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Mandela Effect

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GrandTheftWalrus · 27/02/2022 19:26

Just been reading up on this and it's fascinating.

One of mine is the monopoly man not having a monocle, I could've swore he did.

Anyone else have any good ones?

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sashh · 01/03/2022 05:39

@PyongyangKipperbang

Re 9/11....

For a long time I thought I had seen the second plane go in, but I spent a long time thinking about it at work today (yes I was bored!).

It was very much Little House on the Prairie for me when it happened as I was PG with DC3 and had such severe SPD/PGP that I couldnt leave the house without a wheelchair. So I spent my days in a rocking chair as it eased my pain, hand sewing her crib drapes..... you get the picture. Then there was breaking news.

I saw the footage of the first plane and there was a live report and back and forth to the studio and I now do remember that there was "reports of a second plane" and then it went to hell. I think I (and others) confused the footage of the first plane being shown with the news that a second plane had gone in, which is why in my head I was so sure I had seen the second plane hitting.

I was also 100% sure that a plane didnt hit the Pentagon, that there were reports of another hijack but that it didnt hit it's target. I only found out a couple of years ago that I was wrong, that the Pentagon did get hit and that the fourth plane didnt hit its target.

You didn't see the footage of the first plane, that wasn't on TV on the day.

Jules Naudet who filmed it followed the firefighters he was with to the twin towers.

custardbear · 01/03/2022 07:38

Mandela was released when I was 18 and I remember being so confused as I'd thought he'd died, completely convinced!

tothesea · 01/03/2022 08:25

Well I contacted Ch4 and they deny there were ever desert based opening credits to Friends. It’s a conspiracy I tell thee!

WomanStanleyWoman · 01/03/2022 09:03

@tothesea, hold on to your hat - I have solved your desert credit mystery!!

It came to me in a flash and YouTube has just confirmed it for me. The credits you remember are actually for the first season of Ellen, which started on Channel 4 at around the same time - and which even starred Maggie Wheeler, who plays Janice in Friends, in its first season:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdEvxcN3zQ

BadHairDayExpert · 01/03/2022 09:44

Ooh, impressive sleuthing there stan

those credit titles sure suck though! Grin

WomanStanleyWoman · 01/03/2022 09:57

Guessing not just the credits, as they changed half the cast in the second season!

BadHairDayExpert · 01/03/2022 09:59

SexPeopleLynn
(excellent username)
The ending you mentioned is from a godawful movie called 14 going on 30 (not to be confused with 13 going on 30 which I love)

The problem with many of these movies is the ick factor looking back!
HeyGepetto · 01/03/2022 10:16

@ReeseWitherfork

Amusingly the big one for me is the Mandela one. I swear I remember him dying decades ago.

Does the number of US states count as an example? It's so common for people to think there are 52 and it drives me bonkers.

I’m sure I remember being taught this at secondary school (as does an old school friend), I also remember being really surprised when I realised there were 50, so I think we were actually taught wrong.
ememem84 · 01/03/2022 10:40

@WestendVBroadway

The fifty states Of America is easy to remember (well for me anyway) Just think of the TV series Hawaii Five-0, Hawaii being the last state added.
how did i not notice that.....
WhyPaulMemory · 01/03/2022 10:45

@NewNormalLife

A colleague was eating a blue riband bar this morning.. I said I swear it used to be called blue ribbon but apparently not. I then had to look it up. First time I've heard of the Mandela effect
I can 100% guarantee that it's always been a Blue Riband, as my DH's granddad came up with the name! They ran a competition at the factory for the staff to come up with the name of their new chocolate bar and he won. Back in the 1930s. I've seen this one come up on Mandela Effect threads before, I think your brain just expects it to be Ribbon, but it never has been.
FatOaf · 01/03/2022 10:49

and the 52 States. I'm sire I learnt that in school.

I hope all this is opening people's eyes to the fact that a lot of things you were taught at school were incorrect.

FatOaf · 01/03/2022 10:55

The biscuit/bar has always been Blue Riband. The same name as the award for the fastest trans-Atlantic passenger liner.

