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 ☹️

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.

The Meaning of Life

20+ years and counting…

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For the longest time my white whale was a meme video that could not be found online. In 2010, at the summit of Mt. Washington, I was on a camping trip with a large summer camp group. There is a tourist trap/weather monitoring facility and at the time, in the basement, was a little history exibit about the place. There was a TV in the lobby that had a clip of a video made by the meteorologists called “The Breakfast of Champions”, and I wanted to see it. Only problem is that it cost 2$ to get in and teenage Bahnd had no cash.

The video consists of two of the people who worked at the facility and a very brave camera man, attempt to wait a table outside on the patio. For those who do not know, Mt Washington NH as some of the worst weather in the northern hemisphere, firstly because it is the highest mountian in eastern north america, and because they bother to write it down there. The video shows one person attemping to serve cereal+milk and toast to another guy attemping to hold down a card table & table cloth in ~140 mph winds. Footings are eventually lost and the table is blown down the mountian.

I returned to Mt. Washington, I want to say I went back in 2019, with a fresh 2$ bill (shut up, I can be weird) to finally see the video, only to find the building had been renovated and the exibit had been removed. I asked the staff and in 2017 it had been uploaded to the internet. Link to The Breakfast of Champions.

Now you all can see the meme that was almost lost to time, and I never saw until long after it was already moved online.

I’ve spend 30 years (as of October 2nd) looking for “BORT” novelty license plates in every gift and souvenir shop I’ve been in.

I’ll let you know when I find it.

Honestly it took 21 years to find a reason to live.

However it also took 22 years to find a name I actually liked.

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.

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

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 once had a Super Nintendo game involving a phoenix that I actually spent money in a pay phone calling Nintendo power over.

Still don’t know the name of that game and I’ve been trying to figure it out for 20 years.

At one point I thought it was guiding light

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!?

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.

It won’t be the longest time compared to others that commented here, nor will it be the funniest one, but it ought to be the stupidest thing one has searched for.

I spend the last couple months searching for a 1$ notebook (without any important or precious notes in it) plus the 0.50$ crystal Bic pen that accompanied it.

I don’t care about these two but I also cannot understand how/where/when I lost them. It just makes no sense. So, for the last two months I’ve been searching everywhere, which also means searching every single one of the many streets I could have walked by (I try to go everywhere I can walking).

And, yep, I am still searching today. Maybe not as actively but I still am. And that still drives me crazy to not know what happened to them :p

On the other hand, around the same time I also lost a portable Samsung SSD drive that was worth a couple hundred. But this one I barely searched for it as I was almost certain I had mistakenly put it in bag of stuff I gave away to a charity (yep, the drive was encrypted, like all my other drives) ;)

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