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Song with "shu-shook" in the chorus Music
This song from The '90s that was on the radio a lot.Male singer, genre maybe rock? The main think I remember is in the chorus someone says the "word" "shu-shook" repeatedly. The rest of the chorus (and the song in general) was real words, but I can't remember any to look up
Song that says "As the day fades away" Music
There was this song I first heard on the radio in 1997. I would call it smooth jazz, or maybe soft rock. It had a female singer singing "As The Day Fades Away", which I'm pretty sure was the only lyrics in the song (at least I don't remember any others.)
Taunting someone with chicken clucking to call them a coward
What is the trope when someone imitates a chicken's clucking to call someone a coward (if it even is a legit trope)?
Edited by arisbochMan jumps, son ceases to exist, short horror/sci fi story from a collection (still unsolved!) Literature
This is all I know:
1. Someone here said that they remember reading something like this. They cannot remember basically anything, except that the cover had a monochrome appearance, largely white with some design in the middle in darker color, covered about a quarter to a third of the cover, and was centered.
2. Someone on Yahoo answers said that Joe Hill (author of Dark Carousel) writes these type of stories.
3. I read this on a horror collection I downloaded in 2015-2017, it was fairly new then. I have tried searching on my Kindle and found nothing.
4. This occurs in the story. A man jumps off a building or balcony (quite possibly suicide), I think a father. The mother and son (how old he was I am not entirely sure) were watching news. Suddenly, the son's body slowly disappears, first I think his legs, then his arms, as this happens, his mother screams, "Eli (I think that was his name), look down at yourself ..." He was ceasing to exist. I cannot remember the ending, but knowing how these stories turn out, I think it was not a happy one.
5. I thought it was the collection, "the Seer of Possibilities - And Other Disturbing Tales" by Thomas O or "Choose Your Doom: Collected Short Stories - Picking Stories for the Apocalypse." Apocalypse seems quite familiar for some reason. Something is telling me that this is from one of the Twisted Endings books by author Timothy D Mclendon, but unfortunately, though I downloaded the entire volumes from Amazon, they were returned, for some reason, they are currently unavailable. I will check E-bay.
6. I asked this (of course here), Reedit, Booksleuth, Yahoo Answers, Do You Remember.co.uk, three horror forums, and I sent this in to my local library. The librarian who was probably the most helpful of anyone, asked this approximately to 500 librarians and not one knew.
Now, I know this is very vague, but I know this must seem familiar to at least someone here, I know tons read horror, and searching several of the queries, people here are quite helpful and have made tons of guesses, and half even led to correct answers, and the queries are even vague. Now, only TWO people have helped, and I wish more would, the majority of the responses are bumps. This is discouraging and I do not know who else to ask. I will find this out by myself if I have to, but as I said, I know several of you read horror, and this must ring bells for someone here. PLEASE HELP.
Edited by thestormtrooper(SOLVED) A play about a town where Sunday repeated over and over again Literature
When I was in… I think 8th grade, I was homeschooled with the A Beka curriculum, and it came with a literature book that I enjoyed leafing through- it contained many excerpts from such classics as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Adrift on an Ice-pan” and “Mrs. Ching”, but one I remember in particular that I haven’t been able to find anywhere was a transcript for a play
In the play, there’s a little town where everyone is written with a distinct dialect- I seem to remember them having Irish accents or something along those lines? The play opens with a man doing his job of knocking on everyone’s windows to wake them up or something like that, and he’s telling everyone that he has a strong feeling it’s Sunday again- yesterday was Sunday, but he can’t shake the feeling that somehow Sunday is repeating itself
The town ends up deciding to go along with it and do all the things they would normally do on a Sunday- one thing I remember is that the pastor at the local church decides to preach the same sermon he did yesterday, since it’s the same day all over again anyway
The results are quite positive- one delighted woman says that she was able to understand the sermon better the second time around, and after a few days or so of reliving the same Sunday, a big strong man shows everyone how much stronger he’s gotten from all these days of being able to have a day of rest instead of working himself to the bone, and he demonstrates this by bending a penny with only his two fingers
This goes on for a while, until finally the government gets involved for some reason that I forget- the governor or king or whoever is fed up with all this nonsense, and he consults some sort of calendar or something to prove to everyone that time has in fact passed (I think I remember him relaying the information by telephone, but I’m not sure) and he declares what day it is, but then someone points out what day it will be tomorrow… and the town happily declares “It’ll be Sunday!” And that’s about where the play ends
Nothing I search turns up any results, and I can’t remember the title or character names (though I feel like the man knocking on windows was named Cam or Callum or something similar?) and while I was able to find a similar book on the Internet Archive with many of the excerpts I remember, the play wasn’t in there, so maybe I had a different edition? I’d love to find that play again, it was quite memorable
Edited by ArtsyDreamerpop up book thats like weirdly grim Literature
it was like a pop up book with a lot of purple and black and there was like a brother and a sister and there was one page with a really really tall house. anyone know this?
Movie/show where a mentor withholds a technique
The quote is something like: "I know X ways to kill a man, I shall teach you X-1 in case I need to use that one on you someday"
I cannot remember the exact numbers which I think is why it's proving Un-Googleable (I'm getting answers to math questions and Bible verses). I feel like I've seen it imitated/parodied as well, but I'd like to find the original source of the quote. (Though if you know one of those works, feel free to share it since we might be able to trace it back to the original.) TIA!
Edit - Some additional research turned up that the first part of the line originally came from The Forever War - "Tonight, we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." I'd really like to find the first source to use the latter "...I'll teach you X-1 in case I need to use it on you someday" part.
