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I am stunned not be able to find the scripts to Yes Minister on the interweb. What is going on?

A thread to share frustration or possibly help each other...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

why men's feet smell more than women's

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

That painting of James Mason with the Siamese Cat.

I feel very proud of myself because I googled something online which my mother could not find! i.e. information related to the Priory of Sion which was not in response to The DaVinci Code.

― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Pictures of the white and dark green Onitsuka Tigers I bought on Wednesday night. (and yes, that is a challenge)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Intelligence.

― 7599, Friday, 23 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Love. *sighs*

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

a get rich quick scheme that works

an mp3 of "glad it's all over" sung by the old bloke who goes on talent shows

a beginner's guide to the fundamental beliefs of the major political parties in the UK

and yeah, love, yeah.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Loads of information on "World Domination Enterprises" including whether or not Keith Dobson died...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Any information on a bar owner I know in New Orleans who reportedly shot someone on his property during a second line.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

More information about the Nothing But A Good Time remix.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

bunny slippers

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22bunny+slippers%22

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

jel, don't help steve, help ME! I bet I need Yes Minister more than he needs bunny slippers.

btw were there any wildflower seeds in tesco?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Tesco was a let down :( It was one of those metro stores and I ended up having to trek all the way to Sainsbury's instead. I shall look for your scripts, it looks intially promising...but that's sometimes not a good sign.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think they are online. The yes-minister website has a FAQ asking for them. There is a book on Amazon.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That's what I found too :(

Thanks though!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Clove alceeholic drink. I quite fancied ordering a bottle of my Nan's favourite tipple and nowhere on the web has heard of it.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I think your only hope is N., archel, he's the master at finding stuff online.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

* Psychology picture of farm animal that would've been so cool in the "2 Pics" thread yesterday.
* Bass tab to the Kendall's "Heaven's Just A Sin Away".
* My ex-girlfriend's rumored blog.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything to confirm that Roy Orbison has wonky eyes or that Vince Vaughn is missing fingers.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to find one of those green eyeshades that casino workers used to wear in the Gold Rush days, with the arm garters... like a bookkeepers eyeshade. They no longer exist, at least online.

― andy, Friday, 23 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

2" square thermometer fridge magnets w/ U.S. state/city themes. Kitsch whimsy infected by collector tendencies. Thought they'd be easy to find in airport lounges by travelling friends, but not so lucky, and have only located a few online.

Would have said a Japanese only Hal Hartley tribute cd comp, but I got a good lead this week.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Information on how to internally tune a Farfisa VIP-200/R organ. In fact, I can't find any information on the VIP-200/R, except that it's very rare.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I finally embraced the lo-tech and spent last night laboriously TRANSCRIBING bits of Yes Minister from a minidisc. Believe it or not this is actually for my MA. Examples of role conflict haha.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Contact details for the Young Agency in New York who represent the writer How4rd But3n.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My flipping job advertisement!!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a good book about with a chapter about YM and the way the relationships worked
British television drama in the 1980s / edited and introduced by George W. Brandt (Cambridge New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993)

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Barry -

Young Agency
156 5th Avenue Suite 608, New York, NY 10010
(212) 229-2612

(from bigyellow.com)

Is that not it? This seems to confirm that the do indeed represent writers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm not looking for YM scripts cause I wouldn't expect them to be there, esp. if the YM FAQ is asking for them)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

an explaination of how cranes are constructed, without having a crane in the first place??! How do they go so tall?
http://www.pre-engineering.com/resources/images/cranes/counter.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You do indeed use a crane to build cranes.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

so how does the first one get built??

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Noooooooooooo! Not the crane debate again, please! I'll go mental, I swear.

First crane is mobile, built elsewhere and erected using hydraulics, pulleys an' that. First crane then used to build/erect second crane, at which point first crane says its goodbyes and buggers off, leaving second crane to erect as many more cranes as it damn well fancies.

Grrr.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://science.howstuffworks.com/tower-crane4.htm

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The perfect apartment in Vienna.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

A picture of the Indian servent from It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

A screen cap of Pynchon.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Information on how to internally tune a Farfisa VIP-200/R organ. In fact, I can't find any information on the VIP-200/R, except that it's very rare.

Have you seen this page yet. Also check the archives of the Combo Organ discussion group.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still trying to find the track listing to Howling Wolf's This Is Howling Wolf's New Album And He Doesn't Like It

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

an mp3 of Ricky Nelson's (no not that one) house cover of Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do" for the Soundmen on Wax label. I've sort of tried for three years now.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, thank you SO much for that - I hadn't manage to track them down, and nor had my predecessor. That's extremely helpful, cheers.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Information about the distiller and value of a full bottle of 1920 whisky that I was given yesterday. You'd think there would be a market for really old booze.

