What Can't You Find On The Internet?

Sam - sorry.

Which is a real bitch cos every other fucker does.

(heh)

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World/philsys.html

http://link.bubl.ac.uk/ISC2365

My God - I never realised this! And it seemed such an apt monker anyway (he is from Barnet, he is ape-like). How extraordinary!

Also moving pictures (say Real Video) of Mazinger Z are unfindable.

In the meantime, it's part of the zip file of Pavement tabs you can get here (click on "All Pavement Tabs!!"), though it doesn't seem to be available separately. It's only an 84k zip file, so it won't take long to download, but if you'd rather not get the whole zip then let me know and I'll send you the individual file.

Also, from what I've seen, full details of exactly which seats changed hands in UK general elections up to 1970, though I might just not have looked hard enough.

In fact, information on 60s-70s ska and reggae seems to be pretty sparse in general, sadly. I also can't find mp3s of a couple of dancehall tracks I'm looking for, but I should probably stop being a cheapskate and buy them, except I have no idea where I'd buy them.

I'm having one of my intermittent reggae obsessions, as you can probably tell...

I can't find a resolution for the www contradiction between Lloyd Cole, on the Lloyd site, saying he loves Robert Quine and they're going for NYC Chinese food next week, and Quine, on the Quine site, saying, "Lloyd Cole just wants to make MOR records for the commercial radio" etc.

Most importantly, I can't find 'Ask And He'll Answer' Nicky D answering my question of a while back, namely: why are there two different versions of the Magnetic Fields' GET LOST LP?

Do you have to go and buy tracks while they're still reasonably new, or is there a fair bit of back stock? And are the Greensleeves riddim compilations mixed or do they feature full-length tracks? I'm mainly looking for "Money To Burn" (don't know who this is by but it rocks) and Mr Easy's "Crazy", both of which are based on the Buy Out riddim, but I'd be interested in any other Buy Out tracks or, well, anything, really. (Cue lots of dancehall connoisseurs laughing at me - as you can see, I don't really know what I'm talking about at all. I feel far too white and middle-class to say "riddim", as well, but it seems fairly unavoidable.)

Anyway, thanks very much for your help, much appreciated, you rock. And an excuse for a record-shopping trip to the Berwick Street area is always appreciated, even if I haven't dared venture into the non- indie shops before :)

Fantastic. That's it. Thank you! I still can't find the article that I read, but this is the book I remember seeing and trying to request:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vDveWM2oL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

I have to admit ChatGPT got me the answer

Anyone recall the name of a YT channel with 4 or 5 guys (comics?), plain white background, same bit of whimsical classical music playing and they just read out past comments on their videos and try to make them funny? Main guy who gets the most screentime is kinda ginger.

I am trying to track down a short story that was published in the New Yorker, probably in the 2010s or maybe 2000s, in which a man simmers with resentment all the time. He feels egregiously misunderstood and mistreated by his family. In actuality we are led to believe that they are treating him completely normally, sympathetically, and with love, but his subjective perception is skewed beyond repair (it is possible that this is a big reveal at the end, or there may be hints throughout, I don't remember) . In the main narrative arc of the story, he meets and starts dating a woman, telling her about his awful family. Eventually he brings her home for a holiday - probably either Thanksgiving or Christmas? She is expecting the experience to be a nightmare, and is pleasantly surprised to find his family warm and accommodating, but rather than this loosening up his perspective at all, he just feels more alienated.

I want to find a version of this done with barnyard animal noises and apologies to youtube if it doesn't actually exist, but I bet it does and their search is broken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqpEQWRcQcw

can't find that either but found this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs

Cartoon of a goofy looking Bin Laden at a computer giving the thumbs up. Think it was posted here at some point.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, September 11, 2021 2:53 PM (three years ago

lol I just spent a while looking for this on the internet only to gradually realize this was an ILX-specific meme. guess I won't be sending it to someone who just asked me to save Sept 11 for a work thing

This is going to be the longest of shots. In probably the late 1990s, some British TV football coverage - possibly Match of the Day, very likely BBC - had a montage of match highlights (possibly a cup/league final) to close the show, set to 'Shiny Happy People' by REM. It had things like someone shedding a tear when 'there's no time to cry' is being sung. If anyone knows which year/team this is likely to be that might help!