Edit 2 - Found one of the parodies here, a Robot Chicken sketch at 0:55. But what is that originally from? It's infuriating!
Edited by BeerBaronhorror movie starting with a honeymoon and a piano falls on a lady Film
my coworker is trying to remember a horror movie that begins with a couple on a honeymoon trip. the husband is worried that he left the stove on at home, but his wife reassures him that everything's alright. then a piano falls on the wife. is this familiar to anyone?
Edited by Professional_NoobPixeline Videogame
Played the first two games in the series as a kid. A cherry, feminine little girl with (in the Norwegian dub, at least) weird voice teaches kids about stuff in various screens and games. Also remember some of the songs (especially the bicycle one from the second game). An edutainment game series from the mid-90's from Denmark, similar to the edutainment games from America.
desert island, angry indigenous kid, and some kind of creature Western Animation
i was writing stuff and got reminded of this show i watched as a kid!
it was a short-form cartoon about a kid who lived with some kind of creature on a desert island. the kid might've looked like one of 'em Hollywood Natives and had dark skin and curly hair that went spiky whenever they got mad, while i don’t remember anything about the creature other than how the kid got mad at them often. characters were Speaking Simlish. i distinctly remember the kid yelling something that sounded like "hey! chobulay babulay!" at the creature in one episode bc it was a sort of inside joke among my family.
despite the similar theme of fantasy indigenous tribes, it isn't Qumi-Qumi
Edited by noodlesnook18th century political cartoon with a Black Comedy Rape punchline Print Comic
I remember coming across a late 18th/early 19th century political cartoon, possibly around the time of the Napoleonic wars. I wanna say it was by James Gillray, or at least a similar artist from the same time period.
It featured two soldiers, two young woman, and an old woman (their mother or grandmother), with dialogue something to the effect of:
I was trying to find it as an example for Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?, but no matter what combination of words I searched for, I couldn't find it.
Edited by Admiralakbar1Stage Play
I saw this in the Village Theater around 2004-06. I cannot remember much, but this. A young man lives with his mother. A young woman with her father. They share a very similar relationship with their respective parent. The man and woman fall in love, and the woman points out the similar parent-offspring relationship, 'just as I have or am with my father, you are with your mother.'
I cannot remember what type of musical it was (if it was, it might have been a play), probably a drama. The only scene I can recall was one where the son was with I think with the woman or his mother, who went up the stairs, got mad about something, and threw the book downstairs from the railing.
I am sorry, this is not much to go on, but hopefully this will spark some ideas. Thank you guys.
Edited by thestormtrooperOdd memory of an movie ad on the radio. Film
This is probably gonna be a hard one but when I was a little kid (this would be about late 80s/early 90s) I was in the car with my dad and this scary ad for a movie came on. All I remember for sure is hearing some woman screaming something like "We have to escape"! At the time I asked my dad why she was screaming like that and he said something like "This bad guy showed up at her house and had some kind of monster with him". Seeing as I was a little kid he might have been lying to me for some reason (e.g. maybe the bad guy was really a Serial Rapist or something and he didn't want to tell me about that sort of thing), but whatever it is, I'm still curious. I know this is really vague, but maybe someone can figure it out.
Serena and Lucky (horse girl graphic novel)? Print Comic
The mother horse dies in childbirth and the baby horse has to be sold because the farm is shutting down. There's a recurring thing about their noses being soft as velvet.
Does anybody else remember this print comic? Thanks for reading.
Edit to Add: Was in circulation in the 1990s.
Edited by Saint-StarflickerGuy says "that would be ridiculous" with a lisp Live Action TV
Alright, this is random as hell and not very specific at all but it popped into my head last night and it's driving me crazy that I can't figure out what it is.
It's definitely live action, I think TV, and made in the last 10ish years. I don't remember what it is or any of the context, all I remember is a white middle aged man (I think he's bald) with a lisp saying "hi kids!" and something like "that's ridiculous" or "that would be ridiculous". But he says "ridic-oh-luss" not "ridic-you-luss". And he has a slight southern accent I think. I was trying to remember any details, any at all, but all I know is that he was talking to kids. I can't even remember if there were any kids there or if he was directly addressing the audience. I think it wasn't a straight forward kids show, it was a parody of kids shows or something? This is so vague, I'm sorry, but if anyone has any ideas please let me know.
No Title Anime
it wasnt an anime as its known now but an animated kids show it was set around a bunch of kids in the medieval time in a renaissance type castle the characters that i remember where a fat girl with ginger hair that spoke like the looney toons tasmanian devil another girl who was the daughter of the king but liked hanging out with these peasants a bald kid who seemed to be the butt of all the jokes and a skinny old man who was always tied up in a jail cell
i remember one episode in particular where to impress her dad the main girl i mentioned before dressed the bald kid up as an eagle in the competition being held at some point the kid was offered a worm he had to eat and the weird girl previously mentioned ate one too because why not
was similar to a rugrats type style in a way
i watched this show when i was young in 2010/11
Edited by GobononoBug zapper Western Animation
From an animated program, not sure if Western or Anime: A bunch of characters are trekking through the dense jungle. They are annoyed by swarms of bugs, but press on. One of the characters, who had magic powers or energy powers or something of the like, snaps their fingers or does a similar gesture, and all the bugs around them briefly flash as they are hit with energy, before falling to the ground, dead.
Movie Where Man gets sent to life in prison for attacking his Wife's murderer Film
I saw this video on Facebook of a movie where a man gets life in prison for attacking the man that killed his wife, Grey.
All I know is that the guy who killed the wife is named Kovic...I don't know the title though.