― J (Jay), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I was searching for thunderwords in Finnegans Wake and it asked me, "Did you mean: bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" when I searched for "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" haha!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time this question came up, in a context I now forget, I had just tried looking up a series of records that I can never find anymore anywhere ("Desperate Rock 'n Roll" rockabilly compilations, released on Flame Records) and discovered some guy had catalogued them in part on his country-music index website days earlier. They are great--wish I had more.

The failure came just today, when I tried to find a good, uncheesy, unChristian, animated thank-you e-card to send to my Uncle. I had to settle for something kind of lame.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

A 1.35 volt battery for my old camera.

The album cover of Johnny Guitar Watson Sings the Blues.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The costume and mask of the rabbit from Donnie Darko (yeah, I like to entertain my friends...).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Some information from the University of Glasgow archives, but I had a feeling I wouldn't find anything because the information I was looking for was from between 1910 and 1930.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

* an easy way to set up a password protected directory on a fucking windows 2000 webserver (goddamn you, predecessor of mine)

* a way to buy swedish records

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, andy from way back up the thread, re green visors, two folks here at the paper where i work own and occasionally sport the green visors as they work over their macs. One of the two is even a Pulitzer Prize winning fuxxor. If you don't have any luck out there, maybe I could, you know, "Yoink!"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, andy from way back up the thread - have you not discovered Froogle? I did a search on green casino visor and found a few places selling them, for as little as $1.19.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i failed to find the tiny piece of sad music they play on cash in the attic whenver an auction isn't going too successfully.

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

On second thoughts, andy, I don't know what 'arm garters' are, so maybe that's not what you want.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

So far, I am baffled at failing to find year by year figures on estimated total emails sent worldwide. Lots of one off figures and IDC forecasts, but nothing that could make a simple 1997- now graph, illustrating the growth in email. Bah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I can't find Mark Morrison's "Return Of The Mack" album anywhere on slsk!!! who would've thought it?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

lyrics to the bedhead album 'what fun life was'

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

a life

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

why men's feet smell more than women's

simple ... b/c men are always kicking ass, which means that our feet are in others' asses, and asses smell like ... well, like ass.

― sexistbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Cranes again. I once had to look at cranes and stumbled on a site full of photos of crane accidents. I couldn't tear myself away from that.

I tried to look up a helicopter that I thought was called the Fairy or Faery Rotadyne, but couldn't, so wondered if I'd dreamt it existed.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Sunday, 7 March 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I found return of the mack on soulseek did you know that song is like seven fucking minutes long!? oh the halcyon days of junior high dances, I wonder now if all the teachers were laughing behind their sleeves at the seventh graders slow dancing to return of the mack.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 7 March 2004 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

affordable waterproof sheeting

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Sunday, 7 March 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

lol erect. (xxxxxxpost)

― aNatheMa (aNatheMa), Sunday, 7 March 2004 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

that damn Athens band BOB! If only I could go back in time and change their freakin' name so I could find that one song that haunts my dreams

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The Codex Seraphinanus~Luigi Seraphini
(imaginary color pencil and pen illustrations from another dimension)

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

A photo of the two double-disc-and-Z-rod plaques from the Norrie's Law silver hoard. Except that I have, now, found one:

Well, this is one. The other is almost identical

(slightly shrunk down, they would make great earrings)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Queens of the Stone Age slash fiction.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

George Harrison interview in Melody Maker 1975 about 'Extra Texture'...surely some obsessive would have all these interviews nailed down by now?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I am often disappointed by the slackness of fans.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

For example, I have been unable to find confirmation that it was the disabled girl that Naomi Watts played in Home & Away.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

peace of mind

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 8 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(and naked pictures of craig david)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 8 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Queens of the Stone Age slash fiction

that's a niche that needs filling (I said "filling" haha)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The 'Silent Hill' graphic novel, that was shown on a flyer with the first game. Results come up from various places, but can you buy it anywhere? Can you buggery.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

a serious girl, who really aims marriage.

jess why the hell would you want naked pictures of craig david???

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Episodes of "Dead Like Me".