Going completely off-topic, but why did Kit Kat completely drive the greatly superior Terry's Waifa out of the market?

tothesea · 01/03/2022 11:12

Womanstanleywoman oh my good god..you’re right!! I have conflated the two series. I guess the sofa and lamp confuddled me. Excellent sleuthing and mystery solving. Unfortunately it also means I have been wrong all these years 😩

Mushrooms0up · 01/03/2022 11:15

The 52 states thing I think was a weird 90s rumour, similar to when someone at school pretends to be clever and comes up with things like ‘I know a guy you fell backwards off his chair and cracked his head open’. ‘You swallow 8 spiders a night’.

I KNOW there’s 50 states, but I remember in primary school there was a definite trend where people were adamant it had changed to 52, and pre internet you couldn’t immediately disprove them so it became a thing.

MarshaBradyo · 01/03/2022 11:16

@Mushrooms0up

The 52 states thing I think was a weird 90s rumour, similar to when someone at school pretends to be clever and comes up with things like ‘I know a guy you fell backwards off his chair and cracked his head open’. ‘You swallow 8 spiders a night’.

I KNOW there’s 50 states, but I remember in primary school there was a definite trend where people were adamant it had changed to 52, and pre internet you couldn’t immediately disprove them so it became a thing.

It’s weird because I was in a school in Aus so it’s pretty wide ranging
CounsellorTroi · 01/03/2022 11:36

@FatOaf

The biscuit/bar has always been Blue Riband. The same name as the award for the fastest trans-Atlantic passenger liner.

Going completely off-topic, but why did Kit Kat completely drive the greatly superior Terry's Waifa out of the market?

I thought Blue Riband was also a margarine u til I googled and found it was actually Blue Band.
Mollysocks · 01/03/2022 11:43

@Mushrooms0up

The 52 states thing I think was a weird 90s rumour, similar to when someone at school pretends to be clever and comes up with things like ‘I know a guy you fell backwards off his chair and cracked his head open’. ‘You swallow 8 spiders a night’.

I KNOW there’s 50 states, but I remember in primary school there was a definite trend where people were adamant it had changed to 52, and pre internet you couldn’t immediately disprove them so it became a thing.

I have a distinct memory of us learning about America and drawing the flag, I was 7 or 8 at the time so around ‘95/‘96. I remember being told each star on the flag represents a state and so 52 stars. I’ve remembered this number since because of 52 weeks in a year and 52 cards in a deck. So odd.
Allthegoodnamesaregoneffs · 01/03/2022 14:49

I saw Sherbet Dip Dabs in the shop earlier today, saw them and thought of this thread.

rainbowmash · 01/03/2022 15:41

@MolkosTeenageAngst - I remember there being a few fake news reports about Neil Buchannan dying of colon cancer, started by some pranksters around 2010. He's very much alive, but you may well have read something saying he wasn't!

Boysgrownbutstillathome · 01/03/2022 17:42

@Redannie118

The last line of "We are the champions" by Queen. The Mandela effect is everyone thinks the line is " "No time for losers, cos we are the champions- of the world" The last line is in fact" NO time for losers cos we are the champions" No one knows where the " Of the world" bit comes from. I have a very very vivid memory of Freddie singing it, but it never happened !
"Of the world" comes earlier in the song but is not repeated in the last line.
crispmidnightpeace · 01/03/2022 17:42

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor

Cheese and onion crisps were in a green packet I swear....apparently they weren't.Confused
They were! Another one I am 100% sure of which makes three! Wow. What causes this?
WotsitsMadeIn1927 · 01/03/2022 17:49

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor yes they were!!! I was born in the 1980s

purplebunny2012 · 01/03/2022 17:52

Walkers crisps apparently never used to have colours for salt n vinegar and cheese onion the common way around, but I can clearly remember them making the change!

Ohchristmastreeohchristmastree · 01/03/2022 17:54

Dolly’s braces (James Bond) - she never had braces!!!!
Fruit of the Loom logo - there was never a basket!!!
The portrait of Dorian Grey is actually ‘The picture’!!!
These blow my mind. Also there are loads of connections to Tom Hanks and Sally Field(s).

Howareyouflower · 01/03/2022 18:09

@Redannie118

The last line of "We are the champions" by Queen. The Mandela effect is everyone thinks the line is " "No time for losers, cos we are the champions- of the world" The last line is in fact" NO time for losers cos we are the champions" No one knows where the " Of the world" bit comes from. I have a very very vivid memory of Freddie singing it, but it never happened !
I'm just going to look it up, but didn't Freddie sing it at Live Aid?