This might be a bit silly, but google isn't helping at all!

A friend of mine mentioned something about alpha males in wolf packs using some kind of sound whenever the puppies are going too far away. Apparently this sound brings them back.

What is it called and what does it sound like?

I've had this phrase stuck in my head for at least two years now. I know that it is from some commercial or preview for a movie, tv show or possibly a video game (yeah I know, that's a wide range)... at this point I'm starting to be concerned that my brain just made it up.

It's like a creepy soft but highish female voice saying, "you can't kill me, I'm already dead".

I'm thinking it dates from the late 90's early 00's.

Also, if anybody knows which tags I should use for this, I'd be happy to add them to the post.

Who is this guy? I know his face but I can't for the life of me remember his name:

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An earlier post about a story in an Alfred Hitcock collection reminded me of these two short stories:

In the first one, a family has a birdhouse(?) or maybe a toy house (?) and they become aware that some kind of tiny creatures have moved into it. IIRC they never actually see them, but every morning someone is leaving tiny bottles of purple milk on the little house's doorstep, and I think maybe a newspaper too?

I'm not sure if they bring luck or what, but somehow the family gets too intrusive on their little neighbors and one day there's a little sign hanging in the window: "TO LET." Maybe something bad happens after that?
It may have been in a Hitchcock collection.

The second one I read in junior high and I got the distinct impression that this story collecion was not intended for that age group. In the story I'm trying to remember a man moves into an apartment below the female narrator. I can't remember much except that as the story progresses it becomes clear that he is an incubus.
I think at some point a neighbor is trying to pump her for details and says something like "So cold they say, and big as a bull's." (Woo-hoo!)
He also had a really odd name.

ONE FOUND: The first story is Henry Kuttner's "Housing Problem.: I probably read it in "Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery."

So far as I can tell, I might've just made this whole thing up. In the years I've been wondering what it was I read, I haven't been able to find it. Hopefully someone here recognizes it and can confirm it's a real book. :)

It's a young adult/kids science fiction book with a female main character. I also remember that several chapters started with a countdown, and that the girl, and her friend(s) lived on a spaceship or space station. I really don't remember anything about the actual story, I just really remember liking the main character, and I think there was a series, at least two or three books about the same girl. I read this in the early 90s, but it's possible it was written in the 80s. I also really want to say that it was a female author and that the author's last name started with an 'S' (but don't hold me to that).

Thanks.

Not Vampire Cabbie. This one I read maybe 15 years ago. The protagonist was gay and from Chicago. After being turned into a vampire, he moves up to Madison, WI. I've been trying to remember the title and author...

Thanks!

there was a website once where you could enter in your height and weight, and it would manipulate a figure into the general shape of what that height and weight looked like. i'm sorry that sounds so vague, but it was i think a flash/animation kind of thing? i thought it was something victoria's secret related, but i can't find anything like that. i seem to remember the coloring of the site was pink....


/vague and confusing

there was this site that let you add seasonal things to pictures like santa hats and easter baskets, and then let you turn them into lj icons. anyone remember this site?

I was paging through an interesting book at a bookstore several years ago all about traditional country crafts. The woman was quite aged, and possibly Amish or of another traditional culture where these skills were her routine daily life. The book covered everything from animal husbandry to shearing to carding/spinning/dyeing/weaving and turning lanolin into hand lotion. If, by random chance, whatwasthatone contributors have a CLUE who this might be, please clue me in.

I'm not even sure if it's from a movie...

this guy. he buys women's magazines, and rips out portions of the faces, pasting them together in a notebook of sorts he has in his office, to create the face of this woman he once saw (romance interest of the film i guess). there's a shot of him, in his office cubicle, coughing to disguise the noise of him ripping the page. somebody pops their head ove rthe partition and interrupts him.


AAA WHAT IS IT

edit: found!

Okay. I need help finding something. But this might not be an easy one.

So. There's this book. I read it a few years ago, and I guess I forgot about it. But the past month or so I keep remembering more and more about it. Like, I'll remember a tiny little detail every day. I want to find this book, but I just can't. I can't recall any names from the book. However, the word "Runaways" is ringing a bell. I'm not sure if it's the title but I think the word may have been mentioned in the book a lot. Here's some scattered details. Some of these details MAY NOT BE TOTALLY RIGHT, because my memory's fuzzy and I read a LOT.

-Post apocalyptic, or at least set in the future.
-Kids who are 'no good' can basically be signed off by their parents to go to this place where they're deconstructed so their organs can be used to help other people.
-Two kids find out that this is happening to them and try to escape. [may have been one kid and his friend, not two kids?]
-There's this one kid who has part of a brain from another kid and he compulsively steals things, but he doesn't mean to and is ashamed about it.
-the two kids that escape are directed to this slummy thing by some lady, and then shipped off in crates after a while. One of the kids is sleazy and is after a girl there. Some other guy constantly tries to protect her.
-Not all of them survive the crates
-The crates ship them to some 'camp' thing for kids [runaways?] who have escaped the other place.
-There's this evil doctor or person of authority who everybody is scared of. He [she?] assigns one of the kids as their helper. I think they have a truck. And maybe people who go into the truck don't come out? Something like that.
-In the end, one kid is 'deconstructed' whilst the main female character plays music.

