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In the BBC news many years ago I remember Peter Sissons calling the reporter John Pienaar John Penis and then quickly correcting himself. None of my friends or family actually heard or acknowledged it. And for years i couldn't find anything on the internet until recently I found this one radio clip.

At long last I have proof that I'm more observant than everyone else, not crazy. Although that being said, I did spend an unhealthy amount of time looking.

At this point, with all the lost media focused youtube channels, everything that I once saw that would be perfect to add to this list has actually already been found. It's actually kind of... lame. Because now there is less mystery and whimsy in my life. 😞

One time in the early 2000s, I saw a commercial during Adult Swim on Cartoons Network and I've wanted to see it again ever since. It was for Virgin Mobile and it featured Ode to Joy or 1812 Overture plating over quick cuts of mundane objects which turn out to be innuendo... for body parts. I know it wasn't delusion because I was at a friends house and also though it was epic.

I found one of them thanks to this post reminding me to check to make sure I have the right name, but now I need English subtitles for it.

葫芦兄弟2葫芦小金刚 ( Deeply: Hulu Brothers 2 The Golden Gourd )

I don't remember how, but I stumbled upon the original Calabash Brothers online with ENG sub and really liked how crazy it felt, in a good way. Found part of the first episode of this sequel and I knew I needed to see the whole thing with ENG subs. Didn't know it was 6 episodes, but now I do.

I also hope to some day find the early( ? ) 2010s Calabash Brothers with ENG subs as well because I'm invested in the series, the cartoon/donghua anyways.

I posted my comment on the original post with my other Lemmy account but I'm going to put it here too, just in case this post gets more traction.

There are a few things but I don’t think I can really talk about them here. So, I’ll just mention that there was this old browser game on Cartoon Network’s website that I remember playing when I was younger. It was based on Xiaolin Showdown and, while I don’t remember exactly what the gameplay was like, it was a fully 3D game and I think I remember it being a platformer. I have never been able to find this game or even any information about it existing, anywhere. I’ve even checked Bluemaxima’s Flashpoint and it’s not archived there either.

Two things:

An article about a blockade of kayaks that were in an Eastern US port preventing warships from leaving the country to go to the war in Iraq. It was spearheaded by Quakers and was part of the impetus the Bush admin wanted to use to charge Quakers as terrorists. Quakers are one of the few religious groups that are by default conscientious objectors and cannot be drafted into the military due to the non-violence aspects of their religion. I have been able to find evidence that the Bush admin was toying with prosecuting Quakers, but not this specific event.

An article about musicians suing their record company for money made from suing individuals for file sharing. The record companies always argued that the people doing music piracy were stealing from the musicians, but the musicians had to sue their record company to see a penny of that money.

All together I have literally spent days and days over the years trying to find these. I have a fairly good memory and everything else I remember from that period of time I have been able to dig to find the source. These two elude me and it kills me.

About 15 years ago I googled "free games download" and stumbled upon a 3rd person gladiator game where mouse movement translated to slashing direction. Playing it was already fun but when I looked through the install folder I found all the texture files and customized the hell out of all the equipment. Basically this game was my first attempt at modding which has been a hobby of mine ever since. No idea what its name was or where I could look for it though.

I had one for years that ended up being a Harry Nile radio drama I heard on a work site years ago

A goth artist guy named Marcel. I had a tiny photo of him. I’ve never found him again.

There's an electronic drum and bass song called "Ford Fiesta" don't remember the artist.

It's a bit of a loaded search term

Okay so mine is so old i can't really put a finger on where i got it from..It's a piece of electronic music with a music video that included an Inuit fishing. It must have been from around '97 but could be anywhere in the nineties. In my recollection it was a single on cdrom from The Chemical Brothers. That never yielded any results for me. The second recollection was that it came from a cdrom that accompanied an exhibition on electronic art. Also never yielded any results for me. So, somewhere in my recollection is a couple of electronic notes and an Inuit in the music video. Ive given up searching for it, even though i tried many many times over the years.

There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can't name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven't, you might give it a shot.

kagis

https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/

https://musikerkennung.com/en/

Anyone watched Dark, the Netflix Germany TV show? I swear the last scene had Lorde's song as the background. But the last time I rewatched it, the song wasn't there.

Edit:

What is the show?

From my youth(I'm 39), I remember McDonalds having a pizza happy meal. I remember the commercial for it being a song with the lyrics "It's a pizza happy meal, a pepperoni and cheese!" The song was to the tune of a very stereotypical "Italian" sounding tune. Now, there's definitive evidence that a pizza happy meal existed but I cannot find that commercial or someone else who remembers that song.

For a number of years, it was Blood on your Hands by Killing Joke. Or, as I had known it back then, "Track 04", which was the wrong number of the track, no less. Took me some 7 years between losing "Track 04", remembering it existed and knowing it was by Killing Joke to take the plunge and 🏴‍☠️ their discography.

(For some reason, I have trouble figuring out what is being sung in several songs unless I read the lyrics together, even to this day. Once I've done that a couple of times, I can "hear" the words properly. So, I never had a good idea of what the song "talked about")

For whatever reason, I downloaded everything except the Killing Joke 2003 album. Around a month later, I decided to check those songs out, put them all on a playlist and left it playing. When "Blood on your Hands" started playing, the unmistakable starting guitar riff, oh my fucking god, I felt like I had unearthed a real fucking treasure!

There was one flash game on a website i dont remember the name of. You were a ghost and your goal was to scare everyone in a mansion by controlling objects

After successfully making the mansion empty, you were shown 2 buttons, one of them being reset. Since i played the game before knowing english well, i always pressed reset by accident

I have smaller white whales, every year or so I remember something cool from some 4-5 years ago, usually quite niche, and I am rarely able to find it.

Yesterday, I remembered a music video from the lockdowns. Poppy music with a catchy refrain, the two artists on screen, singer and electric piano player, jungle inspired decorations. A pineapple on the keyboard. I’m sure if I could remember even a couple of words of the refrain I would be set… but somehow i remember that the artists were set in NY.

Back in the early years of youtube there used to be an anituber that had super funny and cool content. He would review anime and had an anime avatar with a cape over his head. (The Avatar kinda looked like Cid "Shadow") he would make super funny and witty vids and he was also very popular but than deleted all vids and disappeared.

I don't remeber the name of the channel and many weebs I've talked to, don't have a clue who I'm talking about.

There was a website, I think flash, once where you could set some parameters; things like proportions, steps of the harmonic series, interval ratios, etc. Then you could start the animation, which was a series of dots around a circle that would chime their pitch as they passed a specific spot.

I went looking for it a few years back but could never find it again. It drove me batty for a while. I even shared some emails with smalin, an awesome music animator but he said he’d seen something like it I believe but didn’t have a link.

Anyway, now there are polyrhythm videos like this, which is similar. But it isn’t interactive and doesn’t show the interesting math actually taking place.

I am a programmer and could of course make something like it, but I really just want it back.