What Can't You Find On The Internet?

hmm, maybe investigators learned that their prime suspect was a McDonald/Doobies completist, so they used the "Among the Missing" artwork to notify him that they were on his trail and that it would be in his best interests to "ride like the wind" to the nearest police station and turn himself in. "Ching" might be the name of the abductor's first childhood pet, XXX-10-2895 might be his social security number, and the girl in the photo might have gone missing after getting off a Sun Tran bus.

by the same turn, law enforcement will probably be alerted the moment someone selects "Among the Missing" at a karaoke night anywhere in the US. the perp has held out for 20 years, but I doubt he can hold out forever.

I think I have a pretty solid case here, probably gonna post a writeup on r/unresolvedmysteries in a bit

That is weird, because the three other kids pictured are very easy to find.

This is a real stretch but the only thing I can think of is that her name suggests that she may be of mixed heritage (Vietnamese & presumably Southern Chinese) and her parents had different ways of romanizing her legal name which may have been quite different from her common name.

("very easy to find" was an unfortunate choice of words, please forgive me.)

Video of Regis Philbin completely screwing up the New Year’s Eve countdown. Does anybody else remember this? I don't remember what year it was, probably mid-2000s. His earpiece was on a delay so the countdown was delayed and he got confused, so he was like “Eight! Seven! Six!... Five!..... Six!” and by that time he realizes the ball has already dropped and he finishes “Five-Four-Three-Two- One!!” It's amazing how evidence of this incident has completely vanished from the internet. Can't find it on youtube, can't find any article mentioning it. But it definitely happened. We all were watching it live and we kept rewinding it because we couldn't believe how badly he screwed it up. Happy New Year, everyone.

Wow, it sounds like Regis really .... ... dropped the ball.

saw it on twitter maybe a year ago, it was a video of the azerbaijani (?) president on state TV making a speech and he had like a giant golden hammer. it was absurd and kind of awesome. google is no help of course

That could be gold-loving madman Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic.

google is no help of course

Any means of acquiring a digital copy of Saw Mill Man by Cast King. Someone help!

it's on soulseek

what "tbrr" means

i have always wondered too

i have decided on "to be really real"

That is correct

good to know! this is why i occasionally use tbrrrrr, to emphasize my point

Can't have too many rs tbrrrrrrrrrr with you

Ah, thanks, I was considering "to be right real", which wasn't too far off then.

i can't believe i was right about "to be really real" - that's always been a wild guess that i never bothered to confirm

but the proof is in the pudding: ABBREVS

A good-quality image of the painting from Ghostbusters II without Vigo in it? I'd settle for an Amazon Prime screenshot from anyone who subscribes to it.

I have no idea if anything of the kind exists but if it does and anyone can hip me: a relatively comprehensive/obsessive discography of '60s girl group singles?

it seems like the kind of thing that should be there

evidence of that thing they had in the shopko music department in the 90s, where you could press a button and cue up the latest alernative nation-y video of your choice. I think tmbg's "snail shell" may have been one of them?

Old Lunch, this article scratches the surface but also has a pretty extensive list of sources:

https://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/1960s-girl-groups/

wow! i've never seen that website. just skimmed that article now, and it seems decent!

Whoa, thanks Albert! Yeah, there's some opportunities for deep digging in there.

the ads for Joker rolling papers they used to play on 96 Rock back in the day

there was a box set of girl group singles released on cd in the early 00s? i think a friend copied it for me but i don't remember what it's called

that was not very helpful but i know what you are looking for exists!

this https://www.discogs.com/Various-One-Kiss-Can-Lead-To-Another-Girl-Group-Sounds-Lost-And-Found/release/1232218

oh yeah! i was working in a cd store when that came out! i was too young and dumb to realize how good it would be, so i never put it on to listen to at the time! i probably sold it to some cool person though

time to learn from the mistakes of my past and listen now!

When I was a college DJ several thousand years ago, these Romulan comps were pretty fun (at least the early ones were, I had no idea there were so many editions):

https://www.discogs.com/label/568602-Girls-In-The-Garage

Yes, One Kiss Can Lead to Another is pretty much my favorite compilation of all time. But thank you for evoking it!

This period of isolation might be the time for me to finally compile my tracklisting for the unofficial follow-up, This Would Be the Second Kiss I Alluded to Previously. I'm certain that I have enough top-notch material on-hand. The world of girl groups is bottomless and almost entirely wonderful!

The Girls in the Garage comps are likewise great.

I have hundreds of these things but I know that thousands exist. I'm looking for the hundreds and hundreds that I don't have.

Where is the Paul K & The Weathermen thread on ILM?

A CD EP of electronic ambient music from around 1993 that had maybe three tracks on it including one long (20-30 minute) song called something like Rainbows Over The Happiest Man On Earth. Purchased for £1 in Mr. CD on Berwick St. IIRC.

It was in a standard jewel case and had a red cover with perhaps a yellow oval design in the center. I can't recall the artist's name.

this incredibly detailed and engrossing account of a european guy who took the trans-siberian railway to pyongyang, it was one of my favorite things online and i fear it's gone

This one? http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com.

sorry - what's the best all-purpose Garden/plants thread on ILX?

(this is one of those situations where it would be so nice to be able to see the total number of posts per thread in the Search Results, or to see the last date that they were updated. there are so many threads related to plants and gardens)

There's a rolling one each year


Gardening 2020

Thanks Alba!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fat-boy-taunts-turned-me-into-a-killer-563701

there was a TV documentary about this case but I can't find any trace of it online, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might go about finding it?

a calculator that specifically uses assembly language rules/quirks; this is the thing a computer was designed made to do

I think it was posted here. There was a good story about an indie band playing with Marilyn Manson in the early 90s before he was thing and the weirdness that went with it.

https://imposemagazine.com/features/arab-on-radar-satan-has-a-new-name-tonight
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Lol monster voodoo machine being meathead jocks.

So many shitty jock bands rebranding themselves as “industrial”.

A video of the Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers, but it was filmed from inside the kitchen, so from the camera's POV everything in the room was just inexplicably hurling itself around

can anybody tell me who wrote this:

Any invective to paint is as good as any other.

i have a feeling that it's breton but i can't find anything online. maybe it was my own translation, and the "official" translation is worded differently ? i'm at a total loss.

It's not invective, it's incentive. Google has a few hits; seems most likely to be Robert Rauschenberg.

there is one goofy tv commercial actor I don’t know the name of... he was in a credit card commercial that took place in an airport, with him bragging to his colleague that he knows where in the airport to find a three prong plug... he looks kinda like a really dumb Harrison Ford. I don’t know why I care about this.

I don’t know why I care about this.

The best kind of questions for this thread!