The other day, my dad was talking about a friend who has an iPod Touch, and how he'd downloaded an app that allows him to use his iPod as a phone. I tried looking for it in the app store, but I've not been able to find it. I know it's not Skype, since he said the service was free. The name is something along the lines of "Knock". Know what it could be?

I caught a tiny bit of this music video when I was in a restaurant in Mexico a few days ago. It was on Telehit which I guess is like the MTV (when it used to play actualfax music videos) for Spanish music. The bit of the song I heard was in English and it was sung by a female. It was sort of electronic/trance-y, iirc. The video was sort of weird. There was a guy in this very odd white costume. He had a cape and was wearing some sort of a mask (at first I thought he was in a chicken costume) that covered his entire face and head. (I don't think he was wearing a shirt.) And he was walking around this field (?) with very green, sort of tall grass. There were also shots of an Asian girl in a pink/magenta dress walking around in a forest.

That's about all I saw of the video. I know it's very vague but I hope someone can help me identify this music video. It seemed kind of cool and I remember liking what little I heard of the song.

Thanks in advance!

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Quirky 30-something woman #1: When I was dating my ex-boyfriend I felt like I was smuggling drugs... 8 1/2 inches of them.
Quirky 30-something woman #2: Dude, he was smuggling drugs in his scary, scary beard.

--Starbucks

What's that website where I think you start off with a page about farms, and you try to type in as many things having to do with farms then when you complete enough you can move onto another page about religion and baseball and bands and stuff?

ETA: It's in a web format.

One final round-up of small, stray pieces of fic for the year. I need to do a better job of keeping track of non-FNFF comment fic next year. It's possible I left things about here.

Disclaimer: References to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual. Further, the second piece comes with an unspecified content warning.

1. untitled - keith & rachel
2. untitled - rachel
3. untitled - rachel/susan

( Comment fic pieces. )

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Woman to man she just met: I live in Brooklyn, and I'm on my way to see my man in the Bronx. My mother said to me, "must be some kinda love if you travel all the way to the Bronx for a man!"
Man: Uh-huh! That's right! It's got to be good lovin', too!
Woman: You know what I'm saying? Don't talk to me 'bout no headache, 'cause I can't do this everyday!

--1 Train

This is very vague but we read a poem in high school English class about a boy and a girl who are young and in love on a picnic or something about sunshine and flowers. It ends with the relationship ending and they grow apart or die or something. It was written by a man and I'm pretty sure it was American.

We read another poem about a woman who is grieving the death of her husband I think. I want to say the woman is Romanian or something like that. I think the poem centers around an article of clothing like a scarf or a body part.

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Professor: All the buildings in Florence are five stories high, because they were built before elevators, and that's how many stories you can walk up with groceries before you die.

--Fordham University

20-something tourist girl to family, about subway: It's like an elevator, but opposite.

--N Train

Bimbette: I, like, ran into them in the elevator and they, like, literally gang-banged me.

--Astoria

20-something woman: Do you think he ever found out I didn't fall down an elevator shaft?

--F Train

Probably about 3 years ago, I met someone once and we had a conversation about psychology. He had this book and it had a lot of small quiz's in it. You would answer small questions and it would then tell you something about yourself.. I would love to find a book like this, and also find out what its called.

EXAMPLE "If you saw an ex or one night stand you would a. b. or c. I picked wave and say hello" It then told me something like "You arent embarrassed to confront people whether they are your life time friend or a one night fling, you will always say hello" We didnt talk about it to much but it was always listed in questions of situations.
Does anyone know anything about this book or type of characterizing?
Xposted.

1.)  My sister swears that there was a pop/R&B song that came out fairly recently (?), perhaps done by a girl-group.  The song was sung to the tune of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."  She thinks the group may have been similar in sound to Destiny's Child, but she isn't sure.  This sounds vaguely familiar to me as well, but we've both searched and found nothing concrete.  Any ideas?


2.)  Does anyone know the original source for the following gif:





Many thank yous.

From the Edge of Love, which I can't wait to watch!

