Wife and I spent 6 months trying to find her set of keys to our old flat and it turned out they were behind the sofa

It wasn’t that long ago here that I spend a week looking for my favorite shirt. It wasn’t in my drawer. It wasn’t hanging in my closet. It wasn’t under my bed or between anything in my room where it might have possibly gotten wedged. I thought I might have accidentally left it in the laundry or had it fall out of my basket walking back to my apartment. Ended up finding it buried in the back of my closet while grabbing my toolbox for some unrelated reason after giving up ever seeing again and was gonna buy a new one.

Doubtful it’s the longest I have looked for something, but going on a month or so trying to find my baking sheet. I just want to roast some veggies damn it. How do you lose a baking sheet!?

Oh! I was trying to find the Mozart piece o learned to pay as a kid. It was one of hundreds of minutes that he wrote. Finally found it a few months ago on Spotify! So, a few decades on that.

Also I’m looking for a recording of the episode of The daily show that featured the theft of Crimewatch signs in Northwest PA.

I’ve been looking for a flash animation of some guy fucking a horse or cow while some kind of (Irish?) (folk?) song plays in the background. Probably only saw it once around ~2000 or so on either newground or stileproject, have been looking for it because I want to identify the song used but it’s probably gone off the web forever.

I spent around 7 years trying to remember my old Yahoo password. I merely had to recall my recovery question and the very unique answer I gave it.

Why? Well that was before Verizon bought them out, I was still a member of certain Yahoo Groups, before they shut that down ☹️

I spent 10 years looking for a good 2d geometry flooping paradigm.

I’ll let you know when I find it.

It took me around 18 years to find the song, It’s a Rainy Day by Ice MC (YouTube link), which I rediscovered last year.

My older sister used to buy a lot of different compilation albums, think stuff like “Now That’s What I Call Music! (Wikipedia link)”. I started listening to a lot of them, when I was around 6-7 years old, and while Eurodance songs like Rhythm Is a Dancer by Snap!, Be My Lover by La Bouche, Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic (YouTube links), and so on, were easy to track down throughout the years, there was always one song I couldn’t find.
I couldn’t even remember any lyrics, only that there was some rapping, where the dialect made it impossible for my child brain to absorb and retain any words. The only thing that I remembered was that there would be sentences ending with an “eh eh”, and that’s really not a lot to go on!

Until one day, when I was walking around a store and they started playing it over the sound system. I didn’t even realize at first, but when that organ hit at 0:21, I literally snapped my head up towards the speakers, hahaha. Finding out that he was rapping in Jamaican Patois, it suddenly made a lot more sense why I hadn’t retained any of the words.

Apparently they also used the song during the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony (Wikipedia link), which is wild to find out.

As a child, the house we grew up in had a very large tree in our back yard. I had a memory of burying some skeleton keys near it but couldn’t remember where. The house was old enough that we’d find skeleton keys occasionally and also as a kid they are special.

I searched for days, weeks, months… Digging holes all over the yard and under the tree. I recruited neighborhood kids and friends.

For two summers we searched for buried treasure. Never found them. Might have been a dream I had of burying the keys. I still think about it occasionally and wonder. The tree is long gone and the truth is I’ll never know for sure.

My wife lost her wedding ring in May. We eventually found it in November. We were pretty actively looking for it for the whole time. Checked all the vents. Moved the over, fridge, dishwasher, bed, washer and drier. You name it, we checked it. Eventually disassembled the sectional couch and found it under one of the sections. Which was weird because there were no gaps that it should have been able to fall through to get under there. Like, you couldn’t slide a penny under the couch.

I guess 25ish years?

There’s a comedian I saw on An Evening at the Improv in the late 1980s who was doing a detective schtick.

The joke I remember is “Either this man was stabbed to death with a spoon, or his entire body is breaking out in little smiles.”

I searched and searched for the clip and finally found one link, just one…

That was me having asked the same question a decade prior.

The title of the song Why Don’t You by Gramophonedzie. I heard the song playing on radio a long time ago, probably probably around the time it came out in 2010. I didn’t know the lyrics nor the artist and eventually forgot about the song. Then, many years later, I heard people saying good things about a certain Fallout: New Vegas and decided to play it to see what the big deal was. Well, the game has radio stations you can tune in and to my surprise the original song by Peggy Lee which Gramophonedzie remixed is in there. I heard it and instantly thought “…wait, could it be that song?” Well, it was, and I have to thank F:NV for that cause I don’t think I’d ever have found that song otherwise.

Walk by Pantera. I used to play it on my Xbox 360 while I played Lost Planet back in high school and even back then I never did know the name of the song. All I knew was the distinctive riff in the song. Then, by pure chance, I heard that riff in a YouTube video nearly 8 or something years later

Still waiting on my dad returning with cigarettes. I hope he’s ok.