Mandela Effect Thread

My wife and i both remember a snowstorm late march 2003 after we got back from our honeymoon. We have told many people the story, about how it was 70 degrees during our trip and how it snowed almost 2 feet when we got back.

It never happened according to weather records.
 
I think a lot of these "effects" are just due to popular culture getting things a little big wrong, or bending them to be a more catchy phrase and the rest of us not being a subject matter expert enough to get it. (Wait, wait, stay with me til the end on this.)

Example: "Luke, I am your father" works a lot better as a stand alone reference than "No, I am your father" because people immediately get that you're talking about star wars.. vs just being creepy about your paternity.

Some also come from your brain quickly learning things in passing and making a little bit of a logical leap.

Example: I bet everyone of us learned about immigrants coming to the US, seeing the statue of liberty, and then landing at Ellis island to be processed. The focus of the story is immigrants and Ellis island, and there's a chance that when you learned about it, the name of the island that the actual statue of liberty was on was never mentioned. So then later when someone askes you what island the statue of liberty is on, your brain just associates it with Ellis island because those two things have been remembered hand in hand since the beginning.

Then there's some that might just not have been clear. I clearly remember the BerenSTEIN bears, but I was little, the font was in cursive, and we've got people out there even saying it was BEARenSTEIN bears, so there could have just been parents and teachers and whatnot pronouncing it badly and not caring.

So yeah, you can look at some of these effects and sort of figure out why people would have a different notion about it. but there are others that really bother me.

Nelson Mandela Himself- I swear up and down that I heard about his death on the radio while riding home from soccer practice with my mom. We even talked about it. Not sure how or where my brain could have mixed that up. I've heard some people say people could be mixing him up for Steve Biko(another dude who died in prison in South Africa), but that happened before I was born and I had never heard of that guy before that theory.

Fruit of the loom- I remember the Cornucopia. I can't explain where I could have made that logical leap to add it, since there's only fruit and textile manufacturing mentioned in the name of the product, and really a cornucopia isn't something that I commonly saw or thought of in my childhood.

There are a few others. Enough to give make me think twice.



So if the multi-universe theory is correct, does that mean anyone who doesn't remember things the other way didn't exist in our old universe? or they didn't get replaced or? :stirthepot:
 
I have an ex girlfriend from way back. We were together during a deployment to SEA. I distinctly remember her having a broken leg during the time we were together. Right down to the details on how it happened.

We reconnected a couple years ago and when I mentioned it she informed me that she has never broken a bone.:confused:
 
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Grnd93 said:
I have an ex girlfriend from way back. We were together during a deployment to SEA. I distinctly remember having a broken leg during the time we were together. Right down to the details on how it happened.

We reconnected a couple years ago and when I mentioned it she informed me that she has never broken a bone.:confused:
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You had a broken leg, but she has never broke a bone?
 
Engnmonkey said:
My wife and i both remember a snowstorm late march 2003 after we got back from our honeymoon. We have told many people the story, about how it was 70 degrees during our trip and how it snowed almost 2 feet when we got back.

It never happened according to weather records.
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Where was that?
 
Harry Johnson said:
Example: "Luke, I am your father" works a lot better as a stand alone reference than "No, I am your father" because people immediately get that you're talking about star wars.. vs just being creepy about your paternity.
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Naw, it's the crappy James Earl Jones impression that conveys that :flipoff2:

Harry Johnson said:
Example: I bet everyone of us learned about immigrants coming to the US, seeing the statue of liberty, and then landing at Ellis island to be processed. The focus of the story is immigrants and Ellis island
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Everyone? :emb:


Harry Johnson said:
Nelson Mandela Himself- I swear up and down that I heard about his death on the radio while riding home from soccer practice with my mom. We even talked about it. Not sure how or where my brain could have mixed that up. I've heard some people say people could be mixing him up for Steve Biko(another dude who died in prison in South Africa), but that happened before I was born and I had never heard of that guy before that theory.
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I feel like this is a mixup with various **** taters and drug lords that died like that in that general time frame.
 
Harry Johnson said:
So if the multi-universe theory is correct, does that mean anyone who doesn't remember things the other way didn't exist in our old universe? or they didn't get replaced or? :stirthepot:
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No, they existed and they did not get replaced.
It's simply a glitch for those that recall any details from a prior dimension, like dejavu.

