# What have you NOT been able to find on the Net? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2000, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709 "2000-11-18T02:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/21 "2000-11-18T06:18:08Z")
Two things I have not been able to find on the Net. 1. Information on the origin of the concept of a “snipe hunt”. 2. My dream site: a site like IMDB for books, where you can search by character or plot to find the title and author of a book. ---
**Author:** ![KP235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@KP235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP235)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/22 "2000-11-18T07:51:23Z")
No, ‘Everything’ is not on the net, but alot of ‘Everything’ is, and it helps to know where to look. I recently had a question about the USS Cole, and I did searches where ever I could think of and turned up nothing. Then I posted the same query on this board, and in a short time I had the exact link I wanted. (thanks all!) My most frustrating search so far has been for the Replica Fighter Museum in Gunthersville, Alabama. Aparently they don’t have a web site, though they should. I have found where it is and it’s phone #, but I already knew that, I sold them a plane about 10 years ago. Sure, any info about WW1 fighters I could get most anywhere on the web, but I wanted to see how ‘their’ collection was coming along. As far as I can tell this info is not avail on the web. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/23 "2000-11-18T08:02:20Z")
I have not been able to find any information (beyond the summery of the concept behind the lyrics) of the song “Whats in the Coockoo Clock” by the Mr. T Experience (although I suspect it is a cover of some sort). ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/24 "2000-11-18T08:26:40Z")
I have been unsuccessful at finding proof that anhydrous sulfuric acid is packaged in steel drums because it isn’t corrosive without water. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/25 "2000-11-18T09:10:17Z")
This is really obscure, but last Christmas I went looking for the lyrics of an Advent hymn called _The King of Glory_, which we used to sing back when I was a little Catholic schoolgirl. I found another hymn by the same name, but not the one I was looking for, which has a refrain something like: _The King of Glory comes / The nation rejoices / Open the gates before him / Lift up your voices_ If my memory can be trusted it had lots of verses, but they were all just as short as the refrain. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/26 "2000-11-18T13:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arjuna34 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > > \*\*I was looking for information on the sound that a platypus makes and was unable to find it. I was really hoping to be able to hear the actual sounds, but would have been satisfied with a general description of what the sounds were. I found plenty of information on platypuses (platypi?) but nothing on their sounds. \*\* > > According to this site, they don’t make any sounds: > [http://pongo.colorado.edu/sacs/boar/animals/feather.html](http://pongo.colorado.edu/sacs/boar/animals/feather.html) > > Arjuna34 \*\* I beg to differ. [this site](http://www.localizeit.com/real/platypus.htm) has a link to a real audio clip of Platypus. Unfortunately, in this case, Platypus is a local band out of Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/27 "2000-11-18T15:33:25Z")
The **Lesbian Lumberjack Olympics**. Seriously, I saw a brief shot on CNN last month, showing powerful, beautiful women climbing trees, sawing trees, chopping trees, log rolling, etc. Can’t find any info on it. Hmm…I guess there are a lot of suggestive words in the above… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/28 "2000-11-18T16:14:08Z")
Hi Una, I don’t know about _olympics_, but is [this](http://www.lumberjills.com/) what you’re looking for? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/29 "2000-11-18T16:28:35Z")
**Arjuna** : Thank you very much. **bibliophage** : Thank you too, but not as much as Arjuna. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shiva)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/30 "2000-11-18T16:36:43Z")
Janine Lindemulder’s phone number 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/31 "2000-11-18T16:42:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mojo Jojo \* > **My most frustrating search so far has been for the Replica Fighter Museum in Gunthersville, Alabama** The owner is dead, the museum is gone, and the collection is dispersed: [http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/museums/al/rrfm.htm](http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/museums/al/rrfm.htm) Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/32 "2000-11-18T17:13:59Z")
If it’s something you’re interested in, start a new site! That’s how the Online V.C. Andrews club was started-our founder couldn’t find ANYTHING on V.C. Andrews online, so she created the first VC page on the web…it grew and now there’s a whole community! ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/33 "2000-11-18T18:04:33Z")
A picture of a weasel. I finally found 2 low-res .bmps to make my logo (on my homepage) with, but it wasn’t as easy as you’d think. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/34 "2000-11-18T18:09:28Z")
Twenty years ago, I wrote a long poem. A few years later, most of my books, papers, and possessions were lost. I always wanted to recover this poem, but all my manuscripts of it were lost. Flash forward to the late 1990s. I had gotten into the habit of easily finding any poem, any song lyric, on the Web, using the least fragment I could remember. Somehow I nearly tried to search for my lost poem, before remembering that of course it was never uploaded! Some things just don’t exist on the Web. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/35 "2000-11-18T20:34:27Z")
This is a great question. Specifically, it’s a great question for IMHO. Moving it there now. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/36 "2000-11-18T20:50:27Z")
I’m also trying to find more stuff on King Alexander of Yugoslavia. I found SOME stuff…but not as much as I hoped… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/37 "2000-11-18T21:06:34Z")
I’ve tried several times to find a specific William Carlos Williams poem online. It was used on the AP English exam in the spring of 1987. I believe the AP exam specifically uses poems that are “less famous” so to speak, so that a student’s chances of having studied it in school are slim. The poem used images of a river, and clock towers along the river, at night. I think the clocks were chiming, and the lights from the towers were reflected in the river. Anyone? Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/38 "2000-11-18T21:07:32Z")
**Guin** : You like V.C. Andrews? Man, that is some fucked up shit! I can’t believe they let us read that when we were kids. In fact, I just bought a copy of _My Sweet Audrina_ (50 cents for a hardcover–not bad!) so I could re-read it and see if it is really as much of a mind-fuck as I remember it as. Pardon my language, but those were some weird-ass stories! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/39 "2000-11-18T21:07:55Z")
PS Lest anyone think I’m completely lazy, I’ve also looked for that poem in actual books. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709/40 "2000-11-18T21:14:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*The **Lesbian Lumberjack Olympics**. > > Seriously, I saw a brief shot on CNN last month, showing powerful, beautiful women climbing trees, sawing trees, chopping trees, log rolling, etc. Can’t find any info on it. > > Hmm…I guess there are a lot of suggestive words in the above… 😉 \*\* Gives the Monty Python song a whole new meaning, don’t it? 😃 [sings] I cut down trees, I wear high heels, suspendies and a bra…[/sings] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-not-been-able-to-find-on-the-net/41709.md?page=3)