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openComic strip set in Canada Print Comic
I'm looking for a newspaper comic set in Canada.
The set up is that an American man married a Canadian woman and had a son and they decide to move to Canada and live with her father.
A lot of the humor derived from the American finding life in Canada to be strange and clashing with his father-in-law because of it.
openFilm with Snake Charmer Film
I remember watching a trailer (or possibly a review or preview) in either the late 90s or the early 2000s, I don't remember much from it, but I remember two things vaguely. One being a (bearded?) Snake Charmer who gets kissed by the snake, the other being some kind of living gruel or other foodstuff or sludge. (Or maybe I'm wring and that's from a different film). I remember it being comedic. Anyone got an idea what I remember? (I don't think it's The Master of Disguise.)
openConstruction Video From Childhood
Hey guys, I have some random images in my head of a video I remember from many, many years ago. It must have been intended for either pre-schoolers or elementary aged kids, and I believe we had it on VHS and got rid of it long ago.
Here is what I remember from it: The video was all about heavy equipment / large construction vehicles (real ones, NOT animated), and there was at least one of most anything that had wheels or treads... there were bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, backhoes, cranes, etc. They were all lined up in a line at the start of a day, and I think somebody would announce a job for the day, and whichever vehicles were required rolled out from this line, ready to go tackle the day's work. There was definitely music associated with this, I feel like all the big machines had deep, throaty voices that sort of hummed along as they worked (the machines were able to talk). People did not play a role in this as far as I remember, it was just the machines interacting with one another. I think the storyline went like this: all of these big machines are working away, and then suddenly everything starts running out of fuel, only a couple of vehicles remain with any fuel left. One was the crane with the magnet, and he was carrying the key... I think to let the refueling truck in or something? But then he runs out of fuel, the magnet demagnetizes, and the key gets dropped onto this conveyor belt that is headed for a grinder or scrap or something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
openPokemon/Yugioh-like Action Adventure Fantasy Print Comic
I remember reading a comic about a young man wearing a headband finding a strange carved stone in the shape of an angel lady during one of his venture to the forest outside his village. Fast forward and his village was attacked by people looking for that stone, and in a fit of desperation cast/summon the spirit/beast/entity inside the stone to protect himself. The way to summon them is to hold the stone tight and call their name, and the protagonist learned that he has to listen to the entity's true name to properly summon them. I think it's Lucinda or some majestic-sounding name. The dust sleeve is brown/black with only the title of the series printed vertically.
It's perhaps of Japanese or Korean origin, maybe its' related to an MMORPG too but I'm not sure. It's a pretty niche, I think. So I know what the cover and the story is but I don't know what's the title of the comic and perhaps you guys would know.
openDad was an astronaut named Donor Live Action TV
I think this was live-action, from series or film. Possibly a murder mystery.
What I remember is some character was regularly dunked on by their mother for not being as good as their awesome (astronaut, scientist, etc.) father. And at some point it's revealed "in some papers I found my father's name, it's a funny name: 'Donor'.", implying the mother had actually gone to a sperm bank to acquire a DNA sample.
openno idea, sorry Film
it was a korean series on netflix, except it had only 3 episodes and it's not in my list anymore, so i think it was removed. It had themes of suicide and mental health, which korean shows tend to do really well which is why i was intrested in it. I believe the three episodes were three seperate stories, but i may be wrong about that, sorry if it's not much, it was a while ago and i really can't remember
openPlay with specific line about God asleep Literature
I once found a play that had a line by a character than went like this:
"Once God fell asleep, and Gorm was born."
Gorm not being the right name of the character, since I cannot really remember; the actual name was just something in that direction.
The plot, as I can recall it, was something about this Gorm being a bad person (maybe some bandit or lord?). There are two other characters at least, who are "good", but don't know what they did besides commiserate. Gorm possibly repents at the end of the play, but I might just be making that up.
It was probably already in the public domain, since I could access it fairly easily. I thought it might be Chesterton, but it does not seem to be the case; there might be some Christian association with it though.
openX-Men or X-Universe Comic Book Print Comic
I'm trying to identify an issue of what I vaguely remember as an X-Men or X-Universe comic, probably printed in the 2000s.
