Two things I have not been able to find on the Net.
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Information on the origin of the concept of a “snipe hunt”.
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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.
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.
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).
I have been unsuccessful at finding proof that anhydrous sulfuric acid is packaged in steel drums because it isn’t corrosive without water.
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.
I beg to differ. this site has a link to a real audio clip of Platypus. Unfortunately, in this case, Platypus is a local band out of Arizona.
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… 
Hi Una, I don’t know about olympics, but is this what you’re looking for?
Arjuna: Thank you very much.
bibliophage: Thank you too, but not as much as Arjuna. 
Janine Lindemulder’s phone number
The owner is dead, the museum is gone, and the collection is dispersed:
http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/museums/al/rrfm.htm
Sorry about that.
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!
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.
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.
This is a great question. Specifically, it’s a great question for IMHO. Moving it there now.
I’m also trying to find more stuff on King Alexander of Yugoslavia. I found SOME stuff…but not as much as I hoped…
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?
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!
PS Lest anyone think I’m completely lazy, I’ve also looked for that poem in actual books.
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]