the full text of an off-shared 1990s-era article called “The Top 40 Embarrassing Faux Pas That Killed Rock and Roll” including entries like “Blues Legend Guest Stars”, “The Most Annoying Man in the World: Robert Plant” and #1 was “Mentioning ‘Rock’”

Can’t find the i would have sex with all this white women tweet

it's not a tweet, but

https://i.imgur.com/guWiuE6.jpeg

(podcast / oral history forthcoming)

Can’t find the article in some satirical magazine that was entirely anagrams of “David Gergen”

Oh thank you so much xp

The lyrics to (maybe) the two greatest power-pop songs ever, the Dentists' "Chainsaw the Horse" and St. James Infirmary's "The Boy Who Crossed the Street." Can't even find a YouTube clip for either...if you Google "Dentists Chainsaw the Horse lyrics," you get a link to me asking the same question on Facebook 15 years ago.

i feel like there’s a thread dedicated to having weirdass right wing neighbors who are into surveillance. right?

the metafictional st. vincent promotional video from around the time of masseduction directed by carrie brownstein where not only is annie wearing latex but so are all the camerapeople - this isn't _the nowhere inn_ (which is great), it came out around the time she'd just put out masseduction

i thought it was a brilliant commentary on how the patriarchy sexualizes the female body and the complicated ways in which women, implicitly queer women, negotiate our own sexualities while constantly being observed by the panopticon that is the "male gaze"

i'm not going to deny that i'm also a lesbian who's into latex, that just isn't the primary reason i'm interested in seeing it again. it's more that i thought the nowhere inn was a really good film that explored similar themes really well.

is the original theatrical version of cats (2019) out there somewhere? even as a bootleg cam? i got no idea how i would even track down something like this

it that the one with the bumholes?

The bumholes did not make it to the screen at all.

The film's original release contained numerous CGI errors and glitches, such as one scene in which Judi Dench's human hand, complete with her wedding ring, appears instead of Old Deuteronomy's cat paw.[78]

I was looking for the NME video compilations "Expresso Video" and "Video Bongo" but nowhere has them uploaded. Probably the copyright police....

Well I WAS going to post the 1985 movie Static starring Keith Gordon. But another search today revealed the goddam thing is now free with Prime.

And it's just as fantastic as i remember.

An article from The New Yorker or NYT or something like that that had an illustration featuring numerous 2015-era online buzzword phrases like “Read another book” and “Notorious RBG”.

I’ve been trying for years to find a book I had as a kid about a boy and a lighthouse. AI just gave me this suggestion but the link is dead, and googling the title or the authors’ name turns up nothing.

The Little Lighthouse (1947): Though slightly before the 50s, this beloved book by Ruth & Laddie Dill is a quintessential story of a young boy, Peter, helping his lighthouse keeper father, facing a storm and proving his worth, according to americanlighthousecouncil.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/alcc_lh_child_book_biblio.pdf.

That pdf is archived once at the wayback machine... but the version at time of saving doesn't seem to contain anything about that book (I didn't do a deep search through it though).

http://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/americanlighthousecouncil.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/alcc_lh_child_book_biblio.pdf

Thanks. If I’m doing things right that pulled up “Tim To The Lighthouse” which is a common hit for this search. I can’t figure out why author and title searches turn up zero for this allegedly beloved book.

Because AI?

Exactly

"*I've been trying for years to find a book I had as a kid about a boy and a lighthouse.*"

I was going to say that I remember a book I borrowed from the school library when I was young. It was a variation on the Labours of Hercules called something like How to Be King, and I remember enjoying it. The cover had a young boy wearing 1970s flared jeans, so it must have been very old. I occasionally wonder if the contents of my school library would be worth a fortune nowadays. But everybody had that edition of The Hobbit. It was probably given away for free to schools.