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Lady: So I do everything my friends do. She starting dating a Turkish guy, so so did I.

--Hookah Bar, Ave B & 6th St

Overheard by: HookahFanatic

Teenage girl to another: His name was "ingles," but he didn't know a single word of ingles. That's ironical.

--Bryant Park

Overheard by: Karishma Gurtu

Father to two young sons: There were 1.5 million Manhattan Indians, so only the Dutch could tell you what happened to them.

--Outside the Federal Reserve

20-something girl to friend: I think I must be French. It takes me like, five hours to finish a sandwich.

--Broadway & 39th St

Woman: At least the earrings weren't as expensive as a Chinese daughter.

--116th St & 8th

Overheard by: Matt & Stacy

The clip is an ad for Antidote by photographer Bell Soto. Can someone identify the song and the artist?



FOUND!

Scherza, infida - Ariodante --- Philippe Jaroussky

I am looking for the full name of the artist who did this painting. They did a few more that I've seen, all either 60's or 70's vintage art of cute kids with big eyes. They're signed "LEE" but I don't know if that's a first name, last name or what! I tried to scour the internet, but came up empty-handed.

I think they are probably ORIGINALLY from the 60's or 70's as opposed to new art that just "looks vintage". I also have seen one of a boy and a girl together, and then a boy by himself playing a guitar. If that helps. OMG PLEASE HELP ME OUT. Thank you. <3

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Tall thug to another: Yo,... I love jail food!

--Times Square

Overheard by: Never had it

Dad to overly excited daughter: Yes, you can tell your mom you went in the bouncy castle in front of the prison.

--Atlantic & Smith

Screaming four-year-old to mom: Are you going to put me in jail?

--Q Train

Young mother to baby, pinching his cheeks: Daddy's in prison! Prisonprisonprisonprisonprison!

--Jackson Heights, Queens

Overheard by: Giving up all hope Newsbunny

I remember hearing something about a computer program or website, in which you could upload a song and get transcribed sheet music. Does anyone know the details of this?

A while back in a community on livejournal, someone posted a clip from a video game which had been uploaded to youtube. Basically, you just had to walk through a hallway and climb down a ladder into a hole. However, there are mannequins everywhere, and whenever you turn your back on any of them there is a static like shuffling sort of noise, and when you turn back they're closer. & when you go down the ladder into the hole, if you look up, they're all leaning over the hole looking down at you.

Thankyou so much if anyone can help, I really wanna show my friend!

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Ponytailed girl on cell, excitedly: Maybe you have, like, bacterial vaginosis or something! Yeah! That would explain it. No, you don't wanna smell like cinnamon down there, cinnamon toast crotch!

--86th & Lexington

Girl, walking onto stinky train car: Oh, shit, yo! It smells like a whole mess of hot ass up in this piece.

--L Train

Loud singing teen, stopping in mid-song: Damn! Somebody smell like soup!

--F Train

Overheard by: bpm

Smelly woman on elevator: I'ma kick that man's butt. I don't smell that strong!

--Office Building, Harlem

Overheard by: Liz

Man: This place smells like venereal disease!

--Port Authority Subway Tunnel

Overheard by: Courtney

Guy on cell: Who knows what I can do now that I don't smell like dogshit. The sky is the limit. (pause) Yeah, no more living in fear!

--27th & 5th

I read House fanfiction, but this particular story has been eluding me. It's a slash fanfic, with either Foreman/House or Foreman/Chase. House (or Chase) has been hurting himself (being clumsy, knocking over things, getting cut w/ a scalpel, etc.) so that he can go to Foreman for band-aids, etc. In the end, Foreman says something along the lines of "Stop hurting yourself to see me."

I thought I bookmarked the story, but clearly did not. Thanks for your help!

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Theater geek: So I was looking at auditions for this post-apocalyptic drama, and the ad said, "we're looking for men, all shapes and sizes. Actually no, you have to be ridiculously skinny, totally emaciated, on the verge of death. And... oh yeah, you have to have stringy hair. And be really bony. And my dad said, "you definitely need to try out for this!"

