# I'm not trying to remember a story **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123 "2015-04-20T15:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/1 "2015-04-20T15:53:46Z")
I don’t need any help finding a certain SF story, nor an old song, movie, or obscure word or phrase. Any Dopers feel like helping? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/2 "2015-04-20T16:24:00Z")
Well, unless you give us a little less to go on, I’m reasonably certain anybody should be able to help you. I know I can! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/3 "2015-04-20T16:26:44Z")
Our Town? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/4 "2015-04-20T16:29:21Z")
Oh man, there wasn’t a movie like that either, so I’m not getting them confused. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/5 "2015-04-20T16:29:27Z")
Oh, come on! Let me help you recollect sumpin’. Please? I’ll be your best friend. That’s not fair. I.NEED.TO.HELP! ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/6 "2015-04-20T16:29:34Z")
Oh, sorry. I would, but I’m busy not having a ridiculous question easily answered by Google or a social dilemma with a bewilderingly obvious solution. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/7 "2015-04-20T16:32:32Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Our Town? Not sure… Seems there might not have been any plot or differentiating characteristics. I wish I had fewer clues. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/8 "2015-04-20T16:35:58Z")
I’m pretty certain you’re not thinking of _Duel_ a 1971 television (and later full-length theatrical) thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Richard Matheson. It starred Dennis Weaver. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/9 "2015-04-20T16:36:01Z")
I know all the words to the Enterprise theme song. I also solved a logic puzzle last week. Hopefully, I’ll have even less to ask later today. Opinions? Nah, don’t need any of those, either… . ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/10 "2015-04-20T16:36:53Z")
It’s probably lupus. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/11 "2015-04-20T16:38:41Z")
Check the last place you remember you had it. ETA: It’s NEVER lupus! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/12 "2015-04-20T16:39:44Z")
Its never Lupus! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/13 "2015-04-20T16:40:55Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Check the last place you remember you had it. > > ! Yep. Still there. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/14 "2015-04-20T16:44:08Z")
I’m sorry, I don’t remember if I remember everything. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/15 "2015-04-20T16:44:58Z")
I’ll be back. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/16 "2015-04-20T16:45:41Z")
We all knew that! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/17 "2015-04-20T16:46:38Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Not sure… > Seems there might not have been any plot or differentiating characteristics. I wish I had fewer clues. [Free Knowledge: Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery](http://www.amazon.ca/Free-Knowledge-Confronting-Commodification-Discovery/dp/0889773653)? Sorry if that counts as a clue. I assumed it would be more of a red herring. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/18 "2015-04-20T16:54:32Z")
Does this help? > [@](#): > > We must remember that art is art. > Well, on the other hand water is water isn’t it? > And east is east and west is west. > And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesause > they taste much more like prunes than rubarb does. > Now uh…now you tell me what you know. Groucho, _Animal Crackers_ ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/19 "2015-04-20T16:55:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m pretty certain you’re not thinking of _Duel_ a 1971 television (and later full-length theatrical) thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Richard Matheson. It starred Dennis Weaver. couldn’t be that. you don’t forget terror like that. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123/20 "2015-04-20T17:09:44Z")
Run far and fast - she’s just not that into you. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-trying-to-remember-a-story/718123.md?page=2)