thread were we did that thing were you hit random on wikipedia and get the name of your band, and then search flickr and use random and that's your album cover, and then something else for the title etc?
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Turns out there were two of these:
Randomly Generate Fake Album Covers (2009 Facebook craze done ILM style)your own album cover internet meme
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
thank you. i did search, but i'm not great at searching.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Use google instead and search from outside, that's the only way I ever manage to do these things.
The second thread also has the reference to the lost film Human Wreckage, which has been haunting me ever since I read about it.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i just wanted to know the name of my band album, "mr do's castle" was at the tip of my tongue.
i used to use google instead of the search but at some stage i'd forgotten that's how you do it.
lost films are weird/sad.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Can somebody direct me to that fat, hairy, scowling guy in his tiny bedroom, posing in his way-too-revealing leathers and his guns, of which there are many? You know the guy.
(I thought it was linked to "So not gonna happen" in some way, but if so, I couldn't see the link.)
― If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute. (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 13 January 2011 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
so not gonna happen 3
― kkvgz, Thursday, 13 January 2011 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
What about that one WDYLL thread from a few years ago where some female ILXor (Abbott I think?) posted a picture of her sitting in a hotel room and over the next 24 hours tons of ppl started Photoshopping it and when she came back to the thread she was just like "wtf this is creepy"
― lamey g. curtis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 13 January 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost many thanks!
― If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute. (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Does anyone remember a thread where every poster was an animal? They all had names like Ossie Ostrich and Barbara Bear and so on. The thread title was something like "Harry Hamster's Thread for Animals Only", but I can't recall the exact words.
― Tuomas, Friday, 14 January 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Never mind, I found it:
Bernard Badger's Animals-Only Zone: NO HUMANS ALLOWED
― Tuomas, Friday, 14 January 2011 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't find the thread i started about how frequently you think about your irrelevance in the context of the universe. not showing up when i search for threads started under my login, maybe it was in the sandbox?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
i wouldn't worry about it.
― ledge, Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
We are but a little gleam of time between two Eternities, so why then did I spend two hours standing in front of the copy machine today?
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2012 06:23 (eleven years ago) link
nope not it, it was one i started.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Where is the Norway movie posters thread?
― we gotta move these refrigerators (CaptainLorax), Friday, 20 April 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
What was the thread that was something like minature nostalgic stories of hearing a particular song?
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Sunday, 19 January 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
i have a vague memory of a good old nabisco post about the way people use irony (and "getting irony") to mark in-group/out-group status on the internet...does that ring any bells?
― max, Friday, 17 October 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
seems people have gotten a little too creative with the naming of wdyll threads (the last one that shows up on a search for wdyll is from june of this year) and they're now impossible to find
― flopson, Monday, 14 September 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
do you look like what, september 2015?
― drash, Monday, 14 September 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
hehe, sorry! i named that one. if you search for what do you look like 2015 it's the first result, but i should have added (wdyll) to it as well
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 September 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
There used to be a thread that might have been kept in I Love Vinyl that was made up of the radio station playlists of a few different ILXORS. I found so much great music through those playlists but I don't know whatever became of the thread.... anyone have any idea?
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Saturday, 24 October 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link
a thread for radio shows & play lists
2012 RADIO
2013 RADIO
2014 Radio
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 October 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
Thank you! Hopefully a 2015 one will pop up....
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, 30 October 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
what was the thread about people who had more than one accomplishment?
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Friday, 24 February 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
People who excel at more than one artform
― new noise, Friday, 24 February 2017 07:29 (seven years ago) link
?
Yep!
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Friday, 24 February 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
the ilm thread about singing different words/lyrics to tunes in your head
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:10 (six years ago) link
Do you have weird alternative lyrics for songs that play in your head?
― briscall stool chart (wins), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:15 (six years ago) link
The Mobb Deep: Joy Division of rap thread
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
Ty wins <3
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 14 April 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link
Is it possible that there isn't a generic thread for selling books?
(I don't think this is even the "help me find this thread.." thread that I had in mind, but ... I can't find the other one)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 25 August 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
Here you go
This is the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find
― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
can someone point me to the thread of unlikely celebrity photos
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
You mean the one with celebrities you're surprised to see photographed together?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.
??
― sleeve, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
^ That's the one I meant. TY.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
I don't know if it's the one KS meant but I suspect it might be.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
THANKS!!
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
where's the thread that's something like "same name, different guy"
found a local news article about a robert smith
― mh, Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
WRONG DUDE
― omar little, Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
many thanks
― mh, Thursday, 13 June 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
is this the thread where we ask if there's a thread for a particular subject? feel like there was another one
anyway, is there a cathc-all thread for worthwhile online reading material? like a thread where you can post links to articles, essays etc. that might help other users with boring desk jobs not feel like they're doing something remotely meaningful in their browser
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:21 (four years ago) link
There's this? Rolling Long Form Article Thread
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
not bad, thanks
wish it were more active
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
wasn't there a thread for discussing obscure artists/songs that by accident become extremely popular on streaming services because of glitches in the recommendation algorithms?
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:11 (three years ago) link
This one?
Songs that became famous because of a system glitch
― Branwell with an N, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
thanks!
also found this one obscurity in the age of streaming
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
did we have a thread for pandemic streams of theater / opera etc?
― lukas, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
thx!
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 06:03 (one year ago) link
the one where we complain about our coworkers ?
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:04 (one year ago) link
Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:21 (one year ago) link
aah yes thx
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link