Consider many sheets of glass, side by side. Each it's own reality. If you shift from one to another the difference is so tiny and unnoticeable that everything seems exactly the same. But if you keep shifting, over and over into another direction, after a while some mundane changes could become significant.

If we told ourselves 20 years that in the future they would lock us down over a common cold and force people to take rushed injections, none of us would ever believe it. You can't make that kind of a jump from one sheet of glass to the one next to it, but after many jumps going unnoticed you're far enough into something else that when you "wake up" it feels alien to you all of a sudden.

A stolen election in the USA. Covid nonsense. Woke bull****. Riots on TV with Kamala asking for donations to bail out the criminals that were jailed. A senator from east coast twerking on her social media in a G string. This is all complete psycho **** fit for a psycho world.

I have no idea if we shift reality or not, or if the shift is psychological by mass effect of manipulation the population so we all slowly accept and deal with it over time, leading to more bull****, more degeneracy, more psycho world that shocks us yet makes us yawn at the same time.
 
ProjectTwin said:
Berenstain Bears or Berenstein Bears?
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Apparently both. Which brings up another possibility to cloudy the waters; possible counterfeit merchandise. If the discount store was the source for some knock-offs that your mum always bought, that may be what you associate as the correct name.
And in the case of the bear below, how much may be due to Americanization of the spelling?


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GM Guy said:
Apparently both. Which brings up another possibility to cloudy the waters; possible counterfeit merchandise. If the discount store was the source for some knock-offs that your mum always bought, that may be what you associate as the correct name.
And in the case of the bear below, how much may be due to Americanization of the spelling?


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The Jiffy/Jiff thing is because people are confusing Jiffy Pop popcorn with JIFF peanut butter.
 
Going In Style - movie from 1979 with George Burns and Art Carney. Three old dudes in a nursing home are bored beyond belief and decide to rob a bank to spice things up. If they get away with it, they're set. If they get caught, they figure they'll be lenient and prison can't be much worse than the nursing home.

https://www.imdb.com/***le/tt0079219/

My family went to see it and there was a line in it where they're planning the robbery and their plan is "We go in, we get the money, we get out, nobody gets hurt." Our family used that line for decades for anything where we had to go someplace and just get things done without ****ing around - grocery store, shopping for school supplies at the end of summer, etc.

My parents watched the movie the other year and there is nothing like that line in it anywhere...
 
The Mandela Effect is ******ed. People never remember inconsequential **** 100% accurately, your brain naturally fills in gaps with things it thinks make the most sense whether or not that's the reality. It's why there's so much emphasis in interviewing people directly after events because that's when you're getting the most accurate memories before people forget things and their brain starts remembering things differently.
 
PAToyota said:
Going In Style - movie from 1979 with George Burns and Art Carney. Three old dudes in a nursing home are bored beyond belief and decide to rob a bank to spice things up. If they get away with it, they're set. If they get caught, they figure they'll be lenient and prison can't be much worse than the nursing home.

https://www.imdb.com/***le/tt0079219/

My family went to see it and there was a line in it where they're planning the robbery and their plan is "We go in, we get the money, we get out, nobody gets hurt." Our family used that line for decades for anything where we had to go someplace and just get things done without ****ing around - grocery store, shopping for school supplies at the end of summer, etc.

My parents watched the movie the other year and there is nothing like that line in it anywhere...
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Wasn't that line from a 100 grand candy bar commercial? Bunch of old guys sitting g around the table. "What's the split?" "No split, 100 grand, 100 grand, 100 grand "
 
I think the bootleg products theory is solid and can explain some of this. My daughter is crazy about the Berenstain bears so we have lots of books on the shelf new and old. As far as I can tell it's been spelled stain from the 80's copyright to the current Amazon cartoon. I'd say that one is a good example of misspelled knock offs.
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I just learned recently that there was no author named "Franklin W. Dixon"; the Hardy Boys books were all written by a group of different people who just cranked them out non-stop. Same thing for Nancy Drew.
 
vetteboy79 said:
I just learned recently that there was no author named "Franklin W. Dixon"; the Hardy Boys books were all written by a group of different people who just cranked them out non-stop. Same thing for Nancy Drew.
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That's funny. Never read either series, but a team makes sense for getting the volume out.

Fake names and fake authors and even gender swapping has been so common with books, that it's success is almost certainly the direct reasons so many fake and modified names exist in hollywood.
 
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