:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUvnEjLvpo8

# ¿ Jan 9, 2021 02:39

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!Klams posted:

poo poo me, that first one is basically what I've been looking for! gently caress! Thanks dude!

Nice! I had a good feeling about that first hat.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2021 23:04

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Milo and POTUS posted:

Song that goes "travelling down the road, hauling quite a load". I think i remember it being used in some TV or movie. I can find the lyrics online but not the show or movie

Bob's Burgers season 2 episode 5, "Food Truckin'":

Meet me on the road
Hauling quite a load
Taking lots of drugs
I don't know what.

A pen in a jug
Getting rest stop tugs
Might've hit a man,
But didn't stop.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2021 22:32

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JacquelineDempsey posted:

There's a movie by a similar title, but IMDB says neither the title nor the actual quote fits. Anyway, I was just listening to it while cleaning my hard drive and thought, "poo poo, it's been 20+ years and I still don't know where that's from --- wait, I bet a goon will ID it in 5 minutes or less!".

I just googled "I'm gonna gently caress you back to the stone age" and the top result was The Element of Crime.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2021 22:40

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JacquelineDempsey posted:

Well wtf. When I googled it, it gave me the line from that film, but worded wrong. I'll see if I can't find a clip that verifies it. Thanks!

Personalized Google results, based on your search profile Google knew that you'd want a broken and frustrating answer.

I had the exact same thing happen to me in this thread previously.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2021 23:39

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ElectricBlizzard posted:

Super vague and something that seems like it probably has been parodied a few times.
I'm remembering an (action-ish?) scene where a character that supposedly died shows up to which someone responds "i thought you died?!/i thought you were dead?! and they just dryly reply with "nope!" or something along that line and it is never adressed again.

It sounds kinda like this scene in Bill & Ted's, where Ted gets killed and then shows back up to save Bill. Bill says, "You're alive!" and Ted says something like, "Yeah, I fell out of the armor when I hit the ground!", which made absolutely no sense but it's never questioned.

https://youtu.be/kg7q8gI4ezs

# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 08:15

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Pakistani politics posted:

I've been searching for a good-quality VHS of Beezbo for years. I think they pop up on ebay every now and then. Would absolutely kill to have 2 copies, one for myself and one to send to Mike and Jay. As far as I know there is only a decade-old youtube of it, broken into several short chunks. This tape is a treasure that must never be lost to time.

I've got 2 copies but I'm gonna need proof of the kill before I hand them over.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 08:21

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Pakistani politics posted:

I'll kill you, for those Beezbos. Alternately, I'll kill myself 🤩

Did you get them from blockbuster?

I don't actually have Beezbos, just wanted some free murder.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 21:05

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Back in 2003 I snuck into San Diego Comic-Con and got into the Sony presentation where they unveiled the first clip of Spider-Man 2 and a trailer for Hellboy.

I managed to find this hilariously over edited video about the Spider-Man 2 portion:
https://youtu.be/vF7BLfMT13s
(worth watching just for the nerds circa 2003 being interviewed about seeing the clip)

I can't find anything about the Hellboy portion and I would really get a kick out of seeing it. I now love Hellboy but at that time I knew nothing about it, hated the trailer they showed, and I was baffled by the Q&A where nerds asked Mike Mignola things like, "Will there be pancakes in the movie?", and he replied, "We know what the fans want, there's lots of pancakes and kitties."

There is this from the year before with Guillermo Del Toro, and it's definitely not the right one mislabeled (Del Toro didn't come in 2004):
https://youtu.be/Fdi7to8EJ2o

I would also be interested in seeing the full version of the Spider-Man 2 portion, all I can find is a bunch of different copies of the short heavily edited one I linked above.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2021 11:05

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Telemaze posted:

Speaking of books, I read a children's or YA book in the early 2000s that I think was about exploring a huge weird magical castle. In one part, the characters come across an angel (?) who constantly cries. One of the characters is really blase about it, like "oh yeah that's so-and-so, he's always doing that" kind of thing.