--TKTS Booth, Times Square

Overheard by: Not Emaciated

Guy: No, I didn't do the graphics--I mean, the play's about Adam and Eve, but do they put naked people on the postcard to sell tickets? No, they have a cartoon of an apple. I don't understand.

--Minetta Lane Theater

Overheard by: Duncan Pflaster

Bathroom attendant at West Side Story: C'mon, people! Short line, long intermission! (toilet flushes) Hear that? That's music to somebody's bladder!

--Palace Theatre

Overheard by: Maggie

Audience member, at interval of Aida: Hey, this is better than Grease!

--Metropolitan Opera

Disgruntled usher: I swear by every god of Jupiter that these are your seats.

--The Ambassador Theatre, 49th & Broadway

Overheard by: The Moons of Jupiter Were Already Spoken For

Fandom: The Princess and the Frog
Title: But We're Gonna Be Someday
Rating: K+
Warnings: MAJOR SPOILERS!
Summary: Ray gets hopelessly lost.
Prompt: White

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Guy: Oh, man! It is not a good day to be my underwear!

--Wine Store, 75th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Raven

10-year-old to little brother: Hey! C'mere! You wanna play Captain Underpants?

--Brooklyn

Overheard by: dogboy

Guy on cell: I'm not paying her to smell your underwear!

--57th St & Broadway

Overheard by: Lagsalot

Loud older gentleman watching people at subway entrance: They don't wear brassieres anymore!

--23rd St & 6th Ave

Overheard by: Zombie Boyfriend

Older lady in funeral procession behind bag piper wearing kilt: I looked. He's wearing underpants.

--120th & Broadway

  When I was about 4-5, there was a TV show on ABC (Australia) where a magician- I think he called himself a mathmagician or something similar- who lived in a village did math problems based for older primary school/high school level students. I don't think it was made or produced in Australia, because sometimes he calculated things differently to the Australian curriculum. I have this show to thank for my exceptional algebra marks throughout my schooling and would like to find it for my cousins.

1. Does anyone else remember this television show for kids...it aired on Nick Jr., probably during the mid 90's, but I think the show itself was older than that. Anyways, I think it might have been like a Mr. Rogers type show, that took place in a castle/midievil town or city and followed the different inhabitants of the castle (who were all puppets, don't remember any people) and they managed to work reading, counting, etc. into the plotlines. The only thing I really remember was one part with two dragons (I think one was blue and one was pink?) and they wanted to eat worms or something and then it showed a bunch of multicolored worms on the screen and I think you were supposed to count them or something. Also I think there may have been parts where they showed animated shorts, I seem to remember one about a man finding a broken owl toy/statue in his garden and he took it inside and fixed it?


2. Does anyone know where any of these pictures are from?
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a few months ago, i saw a series of videos (webisodes?) on vimeo. the premise was that actors acted out real life (anonymous?) rants found, i think, on the internet. the videos were just of one person ranting on a white background, i think, and they were pretty well done/entertaining, imo :)

does anyone know what this is?

I'm looking for an old computer game. It starred a semi-anthropomorphic frog who was like a Knight? And you go to a castle and solve problems; one you had to "joust" but it would be little math problems and you had to choose the right answer to win, there was one about fractions. The thing that stuck with me though was the songs. One of them went something like "four squires sat in the dining hall. They had a big old pie, they all wanted it all." I have had this song stuck in my head on and off for like ten years. Someone please help me out! TIA.

EDIT: Found. Jump Start 2nd Grade Math.

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Lady on cell: She must have been humiliated by the parade of wives!

--Broadway & 72nd

Man to friend: Whenever I want to fuck my wife, she doesn't want to. But when I can't, she always wants to. I think she does it out of spite.

--12th St

(Elton John's Rocketman playing on radio) "I miss the Earth so much... I miss my wife..."
Barista: You don't miss your wife, Elton. You're gay!

--Small Coffee Shop, SoHo

Midget handing out fliers: Who likes comedy? (to man in striped shirt) Hey, do you like comedy? I like striped shirts, let's work something out here!
(man keeps walking)
Midget, yelling after him: No wonder your wife doesn't love you!