The major part I recall is the villain / antagonist, when confronted by the heroes / protagonists, stated that he was going to basically wait them out to achieve his plans. He said something about being long-lived or immortal and being able to wait until they are all dead to enact his plans / goals. I think it may have taken place in the club or casino he owned or worked in. The villain may have been a demon (I don't believe it was Mephisto). I think he was sitting in his office when the heroes confronted him. I think the interaction ended without a fight / violence.
openMockumentary about a business couple Live Action TV
I believe it was a mockumentary about a british couple that ran a glass company, the couple and the side characters, such as their sales team, weren't portrayed as over the top at all just humourously incompetant. I remember a scene of them trying to sell glass for a french company but they weren't using the correct french words, and an episode about them displaying their resin signs at the las vegas ISA show. I believe the show was on one of the BBC channels back in the 2000's.
openSurvival game that looked similar to Sengoku Dynasty Videogame
Possibly as far as ten years ago, I had this free survival game from Google Play that had similar look, resource-gathering and building mechanic as the game Sengoku Dynasty. But you were alone on an island with trees, rocks, and some inland ponds, there were crocodiles and possibly other animals that tried to kill you and you needed to defend yourself from with spears, axes, etc. You could make platform floors on slopes etc. Walls, floors, roofs, etc. were each made all at once anf planted in place. There might have been other meters besides health meter. There may also have been some abandoned buildings including a carage, but I could be mixing that in from somethibg else.
No one in my family remembers the title either, but it definitely existed. I thought about this game again when I saw my brother playing Sengoku Dynasty and recognized the similarties.
Edited by NukeliopenBook with Island and Bomb on the Cover Literature
Hello! When I was a kid in the 90s or very early 2000s, I saw a certain book in a bookstore. I believe it was a book for adults. The cover artwork depicted a “stereotypical” island with a semicircular hill of sand and a palm tree sticking out of it. Now, picture that semicircular island shape and imagine “finishing” the circle by drawing the other, lower half of it. In this case, the artist made the lower half of the circle look like an old-fashioned round black bomb with a fuse on it. Does anyone know the title of the book I saw? I would greatly appreciate any info you can provide!
openDads/Grandmas Memory Literature
Okay, this might be a longshot. In the late 60s/early 70s, my dad used to apparently read a book to my aunt about a rabbit with a backup plan in case anything went wrong. That's all we know, but my grandma would tell the story for years, quoting thebjoke about how "The Rabbit has an contingency plan".
Edited by flamyangelwingsopenBook help Literature
I'm looking for a book series, it's a magical story and has a female protagonist. One of the characters ends up in an averted Beauty is Never Tarnished situation, but I can't remember the name, can anybody tell it to me.
openThriller with an evil twin
I just recalled a thriller I saw some time ago. Don't know how old it is, but fairly old. The female lead keeps having nightmares involving mirrors. I think the movie takes place in a mall, and one of the other female characters is mocked for being a virgin until she tells her bully that she's not a virgin, she was raped. Near the end the main heroine finds the killer, who's her identical twin sister (pretty sure escaped from an asylum) who comments it's "just like looking in a mirror" when they meet.
openShort murder mystery manga featuring lifelike robots or clones Anime
Hello. I am trying to recall a mystery manga I read. It was short, about 20 chapters probably, and split focus between multiple characters.
One character was a female detective investigating the murder. I recall that she would receive clues snuck into her car.
I think another POV character was a young boy, who was a clone/robot son of someone who worked at the company making these things, and was neglected.
I want to say that the murderer was a young man who applied for a job at the company.
And, i promise this is not why i want to find this manga it just happens to be something i remember, i seem to recall that one character had clones/robots of his daughter and there was an implied incestuous attraction by him.
The title may have had something to do with ice cream?
It is not MPD Psycho or Dolls.
I want to say a plot point was about how an old man who was murdered was in a locked room on a high floor, and the murderer had to like, parkour to his window from the next building over.
Edited by NillawafersopenLooking for a manga i read in high school Literature
it was about this guy whos sister is in some coma and he learns its because of the ring she has on which turns out to be one of many cursed rings that infect the wearer when put on or something like a parasite. it takes place in the modern day and i dont think it was post apocalyptic. there was a scene of the mc trying to fight off gangsters or something that he or his comatose sister owed money i think?
openUnknown
This was in the new episode of TADC.
Caine discusses some potential adventures, including Fallout, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and one "where a sentient cardiovascular system goes to war against the United States military". What is that one, if it is in fact a reference to something?
openAlpinist who won't talk
I'm working on a work page for "Lukundoo" and the story's first page contains the following line:
"As with the Alpinist in the story, who could tell only that he went up and came down, the sum of Singleton's revelations had been that he went [to Africa] and came away."
Does anyone know what this story is? Another short story, a news item, a saying, etc.? "Lukundoo" was written in 1907 (haven't been able to track a source for that specific year, but it is along the lines of when he wrote most of his weird fiction).
Edited by Pfff133

It wasn’t a super upbeat and poppy song, was probably very well-known since it played on a station with other hits. It kind of had similar vibes to Lifehouse but it wasn’t them.
The lyrics were about a relationship I think, and it mentioned doing something with the partner “tonight”.
Edit: Tonight wasn’t the main focus of the song, it was the relationship
Edited by EeveeTrainer