Various items missing from the Internet.

[Pseudopath]

That and "You've got a friend in Max the Lion" for Psuedopath.

Thanks for remembering, non capisco. I did actually email Wall's again a couple of months back, but didn't even get a reply this time. It must exist somewhere. Fortunately, someone posted this on eBay a few years back which I occasionally visit to remind myself it wasn't all some psychotic hallucination:

[Rizla]

Song called City Girl by Vote Show Pony, it was on Adam and Joe's Coke new music podcast in the mid 00's. Short live clip here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yF4qvKYsEU but nothing more.

[touchingcloth]

Just found a very small version of that The Parole Officer poster on my external hard drive, it's not great quality though unfortunately.

I reckon someone could grab the image of Coogan in hi res from a different source, and then just photoshop the text in. It'd look identical, so come on, 'shoppers, people have been waiting for more than five years.

[Marner and Me]

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[Marner and Me]

Decent streaming free porn anymore

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[Small Man Big Horse]

Also if Small Man Big Horse is still after Doomlord II five years after he originally asked, I think there's a complete run of eighties Eagle on this site:

https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/eagle-2nd-serie-1982-1984/

That's very thoughtful of you but I discovered that site a little while ago. It is a bloody amazing place though, and packed full of nostalgic gems, and everyone should check it out.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Does anyone know a site that has viewable (pdf?) copies of Record Collector Magazine?
Alternately if anyone has any issues from 229-238 (1998/99) and wouldn't mind looking something up for me, send me a pm.

[ElTwopo]

Dunno if these were subsequently found from previous pages, but...

1) Did someone order a Gutbuster?: https://youtu.be/Degyg1sqWHs?t=590

2) Phil and Ian doing 'Born to Run': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUNYTI5qXtM

[notjosh]

The lyrics to Toothbrush by Roots Manuva.

Sounds incredible, but I've been looking for ten years now and they don't exist.

"Contracts with in-kings, tis either in-thing, son of the zing-zings"? Fucked if I know what he's actually trying to say.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Funny, I was thinking of posting a similar thread in Picture Box... I have been unable to find any of the following:

Scouse from Neighbours. He was only in two episodes and yet everyone remembers him, so appalling was his attempt at the Liverpool accent... and yet it seems no-one managed to record his appalling attempt for posterity.

I'd love to find footage of the famous Scouse from Neighbours, if only to ponder once again the mystery of why the writers thought the way to jump on the Oasis bandwagon was to feature an enigmatic Scouser with a helmet hairdo and an accent that's never been traced to any known civilisation.

However, with a script like this, they were on to a sure fire winner (and possibly even inspired the White Stripes guitar/drums duo phenomenon):

Stonie and Scouse are having a jam session in the lounge room on drums and guitar! When they finish, Scouse tells Stonie that they should take the music scene by storm! Stonie comments that there aren't too many bands with just guitars and drums, but Scouse points out that that's what makes them so cool! He adds that all they need to start is one venue: a pub or something. Stonie declares delightedly:

STONIE: I've got it! I've got the pub!
SCOUSE: Stonie, man, we'll bring the house down!
At that moment, the two of them hear a rumbling from above! Scouse comments that he didn't mean right *now*!

I managed to glean the above information and stills from here: http://www.neighboursepisodes.com/index.php?year=1996&episode=2676  - episode 2676 from 1996, aired in the UK on Valentine's Day 1997.  Unlike other classic Erinsborough moments like Bouncer's dream, it seems, however, that it must remain but a distant and ineffably fragrant memory.

[Famous Mortimer]

Does anyone know a site that has viewable (pdf?) copies of Record Collector Magazine?
Alternately if anyone has any issues from 229-238 (1998/99) and wouldn't mind looking something up for me, send me a pm.

I know it's not what you're after, but you do appear able to buy the entirety of 1998's issues for under a tenner.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/vintage-Record-Collector-magazines-job-lot-12-issues-from-Jan-to-Dec-1998/283936203327

[Pseudopath]

Pay it forward...