--Union Square Subway

30-something guy: Dude, that's so rude. Plus, she's going to be your wife soon, so you've got to stop calling her that.

--Hell's Kitchen

What's that commercial that has a little girl/preteen in a baseball shirt (like with raglan sleeves) and jean shorts jumping up and down on a couch? I think she's making a video of herself and she falls off the back of the couch? It's for like a cell phone service provider or cable/internet or something like that.

-solved by thenshesaidno-

It's a commercial for the new Canon Powershot!

I can't believe the year is about to end. For God's Sake, the decade is about to end! The best decade ever in so many ways. The decade where I truly began to DANCE.

I hate endings in so many ways. Let's face it, getting there is most of the fun. That's why they invented the word anticlimactic.

So I'm not sure I'll try to sum it all up. There's just too damn much. We started this decade and our mom died within six days. Who ever dreamed what ten years would/could hold. And how fast it would/could go . . .

I won't start babbling about all the things I'm going to do better in the new year yet. I have two more days to slack off first.

I don't THINK I've shown this pic yet? This year has been so chaotic, sorry if I have...

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Subway girl in Halloween costume: I was thinking about going as Rosie the Riveter, but, like, girly Rosie the Riveter. In shorts.

--A Train

Trying-to-be-hip mom: What are vampires wearing this season?

--Halloween Adventure

Group of kids in costume, chanting: We want more candy! We want more candy! No more apples! No more apples!

--35th Ave & 29th St, Astoria

Overheard by: kathcom

Man dressed up as Michael Jackson on Halloween: I'm the King of pop, man! I'll touch your children! I'll hang your baby off a balcony!

--Downtown 6 Train

Late-night Halloween-reveler man with dirty cotton beard: I'm Santa. I'm drunk and I'm angry. Fuck balls. Reindeer balls.

--Downtown 6 train

Guy dressed as Billy Mays, in loud infomercial voice: Billy Mays here! Sick and tired of waiting for NJ Transit? Next time, drive! For the low, low price of $20 per toll! Just $4.69 per gallon!

--NJ Transit

Overheard by: J. Ra

Old man to another, about Halloween: I love young girls who dress up like pussies.

--Soho

Overheard by: Edan

an anonymouse has a request:

it was a song that reminded me of lacuna coil's style but idk if it's their song but the guy sang a lot and the girl did some screaming and singing and the chorus was the guy saying something like "i wish i didn't find you beautiful" while the girl was screaming "yeahhhh" or something

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIND THAT


CAN YOU HELP THEM?

Trying to remember what movie or tv show had a character named Gammerino(sp?). Can't remember what kind of character but I feel like maybe a grandparent. Any help? Thanks.

It's not a big deal-they said. They even laughed at the Mayans and their calender. Well who's laughing now? Nobody, that's who. Most people who laughed at the whole idea of 2012...they are dead. 2012 happened, the end of the human race is soon here, just as the Mayans predicted. The end of the world, if only they knew how it was going to end, then maybe we humans could have prepared much better...found out how to survive, how to protect ourselves better.

Most people took the cowards way out, suicide, or playing for the wrong team...Skynet. Skynet showed up around 2011, wanting to offer its services to protect the people of earth. All we had to do, was become their workers, their little servents, and we would be safe. Some people went for it, and have never been heard from again. Skynet probably killed them, but kept their skins. Once you enter Skynet, your human life is over.

If you do not understand, look around. The person sitting next to you, might not be a person at all, but a machine. Machines are the enemy, remember that. January 1st, 2012, 1am, the world was clouded in darkness. The sun had such a strong flare, that it hit our ozone, and opened up some sort of portal into the future. Machines dropped from the sky..terminators. They were sent to destroy the humans that did not go with Skynet.

