Mandela Effect

[GrandTheftWalrus]

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?

@ButtercupOfFlorin

Queen most definitely sing ‘of the world’ in We Are The Champions - very easy to have checked this!

It was also at end though, they don’t end with it in the current version.

@tothesea

I can remember the first series of Friends had different opening credits but there is nothing on-line about it and no-one else remembers it. It ended with them sitting on a sofa with their backs to the camera and one of them turned the lamp off but they were outside. Weird.

Surely that is the original opening credits of Friends?

I had a shock when I found out Mandela didn't die in prison. I actually had the original Mandela effect

No they weren’t at the fountain they were in a desert or something. Starting to think I dreamt it!

There was a different opening with "shiny happy people" used then they decided on the one we know today.

I also remember it as Looney Toons not Looney Tunes. Toons = as in short for cartoons, as well as being a pun on tunes.
Fruit of the Loom clothes had a picture of a cornucopia on the label. I remember seeing the label on a sweatshirt as a child and not knowing what the cornucopia was meant to be and thinking it was an odd shaped basket. Turns out they never had a cornucopia on the label.
Another cartoon one: in the Wacky Races theme song, the lyrics were "catch the pigeon, catch the pigeon" It was actually "stop the pigeon".

@tothesea

No they weren’t at the fountain they were in a desert or something. Starting to think I dreamt it!

Ooh intriguing! Might have a search tomorrow

Walkers quite clearly state, their cheese and onion crisps have never been green (in the UK, under the 'Walkers' name).

No ones changed the colour of Walkers crisps.

What has happened though is that Golden Wonder used to (for most people) be the dominant brand - green cheese and onion.

Walkers took over, (buy outs, mergers, etc) - theirs were always blue.

You've switched brand without realising, rather than the company switching colours.

Now of course, some companies follow Walkers (particularly supermarket own brands because mimicking big brand packaging as much as they can get away with is a smart move), and some don't.

Dibdabs.

I'll never believe they were dipdabs

@OverByYer

Cheese and onion was always green packs until Walkers came along

if a company makes a small change in the world, and then denies it, this can gradually erode people's sense of reality.

The movie quote from forest gump, people think he said "life is like a box of chocolates" when he actually said "life was like a box of chocolates"

I find these interesting, but none of the common examples resonate with me.

I remember Mandela dying in prison too

I also remember (and this one is really crackers) feeling utterly confused when the sign of a heart attack suddenly became shooting pain in your right arm and your heart was in the middle of your torso, not on the left

I only just about adjusted to this weird fact, and then it switched back again to left arm and left side, where it is now, (I hope)

@OmgIThinkILikeYou

My main one is Britney Spears absolutely had a headset in the oops I did it again video. I remember it vividly!

She did in another video

Far be it for me to add to the confusion/argument, but the best cheese and onion crisps come in a yellow packet...

@AliceMcK

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.

I remember that

@TheFoldOx

Far be it for me to add to the confusion/argument, but the best cheese and onion crisps come in a yellow packet...

ohh ghastly horrible stuff, tastes like dried puke in a packet, off with you

A lot of Americans remember the Monopoly man (Rich Uncle Pennybags) as having a monocle. Supposedly it's mixing it up with Mr Peanut, who does.

Golden Wonder and Smiths were the competing crisp manufactures of my childhood and salt and vinegar was blue, cheese and onion green. Then Walkers took off with their reversed colours. So not a false memory, rather people being too young to remember the older brands dominance changing to Walkers.

Alway knew there was 50 states, 50 stars. Hawaii 5 - oh helps with that. 52 weeks in a year and 52 cards in a deck, though.

I can clearly remember Nelson Mandela being freed and becoming President of SA. Remember the news coverage, it was fantastic!

I’ve never actually seen Snow White all the way through, just clips on Disney Time. Mirror, mirror was how the fairytale was translated, though.

Freddy Mercury did sing, ‘of the world’ sometimes.

Some of the others are just common misquotes which become more famous than the original.

A yellow cheese and onion packet actually makes sense.

Blue for salt and vinegar makes sense because if the association with fish and chips and sea salt and the sea.

Not sure what actually "makes sense" for a green packet. Something with the word pickle in it, because pickles are green? But then usually the flavour is pickle onion and they are... Not green.

Brown makes sense for BBQ, pink for prawns works, and that darker brownish pink for smokey bacon.

@needmoreshinys

I think the 52 States of America comes from the fact that in schools they use to teach its 50 States of America and Alaska and Hawaii instead of Its 50 States of America including Alaska and Hawaii

The theft of Hawaii made It 50.

Hopefully the Hawaiian people gain their independence (and soon). The great Hawaiian singer and sovereignty activist Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (most famously sang “Over the rainbow”) sadly never got to see his land become free, but hopefully those who are alive today will.

I have a friend who writes quizzes for a job and he did HUGE research into the We Are The Champions thing.....and it was never an official version but became known because of Live Aid.

I am fascinated by the Mandela Effect. I have had many of those although oddly, never the Mandela one :o

Flying the Union Flag upside-down is a very discreet distress signal.

Thanks for the Mandela reminder - wondered why you never hear Free Nelson Mandela on the radio any more ... it's actually just called Nelson Mandela, so I even caught myself out.

I just remembered one of mine......that Clive Dunn was dead many many years before he was.

Apparently he was only in his 40's when he played Cpl Jones in Dad's Army, which lead to a lot of people thinking he must have died a lot earlier than he did.

@tothesea

I can remember the first series of Friends had different opening credits but there is nothing on-line about it and no-one else remembers it. It ended with them sitting on a sofa with their backs to the camera and one of them turned the lamp off but they were outside. Weird.