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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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Ohyesiam · 27/02/2022 22:09

I must always have been in this reality as none of these resonate with me.
How dull.

AliceMcK · 27/02/2022 22:12

April Levine music video to Sk8ter boy. I swear the original video has the girl sat at home with a baby watching the boy on mtv and her in the crowd at his concert. But no search can find that video. Lots of people remember it, others don’t.

Mushrooms0up · 27/02/2022 22:21

@OmgIThinkILikeYou is there not a headset?! Everyone at my office has a running joke about being like Britney whenever someone has one of those headphone type things

throughtheair · 27/02/2022 22:25

The one that gets me is Risky Business. Tom Cruise doesn't slide in wearing a white shirt and sunglasses, it's a pink shirt and no sunglasses.

Mapletreelane · 27/02/2022 22:25

[quote Firstworddinosaur]I saw a great video on this by LEMMiNO with all the classic ones. Bernstein Bears, Ford logo I think. Are we allowed to post YouTube links ... I'll try... [/quote]
Mind blown. Just watched this. Jaws's girlfriend and the non braces. Would have sworn she had braces. And C3P0s silver leg??.!! Who knew!

curlii103 · 27/02/2022 22:25

@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 !
What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SukiPook · 27/02/2022 22:29

I have one from my own life. Friend's dad is a good laugh and has a nickname (have changed this slightly), Dodie. I swear he was always called that... that is how I always heard it pronounced by others, and how I pronounced it.
Then years later I am told it is Duddy, not Dodie. And from then on I only hear people calling him that. Occasionally I complain to my friends that it definitely was Dodie before and that I've slipped into a parallel universe 😄

LadyLothbrook · 27/02/2022 22:30

Britney has a headset on in 'oops I did it again'...I think Grin

covetingthepreciousthings · 27/02/2022 22:31

Pikachu having a black stripe at the end of his tail.

LadyLothbrook · 27/02/2022 22:32

OK I just watched it and she doesn't. Why do I remember her having one on???

throughtheair · 27/02/2022 22:33

Oh and I could have sworn Danielle Steel was Danielle Steele, but apparently not.

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/02/2022 22:33

Never noticed the Britney one.

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lemmein · 27/02/2022 22:34

@user1473878824

I still just simply refuse to believe it’s not Interview With A Vampire.
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GrandTheftWalrus · 27/02/2022 22:34

I always thought it was interview with the vampire.

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MolkosTeenageAngst · 27/02/2022 22:35

@LaForza101

I swear Skechers used to be Sketchers!
Yes! I am sure they used to be sketchers as well, I had a pair in my teens when Britney Spears modelled them and was really surprised when a few years ago I bought a pair and they said Skechers.

Another vivid memory I have is Neil Buchanan from art attack dying of colon cancer. I believed he was dead for years until I watched a citv anniversary show and they had him commentating on his time on the show, very much alive. I have a memory of seeing news articles about his illness and death and of talking about it with other people but apparently it never happened.

ReeseWitherfork · 27/02/2022 22:35

@LadyLothbrook

OK I just watched it and she doesn't. Why do I remember her having one on???
Because tbf Britney spent 95% of her music career with a headset mic on.

Also... Oops I did it again Barbie comes with a headset. So maybe you had one of those?

throughtheair · 27/02/2022 22:37

Also, St John's Ambulance actually being called St John Ambulance troubles me

NippyWoowoo · 27/02/2022 22:37

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor

Cheese and onion crisps were in a green packet I swear....apparently they weren't.Confused
It's because in Lays, the onion and vinegar packet colours are swapped round.
Mandela Effect
NippyWoowoo · 27/02/2022 22:38

@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 was taught this in primary school 😭 we were taught that there were 50 inland states and that Alaska and Hawaii made 52
notacooldad · 27/02/2022 22:39

all Heytheredemons Sun 27-Feb-22 21:11:14
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 !
Umm yes it did. Full lyrics below

On some lyric web pages it says ‘ of the world’ on other wage pages it doesn’t have the last bit on. 🤷‍♀️

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/02/2022 22:42

Again I always thought sketchers was spelt with a T.

But just checked dh trainers and there is no T.

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LolaLuffnagal · 27/02/2022 22:44

"Hello Clarice" was never said. Apparently it was "good morning Clarice'🤔

And Britney totally had a headset!!

notaregularmomes · 27/02/2022 22:46

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor

Cheese and onion crisps were in a green packet I swear....apparently they weren't.Confused
They 100 percent were
livyaz · 27/02/2022 22:49

Mentioned already, but the James Bond baddie jaws meeting the little blonde WITH BRACES!!!
They smiled at each other I can see it with my eyes clearly!!!!

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