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Trying to remember a kid's book, published prior to 1995 or so (I remember reading it in elementary school). The premise of the book is that a group of children are convinced that their next-door neighbor, an older woman with the right nose and warts, is a witch and she goes along with their ideas. I was reading Flying Broomstick and was reminded of the book, including a scene where they try a found spell for broom flight involving an ointment they concoct. The book was firmly on the side of magic not really existing, although I don't remember how seriously the neighbor was taking it all.
openNo Title Literature
Trying to find an older sci-fi story that I read in an elementary school reader in the 1980s. Somewhere in the future, a boy and his sister have found an old stash of conventional books — I remember the girl complaining about actually having to manually turn the pages, and how, if you dropped the book, it didn't keep your place — and it included a mention of sunglasses. Due to air pollution, there's no longer any sort of strong sunlight, so the idea of wearing dark glasses is incredibly strange to them. The boy gets someone to make sunglasses for him and starts wearing them around town, starting a fashion trend. Does this spark any memories for anyone?
openNo Title Videogame
It would have already been released by 1993-1998 because I remember discussing it with a friend in middle school (most likely by 1995, because I remember he kind of dropped off the face of the Earth in high school). I think it was on the Sega Genesis and came out contemporaneously with Time Killers. I remember the latter because there was an article about how it had won the magazine's (Video Games and Computer Entertainment?) award for goriest game with Time Killers being the runner-up. Gameplay involved a monster on-screen (the article was mentioning a dragon) and you had to shoot it to death. One of the features of the game was that you could shoot individual limbs off with a massive shower of gore. I've been doing Google searches, but it doesn't seem to match up, even for the list of Genesis shooting games I found on Wikipedia. Maybe you moved a cursor via the controller?
Yes, I know it's kind of a barebones description, but that's what I remember of it.
openNo Title Literature
One of my classmates lent my a copy of the book in paperback in middle school, which was around 1994 or so, so the book was out by then. Main character was a young woman who'd recently moved into a new house (I want to say that she was escaping a bad relationship). She starts hearing creepy noises at night (there was at least once scene where she called the police in and got the standard "nothing here, ma'am, but call us if you need trouble), I think had her windows broken with no sign of what broke them, found a kitten who'd clawed its eyes out (I think she first befriended it while it was alive and then found it later) and received a mysterious letter with a recording of Sting's "I'll Be Watching You". That last is what I remember best, because she finds the song utterly silly, and takes to musing on additional lyrics where the singers watches her "bake a cake", "use a rake", and so on (I know the "bake a cake" line was there, not certain of the rake, but she was essentially making fun of the rhyming lines). I remember the climax involved some mild-mannered neighbor being her stalker and using experimental sound technology to shatter her windows, to raise paranoia in her through subsonics, and to kill the kitten by driving it mad. I'm pretty sure she winds up stabbing him under the influence of the subsonics, maybe with a shard of glass.
The friend who lent the book to me had a tendency towards reading cheap paperbacks — I remember her lending me Flower In The Attic — so there's a decent chance the book never made it into hardcover. Anyone got any ideas?
openVideo listing reasons why someone comes back into your life Web Original
A YouTube video that lists reasons why you should not forgive someone who comes back into your life, and the reasons why they come back.
The first is because the guilt they feel is selfish (regret would be a better word). They left in the first place, convinced that they'll find someone new, and only come back because they find that the relationships they start with other people feel hollow in comparison to you. To welcome them back would be to tell them that you are free to discard and come back to whenever they see fit.
Edited by SeaRoveropenTeddy Bear Waltz Live Action TV
So, I had a VHS when I was little that my mom had recorded tons of old cartoons on. Near the end there was a segment of these teddy bears that came to life and turned into people in bear costumes that had all these fancy clothes and they danced the waltz together while a song played in the back ground that I dont remember the lyrics of except "Teddy Bear Waltz". I remember the tune but no other words. It may have been Disney but Im not sure. Anything?
Edited by chumonresolved Do it as a favor
Do we have a trope about authors working on something because they were asked for it as a favor or gift from someone else?
openCrazy Games Videogame
Game where you fight monster vegetables and gain coins from doing so. If you get enough coins, you add upgrades to your player character.
openAny idea what book/film The Amazing Digital Circus is referencing? Literature
So, in episode 5 of The Amazing Digital Circus, a character presents three scenarios for a story. Two of them are clearly Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Boy and His Dog. Books with well known film adaptations.
