Help me identify this 8-bit recording! Likely from a classic video or arcade game, but I can't track it down.
Here's the link.
posted by jpcody
on Oct 16, 2010 -
3 answers
Science Fiction character identification: Which SF story had a sort of Friar Tuck like character who followed all faiths simultaneously and had the symbols for multiple world religions hung around his neck?
posted by Artw
on Sep 29, 2010 -
14 answers
Can anyone help me identify this song, given a description of the first 45ish seconds (no lyrics)?
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posted by mekily
on Sep 27, 2010 -
4 answers
Please help me identify a book - I've tried Google so many times, it suspects I'm an automated robot
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posted by sleepcrime
on Sep 22, 2010 -
7 answers
What is this raptor I hear every morning? I'm in Plymouth, MA near a large lake. It's not an osprey or bald eagle (I listened to all the raptors at
All About Birds), and unfortunately I have only seen it once (and not very well) so ID'ing it by sound is my only option. The problem is that it sounds like a Harris's Hawk, which only lives in the Southwest.
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posted by nekton
on Sep 21, 2010 -
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Calling upon the Hive Mind to once again exercise its SUPER DEADLY NINJA POWERS and identify another obscure, barely-remembered book! This time, it's an ancient kids' book.
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posted by julthumbscrew
on Sep 21, 2010 -
5 answers
I found this framed photo at a thrift store. The subject looks very familiar, but I can't place him. Who is he?
http://imgur.com/yl6nW
posted by wsg
on Sep 18, 2010 -
15 answers
Please help me find a song played before the Pavement concert in St. Paul last night! Byrdsy jangle pop with a chorus of "See you tonight" repeated.
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posted by punchdrunkhistory
on Sep 13, 2010 -
6 answers
Help me figure out the song that has been stuck in my head! I can't remember the title/composer at all, bugging me all day, etc. I managed to
record a few notes.
posted by Xere
on Sep 12, 2010 -
6 answers
Can anyone help me identify these four patches that I picked up traveling in Europe two decades ago?
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posted by el_lupino
on Sep 4, 2010 -
10 answers
Identify-this-song-filter: Looking for a recent pop song, which is similar in style and released within a year or two to Chris Brown's Forever.
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posted by moiraine
on Sep 3, 2010 -
4 answers
Looking for the name of a paperback fantasy novel I read in the very late 80s or early 90s. It involved conjuring demons, talismans, a mirror world, and other stuff.
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posted by komara
on Sep 3, 2010 -
21 answers
Identify a Japanese film from the 60s or 70s taking place partially in NYC please.
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posted by Iteki
on Aug 28, 2010 -
4 answers
Help my friend identify this white cloudy thing photographed in a forest in British Columbia!
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posted by carbide
on Aug 27, 2010 -
6 answers
I baked a cake yesterday. I put a shark on top. The shark looks familiar, like he's a character from something, but since any resemblance was accidental I can't place him. Please look at it and tell me what he's from.
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posted by phunniemee
on Aug 14, 2010 -
23 answers
I read this book in the 1970s or possibly the early 1980s. The story is set in medieval times, the main character is a girl and it has to do with damask roses (breeding or raising them?). There's more too it of course, but that's all I remember.
The book was a paperback and the cover had a full colour drawing of the girl on the front standing by some roses. I believe she's wearing a rose coloured
cotehardie or something similar. A rock wall or well may have also been in the background of the cover.
posted by deborah
on Aug 10, 2010 -
5 answers
Help me identify (and find a recording of?) an old Jewish comedy song: "When it's Rosh Hashana time in Dixieland..." thereby blowing my dad's mind in time for High Holidays.
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posted by escabeche
on Aug 6, 2010 -
18 answers
Help me identify a dimly remembered short story... A scientist has created or evolved a race of tiny super intelligent creatures. By setting cruel puzzles for them (such as a descending weight that threatens to crush them) he gets them to invent things for him, one of which was a super strong material made out of banana peel. It most likely ends badly for the scientist.
posted by Artw
on Aug 4, 2010 -
6 answers
When I was a boy, I read a true story about two prisoners who escaped from some kind of cave/prison. Can anyone help me identify it?
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posted by Alaska Jack
on Jul 20, 2010 -
5 answers
"Well, why didn't you just WANG YOUR WIENER?!?!" Utterly bizarre 1980s video-identification question follows.
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 7, 2010 -
2 answers
I'm trying to remember a story that involves finding a castle/king, and following the sound of a flute to get there.
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posted by niles
on Jul 5, 2010 -
4 answers
Help me identify
this coin which has what appears to be Arabic script on it and probably dates to the first half of the 20th century.
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posted by 256
on Jun 29, 2010 -
13 answers
Wat kind of bird could
this be? I saw it in my garden twice now, location is The Netherlands. Sadly I didn't get to take more/better pics.
posted by Ms. Next
on Jun 29, 2010 -
9 answers
Help me identify a movie from the late 1990s that I only know by the trailer, please.
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posted by komara
on Jun 27, 2010 -
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SongIDfilter: "This American Life" tv show, season 2 episode 2, "Two Wars": what is the song playing over the last 2.5 minutes or so, as the "Grassnost" story's family eats dinner?
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posted by so_gracefully
on Jun 26, 2010 -
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What is the name of this really disturbing science fiction short story? (potentially NSFW description)
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posted by brundlefly
on Jun 25, 2010 -
14 answers
What is this bug (from Western India)? I have two images sent to me by a friend:
one and
two. The bug was photographed in Western India.
posted by vidur
on Jun 24, 2010 -
6 answers
Help me remember this book (murder mystery) we read in grade school, with only vaguely remembered details (aka what askme does best)
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posted by chndrcks
on Jun 24, 2010 -
7 answers