# Gaps in the Internet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296 "2010-06-24T01:16:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/21 "2010-06-25T13:29:39Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > Another thing I’ve been trying to find information on and I’m sure it’s available but I don’t know how to search for it: A castle in Europe which was rigged with secret waterworks to trick visitors. Been there done that, and somewhere have pictures too. I’m thinking it was near Hellbrun. For example they had a table and benches outdoors where the benches were fitted with water nozzles. During a party the water would be turned on and everyone’s bottom would get soaked, except for the host who’s seat wasn’t rigged. Let me do some searching Guess I should have read to the end of the thread before posting… ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/22 "2010-06-25T13:32:47Z")
Thanks, Gary. But I found it. Seems like a lot of work for a practical joke. And many of his guests were clergy! Even the word _wasserspiele_ makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Stranger\_Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Another\_Stranger\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Stranger_Me)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/23 "2010-06-25T13:52:03Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > _Wasserspiele_ in Hellbrun Palace, Salzburg, Germany. Found 'em, thanks to Cal. Awww, I knew this one, but was late again. I’m actually going there next week, which is why I knew where to find it. But slight nitpick. It is in Salzburg, Austria, not Germany. Sorry, I have nothing else to add, I’m just excited about my trip 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/24 "2010-06-25T14:17:53Z")
Have fun. And don’t sit on the benches. . . ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/25 "2010-06-26T01:01:33Z")
I was wondering when Salzburg got moved to Germany…! My internet gaps: 1. There is an airplane, a one or two seater, crashed in the woods near Autoroute 10, about kilometer 87 in the Eastern Townships of Québec. It is mostly yellow, maybe with some blue. It has, apparently, been there for years, but I can’t get a fix on when. I want to know what happened…how, when, and what kind of plane it is (I can’t really see any way to get to it to have a look). I’ve googled, I’ve searched the CADORS, I’ve searched the TSB, the NTSB…I cannot find this plane. I’m wondering if it didn’t really crash there, but just placed, but it really does look damaged. 2. Guy Boucher. How did he get that [scar](http://www.gleasonfournier.com/images/guy_boucher_001.jpg)? It’s awesome. There are probably more, but those are the two that come to mind! ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/26 "2010-06-28T02:09:02Z")
I downloaded a song once and had it on my ancient Packard Bell at my parents. I got a ton of songs at the time but this one was particularly good. It was called Somebody’s Superhero. I think the band was called Soul Phoenix. What bothers me is that it was something I originally stumbled across on the internet, but later couldn’t find. Even now, when I google it, I find three posts by myself, including [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-430674.html) one on the Straight Dope Message Board (archive). If anyone ever heard of a band similar to this, or this band, or a song with those words in it, let me know…I miss that song more all the time and keep wondering if I actually imagined it. Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/27 "2010-06-28T04:17:54Z")
As a kid, I had a record of Winnie the Pooh songs. I played it probably 100,00 times. The recordings were probably from the 60s or 70s. But now it seems those cherished recordings are gone forever, and all I can find online are horrible modern remakes of those songs. ---
**Author:** ![sharding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sharding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sharding)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/28 "2010-06-28T06:43:29Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > For instance, there was a home theater product called the Frox. It was based on a Sun Sparc 20 (I believe), had a great interface designed by [Andy Hertzfeld](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld) - it was a brilliant, way ahead of it’s time device. And it apparently never existed. I’d like to make a Wikipedia page about it, but it is very difficult to find information about it, and there are essentially no screenshots. This sounds very interesting. Have you considered emailing Andy and asking him if he has any info or screenshots? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/29 "2010-06-28T06:54:32Z")
The good news is that search engines are getting “smarter” and finding words in articles that might be scanned from newspaper articles. As these are “pictures” of sorts, it is interesting that sometimes (not always) you are now able to find things that would have been nearly impossible to find just a few years ago. Some newspapers are finally getting around to archiving their older editions, so that helps as well - although with the economy and the way things are looking for newspapers, that archiving might end someday soon. I have tried to find articles related to incidents when I was younger - and often will only get links to people trying to find the same info. Still, that helps as you at least know you are not crazy and others remember it - and every once in awhile, someone will find something, scan and post the page from an old book or magazine or newspaper. Has anyone else ever searched something - only to find a reference to an SDMB thread?! Has happened to me a couple times, and once was a thread I started myself…nothing weirder than searching for info, only to find a thread you started in trying to find the info! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Regency_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/30 "2010-06-28T13:37:49Z")
I had one of those “amazing but true stories” books as a kid. It covered in detail a Formula 1-type race (might have been an Indy 500, can’t recall) where the driver in first place suddenly ran out of gas on the last lap and barely won the race by repeatedly restarting his car and inching forward. I’ve tried looking up the event using various keywords, but not being able to recall any names or years isn’t helping. Also, there was a band from SC called New York who used to tour the East Coast club circuit. They had an EP and a sizable following, but I can’t find anything on them anywhere. Plenty of other bands from that time have at least a tribute myspace profile or something but for these guys…nada. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/31 "2010-07-05T05:48:35Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Have you searched Google News? You can specify a time range. I just tried again, hoping their archives had expanded, but no relevant results. (Sorry it took so long to reply on the thread – I was out of town without Internet access for about a week.) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/32 "2010-07-05T13:43:12Z")
There are a handful of songs that were taught to me & the other kids in my class when I was in elementary school or, in one case, were purchased for me to play on my little-kid record player. I’ve googled what I recall of the lyrics but it’s as if I and I alone have any recall of them. THE RECORD was a Smokey the Bear thing, with the traditional everyone’s-heard-it “he can smell a fire before it starts to flame, dunno why they call him Smokey but I’m sure he deserves the name” song on one side but a haunting tune “The Sigh of the Dying Trees” on the other. Can’t find. Hmm, also had a song featuring Alvin & the Chipmunks singing about proper ways to make sure a fire is “out, dead out” before you leave it. Maybe there were two songs on the same side of the album. OTHER SONGS include this one about a mare and her foal, with some of these snippets amongst the lyrics: Eat the grass upon the hill Drink cool water from the pool \, Leafy shade is \ and cool Do you know this wobbly colt Stumbling by me by the lane \ Soon a handsome horse will be This \ colt a-\ me ---
**Author:** ![King\_Solomon\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@King\_Solomon\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Solomon_Hill)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/33 "2010-07-05T22:05:14Z")
> [@brendon\_small](#): > > I downloaded a song once and had it on my ancient Packard Bell at my parents. I got a ton of songs at the time but this one was particularly good. It was called Somebody’s Superhero. I think the band was called Soul Phoenix. What bothers me is that it was something I originally stumbled across on the internet, but later couldn’t find. Even now, when I google it, I find three posts by myself, including [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-430674.html) one on the Straight Dope Message Board (archive). If anyone ever heard of a band similar to this, or this band, or a song with those words in it, let me know…I miss that song more all the time and keep wondering if I actually imagined it. > > Brendon Small Here’s the Facebook page of a band called [Soul Phoenix](http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/Soul-Phoenix/46231389580?v=wall). No mention of a song called Somebody’s Superhero though. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296/34 "2010-07-05T22:46:57Z")
> [@King\_Solomon\_Hill](#): > > Here’s the Facebook page of a band called [Soul Phoenix](http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/Soul-Phoenix/46231389580?v=wall). No mention of a song called Somebody’s Superhero though. After I got the page to load, I checked out their videos. Even though the name is a match, the music is definitely not. The band I remember was much like Three Doors Down. There was a crunchy distortion to the guitar, and the singer was kind of 90’s rock sounding. Thanks though, Brendon [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-the-internet/544296.md?page=1)