I'm sick and in bed and bored out of my gourd. Recommend guilty pleasure-type movies for me! Bonus points for government conspiracy / mysteries.
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posted by custard heart
on Nov 5, 2011 -
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What medical problem did I experience I few years ago? It baffled the doctors at the time - can you diagnose it now?
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posted by cincinnatus c
on Nov 3, 2011 -
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I'm trying to track down a series of mystery novels to surprise my mother with this Christmas.
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posted by joelhunt
on Oct 20, 2011 -
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I need some murder-themed props for a photo shoot, and need to obtain them by 9 a.m. tomorrow in the Portland, Ore., metro area. Help!
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posted by croutonsupafreak
on Oct 10, 2011 -
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One of my relatives has a secret military and/or intelligence job. Help me deduce what he does?
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posted by BlahLaLa
on Oct 7, 2011 -
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Longshot Music Filter: Please help me identify this (asian?) song from this short, poor quality recording.
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posted by forforf
on Sep 10, 2011 -
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What's the story behind
this odd photo? It appears to be from about the early 1960s. Men and women are gathered at the end of a table with various interesting expressions on their faces. A bare pair of mans legs lies on the table, but the remainder of the body (if any) is out of frame.
posted by exogenous
on Sep 9, 2011 -
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A friend sent this picture of a
strange plant that he is trying to identify. He found it growing at his campsite almost underneath a tent that he had left up. He has asked a lot of people if they know what it is and no one has identified it yet. The closest anyone has come up with is that it might possibly belong to the same family..Monotropaceae.. as Indian Pipe. He said that it grew in relative darkness under the edge of the tent, probably had next to no water, and sprouted during the heat of August. The location is near Julian, CA about an hour's drive from San Diego, and the tent site is in a tree-shaded canyon high in the Cuyamaca Mountians at 4000 ft. Any ideas?
posted by archaic
on Aug 24, 2011 -
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For the past two years, every (~8) time my mother and my immediate family (wife, three kids) have visited, my mother is struck with significant gastrointestinal distress somewhere between 12 and 84 hours later, most usually 60 hours (that is, 5 a.m. on the third morning), that lasts about two days. My mom is generally well and never suffers this ailment at any other time.
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posted by blueshammer
on Aug 18, 2011 -
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Give me examples from literature, film, and popular culture of stories that end without actually telling us what really happened, leaving us unable to resolve multiple plausible versions of events.
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posted by decathecting
on Aug 1, 2011 -
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Where did I read a story that included someone threatening to install DOS 1.0 on a robot/android/uncooperative computer?
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posted by Tesseractive
on Jul 27, 2011 -
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This is an item from my Grandparent's house that has been stored since the 1940s. All I know about it is that it was with other items which my Grandfather brought back with him from postwar Japan. An aunt of mine claims it's something that goes on your head, but I can't tell if it's even possible to take off the wooden stand. It is intricately detailed. It also has a small wooden case with a clear front, but the case is not especially detailed.
What is this item? Does it have value? (view
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posted by artlung
on Jul 18, 2011 -
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What-was-that-book-filter: 70's or 80's (?) heist (?) novel that involved shutting down L.A. by closing a couple of freeways and the central telephone switching system.
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posted by dersins
on Jul 15, 2011 -
10 answers
Can you identify the incredible conical, chocolate-dipped almond pastry I ate in Cleveland?
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posted by Scram
on Jul 6, 2011 -
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You are not my doctor, but I'm getting tiny mystery blisters on my skin, and I'm a lot more curious than I am concerned.
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posted by jedrek
on Jun 25, 2011 -
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I was with a person that had an older style cell phone, I think it was an LG, but not sure. He was showing me pictures, but I was distracted with a series of around 10-12 numbers that were displayed on the screen, to the left and top of the picture area (not inside). They kept changing about once a second, each digit with no regularity. One would think that it may have been GPS coordinates but the numbers were too random and not changing in any particular sequence. What the heck was that? A tracking device? When I asked him what it was he very quickly deflected the question.
posted by ~Sushma~
on Jun 15, 2011 -
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Seen at a tag sale: A small steel block, maybe 4x2x2" with a bunch of identical size holes drilled through it in all three directions. Is this a tool or guide of some sort?
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posted by smackfu
on Jun 13, 2011 -
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I'm looking for a Dorothy Sayers essay about a real-life murder case, but I can't recall the name of the suspect and my google-fu is failing me. Details inside.
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posted by Diablevert
on Jun 5, 2011 -
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I need mystery novel recommendations! Looking for good mysteries with unconventional characters as the lead.
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posted by echo target
on Jun 3, 2011 -
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My friend, Hilary asks, "Does anyone have any idea what
these are? They were found, strung together like this, in the pocket of a Japanese soldier's overcoat during WWII. My Mother's friend worked for the Red Cross during the war, and found them, and they eventually came to me. I'm guessing they are coral....but what was their use?"
posted by nickyskye
on May 26, 2011 -
9 answers
Help me identify this mystery song that played on my iPhone so I don't think I'm crazy.
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posted by xtine
on May 19, 2011 -
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I'm looking for "manor house" mystery novels, that take place in a single location (including a manor house, but variety would be appreciated), and involve tracking down a killer.
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posted by codacorolla
on May 15, 2011 -
36 answers
Brooklynfilter: What are these red-and-white boxes on the corner of Smith and Union Streets?
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posted by andromache
on May 12, 2011 -
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Music video identification help! Poolside, dancing, joy, and a bare breast or two. Probably from the 80s or early 90s.
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posted by gursky
on May 10, 2011 -
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Where is the best place to start reading Agatha Christie novels? Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple?
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posted by Fizz
on Mar 31, 2011 -
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Why would someone take the owners manual out of my car while other gadgets behind?
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posted by zeoslap
on Mar 14, 2011 -
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