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The answer to the question, "Can chickens have twins?"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

They can, but they hardly ever do, even with a double-yolked egg.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(I grew up on a pseudo-farm, raised chickens. I don't know if this counts as your finding the answer online.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

When Ally and I were in Belgium last year we came across a stack of CDs by a chap called Dave. Just Dave. We resisted the urge to buy any of them, but I have since longed to find a picture of Dave or one of his albums. Dave is a really, bloody impossible person to search for.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

for another thread, I have been trying to find a picture of the scoreboard which says "Bayern Munich 0 - Raith Rovers 1" but I can't. People in Kirkcaldy obviously can't use computers - if I were a Raith fan, that would so be my wallpaper.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I want to find The Shield scripts! There are a few for sale, but none of the big sites like simplyscripts or script-o-rama seem to have them!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Chelsea FC player appearences and stats 1980s/90s.

Is there a giant repository of all this info for all clubs? D.Boyle - do you know?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I can't find the ILX thread, probably from early 2003, where I had a long stupid argument with a newly arrived Oops about how much homosexuality was a "choice," or something.

I also can't find that one ILX thread where you can ask people to find other ILX threads for you.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

what number of soho square s0ny p1ctvr3s is

i suspect i have been given the wrong info and they meant golden square

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

chuck norris jeans

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

it's kind of odd that you've asked for someone to find that thread more than once recently. i've tried my darndest to find it before and couldn't.
btw, somewhat surprisingly, you completely misintrepreted my views just now.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

a decent picture from the comedy series rosie

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh latebloomer! So sad! Did you get the job you interviewed for? Maybe your true love is waiting at your new job whatever it may be. If not there's your constant and unconditional love (the cat)and sometimes the cat's love is better than any human love.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Oops, I didn't misrepresent any of your views: I said we had an argument "about" a topic. I don't even entirely remember what the topic was or what positions either of us took on it, which is why I'm interested in finding the thread.

Unless you're denying that you've ever expressed any opinion about either (a) "how much homosexuality is a 'choice'" or (b) "something."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

the way you phrased it, it's pretty clear that you thought i had some wacko, fundamentalist hardcore stance that dem faggits er choosin to be sinful. and oh the laughs you'd have if you could revisit that thread. (for the record, I have know idea how much homosexuality is a choice or not, and, frankly, don't care)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

oops yr position on that thread was complete indefensible nonsense!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Ha, it should go without saying that I disagreed with whatever you said on the thread -- we were arguing about it, after all -- but come on, dude, I think you're reading a little defensively: I said we had a long stupid argument about a topic. That doesn't even assign you a position, man.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Also you should relax, because half the reason I'm keen on finding the thread is so I can re-read whatever you actually did say and figure out if it really was as weird as I remember or whether I was just being huffy that day!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

i want to know what all i said too! but wait, why bother. mark has already told me what to think of it. (haha "relax". as if i'm being grilled by the state's attorney. it's puzzling why people think one would care whether anonymous internet people think one is homophobic or not. fags.)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Evolutionary Own Goal? ?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

That doesn't seem to be it! I'm remembering one of those total afternoon-long drawn-out things where most everyone abandons the thread and it's just like three people arguing with Oops.

(Oh man, sorry Oops if this seems like a hearing or something -- I'm not hunting for dirty, I just really wish I could remember this thread!)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Ah, but it contains a clue, when Oops says...

**zips up mouth, locks it, throws key into abyss**

...which would suggest that it came shortly after the argument thread in question.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

a russian sauna hat

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

i tried searching with a bunch of different keywords that i remember using or others using, but no luck. i know the opening question----not mine----was something like "so is there any truth to the whole gaydar thing?". is it possible for a thread to just...vanish?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Additional clue: it may contain the phrase "should you only perform actions that serve a biological purpose?"

Oops, I actually wouldn't be surprised if it had been axed, as there's some discussion on a moderator thread about "the oopsgay thread" or some such -- maybe something happened eventually that got it deleted.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, back to the thread topic:

-that picture of wiggy where she looks like one of the banger sisters

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

the "...biological purpose" thread was a companion thread. there's also this: Queer, Gay, Homo, Butt Pirate of the Carribean. , which mentions the original thread. i did a search for all my posts from 1/1/03 til 2/13/03 (or 13/2/03) and it didn't pan out.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Sinead

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Bob - me? I look like one of the banger sisters? really?!? don't know if I should be insulted or extatic. Who are the banger sisters and where will I find them? I have to know....

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I think it may have been an uncharacteristic photo (with glasses?).

The Banger Sisters http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280460/

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

'Tis a shame I can't spell "ecstatic". Usage was good tho .