But one of them is "One where a sentient cardiovascular system goes to war with the United States military". Anyone have any idea what that could be referencing?
resolved cover song in video Music
What is the song that starts at about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22VzWXoc1ZE&list=PLsCEXiXqx9ihM_rmHKKfrVbCdCdO2nBiC&index=26
34:00? I know it's a cover of Manic Strret Preachers- Australia but who does this version?
openChristmas: kids shrink, damage hot air balloon Grandpa gets forest creatures' christmas lists with Western Animation
Grandpa is a mailman who brings animals' Christmas lists to Santa. He lives in a log cabin on top of a hill in a forest clearing. The kids are driven out to visit him at the start of the cartoon; they don't wanna be out in the sticks like this. The kids are brats, a blonde girl w/ a ponytail & a brunette boy (I think). They learn he uses a tiny hot air balloon to fly out through the chimney for getting the forest animals' lists, but he won't give a demonstration for that part, & orders the brother to get out of it when he notices him trying to disobey. After the three unshrink, the grandpa leaves with the parents to do Xmas shopping. The kids use w/e method to re-shrink & check out the balloon they were forbidden to touch, and their squabbling leads to the pet cat trying to kill them (I think because they were mean to it). The balloon casts off so they can escape it, and gets torn. I think the quest becomes fixing the balloon before Grandpa comes back.
There's a family of mice who live in the walls Thumbelina style. The mom mouse was welcoming and I think wore a purple house dress & a frilly apron. I think she chases off the giant longhair cat with a tiny broom. She prepared a snack for the boy and sat him in an armchair. The boy was glad to have the hospitality that the girl avoided. The mood flips when they find out what the kids had done. This part was vivid because as a kid I was *very* sensitive to shifts in the vibe.
I saw this on my grandmother's portable DVD player when I was a toddler ~22 years ago. I believe the art style resembled Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer or Willie the Sparrow (two OTHER $10 Walmart movies she watched with us as little'uns).
Edited by tahutoaopenAPP Witness Protection Book where the protector turns out to be a Mafioso? Literature
I read this book a few years ago, where a girl's parents were murdered by the Mafia or a group like them. The daughter goes into what she thinks is the Witness Protection Program, and the guy she lives with (her handler) moves her around the country. It turns out he's actually part of the Mafia, it was his job to kill her, but he couldn't do it and now he's hiding her from his family.
I think it was YA, but I'm not sure. It's not "The Girl She Used To Be".
openNeed a air conditioner commercial where it is mistaken for art
I need tv commercial for an air conditioner for Mistaken for Exhibit
- A tv commercial has a man impressing a woman by explaining the meanings behind various art works at a gallery. He comes to one that he praises for it sleekness and minimalism... then another lady reaches over and turns the air conditioner on.
resolved Reddit stories about supernatural campground?
I remember i read (on tvtropes) about a serkes of reddit text stories about a campground frequented by eldritch abominations, ghosts, and the fair folk. There was a young girl ghost i think. The main character was a woman who ran the camp, and she eventually became some kind of a supernatural entity herself?
The title had some kind of reference to rules or survival.
openWile E. Coyote canyon gag - is this real? Western Animation
I remember watching an episode of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner years ago, where Coyote runs over the cliff as usual, but as he looks back the Road Runner isn't standing there and pointing down to remind Coyote of the fall as he usually does. So instead, Coyote starts to live in the air beyond the edge of the cliff; he has a house made of clouds with cloud furniture, he has a cloud cane, even a cloud beard. One day the doorbell rings and outside stands the Road Runner and points down and suddenly everything dissolves and Coyote falls.
Am I remembering correctly or did I dream this up?
openIt is a space MOVIE Film
They go on in to space with space suits. They will reach a mysterious place which they done know how it would be. one lady or guy (mostly lady) among them will deliberately removes her space suit at the wrist and surprisingly nothing happens to her and remaining people can remove the space suits.
This I remember clearly.
But in the final scene which I remember not so clearly. Some guy among them would become in to a supernova or some light is seen to be passing above their heads. They'll look up.
Please tell the movie name.
resolved Trying to find a country song that my stepdad was playing . Music
Lyrics include "Baby lay your loving on me" and "wanna kiss your lips and tears away." Google didn't show anything.
Edit: Found on You Tube. It's Diamond Rio.
Edited by sassyelliott2403

It was a short story. I'm pretty sure I read it in an anthology back in Elementary School (1985-1992 or so) although I read a lot of books outside of my age level, so there's a decent chance it didn't come out of one of the schoolbooks. The basic plot involved Earth having to play a baseball game, against aliens I think, for the fate of the world. The narrator was an older man, a famous baseball player who was chosen to play. Humanity loses the game as a result of the narrator's "trick knee" which went out on him. I remember not entirely understanding what a "trick knee" was (I was visualizing something involving being able to do something special with it) and trying to use the phrase in gym class, only to have it explained that it meant something different, a dislocation of the patella.
So, I was walking down the hallway at work and my knee twinged and suddenly I found myself remembering the short story, so I figured I'd pass the details on and see if anyone remembered. I made a few Google searches but to little avail.