It is a war now, survivors vs machines. We are unsure who will win, but most survivors are certain, that it is only a matter of time before the last human dies. As strong as we are, as hard as we fight, we have little hope for the future. The terminators are strong, very strong, but they do not think like we do, they cannot learn like we do. We learn from our fights, learn how the machine moves, how it sees and communicates with others. Soon, we will be able to get into Skynet and free our people. Soon, we will find out how to shut down the whole operation of terminators, and be able to re-build out lives.

Earth belongs to the humans, to people who can take care of it and want life, and beauty back.

I will not allow earth to become a machine.
I will not allow humans to become machines.
I will not allow us to die.
I am a survivor, and I fight for you.

My name, is John Connor. And the war to end Mankind, is here.

Okay, so I had this tape when I was a kid. It was a super cute animated movie with a pretty epic plot. It was about a little elephant, I can't remember his name and that's the title of the movie so yeah. Lol. He wore a pink coat and he meets up with a scarecrow in the first few scenes of the movie.

They're seaching for something, I can't remember what. At one point they're under the ocean and they go to a sailors house after he had been seperated from the scarecrow and he was sitting behind a giant pile of mashed potatoes. :3

Found it myself. :D It was Mumfie!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mumfie_the_movie/

"Mumfie is a little elephant who lives all alone and has no one to play with. He sets out to find friendship and adventure and winds up making the acquaintances of wise Scarecrow and Pinkey, a piglet with wings. Pinkey convinces them to help him look for his long-lost mother, and before they know it, the three new friends are on an island on which smiling, laughing, and happiness is forbidden. This delightful adaptation of the work of Kathering Tozer features 14 wonderful sing-along songs to thrill both parents and children! "

I really reccomend this to kids and everyone. :3 It's so cute, I hope I still own it so I can watch it. :D

Name & Website/Journal: Muse to Paper
Format: Message Board
Genre: Multi-Game
Contact: Paper Planes - administrator of board (Heather)
Age limit or Rating: 13 +
Deadline: N/A
Game Info: This is a multi-game site so there are number of different games to join with its own plots and rules, so to check them out, you may go straight to the board.

...a Dean or John Winchester, or Damien Salvator for an original character private storyline. Two different characters for each wanted. Msg grimmDANGER if interested or want more details. Only rp on AIM. Will not join a community unless it's a garunteed in. 18 and older only please.

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Girl #1: So what did you say to your roommate?
Boy: I told her she was a fucking slut!
Girl #2: Isn't your roommate your girlfriend?
Boy: Sort of.

--Astor Place

I forgot but I remember seeing it a lot when my sister watches tv.

And what's the character's name?

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Attractive 20-something man: Do you want me to sleep over tonight?
Attractive 20-something woman: Yes, but only if you put your penis in my vagina.
Attractive 20-something man: You've got yourself a deal.

--36th & 5th

Overheard by: lola

Hi everyone :)

At the moment I am revising an old story and I have some action that takes place in a hospital in Prague in 2002. The protagonist finds her critically injured companion in the area of the Strahov monastery and rushes him to the nearest hospital. What I'm trying (and failing) to work out is which would be the best hospital for her to take him to. I've been using google maps to try and pinpoint where all the hospitals are but, obviously, the information for most of them is in Czech and I can't understand a lot of it.

Some of the places that are flagged up when using google maps appear to be either private health clinics or university departments related to medicine. I'm really just looking for a typical hospital building which has sufficient grounds to accommodate a car chase out of the parking lot and which is on the west bank of the Vltava river, as near to the Strahov monastery as possible. If anyone who understands Czech or is simply knowledgeable about Prague could give me some help choosing a hospital I would really appreciate it. I don't mind using a bit of creative license to describe the interior of the building, but I'd really like to have a real world facility to refer to.

Many thanks!

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me what the popular terms were for marijuana, heroin, and cocaine in Britain and/or the rest of English-speaking Europe circa 1996/1997? My character is a rock star from a wealthy family, so he would have been using what was considered the 'good stuff' of the era (i.e., powdered cocaine versus crack, high-quality heroin versus low).

Wiki, Google, and my f-list yielded several websites with international terms for different drugs, but nothing that was year-specific or class-specific. Thanks in advance for any help!