Haha! I remember Max The Lion. They were really nice as well, if you could get past the embarrassing social stigma of having to go up and ask for one.

There's another advert I've never been able to track down from childhood, which was for a brand of meatballs featuring a character called Malcolm Meatballhead. The "plot" of the advert was that Malcolm has been invited to a schoolfriend's house for tea, but is horrified to discover the boy's mother has rather tactlessly served him a plate of delicious meatballs, causing him to panic and exit through a wall in true Loony Tunes fashion.

I only remember this because a lad I knew at school used to make me piss myself laughing by doing an impression of the bizarrely shrill-voiced mum. "I HOPE YOU LIKE THEM, MALCOLM MEATBALLHEAD! THEY'RE JOHN'S FAVOURITE! OOOOOH, MAYBE HE DIDN'T LIKE PEEEEEEEEEEEAS!"

Here you go, Phil_A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-2DR3sybU

[Sin Agog]

Every six months or so I run a search for an ebook of Casanova's Icosameron, about a brother and sister called Edward and Elizabeth who stumble across an underground kingdom called Megamicres of Protocosmos, discover a load of flying horses, invent the telegraph, then shag a lot and start a new kingdom where shagging your sister is compulsory, and every six months or so I'm disappointed.

[Pseudopath]

Every six months or so I run a search for an ebook of Casanova's Icosameron, about a brother and sister called Edward and Elizabeth who stumble across an underground kingdom called Megamicres of Protocosmos, discover a load of flying horses, invent the telegraph, then shag a lot and start a new kingdom where shagging your sister is compulsory, and every six months or so I'm disappointed.

If you can read French, the whole book is up on BnF's digital library. Here's the first volume: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k101924f. The other parts can be found on this page.

[Non Stop Dancer]

Dunno if these were subsequently found from previous pages, but...

1) Did someone order a Gutbuster?: https://youtu.be/Degyg1sqWHs?t=590

Bloody hell, there it is! Wasn't it Serge who was looking for that? Shame he never got to see it if so.

[Pseudopath]

Bloody hell, there it is! Wasn't it Serge who was looking for that? Shame he never got to see it if so.

No...it was non capisco: https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,14704.msg901397.html#msg901397

Pretty sure the linked video must be edited as the fabled gutbuster scene isn't anywhere near as drawn-out as everybody remembers. Even I vaguely recall the camera cutting between Grant, Phil and a clearly-struggling Steve for what seemed like 10 minutes. You don't even see the food in that clip.

[Sin Agog]

If you can read French, the whole book is up on BnF's digital library. Here's the first volume: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k101924f. The other parts can be found on this page.

Used to be able to after I was thrown into French immersion school in Canada as a kid, but I never kept it up enough when I got back.  Cheers anyway!

[non capisco]

No...it was non capisco: https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,14704.msg901397.html#msg901397

Pretty sure the linked video must be edited as the fabled gutbuster scene isn't anywhere near as drawn-out as everybody remembers. Even I vaguely recall the camera cutting between Grant, Phil and a clearly-struggling Steve for what seemed like 10 minutes. You don't even see the food in that clip.

Precisely. I'm not having it that that was it! I'm reluctantly prepared to concede that it probably didn't play out in real time and there almost certainly wasn't "weird pixie music" playing over the top of this would-be avant garde wordless sequence as my mate Ruaraidh remembers it. Never the less you definitely saw them actually eating it and Phil Mitchell 100 per cent said "Gor, I could 'ave anuvva wunna them, bruv!"

I can't present this to Ruaraidh as "proof", it would be a crushing anti-climax entirely worthy of this wretched year. As far as I'm concerned the 'Gutbuster' hunt CONTINUES. I'm like him out of 'Memento', I never really want the mystery to be solved.

[non capisco]

I bloody love this thread, by the way.