HELP ME. I NEED TO FIND THIS SHIT. GOOGLE DOESN'T WORK.

I was watching tv not so long ago and there was a girl and a guy. She said something along the lines of "Are you aware of the term douche nozzle?" Does anyone know what this may be from? It might be a tv show or a movie?
Thanks

Hi, I'm not sure if this is permissible or not, but there's no whatwasthatpoem community currently active on livejournal. :( So, I'm on the lookout currently for a specific poem for a friend. He thinks the title was something like "Son Wanted", and that the poem was not a recent poem but at least from the 20th century, from an American poet. He thinks it was an anonymous poem, and that the speaker was longing for an older time when kids were more obedient, where apparently he or she could have the son he wanted - a dutiful child who would do his chores, take care of his homework, etc.

Is this sounding familiar or recognizable to anyone?

One was about a gargoyle or gryphon. It had wings IIRC and there was a picture of it perched on the corner of a building. It may well have been a short story in amongst a novel full of them. I'm pretty sure it flew around doing stuff.

Another one was about werewolves. A family move into a new neighbourhood and the son befriends a regular person. I am fairly sure the family was all 'infected.' The son invites the boy over and the boy is shocked to see the family eating rare (raw?) meat. This one and the above would have been read while I was at school, so 1980's.

Third one is a cook book (many thanks to the poster asking about hers, I wouldn't have thought to ask about that here). It is an Australian, maybe even Tasmanian, one about what the early settlers used to cook. In it there were recipes to cook native hens (add to a pot of veges with a rock, cook for hours, toss hen out and eat rock), and wallabies, make browning and a recipe of sorts to make your own yeast. This one is less than 15 years old and had only like 50 pages, if that.

I'm not expecting miracles about these because they are so impossibly vague and maybe too local.

I wanted to borrow a book from my school library that the librarian told us about. I forgot the title and author of the book though. I don't remember every single detail but this is all I remember:

The story is about a girl; when she was young, something happened to her parents and she was adopted by a scientist who worked at a university. When she grew older, she didn't not receieve anymore attention from him. So she turned herself into a goth to gain attention. Because of that, she was sent to a camp by her guardian so that she could become 'normal' again.

Does anyone recognize this storyline?

I swear I thought there was a fairly recent American horror movie out there that I had seen a trailer for under one title in a theater..and then a little while later I saw the same trailer on TV with a completely different name.

I thought it was "One Missed Call", but there wasn't any information on iMDB as to whether or not it had ever had a different title.
I keep thinking that it might have been a horror that involved lots of cell phone usage (??).



That or I'm mixing up a couple of similar films, which could possibly explain why I thought a movie title had been changed..


edit FOUND: i think i was confusing "One Missed Call" with "Pulse". thanks for the help :D

what kind of animal is this cutey?

Kind of sounds like Chevelle or bands like that. Male singer. Rock, alternative kinda. I think I heard him sing "Did I hear you say it's the end of your life".

TIA

I posted this in whatwasthatone a few weeks ago, and forgot to x-post here.

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Thanks if you have any guesses. I tried searching on Google a couple of times, but didn't find anything.

Edit: Found - "DayStar" by Rita Dove. Thank you, hells_librarian!

I have a quotation from ... something. I've been almost banging my head against a wall hoping to shake it loose.
I've tried searching online for the whole thing or the parts of the quopte I'm sure are completely accurate.

Anyway, this is possibly from Doctor Who (the classic series not the recent one) - or some other fantasy or science fiction series. I'm almost sure it's Doctor Who, though.

"You are not a fool. Yet you have done a foolish thing in coming here."

Does anyone recognise this?

This is an alien movie. The alien looks like a normal man, and he carries around these marble things. The marble things can do stuff, such as heat a crowbar red hot that the bad guy was holding. At the end of the movie, alien guy gives leading lady his last power marble and tells her that her soon to be born child will know what to do with it.

I am certain there was a christmas song, in english that mentions Sri Lanka or christmas in Sri Lanka! but I can't find it. I was reminded of it while listening to 'Christmas in Killarney" but thats not it. Sri Lanka just rings a bell.

help pls!

I remember reading, a long time ago (mid-90s?), a book of essays by different authors about the worst vacations that they'd ever taken. The one that stands out particularly in my mind is an essay about a man who went to New York in winter and wound up spending a night homeless in Times Square. I thought the title was "Holidays in Hell", but that turned out to be a different book entirely. Any clue what it is I'm looking for?