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I am stunned not be able to find the scripts to Yes Minister on the interweb. What is going on?

A thread to share frustration or possibly help each other...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

why men's feet smell more than women's

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

That painting of James Mason with the Siamese Cat.

I feel very proud of myself because I googled something online which my mother could not find! i.e. information related to the Priory of Sion which was not in response to The DaVinci Code.

― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Pictures of the white and dark green Onitsuka Tigers I bought on Wednesday night. (and yes, that is a challenge)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Intelligence.

― 7599, Friday, 23 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Love. *sighs*

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

a get rich quick scheme that works

an mp3 of "glad it's all over" sung by the old bloke who goes on talent shows

a beginner's guide to the fundamental beliefs of the major political parties in the UK

and yeah, love, yeah.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Loads of information on "World Domination Enterprises" including whether or not Keith Dobson died...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Any information on a bar owner I know in New Orleans who reportedly shot someone on his property during a second line.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

More information about the Nothing But A Good Time remix.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

bunny slippers

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22bunny+slippers%22

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

jel, don't help steve, help ME! I bet I need Yes Minister more than he needs bunny slippers.

btw were there any wildflower seeds in tesco?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Tesco was a let down :( It was one of those metro stores and I ended up having to trek all the way to Sainsbury's instead. I shall look for your scripts, it looks intially promising...but that's sometimes not a good sign.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think they are online. The yes-minister website has a FAQ asking for them. There is a book on Amazon.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That's what I found too :(

Thanks though!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Clove alceeholic drink. I quite fancied ordering a bottle of my Nan's favourite tipple and nowhere on the web has heard of it.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I think your only hope is N., archel, he's the master at finding stuff online.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

* Psychology picture of farm animal that would've been so cool in the "2 Pics" thread yesterday.
* Bass tab to the Kendall's "Heaven's Just A Sin Away".
* My ex-girlfriend's rumored blog.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything to confirm that Roy Orbison has wonky eyes or that Vince Vaughn is missing fingers.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to find one of those green eyeshades that casino workers used to wear in the Gold Rush days, with the arm garters... like a bookkeepers eyeshade. They no longer exist, at least online.

― andy, Friday, 23 January 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

2" square thermometer fridge magnets w/ U.S. state/city themes. Kitsch whimsy infected by collector tendencies. Thought they'd be easy to find in airport lounges by travelling friends, but not so lucky, and have only located a few online.

Would have said a Japanese only Hal Hartley tribute cd comp, but I got a good lead this week.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Information on how to internally tune a Farfisa VIP-200/R organ. In fact, I can't find any information on the VIP-200/R, except that it's very rare.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I finally embraced the lo-tech and spent last night laboriously TRANSCRIBING bits of Yes Minister from a minidisc. Believe it or not this is actually for my MA. Examples of role conflict haha.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Contact details for the Young Agency in New York who represent the writer How4rd But3n.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My flipping job advertisement!!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a good book about with a chapter about YM and the way the relationships worked
British television drama in the 1980s / edited and introduced by George W. Brandt (Cambridge New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993)

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Barry -

Young Agency
156 5th Avenue Suite 608, New York, NY 10010
(212) 229-2612

(from bigyellow.com)

Is that not it? This seems to confirm that the do indeed represent writers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm not looking for YM scripts cause I wouldn't expect them to be there, esp. if the YM FAQ is asking for them)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

an explaination of how cranes are constructed, without having a crane in the first place??! How do they go so tall?
http://www.pre-engineering.com/resources/images/cranes/counter.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You do indeed use a crane to build cranes.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

so how does the first one get built??

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Noooooooooooo! Not the crane debate again, please! I'll go mental, I swear.

First crane is mobile, built elsewhere and erected using hydraulics, pulleys an' that. First crane then used to build/erect second crane, at which point first crane says its goodbyes and buggers off, leaving second crane to erect as many more cranes as it damn well fancies.

Grrr.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://science.howstuffworks.com/tower-crane4.htm

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The perfect apartment in Vienna.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

A picture of the Indian servent from It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

A screen cap of Pynchon.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Information on how to internally tune a Farfisa VIP-200/R organ. In fact, I can't find any information on the VIP-200/R, except that it's very rare.

Have you seen this page yet. Also check the archives of the Combo Organ discussion group.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still trying to find the track listing to Howling Wolf's This Is Howling Wolf's New Album And He Doesn't Like It

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

an mp3 of Ricky Nelson's (no not that one) house cover of Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do" for the Soundmen on Wax label. I've sort of tried for three years now.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, thank you SO much for that - I hadn't manage to track them down, and nor had my predecessor. That's extremely helpful, cheers.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Information about the distiller and value of a full bottle of 1920 whisky that I was given yesterday. You'd think there would be a market for really old booze.

― J (Jay), Monday, 26 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I was searching for thunderwords in Finnegans Wake and it asked me, "Did you mean: bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" when I searched for "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" haha!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time this question came up, in a context I now forget, I had just tried looking up a series of records that I can never find anymore anywhere ("Desperate Rock 'n Roll" rockabilly compilations, released on Flame Records) and discovered some guy had catalogued them in part on his country-music index website days earlier. They are great--wish I had more.

The failure came just today, when I tried to find a good, uncheesy, unChristian, animated thank-you e-card to send to my Uncle. I had to settle for something kind of lame.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

A 1.35 volt battery for my old camera.

The album cover of Johnny Guitar Watson Sings the Blues.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The costume and mask of the rabbit from Donnie Darko (yeah, I like to entertain my friends...).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Some information from the University of Glasgow archives, but I had a feeling I wouldn't find anything because the information I was looking for was from between 1910 and 1930.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

* an easy way to set up a password protected directory on a fucking windows 2000 webserver (goddamn you, predecessor of mine)

* a way to buy swedish records

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, andy from way back up the thread, re green visors, two folks here at the paper where i work own and occasionally sport the green visors as they work over their macs. One of the two is even a Pulitzer Prize winning fuxxor. If you don't have any luck out there, maybe I could, you know, "Yoink!"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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a big red X?