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

This is the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find

― The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

verifying the claim in the "propaganda: s/d" thread that suzanne freytag passed away recently

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 22 April 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

A Picasso etching from the series he did on Ovid's Metamorphoses - a hastily drawn rectangle with three or four lines inside that define a woman's butt. One of my favorite pieces of art, but I can't remember the title (if it had one) nor find it online.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

never mind, found it. The title I found in a Bryn Mawr painting just needed translation to French.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Long time lurker, 15th or so time poster.

Was the oopsgay thread the one called "is it really possible to tell if someone's gay without them making it explicitly clear to you?"? Because that one's deleted. The only specific comment he made on there that I can remember was one about how he thought that if there was a pill to turn a gay person straight, all (or maybe most, I forget now) gay people would take it and that given the choice gay people would choose to be straight. That doesn't really fit with him thinking that being gay is a choice, but it did get him into some hot water.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing like the awkwardness when you butt into an argument between two people you've never spoken to, not even online, yet you know exactly what they're talking about.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Saturday, 22 April 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

comedy.

― Pablo (Pablo A), Saturday, 22 April 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Cressida, esp. when it was over three years ago!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

If it makes any difference, I think that thread may be the only reason that I remember who Oops is.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

but he's said plenty of other funny things

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

One of those old hand-crank, wooden-bucket ice-cream makers.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

the author or title of a short story I heard at a reading about 10 years ago.

― patita (patita), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

myself

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

A ticket home for my sister's wedding shower for under three hundred dollars.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

A torrrent of The Grates, a fun band I saw a couple weeks ago.

― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Mark S:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Pernfors88/pen01copy.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't find a decent pic of OJ in the Naked Gun movies, either.

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

all of ILX was like one big Cap'n Save-a-Fag. itchin for battle after years of training. if you could take a pill that would let you not be at risk for being beaten to a pulp by some moron, wouldn't you take it? or is being gay some great honor? is it like being a Puerto Rican? gay, straight, who the fuck cares.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

rjg is a total fag!

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

to get back to the thread question: someone who tried to hear what you were actually saying, rather than trying to judge you.
also: a european who didn't act european

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

Albert Camus' underpants and an original framed print of those dogs playing poker.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

western australian stockists for a really ugly irish pig and leprechaun figurine thingo that my mum wants. i wasn't sorry i couldn't find one.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Is this the thread where you ask people to find you stuff you can't find online? I'm looking for pictures (ideally photographic but also drawn/painted) of London's Victorian slums, and I'm not having much luck.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 April 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

A bittorrent for the fifth episode of "Thief."

Kind of ironic, eh?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

The cat who looks exactly like Hitler

― ratty, Saturday, 29 April 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I can't believe it! I did an image search for 'Hitler cat' and there it was!

http://www.yahbon.com/albums/userpics/10003/Adolphs-Cat-chat-hitler.jpg

― ratty, Saturday, 29 April 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

Tennis shoes (that I like, anyway) with velcro straps instead of laces.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 29 April 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

A comprehensive list of worldwide film festivals - can anyone help?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

more comprehensive than googling "film festivals" ?

http://www.britfilms.com/festivals/browse/
http://www.filmfestivals.com/ffs/search2.shtml
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Film_Festivals/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Film_Festivals/

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

A picture of Yes (the band). Any idea how hard that is in image google?

― Margarine Machine (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Do "Yes Howe" and you get..
http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pics/Yes.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

a big red X?

― Margarine Machine (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

if you look for Yes band you get a picture of DEVO (third row) !?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

ah you banned?

It's a nice big pic of the band.

Anyway, try "Yes Howe" in google images, and it's all there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://mitkadem.homestead.com/files/Yes_1970s_WithHowe_lineup_photo.jpg

have this one instead.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.literatura.hu/rock/progressive/images/yes/groupCircus-Nov76.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

I went for 'yes rock band'.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Much better! Thank you!

(I love how I infect every thread I go on with prog.)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mind you, if you put My name into google images, you get a pic of Syd as taken at the "Wish you were here" sessions.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Stan M, that's fantastic, thank you. I got a "brilliant!" from my boss for offering those links :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

the meaning of the phrase "one gets you ten"

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

upthread roffle: mr. anti-racism in homophobic non-shocker

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Those tiny plastic stopper things to stop up the hole at the bottom of your iPod that you plug the lead into. You get a spare one with the iPod but I have lost that too. I don't know if I can't find anyone selling spares cause no one else cares about losing them or because I am using the wrong search terms. What is it? A plug? A stopper? A cap?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

any clip of any kenickie interview or promo.