[Pseudopath]

Just returned from another fruitless search for the elusive Max The Lion, but did come across this 1991 pricing poster for Wall's Irish sister brand HB. Look who's decided to show his face (click for embiggenment):



It seems that, by this point, his fabled Banana Choc and Caramel Choc dairy milk ices were well-and-truly defunct and he'd been relegated to acting as some kind of catch-all sub-brand for HB's cheapest lollies, so I'm guessing his heyday must have been the summer of 1990 (or possibly 1989).

Don't remember Golly Bars at all, but it looks like they wisely repackaged them around 1993:

[olliebean]

£1.70 for a Viennetta?! That's more than they cost now!

[buzby]

Going all the way back to the first page of the thread:

Circa 1980 I had a rocket capsule tent with inflatable tubes instead of poles and a printed interior adorned with numerous dials, buttons, levers. It had a silver finish and was bloody beautiful - even more so with these 36 year old eyes.

A few years ago I wanted to buy one - it seems as though the internet has no idea what I'm talking about.

It was completely silver (apart from painted on the controls), had inflatable tubes instead of poles, was like a taller, narrower, truncated, square bottomed pyramid in shape and was made completely out of the inflatable LiLo plastic that made all that early 80s child mop hair stand on end.

Made by DekkerToys, the image is from page 218 of the 1982 Argos Spring/Summer catalogue (it's first appearance):
https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argos-no17-1982-springsummer
It was also in the Autumn winter catalogue of that year (page 134 in the link, actually on page 268)
https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argos-no18-1982-autumnwinter
The inflatable frame must have had either production or reliability issues, as by Spring/Summer 1983 it was changed to have a conventional pole frame:

The pole-framed version disappeared out of the catalogue by Autumn/Winter 1985. The inflatable one was a one-year-only deal, so good luck on ever finding one (if you are still looking 7 years later).

Live Into '85. Infamously disastrous BBC Hogmany broadcast from the Gleneagles Hotel . I would love to see this in full.

The frustrating thing is there did used to be footage online - specifically Tom O'Connor introducing blow-dried Samba murderers Modern Romance. So someone had a tape of the show at some point. And apparently lots of it was featured on a 2008 documentary called Hogmany On TV but I can't find this anywhere either.

I'm sure some clips of that cropped up in TV Hell too?

[BlodwynPig]

£1.70 for a Viennetta?! That's more than they cost now!

you see the choice back then...same with pop, massive variety and unusual flavours/designs. Now its very homogenised and the main diversity is big brand cloning - mars bars -> mars ice cream. Its shit and I was railing against this a decade ago.

[Phil_A]

Pay it forward...

Here you go, Phil_A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-2DR3sybU

Excellent, thank-you! I'm surprised how well I remembered it.

Now I just need someone to find the terrifying Cartoonies ad that used to air on Sunday mornings on Channel 4 around the time of Sharkey & George etc (the one with various different characters all with those horrible pop-out cartoon eyeballs like Judge Doom, and the jingle that goes "It's a biccie, choc-a-licky, lotsa loonies, COR, CARTOONIES!")

[thecuriousorange]

I remember an N64 magazine talking about a band with a music video based on the popular Goldeneye game. They had a screenshot from this music video, which I think featured the band re-enacting the split-screen multiplayer mode. I have no idea what the band was called, which has made it very difficult to Google. Does anybody know what this was?

[Pseudopath]

Sounds like you're looking for Shyne Factory - Bring Me Down.

[Famous Mortimer]

Several N64 magazines are available to read in their entirety at https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22N64%22 . Not sure if it's the one you want, but you never know. I once spent a fun few days looking through every issue of C&VG for a stupid proto-meme joke my friend cut out of a magazine when we were kids, and was part of our language for years.

EDIT: beaten to it!

[abobo]

Any episodes of Murun Buchstansangur

[Pseudopath]

Any episodes of Murun Buchstansangur

Did you even check YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1fZRn8TolU&list=PLb9OIMiFx25TzeEjlAdEOfiQFsz1jlTXX

[abobo]

Did you even check YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1fZRn8TolU&list=PLb9OIMiFx25TzeEjlAdEOfiQFsz1jlTXX

Yes went through them pretty quickly. Apparently there was 52 episodes