What Can't You Find On The Internet?

That's not the "proper" tune to the Grand Old Duke Of York though ... sounds like it's been given the same treatment as Neanderthal's original tune!
sounds most similar to 99 bottles of beer to me, rhythm differences notwithstanding.

i think it matches one of the several tunes of "i had a little turtle" actually

https://youtu.be/FedGgBn9giM

... which is described as the same as "miss Lucy had a baby" or the susie steamboat one... as you were.

the johnsons had a baby
his name was tiny tim
they put him in the bathtub
to see if he could swim
he drank up all the water
he ate up all the soap
and now the johnson baby's
learnin the belly-float
he floated down the river
he floated down the lake
and now the johnson baby's
got a belly ache
i woke up sunday mornin
i looked upon the wall
the spiders and the bedbugs
were havin a game of ball
the score was 1 to nothin
the spiders were ahead
the bedbugs hit a home run
and knocked me out of bed

a lot of these mentioned so far are more like chants than melodies, or what sometimes gets called 'sing-song'

I mean, they all have as much melody as the "merry Christmas, he gunned his family down" thing we're trying to match, right?

I think it's true that they all share a certain DNA with "99 Bottles of Beer." None of them are quite the same "tune" or the same rhythm, but if your band was playing "99 Bottles," and everybody but the bassist switched to "Father's Whiskers," "Miss Susie," "Noble Duke of York," or the "Holidays of Horror" refrain, the bassist wouldn't have to change a thing.

ha, the Wee Sing Silly Songs cassette I grew up with actually introduces "Father's Whiskers" by asking "Do you know the tune, '99 Bottles of Pop'?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbE1BdBixLk

@ 9:42

This is reminding me of Tuomas

Call for assistance that can probably only be answered by UK ilxors of a certain age. I have very vague memories of a spoof of Whitney's massively overblown 1988 Olympic anthem "One Moment In Time" which had lyrics, of course, about performance enhancing drugs. The chorus was something like "one shot up the bum", and was possibly on a Christmas special by someone my parents were likely to watch (so Hale & Pace, French & Saunders, Lenny Henry etc, rather than Russ Abbott or Little & Large). Should be easy to find, right?

I don't know it, I've tried my google-fu but it has failed :(

yep mine too, thanks for looking though

my old AOL emails

I went and googled a number of my old 90s email addresses yesterday to see if anything would turn up. Thankfully nothing did.

Anyone want to help me find a comic strip from an alternative weekly paper from 15-20 years ago? It was by a female author, someone like Nina Paley (yes, the now-terf Nina Paley, sorry), but I didn't find it on her apparently very well-catalogued website. Here is the basic premise, as I remember it:

Panel one: A man and a woman are eating food. The man says something like "Imagine how good this would taste on weed!"

Panel two: The man and woman are watching a movie. The man says "imagine how awesome it would be to watch this on weed!"

Panel three: They are having sex. The man says "imagine how good this would feel on weed!"

Panel four: I don't remember, but it implies that the woman dumped the man.

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure your retelling has got to be twice as funny as the original.

i forget, what's ilx's most relevant thread for Qanon?

also, there are like 46 Q and not U threads on here

One thing I've not found is a video of the Google pixel 3 demo / screensaver thing that was running on the phones in shops. Was a ball or two rolling down a track. Not sure whether it was video or rendered in real time.

Some years back, Skot (I think) shared a fantastic YT video of amateur footage taken at a 1960s American high school concert featuring a super charming garage band among others, singer kinda looked like David Byrne, anyone recall this?

is there a website where you can input chords and then it will play said chords?

I'm trying hooktheory but I'm looking for something much simpler.

(also my free trial ran out rather quickly... 90secs lol)

"Would you like to try Hulu? Enjoy your 45 second free trial - watch the opening credits of your favorite television show!"

is there a website where you can input chords and then it will play said chords?

this seems to work pretty well: https://www.apronus.com/music/onlineguitar.htm

Thank you my dear burrito.

not 100% sure this wasn’t from a dream but

I saw an Instagram ad recently for these tiny pants that you use to glove your index and middle finger while preparing food... like teeny raw denim, corduroys, tan chinos... did I dream this?

i don’t have any idea what you’re talking about

it’s impossible to google

impossible and upsetting

this is the most annoying product I’ve ever seen

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41LIOcFYb9L._AC_.jpg

I know about finger cots, but those are latex.

couldn't remember what this was from/called last week, and then this morning I remembered

https://i.imgur.com/yL6Tmci.jpg

The new "shinier, happier" remake of Naked Lunch is going to be lit.

Not the same thing, but feels like the same thing.

https://i.imgur.com/1nsvdkH.jpg

whetherest thou art inside Ale's or outside Ale's, what from Ale's thou puttest inside thee doth come out 1 way or another

Some years back, Skot (I think) shared a fantastic YT video of amateur footage taken at a 1960s American high school concert featuring a super charming garage band among others, singer kinda looked like David Byrne, anyone recall this?

― Maresn3st, Sunday, October 25, 2020 7:20 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i remember this! wld not have any idea how to find it again.

i snapped a photo of this essay, intending to go back to the book and read the whole thing. only now i've forgotten the author and the title, and i've tried various combinations of google searches but am still stumped. any idea?

https://i.imgur.com/HaogdT7.jpg

Maybe "Such Sweet Thunder: Forty-nine Pieces on Jazz" by Whitney Balliett · 1966? | (search link)

ah — yes, that seems to be it. thanks!

No results for 'fashioned a delicate trio' though eh Google

i tried the same technique (exactly search for parts of phrases) and came up empty! i thought "This disturbing sense of strain suggested that Giuffre" would find it immediately, but nothing

It's weird because usually those books will come right up if the images of the pages are still there.

Which they're not for the two examples I found above.

Is there a way to find American network TV interview shows from the 90s? Even just transcripts or closed captions would be fine.

like what?

yeah, i'm wondering if this means barbara walters, stone phillips, arsenio hall, etc...but i would love a database of interview transcripts, in general. that would be amazing

i was thinking the tonight show, letterman etc. but anything would be fine.

the charlie rose website has lots of video and is pretty searchable, goes back to at least the early '90s.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagmnxL1NQnlAhp_-_00_dSY32QTpiXJy

Christie Brinkley and Hugh Masekela!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2hZAOgD64

When the actor Gina McKee first came to prominence, I thought "Oh, she's the one from that advert on TV for some car wax where the joke is she's been hired to sit on the car and deliver her lines to camera but the wax is so good she keeps sliding off".

But now I can't find any reference to this online and I wonder if I mistook her for someone else. A Dulux paint ad though, so she was definitely working in that area.

some time in the early 2010s I found a website dedicated to golden age turn-of-the-20th-century illustrators. one of the works I remember was a calendar depicting countryfolk engaged in seasonally appropriate customs/rituals such as harvest festivals. iirc the illustrations had a bit of a pagan flavor, and Celtic gods may or may not have featured in certain scenes. think Arthur Rackham meets The Wicker Man. the project was originally conceived as a calendar and wasn't just some modern product assembled from old illustrations. I'd guess that the artist was a British man active between the 1900s and 1920s, but I could be wrong on that. anyone know what I mean? so far google has been of no help whatsoever, and the site I discovered it on is probably long gone

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.

Drives me crazy wondering if I just hallucinated this one, but I've still been unable to find it. Every few months I try new combinations of words to try and find it, but no dice.