..i mean considering how much fuckn *cahpterhouse* there is out there on you tube!

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I have tried also wrt Kenickie.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Nice clothes"

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

The closing times of Hampstead Ladies' swimming ponds. Anyone?

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Confirmation of rumors that Cee-Lo is related to Cab Calloway.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

An mp3 of anything by the (most likely non-existant) rapper "Swayze".

― choinklate (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, about my Farfisa thing up there - it turns out there is a VIP-200 model that functions exactly the same as the VIP-200/R, except that the VIP-200/R has a built-in drum machine. I have managed to re-tune mine, but it still bothers me that I don't have and cannot find a schematic for the drum machine.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Anna, it's 8.30pm.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/8F303C61-5B9C-4B0E-A2FE-5B3763808FD7/0/HHswim0606.pdf

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

A broadcast date for a particular 4ngry K1d episode to see whether it predated the Cr4zy Fr0g phenom. I didn't try very hard.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

100 yen store online shopping

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

that page which has a map of the united states and little titles pop up indicating the last song played at every radio station

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 July 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

a list of american artist run centers that allow open submisisons

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

An article called "100 reasons to carry on living" that somebody printed off for me about eight years ago that includes "Because Kenickie are good" among the reasons.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

So you could say I've tried and failed to find a reason to live.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

Any information at all about a huge fire burning on the horizon late last night. Took two seconds this morning. Six-storey paper warehouse.

Oh - also a pedal steel emulator.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Don't despair!

A Million Reasons To Carry On Living

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sir, I am forever in your debt.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

"nice black shirt"

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

This one, Nick?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5173808.stm

Oh on re-reading your post I think I have misunderstood what you're asking for. Sorry.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks anyway Archel.. The story you linked to was niggling at me last night - I wouldn't like to admit how long I spent twirling around on Google Earth, just double-checking that Colindale wasn't next to Canary Wharf..

Seriously.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Colindale's next to Harlesden/Wembley, isn't it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

North West somewhere. In any case, certainly many miles away in completely the wrong direction.

I'll just mention one more thing I've struggled to find - because this has been frustrating me on and off for a number of weeks.. A passage in a book that runs something like "I seek greater passions, headier air, higher vistas.."

Huysmans? Blank. Nietzsche? Blank. I just can't get the wording right, and am therefore drawing blanks from dawn till dusk. It's something all literary and that - I'm pretty sure.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

A battery for a Gericom 1580XL+ laptop I was interested in on ebay.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

a single decent still from Jacques Rivette's Out One

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

a mix of "Scream Thy Last Scream" without those damned chipmunk vocals.

― Dan Easley (Don Beasley), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

lyrics to a Killdozer song

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

There's an Asian pop song that I once heard in a karaoke bar that contains the English phrase "Over The Rainbow". It is NOT a cover of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". I'd love to get my hands on it; it's incredibly catchy...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Where's that animation of an anime girl growing a massive tockley? I, erm, want to show it to my partner.

― moley, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:11 (seventeen years ago)

Can someone repost the animation where a manga girl grows a giant dick, please?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

You're kidding me. How about that. There really is nothing new on ILX is there? Thanks Tuomas.

― moley, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

somewhere to watch the olympics 100m - not on youtube, not on iplayer...

― blueski, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

Television?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

get money, fuck bitches dinosaur.gif

― cozwn, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:21 (seventeen years ago)

3 rules for life

― blueski, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:25 (seventeen years ago)

Google video has a whole bunch of Bolt

― NickB, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:33 (seventeen years ago)

this scene from the Nanny where she eats two slices of pizza after saying she'll only have one, stating 'the body doesn't know'.

oh and Winona saying only 'I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayer'

― o-ess, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:40 (seventeen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

George Harrison interview in Melody Maker 1975 about 'Extra Texture'...surely some obsessive would have all these interviews nailed down by now?
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Just been posted on the Meet the Beatles for Real website: https://www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com/2025/07/id-rather-be-exbeatle-than-ex-nazi.html

― Bob Six, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 11:19 (eleven months ago)

third post:
> That painting of James Mason with the Siamese Cat.

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/apparently-james-mason-had-a-fondness-for-cats-particularly-siamese-ones-like-that-shown-in-the-portrait-he-and-his-wife-pamela-ke--478648266628209915/

― koogs, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 11:54 (eleven months ago)

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