Amazing SDMB finds

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@bldysabba

Here’s my submission. Easily the best example of this genre I’ve seen on the dope. MsWhatsit sums it up in the thread much better than I ever could. Spoilered in case you want to pop over and have a look instead of having it spelt out.

I dunno, it took 8 years. We’re usually faster

[Peter_Morris]

@Mangetout

‘that’s the beauty of it - it doesn’t do anything’ was tracked down by a doper. It had previously. Been suspected apocryphal

@August_West

Link, please?

Mystery quote: ''It doesn't do anything. That's the beauty of it.''

[August_West]

Thanks! Great work Snake hips!

[Shoeless]

@Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker

Respectfully submitted for your approval.. Modesty does not permit me to respond to some of the other requests, though.

Jeez… that was a year and a half ago? :eek: I even searched for threads from the last year with the keyword “Donovan” because I was sure he was mentioned in it, and came up empty. I guess I just didn’t look back far enough!

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Little_Nemo

Somebody once posted a “Can anyone ID this movie?” thread. All she could remember about the movie was that she watched it about a year ago.

We identified the movie.

That’s almost as amazing as the time we identified that 80’s song.

[Lightlystarched]

The Dope found for me: a made-for-tv-movie that aired only once in 1980:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-653173.html

[Digital_is_the_new_Analog]

@Lightlystarched

The Dope found for me: a made-for-tv-movie that aired only once in 1980:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-653173.html

I love it. Is there nothing we can’t find?
-D/a

[AClockworkMelon]

The Dope has helped me twice in this way:

1.) Hugo III, Jungle of Doom!
Here Captain C IDs a DOS game from 1992.

2.) Peter Pan (the 1960 broadcast)
In this thread Alessan IDs a musical from the '50s and BrotherCadfael narrows it down to the 1960 NBC broadcast.

[Theobroma]

I don’t post often, but when I do, the Dope delivers.

Here, I found something icky in my canned salmon. My son was newly enamored of Reddit, so on his advice, I asked there what it might be, and was quickly downvoted to oblivion/totally ignored. I posted on the Dope and had an answer toot sweet. Thread: What is this thing I found in a can of salmon? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board

Also, I once asked the Northeastern Doper Contingent if it was worth it to save $400 on airfare (two tix) to fly into Baltimore for a family event in South Jersey. I won’t bother you with the thread, but several dopers came to my aid with specific driving directions that took me around, not through, the Philly traffic.

You guys are AWESOME and no mistake.

Hey, anyone remember the folks who did some awesome research to identify the origin of the “Oriental Riff”? Here’s the thread: Where does that stereotypical "oriental" song come from? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board

Must be tons of these.

[Princhester]

Never did manage to track down my old Apple II game…

[August_West]

@Digital_is_the_new_Analog

I love it. Is there nothing we can’t find?
-D/a

Was anyone else disappointed that there was no explanation of how they figured it out?

[Little_Nemo]

@Digital_is_the_new_Analog

Is there nothing we can’t find?

Apparently. I’m still waiting for an answer to the first question I ever posted on this board back in 1999.

[Enderw24]

@Little_Nemo

Apparently. I’m still waiting for an answer to the first question I ever posted on this board back in 1999.

@Little_Nemo

And now I’m back.

I’d like to thank TubaDiva for her help in the changeover.

A few weeks back I started a thread about whether anyone was worried about the possible consequences of possible publication of anything they had written here. Most people posted that they didn’t worry about this. I feel the main problem I was having was that I was posting under my full name, which made it much more likely that a casual reader could recognize me in some theoretical future edition of The Straight Dope. So I have decided to start out anew with a user name which should offend no one except possibly Winsor McCay or Jules Verne, both of whom are conveniently dead.

Little Nemo (aka [redacted])

The answer is yes. Some might be.

I hope you’re satisfied with my response. Sorry it took 13 years to get back to you on it.

[Siam_Sam]

The answer to the riddle of what is 14 K of G in a F P D.
Oh, wait …

[SCAdian]

@ThelmaLou

Except if you live in a house with cat(s) who like to unroll all of it into a nice comfy pile to nap on.

Or small children…

[TriPolar]

What the heck. I’ll toot my own horn. I uncovered the answer to whether anyone who knew Robert Lincoln was still alive.

[Digital_is_the_new_Analog]

@Siam_Sam

The answer to the riddle of what is 14 K of G in a F P D.
Oh, wait …

Hey..we have to leave SOMETHING as an exercise for the reader, right?

[Happy_Fun_Ball]

Did that one guy ever find the owner of the wallet in the wall? I can’t find the thread…

Heh.

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

No, but the upshot of it, basically, was that several members of the family showed up, having seen the threads or having been contacted, and they all said, “We have no idea whatever happened to Donald Eugenen Ivins. He just disappeared.”

[blondebear]

Astro came up with the name of an Australian adventure documentary I was looking for: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=600568&highlight=northern+safari

I thought that was pretty amazing.