What Can't You Find On The Internet?

^^ This drawing may have to be recommissioned.

Michael Gove's appearance on 'University Challenge: The Professionals', approx 10 years ago, I think it was Times hacks vs Guardian hacks. I'd never heard of him before but I have a very clear memory of him frequently hitting the buzzer to answer a question, being told he had got the answer wrong and the camera catching then him screwing his face up in this look of 'but how can this be?' bafflement/petulance. For years afterwards when I saw him the paper/on TV I thought 'oh, it's that prat from University Challenge'.
I can't find any reference to this on the internet though, let alone video footage, can anyone else confirm if it I'm just imagining the whole thing?

There's a passing mention of it here, so at least you can be reassured that it probably did happen.

Thanks!

I'd love to see that!

I feel like I remember it quite vividly, I know I formed an immediate negative impression of him that was subsequently reinforced by every single thing I saw him do/say, but maybe my present day familiarity with Gove is causing my memory to exaggerate how badly he came across.

david byrne's live cover of missy elliot's sock it 2 me

This is another thing I think I saw I once on TV that I wanted to check if anyone else could remember:
A Comic Relief broadcast, around the mid 90s I think, during a segment hosted by Jonathan Ross. They show one of the brief 'serious' videos of a US celeb sitting in a chair making an appeal for people to donate, this time it's Woody Allen, earnestly talking about the vital work done by charities supported by Comic Relief. We cut back to Ross after the video, who says, mock sincerely, 'there you go, and if you can't trust Woody Allen, who can you trust?' followed by hysterical laughter/disbelief from the audience.

No record of this seems to exist on the internet as far as I can tell. Did anyone else see it?

The recording of Yngwie Malmsteen saying "you've unleashed the fuckin' fury" on an airplane after a woman dumps a glass of water on him. It was a big Internet hit back in the day, but as far as I can tell, all links to it are broken, and whenever I try to Google it I get his Unleash the Fury album. Can anyone help me out? I'd love to hear it.

http://www.break.com/video/ugc/yngwie-malmsteen-threatens-to-kill-airline-passeng-331977

The one thing you can't find on the Internet is the Internet, because if you're on the Internet that means you've already actually found the Internet. Think about it man, that shit is deep.

DOODLE-MATION (Screen Magic, available for Windows, $29.95) If you like to draw as a way to relax, this product lets you "doodle to your art's content." It installs in two minutes and provides a pallette of shapes, colors, high resolution graphics and VCR-type controls to freeze and restart patterns. If you like anything you've doodled, you can add sound to it and save it as Windows wallpaper. Very cute if you have 2MB to spare. (Netta Gilboa)

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue162/120_Doodlemation.php

i am DYING to have that, if anyone does

The product is essentially a high-tech melding of two venerable childhood favorites, Etch A Sketch and Spirograph. The major differences, of course, are its brilliant VGA graphics (compatible with 16 colors, but 256 colors are preferred) and stunning computer-assisted animation. The creation process is remarkably easy: Place one or more geometric shapes on the doodle canvas, and define a movement path, shape behavior, and color scheme. Then hit the Go button and watch your creation burst to life. The 12 preset shapes are completely scalable, allowing you to bend, stretch, and shrink them to create new curves and angles. Movement paths are also quite versatile, including stationary, straight, circular, spiral, bounce, and magnetic (attracted to the mouse pointer). You can even draw freehand paths for the shapes to follow.

WTF this is amazing

i feel you on that doodle-mation. what i can't find is any reference whatever to a late 80's text adventure (with graphics) where you're a detective or spy or some such (a fedora is involved) and there's a phone booth, a bomb in a hotel, a cage with a gorilla, and if you got blown up you appeared in the clouds playing a little harp and if you typed swear words you saw a picture of your character in a toilet bowl and the only way to continue was to type "SORRY". i didn't just imagine that game - i know it's true because if i did there would have been all kinds of swear words allowed! in fact, if it had been up to me, you could have stood anywhere and typed "DAMN FUCK SHIT ASS SHIT FUCK DUMB BASTARD STUPID FUCKIN SHIT ASS GOD DAMN IT" etc. and it would have been like "Congratulations! You've figured out life!"

Candles for sale shaped like human hands with wicks on the end of each finger pointing upward (not with a palm).

That is really awesome!

La Lecher:
http://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1997/CPSC-and-Walgreens-Announce-Hand-Candle-Recall/

Thanks. Also, I'm not a lecher!

http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/charlie-rich-burns-john-denver-at-the-1975-cma-awards

can anyone find the clip of Charlie Rich burning John Denver's announcement at the 1975 CMA Awards? it surfaced on youtube last year, but it's since been taken down :(

a pen-and-ink drawing of two men standing facing each other. the guy on the left is holding a beehive on the end of a stick, and the guy on the right is sticking his dick into the beehive. the guy on the left is saying, "WHAT FEELS AWESOME?" and the guy on the right is saying, "THIS FEELS AWESOME!", and they both have rainbow-colored confetti (or maybe flowers?) streaming out of their mouths. very positive vibe all around. I think I saw it on ilx one time. help?