― Margarine Machine (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

if you look for Yes band you get a picture of DEVO (third row) !?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

ah you banned?

It's a nice big pic of the band.

Anyway, try "Yes Howe" in google images, and it's all there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://mitkadem.homestead.com/files/Yes_1970s_WithHowe_lineup_photo.jpg

have this one instead.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.literatura.hu/rock/progressive/images/yes/groupCircus-Nov76.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

I went for 'yes rock band'.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Much better! Thank you!

(I love how I infect every thread I go on with prog.)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mind you, if you put My name into google images, you get a pic of Syd as taken at the "Wish you were here" sessions.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Stan M, that's fantastic, thank you. I got a "brilliant!" from my boss for offering those links :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

the meaning of the phrase "one gets you ten"

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

upthread roffle: mr. anti-racism in homophobic non-shocker

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Those tiny plastic stopper things to stop up the hole at the bottom of your iPod that you plug the lead into. You get a spare one with the iPod but I have lost that too. I don't know if I can't find anyone selling spares cause no one else cares about losing them or because I am using the wrong search terms. What is it? A plug? A stopper? A cap?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

any clip of any kenickie interview or promo.

..i mean considering how much fuckn *cahpterhouse* there is out there on you tube!

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I have tried also wrt Kenickie.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Nice clothes"

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

The closing times of Hampstead Ladies' swimming ponds. Anyone?

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Confirmation of rumors that Cee-Lo is related to Cab Calloway.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

An mp3 of anything by the (most likely non-existant) rapper "Swayze".

― choinklate (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, about my Farfisa thing up there - it turns out there is a VIP-200 model that functions exactly the same as the VIP-200/R, except that the VIP-200/R has a built-in drum machine. I have managed to re-tune mine, but it still bothers me that I don't have and cannot find a schematic for the drum machine.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Anna, it's 8.30pm.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/8F303C61-5B9C-4B0E-A2FE-5B3763808FD7/0/HHswim0606.pdf

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

A broadcast date for a particular 4ngry K1d episode to see whether it predated the Cr4zy Fr0g phenom. I didn't try very hard.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

100 yen store online shopping

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

that page which has a map of the united states and little titles pop up indicating the last song played at every radio station

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 July 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

a list of american artist run centers that allow open submisisons

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

An article called "100 reasons to carry on living" that somebody printed off for me about eight years ago that includes "Because Kenickie are good" among the reasons.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

So you could say I've tried and failed to find a reason to live.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

Any information at all about a huge fire burning on the horizon late last night. Took two seconds this morning. Six-storey paper warehouse.

Oh - also a pedal steel emulator.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Don't despair!

A Million Reasons To Carry On Living

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sir, I am forever in your debt.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

"nice black shirt"

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

This one, Nick?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5173808.stm

Oh on re-reading your post I think I have misunderstood what you're asking for. Sorry.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks anyway Archel.. The story you linked to was niggling at me last night - I wouldn't like to admit how long I spent twirling around on Google Earth, just double-checking that Colindale wasn't next to Canary Wharf..

Seriously.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Colindale's next to Harlesden/Wembley, isn't it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

North West somewhere. In any case, certainly many miles away in completely the wrong direction.

I'll just mention one more thing I've struggled to find - because this has been frustrating me on and off for a number of weeks.. A passage in a book that runs something like "I seek greater passions, headier air, higher vistas.."

Huysmans? Blank. Nietzsche? Blank. I just can't get the wording right, and am therefore drawing blanks from dawn till dusk. It's something all literary and that - I'm pretty sure.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

A battery for a Gericom 1580XL+ laptop I was interested in on ebay.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

a single decent still from Jacques Rivette's Out One

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

a mix of "Scream Thy Last Scream" without those damned chipmunk vocals.

― Dan Easley (Don Beasley), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

lyrics to a Killdozer song

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

There's an Asian pop song that I once heard in a karaoke bar that contains the English phrase "Over The Rainbow". It is NOT a cover of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". I'd love to get my hands on it; it's incredibly catchy...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 13 July 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Where's that animation of an anime girl growing a massive tockley? I, erm, want to show it to my partner.

― moley, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:11 (seventeen years ago)

Can someone repost the animation where a manga girl grows a giant dick, please?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

You're kidding me. How about that. There really is nothing new on ILX is there? Thanks Tuomas.

― moley, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

somewhere to watch the olympics 100m - not on youtube, not on iplayer...

― blueski, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

Television?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

get money, fuck bitches dinosaur.gif

― cozwn, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:21 (seventeen years ago)

3 rules for life

― blueski, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:25 (seventeen years ago)

Google video has a whole bunch of Bolt

― NickB, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:33 (seventeen years ago)

this scene from the Nanny where she eats two slices of pizza after saying she'll only have one, stating 'the body doesn't know'.

oh and Winona saying only 'I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayer'

― o-ess, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:40 (seventeen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

George Harrison interview in Melody Maker 1975 about 'Extra Texture'...surely some obsessive would have all these interviews nailed down by now?
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Just been posted on the Meet the Beatles for Real website: https://www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com/2025/07/id-rather-be-exbeatle-than-ex-nazi.html

― Bob Six, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 11:19 (eleven months ago)

third post:
> That painting of James Mason with the Siamese Cat.

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/apparently-james-mason-had-a-fondness-for-cats-particularly-siamese-ones-like-that-shown-in-the-portrait-he-and-his-wife-pamela-ke--478648266628209915/

― koogs, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 11:54 (eleven months ago)

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