What was that one?!

song

2008-07-20T06:33:23Z

This popped into my head today and it's from a scene in a movie I'm pretty sure, though I don't remember what movie. And it's a high-pitched male voice, kind of indie pop-ish/80s, singing:

"You make me
You make me wet"

There's a distinct pause between the lines. I tried the songtapper and Google and nothing came up. Help, I need this song!

(If you're musically inclined, the first "you" falls on beat 2 of 4 in the measure and each word in the first line is a quarter note, and then there's a dotted qtr rest before the 2nd "you" is an 8th note, and each subsequent word is a qtr on the offbeats. Phew that would have been easier to explain if I could have written it out haha.)

Discovery Kids puppet songs

2008-07-20T05:26:54Z

I used to watch Discovery Kids growing up, the Bonehead Detectives and Encyclopedia and junk. I remember there being a puppet doing music videos that had lyrics like "Show you where my favorite place is, doooown!" about riding elevators, and one about "We gotta get ready to go", about getting packed, or getting dressed or something.

Does anyone remember what the puppet was called? Or looked like? Or the names of the songs?

I'm desperate~ Halp!

Pre-Dexter novel about an FBI-employed serial killer.

2008-07-20T04:49:40Z

I read this book at least seven years ago. There's a scene where the serial-killer-killer does gymnastics blindfolded, subtly intimidating a fellow FBI agent. The female agents all have the hots for him for some reason. Basically works in the FBI because he gets his kicks hunting and killing other killers.

Totally not Dexter.

blues traveler song from a friends episode

2008-07-19T23:38:18Z

I remember seeing a friends episode where they had a little known blues traveler song.
but it wasn't- hook,runaround,but anyway, or precarious.

anyone remember the song?

thanks.

I'm pretty sure this was a story I read

2008-07-19T21:32:25Z

For some reason my brain decided to reach back into the "dormant memories" files. Last night for no particular reason I started thinking about what I'm pretty sure was a story I read as a kid. All I remember is that there was a girl (could have been a boy, but I'm pretty sure it was a girl) who didn't want her hair cut so she wished that every time her hair was cut, it would grow twice as fast. Of course this causes a lot of complications. That's all I can remember. I can't remember how old I was when I read this.

EDIT: Found - it's Melisande, or, Long and Short Division.

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-19T15:16:00

2008-07-19T19:17:04Z

when i was little i used to watch an old animated movie about seals. They suffer from an oil spill near them. They burst into song a lot; once even on the deck of a ship. does this strike a bell with anyone?

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-19T07:47:00

2008-07-19T11:54:30Z

There's a blog out there somewhere that is supposed to be written by Dog the Bounty Hunter's blog, detailing every day activities, rants about Beth, funny names for his kids, and bounty hunting gear/manly gadget things. Many of the entries involve Tim and Leland. It's not really written by him, of course. Anyone know where I can find it?

short story

2008-07-19T11:23:40Z

I'm trying to find a short story I read a few years ago, but I can't remember much about it. It was fairly short (maybe 10 pages or so), was modern, and would be well known enough to be used in a college level english class (I read it because someone I knew had to write a paper on it and I helped them). It was thematically based on sleeping beauty, but wasn't just a modern retelling of it. I believe the idea was that the main character was "waking" from being abused or something similar. I believe there may have been something going on with tattoos in the story as well.

As I said, it isn;t much to go on but was hoping someone might recognize it.

Book of scary stories?

2008-07-19T10:52:15Z

All I remember about this book, is the fact that it was filled with short scary stories.

One of them is about a trio of girls that are walking home one day and see an old woman washing some blood stained clothes in a creek. This is apparently, some kind of death omen, and one by one, the girls die.

I don't remember how the first girl dies, but the second one chokes on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The third one accidentally drinks hair dye or something, mistaking it to be cough medicine.

Another one was about a boy who was the only survivor of a plane crash in the desert, and he starts following the sun to try and find civilization. Except he ends up ending a complete dumbass and going in a circle back to the plane wreck.

Does anyone have any clue what I'm talking about? I know, or at least am almost positive that these scary story books were in a series, and that it /definitely/ wasn't Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Slot Machine Based Game...?

2008-07-19T04:44:08Z

When I was growing up, my mom had this game that I'm assuming was somehow based on slot machines. I have no idea how you played, but the game included:

2 brown plastic stair-shaped boards
random orange cardboard squares with things like cherries and lemons on them

And, sadly, that's all I know. I did try to crappily draw what I remember (laugh as you will):

http://pics.livejournal.com/yobadself/pic/002aep2b

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-17T20:47:00

2008-07-19T03:52:13Z

Okay, so I posted this to The Question Club, and some kindly person suggested that maybe you guys could help me out on this one! It's been driving me nuts.

