Phone mystery: "The number you have reached is temporarily disconnected" -- except it's not!
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posted by mothershock
on Mar 6, 2009 -
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So I recently came to the end of correcting all the ID3 tags on my massive music collection. The last 14 or so took me more time than I'm willing to admit to track down information on. But I knew at the end which two would remain.
I've had these two songs in my collection for at least a decade now, and every time I've tried to find any information on the song titles, artist, or even lyrics, I've turned up nothing. I've tried all kinds of tricks I know for finding even the most obscure information on the internet, but still nothing. As a firm believer that anything which exists can be found on the internet, I find myself troubled that these songs, which clearly exist, apparently do not.
Help me out, and try to cure my madness?
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posted by monkeyagent
on Mar 5, 2009 -
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Nero Wolfe Filter: Give me your choices for best Nero Wolfe novels. I recently finished my first Wolfe mystery --
Some Buried Caesar -- and of course I need more. Here's the thing: I refuse to let myself get obsessed. There is no way I am going to allow myself to plow through all 30-plus novels and god knows how many short stories.
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posted by dzot
on Feb 24, 2009 -
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Help me figure out what book this person is reading based on the cover, a mostly obscured title, and guesstimate of letters in the author's last name.
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posted by zoomorphic
on Feb 24, 2009 -
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A mysterious gray film/residue is appearing on all of the plastic in my apartment. What is going on?
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posted by prefpara
on Feb 17, 2009 -
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Help me remember the book series I loved as a kid. I can't even remember the genre, but I think it had sci-fi elements, and the kids possibly solved mysteries. I don't remember much, but I know one of the main characters was called Watch, because he always wore multiple watches.
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posted by spockette
on Feb 16, 2009 -
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Can anyone identify
this mysterious sea creature? My sister saw four of them swimming at the surface in Boca Raton, FL. They were undulating like squids; when contracted they look like black slugs, when stretched they look like that fellow in the photo. An entire crowd formed to watch, as they were so very weird.
posted by miffed
on Jan 22, 2009 -
7 answers
Where can I find out more about the investigation techniques used by private investigators?
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posted by reenum
on Jan 19, 2009 -
9 answers
Who painted the actual paintings (nudes, mostly) credited to the character Adele Lack in the movie Synecdoche, New York?
posted by slappy_pinchbottom
on Jan 15, 2009 -
3 answers
Tonight I was watching the
Jonathan Creek episode titled "Gallows Gate". A man appears to die when he jumps out of a second story window but is later seen murdering his ex-girl friend. I know that I read this story in a book (without the magician elements of Jonathan Creek) but I can't remember the book or the detective. Help me sleep tonight by identifying this book
posted by metahawk
on Jan 14, 2009 -
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Anyone know
this song? Sorry, I only have that excerpt.) Sounds like a 1960s folk-pop tune. In case you don't feel like downloading it, the lyrics are along these lines:
I gotta get the world off my back / Pretty soon I'm gonna crack / so I gotta get the world offa my back somehow ... I grew up and looked around me and I saw that the world was in a mess / thousands of hungry people, children starving in wars, injustice, and everybody kept picking on me ...
I had no luck searching with the lyrics online. Thanks for any help you can provide!
posted by ktoad
on Jan 8, 2009 -
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My Husband and I previewed a CD on display at Ear X-tacy in Louisville this weekend, vowed to remember the name of the artist, then promptly forgot it! We're from out of town. Here's what we (possibly inaccurately) remember: "-landia" was in the CD title. The CD cover was grey / B&W with a graphic design on the front, the music was electronica / orchestral / melodic. I remember thinking the artist might be icelandic / scandinavian from a quick glance at the artist's name, etc.
posted by FortyT-wo
on Dec 29, 2008 -
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Mystery Mailbox Key: I found a strange key in my mailbox, and another arrived at a friend's house nearby. What's going on?
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posted by craven_morhead
on Dec 17, 2008 -
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What is the latest and greatest murder mystery series or procedural series on British TV that I can get on DVD for my Canadian husband?
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posted by Toto_tot
on Dec 2, 2008 -
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I'm looking for a short mystery stories book I read in a library. One of the stories is where a character comes up a flight of stairs and thinks he sees something (a murder?) in someone's apartment, but it's actually some kind of mirrored reflection of a mirrored reflection of someone through a window across the street. The book/collection was published before 1996 and if I remember correctly, was all short story mysteries of 5 to 20 pages.
posted by cashman
on Nov 25, 2008 -
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Can anyone tell me what
this is? if you wouldnt mind having a look see i would be much obliged
posted by chelegonian
on Nov 4, 2008 -
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A few years ago at a restaurant in a small Southern town, I witnessed a strange event involving a group of serious-looking elderly men, a bunch of coins, and a mysterious contraption…
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posted by Wroksie
on Oct 29, 2008 -
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Has any member of the hivemind had any success using the many techniques and/or attitudes featured on shows like "The Pick up Artist" or books like Neil Strauss' "the Game" and "Rules of the Game"?
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posted by Oneirokritikos
on Oct 20, 2008 -
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Name that series of myster books! These books would have been found in Australian primary schools, any clues appreciated!
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posted by tomble
on Oct 16, 2008 -
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Help me identify this short film. A man was having dinner in a big table when he notices the figure of an old lady through the shadows of the room next to where he was eating. Although there were more people with him he was the only one that saw her. When he finished he asks one of the servants if there was an old woman working in the house. He is told that indeed there was a lady with his description but that she had died earlier that day.
posted by alasdefuego
on Oct 8, 2008 -
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I will be traveling through Toronto (from Detroit area) on the way to Muskoka soon and I am looking for some good bookstores in the region. I am interested in everything, but I really have a yen for good mystery and crime fiction.
Any ideas?
posted by cows of industry
on Oct 1, 2008 -
10 answers
Need help identifying some places (and maybe even people?) in a bunch of old slides I found at a thrift shop.
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posted by Venadium
on Sep 27, 2008 -
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Help me identify a peach! I work for an orchard. We planted what we were sold as doughnut peach trees but they're not bearing doughnut peaches; they're bearing mystery peaches.
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posted by veggieboy
on Aug 26, 2008 -
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What is
this song? Sharon Jones? Alice Russell? Googling lyrics yields nothing, but AskMe has to know...Obviously I need an iPhone with Listen.
posted by deliriouscool
on Aug 21, 2008 -
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Can you recommend some good mystery novels for me to read? The last mystery novels I read that I really liked were the Hilary Tamar series by Sarah Caudwell. I liked those because they were fairly light and not gory. But I especially liked them because the dialogue/narration was sharp, witty, and wry. What are some other mystery writers who write like this?
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posted by bluefly
on Jul 25, 2008 -
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Do you remember this mid- to late-80s Nickelodeon made-for-tv movie? "Give me back my button!"
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posted by MaddyRex
on Jul 21, 2008 -
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How can I determine, with access to limited biological data, if my father is not who I thought he was?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 5, 2008 -
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