I was going to say all that, but I'm not going to. Because I've literally just googled "children's book 'how to be king'" and a Google Image Search - a regular search, not AI - came up with this:
https://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/books/how-to-become-king

How To Become King by Jan Terlouw, originally published in 1971 as Koning van Katoren. It's the very same book. Terlouw was also Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982, so he didn't quite become king, but he came close. He had a plan, and he implemented the heck out of it, just like the KLF. In fact you can find the actual book on the internet:
https://www.scribd.com/document/827683579/OceanofPDF-com-How-to-Become-King-Jan-Terlouw

So, that's an example of a "thing you can find on the internet". Imagine if there was a thread called "what can you find on the internet". It would be really popular. Things you can find on the internet include (a) pictures (b) internet shopping websites (c) reviews of Star Trek: Voyager (d) "sydney sweeney variety silver dress" (e) all kinds of things. I'll make up a list.

xp to Snrub, is this it? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/arts/how-fan-culture-is-swallowing-democracy.html

"Three Boys and a Lighthouse" by Nan Hayden Agle and Ellen Wilson?

"The Littlest Lighthouse" by Ruth Sexton Sargent?

"Honey Bunch and Norman on Lighthouse Island" by Helen Louise Thorndike?

"Tim to the Lighthouse" by Edward Ardizzione?

Whoops, you mentioned that one - when I read it I skipped over "Tim" and thought it was about Virginia Woolf

"Lighthouses And Other Talks To Children" by John Wilding

Thanks for your attempts CV, none of those are it. There’s a chance it was one story in an anthology since I don’t remember it being very long. Maybe picture book, maybe not? It’s been a loooong time.

do you remember anything that happened in the book or any detail?

A boy sees a storm approaching and takes shelter in a lighthouse. He is afraid of thunder until the lighthouse keeper shows how to count the thunderclaps to gauge how far away the storm is.

Book was likely from the early-mid 1960s (when I read it) but could be older as my mom used to bring home used books a lot.

One possibility is that it may have been in a Readers Digest condensed book anthology, as I remember having one with “The Boy Who Drew Cats” and “Rufus M.” in it.

Could it be The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer? Or a condensed version of it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_at_Tern_Rock

Thick children's reader anthologies probably played an outsized role in my formative understanding of the world. We had a 1970s Houghton-Mifflin one called KALEIDOSCOPE, also featuring a Rufus M. excerpt, along with a couple of Greek myths, the origin story of baseball, a delightful urban slice-of-life called "The People Downstairs," etc., etc. I must have read every page of that thing like fifty times.

I just read a summary of The Light at Tern Rock and that’s not it.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who read stories 50 times. Rufus and his attempt to obtain a library card fascinated me when I was little.

xp to Snrub, is this it? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/arts/how-fan-culture-is-swallowing-democracy.html

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, December 10, 2025 6:14 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

OMG YES!!! You lot are so good at this. I searched Google and the ILE politics threads for hours.

According to Wikipedia and many other sites, film director Andre de Toth had seven wives. I can only find evidence of three; Veronica Lake, Mary Lou Holloway and Ann Green.

Anyone able to name the other four. I assume they’d be mentioned in his autobiography, but that’s OOP and quite expensive.

imdb lists Green, Lake, and:

Marie Louise Stratton 1953 - 1982 (divorced, 2 children)

ah my bad

Children with Marie Louise Stratton, an actress known as Mary Lou Holloway

Hrm

De Toth also claimed that he had been married seven times. In the United States, he was married to Veronica Lake, Marie Louise Stratton, and Ann Green. In his autobiography, he mentions Lillian, whom he wanted to marry in Vienna, but she refused. Perhaps he counted her as his first. He left no clues to any others. So I emailed Nick and asked if he really had seven wives. Nick replied, “The answer to that one went with him to the grave. But my mother implied it was unlikely.”

Thanks, makes sense. Timeline of his marriages makes another four unlikely.

Claiming stolen valour for being the most divorced, those were different times.

De Toth was a proper terror to Veronica Lake :(

Yes, he wasn’t as much of a charmer as he was made out to be. I was interested as watched his Western ‘Ramrod’ which stars Lake. I didn’t know at the time she was married to De Toth.

She’s in several scenes with Joel McRae and looks tiny next to him. She’s in several apparently claimed to be 5”2 but was really only 4”11.

Ignore the extra several!

looking for this meme of barry keoghan as ringo that's like "when you're stoned and trying to remember what youre stood in line at the deli for"