I distantly remember reading a story when I was little from a paperback of collected unexplained mysteries. The book was kinda old, and the cover I remember on my version had a pair of hands cradling but not touching a glowing light bulb, superimposed over a shot of the ocean. The story I'm interested in was about a plane crashing, and I think it was supposed to be true.

What I remember goes like this: it was not a passenger plane, and it was being flown by a pilot and co-pilot. When it was in the air, the control station began receiving strange and frantic radio messages from them, saying that there was something in the plane with them that shouldn't have been. They got more and more panicked, and the pilot died. The co-pilot landed the plane, but died immediately after, before anybody could figure out what happened. When the plane was opened, there was nothing there but a strange smell and I think some weird dust. It may or may not have been in the Bermuda Triangle, and I think it may have been suggested that it was aliens.

I've tried google and looked through snopes, but I've come up blank.

Has anybody else ever heard this story? Is there any suggestion that it's true, or is it actually a fiction story and I just forgot? If it is true, does anybody know where I could find out more?

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-18T22:21:00

2008-07-19T02:22:08Z

hello!
does anyone know the song thats playing in one of why do you think commercials (anti-drug) where everyone is kissing? the lyrics go like, we're in love and it feels allright.
please and thanks!

world/ethnic music

2008-07-18T17:30:11Z

okay, so they show this commercial at amc theatres of this guy sing in a foreign language. could be hindi, could be something else. i think his name starts with an N, if that helps.

thanks!

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-17T22:12:00

2008-07-18T02:18:50Z

When I was little (and, okay, still) my mom would sing me a song that went like this:

"I'm in love with you and I wish I knew that you loved me like I love you. If you knew the way I felt it might make a change in me. I'm in misery now, the way I feel, but you could give my heart a thrill if you'd say that you love me like I'm in love with you. But I don't guess you care, the way you're treating me. You must love another the same way I love you. I know you are the one, dear. I'd never make you blue. But you're in love with someone else like I'm in love with you."

I know that sounds like a really screwed-up thing to sing to your kid but it was really funny. I'm curious to know what it is. I googled some of the lyrics but didn't find it.

I'm thinking it could be this: http://www.musicstack.com/item/9044675/harry+james/he's+my+guy_fsz_you're
It's old enough that the lyrics might not be anywhere online.

and something else: I've posted this twice in hpstoryfinders and once in whatwasthatbook and never found it, but it's worth trying to find here too. It was a Harry Potter slash fanfiction--well, I'm not sure it was actually slash, because there might not have really been a relationship, just gay characters. I think it had a lot of chapters and I didn't read it at fanfiction.net. It was probably written between OotP/HBP or maybe GoF/OotP. It was about three gay guys, minor male characters on the good side--I'm thinking Seamus and Justin were two of them. Maybe the other guy was Colin Creevey or something?

Well, anyway, I remember a scene where one of the guys, who is younger and less sure of himself, is like "omg I hate myself for being gay it's disgusting/wrong" and one of the other guys randomly makes out with the third guy and then says "did that look wrong to you?" And I think then it's awkward because the two guys who kissed realize that they like each other. I have no idea why I want to find this fic so much--if I do, I bet I'll be really disappointed.

HELP!

2008-07-17T23:04:25Z

okay so not to be quiet the freaking loser, but i need some help with a 90's female singer. i have no idea what her name was or what her hit of the 90's was but here are the details i have.
-white female with long brown wave-ish hair
-she had a bump in her nose a little bit
-her voice was okay
-she had one single that made it big kinda and in the video she was dressed in sort of marie antoinette with like mascarade masks.

im not in love with her or her music or anything ive jus tbeen racking my brain on who the hell she is. thats really everything i can remember about her. please someone have useless 90's knowledge.
thank you.

Young Adult book pre-1990 or so

2008-07-17T16:58:05Z

So, in this book, which I read once many many years ago and only dimly recall, the following things happened:

There were two brothers. There was a house fire, and one brother saved the other brother by grabbing him and jumping out the window, positioning his body so he took the impact of the fall. The brother who broke the fall, I believe, died.

This happens either in the very beginning of the book, or is gradually revealed to us during flashbacks and remembering sequences. It is not the main body of the book.

In the main body of the book, I believe that the brother who survived ends up in a land that may or may not be heaven. His brother is there, but maybe they don't meet up right away? His brother is referred to (I think!!) as Richard the Lionhearted. I'm pretty sure "the Lionhearted" was in there, anyway. The land is all kind of questy and Narnia-like - there may or may not have been talking animals, but there were definitely adventures and knights and that sort of thing. I remember someone telling the new brother, when he sets off on a quest, to always set out with the wind at his back.

