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So I've been talking to a friend about a movie that I fondly remember from the 80s called 'The Concierge' but after an IMDB search I found it was actually called 'For Love or Money'. Now I have ALWAYS known it at 'The Concierge' and spent a long afternoon trying to find proof it was a regional title with zero luck. Turns out a case of False Memory which has been popularized as Mandela Effect: quote:In 2010 this shared false memory phenomenon was dubbed the Mandela effect by self-described "paranormal consultant" Fiona Broome in reference to her false memory of the death of South African leader Nelson Mandela in the 1980s (he actually died in December 2013), which she claimed was shared by "perhaps thousands" of other people. Here are some personal ones myself and friends have discussed: As I mentioned before: 'For Love or Money' not 'The Concierge'  Tune Squad not Toon Squad I knew it was Looney Tunes, but swore it was ToonSquad as they were cartoon characters  Tinkerbell didn't write the Disney text or used her wand to make the Disney castle appear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JJ9Ei-2C5Y Monopoly Man doesn't have a Monocle  Even In Ace Ventura it's incorrectly referenced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ydY5sBnIg Magic Mirror vs Mirror on the Wall I know it's originally Mirror Mirror but swore the Evil Witch in the Disney movie still had it as Mirror Mirror, but nope! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br0DCEEBplY Goons, I am interested in any you have stuffed away in your brain that weren't wiped when we changed dimensions. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 12:03 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Never put much stock in this sort of thing but have to admit The Berenstein/stain Bears one got me good. https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/news/a32934/the-berenstein-berenstain-bears-conspiracy-theory/ https://news.avclub.com/how-you-spell-the-berenstain-bears-could-be-proof-of-1798282836 quote:Those who remember the name as “Berenstain” are native to this “A” Universe, while those who are sure it’s “Berenstein” traveled over from the “E” Universe. There's also the Berensteen Bears version. Still swear that somewhere in a box at my parents house is book clearly titled "The Berenstein Bears." tldr; memory fuzzy,
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Aug 31, 2020 15:30
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Stickied for a bit. I love this subject.
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Sep 3, 2020 14:00
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Funny, I always thought it was the "Mandala" effect, as in the universe / you came from a different one. Makes more sense than naming it after a public figure you thought was dead for 20 + years, IMO.
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Sep 3, 2020 15:33
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I'm always skeptical about this sort of thing, as I vividly remember Nelson Mandela being very much alive while I was young and also thinking it was weird that it was spelled "Berenstain" when everybody I knew said "Berenstein." But the one that really did get me is that Fruit of the Loom never had a cornucopia in its logo. 
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Sep 3, 2020 15:47
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For me it's the fact that Jaws' girlfriend in Moonraker doesn't have braces. It totally makes sense for her to have them, but nope.
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Sep 3, 2020 17:39
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Does "news at 11" or "film at 11" count? Because that's a thing that people reference all the time despite not actually being a thing that was ever said.
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Sep 3, 2020 18:55
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Fister Roboto posted:Does "news at 11" or "film at 11" count? Because that's a thing that people reference all the time despite not actually being a thing that was ever said. Well huh. Here's one: A few years back there was a movie quote that people were trying to track down. The characters are looking at a weird device and have an exchange like this The first character asks: "What does it do?" The second replies: "It doesn’t do anything. That’s the beauty of it.” Everyone seems sure it came from Willy Wonka. or Hitchhiker's Guide or Weird Science or The Big Lebowski, Real Genius, Back to the Future, Buckaroo Banzai, or hell maybe Gremlins Eventually two sources are found, an old tv show and a play, neither of which were hugely well known. Which doesn't help explain why everyone (including me) seemed so sure they knew exactly where they'd heard it. Brains really are weird. Here's an article about it, with a cameo from our very own forums for good measure. https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/21/14952294/what-does-it-do-thats-the-beauty-of-it-movie-quote-source a kitten has a new favorite as of 20:18 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 19:45
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a kitten posted:The first character asks: "What does it do?" Interesting, I've wondered about that one forever too, I knew it from the Adventures in Odyssey Christian radio show that we listened to growing up in our super conservative household. It was probably a secondhand quote, but there were enough oddball references in that series that I could also imagine one of the writers remembering it from an old tv show and just throwing it in.
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Sep 3, 2020 19:54
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What got me was when I learned that We are the Champions by Queen apparently doesn't end with "...of the world". But then I googled more and while the original release doesn't have that, the popular recording from some live version apparently does which is where people remember it from. How disappointing. No paralel universes after all.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:51
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I love the amount of galaxy brain required to decide that its utterly impossible you're misremembering something amd much more reasonable to believe that universes are collapsing around you conveniently in such a way as to justify any mistakes you make. It rules.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:58
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How'd this get this many posts in before the Internet Comment Etiquette video was posted (slightly NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYonTBRM0VI
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Sep 3, 2020 21:30
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Well, I guess there's some overlap with the previous post's video, but drat it I just had this one pop up in my recommendations and I liked it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGgUrj10HdM I had no idea the term was coined by one woo peddling lady a kitten has a new favorite as of 07:53 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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Sep 4, 2020 07:50
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a kitten posted:Well huh. This honestly just seems to be a case of the memetic nature of information transmission-- mutations and exchanging plasmid fragments lol
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Sep 4, 2020 11:55
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Rexxed posted:How'd this get this many posts in before the Internet Comment Etiquette video was posted (slightly NSFW): Are you sure you're remembering it right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6cOkZbWZME
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Sep 5, 2020 03:51
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astral posted:Are you sure you're remembering it right? That evil African time warlock has been loving up my memory all my life.