I imagine you'd remember if it was Harry Potter but it sounds a lot like Harry Potter.

It's the right time period, features kids exploring a huge weird magical castle, and there's a crying ghost in the bathroom that people don't really care that much about.

That probably makes it much more difficult to find since most searches would just bring up Harry Potter stuff.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2021 23:13

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DerekSmartymans posted:

Are you sure it’s not an Arnold Schwartzenegger clock? I had a lot of fun listening to prank calls using the Arnold soundboard and I know both quotes were on there.

Just spitballin’😎

They're not talking about an actual alarm, they're looking for a sound clip they could use to make the alarm they imagined.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2021 05:30

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Richlove posted:

This one is a bit random.

In 2014, when I was at Nassau on vacation, we heard a catchy Junkanoo song with the chorus line of "Tip, tip, tip...everybody want tip! If you want good service, you know you got to tip!" My wife and I instantly loved this song but we could not find it anywhere for purchase on the island. We first heard it on the radio while on one of the boat taxis on the way to Paradise Island and then again while walking near the straw market in Nassau.

I suspect it is by a group called "Sting" who appears to release a new song for the Bahamas every year during their Carnivale festival. I cannot find a discography or an album online for sale.

Probably not the song unless you've really misremembered it, but it reminds me of She Need a Tip by the Rangers.

https://youtu.be/jsQi0syqgTQ

It features the lyrics, "100, 200, 300, 4, 500, 600, 700 more, I need a tip, tip, tip, tip, I need a tip, tip, tip, tip, tip".

And yes, this song is my entrance music.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2021 23:54

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uvar posted:

This is only a match for that specific quote, but may as well rule it out to be safe:

If they were mixing up multiple bits of Indiana Jones there's also the argument in Last Crusade about his dad being a lovely father.

Indiana Jones : It was just the two of us, Dad. That was a lonely way to grow up, lonely for both of us. I can remember the last time we had a drink together; I had a milkshake. But we didn't talk; we've never talked. If you'd been an average and regular father, like all of my friends' dads, you would've understood.

Professor Henry Jones : I was a wonderful father.

Indiana Jones : Yeah, how?

Professor Henry Jones : Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, or do your homework? No. I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.

Indiana Jones : What you taught me is that I was less important to you than people who've been dead for 500 years in another country. And I learned it so well, that we've hardly spoken for 20 years.

Professor Henry Jones : You left just as you were becoming interesting.

[He closes his diary]

Professor Henry Jones : Okay, I'm here now. So what do you want to talk about?

[Indy finds himself at a loss for words]

Indiana Jones : I... I can't think of... anything.

[Henry looks baffled]

Professor Henry Jones : Then what are you complaining about? We have work to do.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 20:40

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 15:00

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Bula Vinaka posted:

Here's a movie I haven't been able to find...

It's from what I'm pretty sure is around the 2000 - 2006 time frame. (There's a chance it might actually be from late 90's... I remember Internet references in the film. I also remember being kind of surprised because I thought the film looked older than that, at the time I watched it.)

It's low budget and independent. I feel fairly certain I watched it on IFC from around that time.

It's a sci-fi romantic / alien love story sort of thing. The "alien" is just a dude that looks kind of like a dweeb, wearing what I remember looked like some kind of jump suit. He had a kind of autistic kind of vibe... difficulty showing emotions, etc. I remember he had what looked like a small clear plastic half sphere kind of "shield" on his hand, and it turned out he was able to deflect bullets with it.

He tells people he is an alien warrior (like a thrall from that one Star Trek OST episode), and people just kind of take him as being mental. But it's basically true. He ends up meeting girl and falling in love, etc.

I remember there were multiple Star Trek references. (I remember one character says the "brain and brain" line from Spock's Brain).

I remember looking the film up on IMDB after I watched it, but now I've completely forgotten the name and can't find it via Internet searching.

It sounds kinda like The History of Future Folk, although I feel like you probably would have remembered the music aspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnOd-I1Bnms

# ¿ Apr 17, 2021 23:54

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