The other possibility is that the brother who survived doesn't enter into it at all, and it's all about what happens to the brother who dies, after he dies.

I know it's not much and it's pretty generic - but hopefully someone can help? Thank you!!

**edit** - I asked my sister and she remembered! It's called the Brothers Lionheart. However, it looks like the *way* that he died is something I remembered from another book - does that ring a bell with anyone?

**edit the second** Nope, that part's still the Brothers Lionheart! Thanks!

Anime pictures

2008-07-17T15:49:42Z

I found a music video that someone made using various pictures from animes. I saved some of the pictures and posted them behind the cut hoping someone could help me identify them. Thanks in advance.

Edit to add Subject Title:

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-17T11:12:00

2008-07-17T15:14:34Z

im at a loss for what to google about this one.
i tried a couple of lines but no results..
it was a quote from a movie or a tv show (which might make it harder to figure out), and im assuming it was a boyxgirl couple speaking to each other. one of them said something along the lines of "it's kind of gross to think about but i hope we die at the exact same time, that way neither one of us has to go through any pain."
any ideas?

thanks in advance :)

alien flowers?

2008-07-17T14:30:02Z

What is this flower?

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-17T10:21:00

2008-07-17T08:30:22Z

it's me again with another movie:

Don't know when exactly it was made, but I assume the 90's
Story as I remember:
one man drives on a large road, hears on the news about a thief who stole a lot of cash, he looks at a suitcase (one of those metal ones) on the passenger's seat.
He picks up a hitchhiker.
Then we learn that a serial killer is on the loose.
Implications are made about the two men: the older one (the driver) is implied to be the thief, while the younger one is implied to be the killer. These turn out to be wrong though as it's the other way around.
There is a scene with a poker game between the two and the money that has been stolen, in this scene it is implied that the older one lost a lot of money to the younger one but later on (as mentioned above) it turns out it was the other way around.

I only saw the movie once on video years ago so I don't really remember anything useful.

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-17T02:16:00

2008-07-17T06:17:51Z

It's a movie.

It was about some kid who goes into some magical kingdom/land and there are these goatmen (they might not be goatmen, in my memory they resemble the goatmen from Diablo). They had their own elements (there were five...earth, fire, water, wind, metal? i don't remember. they each had weapons too). They save the kid from some bad guys and I can't really remember what happens in the rest of the movie.

anything? :\

EDIT: found it http://bbs.imdb.com/title/tt0120479/
:D

whatwasthatone @ 2008-07-16T23:39:00

2008-07-17T04:44:17Z

I'm thinking of a movie. Probably a popular one, but I don't know. I only remember this one scene.

It's dark, and it takes place in a city. A guy who I think might be the main character walks by, and a random man stops him and shows him a huge wad of money and says something like "look at all this money", or challenges him to a bet or offers to pay him with it or something. The first guy then says "How do I know that's not a bunch of ones wrapped in a twenty?"

I can't remember the scene exactly, I just remember the money. I think it might have been kind of an important moment, or took place during an important moment, even though it was very short. Can anyone help me? :(

rap song?

2008-07-17T02:10:07Z

what was that one rap song where the lyrics are "well i'm only in town for the night! for the night?"

it's driving me nuts! thanks for any help!

Mystery Song

2008-07-17T01:55:16Z

This has been an ongoing mystery for YEARS now. My husband got this song from somewhere but somehow the file was truncated so he only has part of the song, and no info about who did it or what the song title is. It's instrumental, so I can't look up the lyrics.

The song clip is here - it's the first one, labeled "Untitled" (obviously).

If anyone can tell me what this is, I'll love you forever.

Edit: It's Фантомас by Маша и Медведи. Thanks, oltri!

Song in a tv ad and another "classic song"

2008-07-17T01:07:22Z

I was wondering if anyone knew what the song that plays during the current tv ads for the upcoming season of Bones is? I think it's a Jamaican singer but I'm not sure. I would google it but I haven't been able to catch what is actually being sung. I'm in the U.S. if it helps any.

For the second one, I'm wondering who sings a version of the song, Can't Help Falling in Love. The singer I'm looking for is male and I think he was Jamaican but I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure he was foreign at least. The version I'm looking for is not the A*Teens version, I have that and that one has two girls and two guys singing. I tried google and was unable to find anything.

Thanks for advance for your help.

Edit: Second one solved. It's UB40