A few years ago, I remember reading about a community/fandom that was all-female and patterned their behavior on Victorian ettiquette. Women were classified as blondes or brunettes based on their temperament, regardless of actual hair color, and some of them lived together in these commune-like settings. There was an element of discipline; I believe that some of them were spanked when they broke the rules.

Anyone heard of this and remember the name of this group? It was just so bizarre.

The commercial I'm looking for was on American TV in the mid 2000s. It was advertising a TV channel, but idk if it was a real or fake channel. The part I remember most is all these women are in 50s style dresses in a big line and they're holding giant shoes and they sing "Shooooes!" and at the end of the line this Latino man in a toolbelt appears and says "I will fix your shoes for you!"

In the movie I'm looking for at the end of the movie this kid does a skateboard trick off a ramp and flies through the air over the head of the neighborhood bully. This is in contrast with the start of the film where he tries to do the skateboard trick but fails. It's NOT a movie about skateboarding.

Argh, I feel like this is one of those things that should be easy to remember but hard to Google.

Bruce plays an employee called into the boss's office for overusing a word. I can't think of the word! It's like inconsequential or consternation but I am pretty sure it's not either of those. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Hi all! My sister and I both vaguely remember this book from our childhood. Unfortunately Whatwasthatbook has closed so I came here for help! Here's what we know:

It was an illustrated children's book (like young children, probably 5 or older, but illustrated on both pages, so not for teens, like Nancy Drew).
It featured a manor or lodge or mansion where people were staying and had been snowed in.
Something took place overnight, possibly a theft (I think murder would be too much for a young children's book like this), necessitating a detective to be called.
The detective in question approached the manor by walking on his hands, in order to avoid compromising any footprints in the snow.
The one vivid image my sister recalls is that there was a chair shaped like a hand. Possibly red.
Perhaps an overweight woman owned the manor or was staying there.

I have searched google many times to no avail. My mother had a habit of buying my sister and I kind of off the wall books to encourage our love of reading so this may have been a small, independently published kids book.

Any help is much appreciated!

So my roommate, who is not on LJ, needs help remembering a movie. We don't know how to Google it. Here is the description:

British movie 1980's to 90's. Color.
It is about 2( 1?) boys some maybe kidnappers, the occult, a creepy 1940's black vintage flying car that has metal wings that pop out. It is like a rolls royce style car. takes place in England. There is a running and hiding scene in the English country side.
There is a metal bed that also flys or time travels/ teleports
there I think is a room with a masnoic (her misspelling, probably "masonic") occult looking stone at one point. Some of the adults have magic ?
It was a very dull rainy shot movie. (as in "shot darkly / shot in dark lighting")
At one point the magic bed is in the woods.
At the begining the boy or boys are kidnapped. by a man in a 3 piece suit and bowler hat and a creepy lady in black clothes.

I could be mixing up/ combining a few movies? not sure
This was on cable TV in Virginia in the late 80's - early 90s. like 86-93 ish? Possibly on Showtime or PBS?

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Despite the reference to a flying bed, she insists it's not Bedknobs and Broomsticks, that it wasn't a Disney movie but a British movie.

Anyone have any idea?

Also asking whatwasthatfilm, but the last post was in October of last year, I'm not optimistic about getting a response there.

I tried identifying this flower with Google images, but Google just says "flower."

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Aaaand the consensus appears to be spiderwort, AKA blue trillium. Googling spiderwort, the plant looks the same. So yeah, spiderwort. Thanks, everyone!

My friend kengr and I do gardening to have extra food, and she got a “salad mix” this year from the plant nursery. It doesn’t tell us what plants are in the salad mix, so I have these photos of some of the leaves if anyone would be so kind as to identify any of these for us. Thanks in advance!

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Tried using Google Images on these, and Google told me the weird purple one is a flower, which it clearly is not, and all it could say of the top one was "Leaf." Like thanks, Google, I was aware it was a leaf, actually.

So yeah, anyone who can identify what species any of these are, I would greatly appreciate it.

Here's one that's haunted me for ages - I caught bits of it on the Foreign (non-English-language) movie channel years ago. I only caught bits, but the end was pretty bad. As in nightmare fuel. And I can't remember if the rest of the movie was in English or not.

It's set around the 1600s in Venice. I think the Jewish people are being forced to convert, and one young lady in particular has the pressure being put on her to do so. People are executed by being taken out to the marshes, hands tied, and a rope around their necks attached to a large rock. The rock is then dropped over the side of the boat, pulling them over.

I know she claims at one point to be Christian, because the part at the end of the movie is her own execution, and just as they lift the rock to drop it, she starts chanting the Shema Yisrael ("Hear, oh Israel...") in Hebrew or Yiddish. It's cut off as she's pulled into the water.

The movie was probably only made in the last 20 years.

I can't remember the name of this movie and so far my google search phrases have been netting me some weird results and nothing accurate. It was a movie I watched several years ago, an independent movie about this young girl who's very isolated and finds this well or some kind of shaft, anyway, and there's someone trapped inside it. But the young girl doesn't tell anyone about it, just keeps coming to visit and talks to them, even brings them food, iirc. Then one day the person inside stops responding and the young girl thinks they must've died. And in the end--spoiler alert necessary?--the young girl throws herself down the well and the movie ends.

Really hoping somebody can help because it is frustrating me how much I can recall and yet all my Google phrasing so far is coming up 100% empty! arrgh

*FOUND* My brain was crosswiring two or so anime, by searching OVA releases year by year I found it, though it wasn't precognition or anything or really time travel, it was supernatural/god beings.
Title is: Guardian of Darkness, AKA Takegami War God.

This had some guy or girl who could sort of jump back like 10 min or so in time(or it was precognition), I remember something with a hill next to one of the man made rivers in Japan and something involving a kitten maybe dying? But then the jumping back in time, and one scene involving the traditional soaking baths they have.
I just remember that river and something tense happening and maybe the guy/girl falling in and I don't remember if the kitten if there was one did get brought back. The bath scene I think they got interrupted or ended up if it did have time skipping(a lot of things mix together for me) falling back in to the bath, or a precognition that they had in said bath.

I know it wasn't Devil Hunter Youko(I remember seeing it around the same time).
My mom worked at Blockbuster when I was a kid so she'd often bring home anime for me, not all of which was age appropriate.
I don't know if it came out in the 80s or 90s, but I saw i maybe around 1998 or 9 at the latest.

*ETA* He might have had something talking to him through his head? I also know it took place in basically modern to the era Japan, and him, if it was a he, was in high school ranged?