― unregistered, Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1:15 PM (1 month ago)

― first geir, it's alright (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Tuesday, April 9, 2013 9:11 AM (2 weeks ago)

― second geir, lean right (little hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Friday, April 26, 2013 2:05 PM (1 week ago)

― third geir, hang on tight (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Saturday, May 4, 2013 7:06 PM (1 week ago)

― faster, it's alright (unregistered), Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:17 PM (8 months ago)

oh shit

(thanks to emil.y for linking to that thread)

^^ congrats. does this FEEL AWESOME?

IT FEELS AWESOME

The original soundtrack to "Joysticks" the 1983 movie. I'm looking for the song "Vidiot" in particular.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085764/soundtrack

Look for Joysticks DVDrip & convert the audio?

The Wassailing Song by Blur except iirc one crap YouTube. I search this out every so often in the hopes it's changed: in the tape happy 90s, someone sent me it on a mixtape :(

It's been officially re-released on disc 16 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blur_21

Oh shit! Of course, I never bought that because I was broke at the time, and when I had the money I bought the vinyl box instead. I'll hunt it out!

Thank you!

If the mail address you used to register on ILX still works, I've sent you a mail about this (check your spam folder perhaps)

It does, but the email was empty? Shall check from a computer later today (only on phone at the moment) - the wassailing bowl I drink to thee!

I seem to remember in 1987 or 1988 some band putting a full page advert in the NME praising The Beatles 'Helter Skelter'. Always thought is was Sonic Youth but can't find anything about it online. Did I dream it? (Even if true it's probably less interesting than I remember it.)

I don't know, but I started reading NME with the Christmas 87 issue and think I would have remembered this, so if it happened I'd say it was pre-88.

There was a thread about sitting with one leg tucked underneath you and I can't find it and I need it because I'm starting to wonder if my inability to sit like a normal adult is indicative of some greater issue at hand. Help.

Right now I am sitting in a lotus position on my desk chair and this weekend my dad was saw me doing it at the dining table and was like "Why can't you just ever sit normal?!" :(

I wish I could sit in a lotus position on my desk chair. I'd last about 20 seconds.

ENBB -

Was it this one?

Sit Like A Normal Person!

It wasn't but that's the general idea.

why do I sit with my legs folded under me until they go to sleep and then ARGGGGHHH WHY WHY WHY

There's a separate thread for things you can't find on ILX by the way. But maybe you couldn't find it.

this is pretty hard but i think it was posted to ilx once -

a bit of concept art, some (mb) red&black text on a white background containing a robert barry-style instruction. it was something about banging two rocks together in the desert, "do it a thousand times"

x-post - Yes, I know but I was too lazy to look tbh.

(also, thank you)

A soundboard with short phrases from the works of Shakespeare.

can anyone find the clip of Charlie Rich burning John Denver's announcement at the 1975 CMA Awards? it surfaced on youtube last year, but it's since been taken down :(

― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh my fucking god this is better/worse than I imagined.

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXgiCr-V9HM

conway twitty's wife just disgusted

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/4-05-2014/xIVaiu.gif

a+++

So recently I learned that my first concert was Roy Orbison and The Beach Boys sometime in the 80s, at Lake Lanier Islands. I am still trying to track down the date/year of this show but what I would really love is to stumble upon a bootleg of it.

That reminds me:

A video of Roy Orbison and The Voice of the Beehive on ITV's Night Network late-night show, reviewing the week's new videos on a, including I Started Something I Couldn't Finish by the Smiths.

I remember Roy Orbison expressing empathy at Morrissey's sadness.

Internet tells me it was 15 Nov 1987.

Lately I've been thinking about a pair of online diaries that I remember reading around 1999-2001, some time in that range. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact names of the diaries or who wrote them, so Google proves pretty unhelpful, as you can see below. Anybody remember either of these?

1. Diary of High School Nerd - pretty sure this was pretty close to the right name, but now all I can see to find are links to High School Musical fanfic. This was a kid who self-described as a comedy nerd, over the course of it I believe he either transferred from a religious school to a public one or vice versa. I think the guy who wrote it went on to do some comedy writing on the web at one point.

2. Diary of a 40 Year Old Virgin - not sure on the exact title, but it was close to this. It way predated the Steve Carrell movie, which has since made it really hard to search for. The guy was in his 40s and a huge gym rat, but he mostly wrote about his struggles dating and meeting women.