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Sep 5, 2020 04:21
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AFewBricksShy posted:For me it's the fact that Jaws' girlfriend in Moonraker doesn't have braces. It totally makes sense for her to have them, but nope. I remember her having braces also this line from the Mandela wiki:  Seems kind of random to add that into this paragraph...
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Sep 5, 2020 05:41
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EL-P of Run the Jewels wrote a line about itEl-P posted:Aye, aye kids timeline's hosed, might as well go with it
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Sep 5, 2020 08:04
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Fister Roboto posted:Does "news at 11" or "film at 11" count? Because that's a thing that people reference all the time despite not actually being a thing that was ever said. “film at 11” was absolutely a thing..? just before your time
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Sep 5, 2020 08:40
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Nope, sorry, I'm not wrong. You must be from a different timeline.
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Sep 5, 2020 19:19
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I wonder how many mandela effect things are the result of lovely offbrands being sneakily sold in stores
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Sep 5, 2020 19:26
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"Luke, I am your father"
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Sep 5, 2020 19:40
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blatman posted:I wonder how many mandela effect things are the result of lovely offbrands being sneakily sold in stores lovely offbrand realities being sneakily placed in the timeline
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Sep 5, 2020 20:33
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A fun story: people started attributing "I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met" to John Green. He came to believe that it was an actual quote from his novel Paper Towns because, hey, it sounds like something he'd write. There was merchandise and everything. The problem is that the line actually came from a random teenager's Tumblr. She gets the royalties from the posters now.
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blatman posted:I wonder how many mandela effect things are the result of lovely offbrands being sneakily sold in stores Quite a few, possibly. The movie title thing in the OP reminded me that I have a VHS of a Danny Devito TV movie titled The Mogul. Except the movie was actually called The Ratings Game. My copy is a bootleg but it's not super obvious. I can see how something like that could make someone think they totally misremembered something. Edmund Sparkler has a new favorite as of 20:02 on Sep 6, 2020 |
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Sep 6, 2020 20:00
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 It was released as 'The Concierge' in Australia, the UK, Ireland, and Finland apparently (according to IMDB). I won't get into a rant here but I really don't like the 'Mandela Effect' and the bullshit it spawned. Garrand has a new favorite as of 01:27 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Sep 7, 2020 01:08
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I, my friends, and family all thought Chevy Chase was dead right up until Community first premiered.
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Sep 7, 2020 02:07
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The "Film at 11" thing is from Kentucky Fried Movie I think? Here
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Sep 7, 2020 02:10
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Garrand posted:
Thanks! I am Aussie so makes perfect sense I saw it in video stores as that!
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This is the huge one for me, so much so that I make a cameo from these very forums in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5PfcfZHWrE I mean, I heard Indy clear as day through the theater sound system tell Mutt in his gruff voice, “In your dreams, kid.” followed by audience laughter. What I forgot to mention was that I saw a digital version of the movie at a [then] newly built theater that boasted “all digital projection,” so I’m thinking it’s an opening weekend digital-only (no 35mm print) thing that was changed almost immediately. Why mention that? Because A) I mentioned “print” in the original post when I meant to say “digital version,” and B) this dude found an original 35mm print that doesn’t have the line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdf3S4s0iJM But that loving line was there opening weekend. I KNOW it was.
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So like, I know for a fact hearing Indy say “In your dreams, kid.” has to exist somehow somewhere in a vault heavily guarded by George Lucas’ thugs, right? Or maybe on a dusty cobweb-riddled hard drive forgotten since 2008 in a storage room of a digital movie theater? A super rare bootleg cam rip recorded opening day? I know I’m not the only goon who heard “In your dreams, kid.” back in May of 2008. You Are A Werewolf has a new favorite as of 04:48 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Dreadwroth2 posted:The "Film at 11" thing is from Kentucky Fried Movie I think? no. KFM took from, like, every tv station in the country. It was a legit thing, as was "news at 11" or whatever. You still see commercials for it but they've changed the language..."Big crash on Interstate 50, what this means for your morning commute, more at 9" or whatever.
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You can probably find someone saying exactly "film at 11" in a news sign off or evening bumper but its probably pedants going "noone ever really said it lol!" In markets with evening and nightly news you'd sign off the evening news (and it'd often get recycled as the evening's bumper) with "did you know about *investigative story XYZ*? Find out more at 10. Then stay tuned for the movie at 11: Ferris Bueller's Day Off" The abbreviated version entered discourse as an joke where you substitute some absolutely crazy news, real or conspiracy, and signify ironic complacency that you still show the dumb movie after what should be world shattering news i.e. "reptilians were responsible for 9/11? Find out more tonight. Film at 11". News sign offs and bumpers are almost always going to say the movie but it added nothing to the joke so it fell off and it further shortened to just being a pure signifier of complacency with barely or without any news headline as part of the joke.
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I was convinced there were two precocious child protagonists of the movie ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ played by Mara Wilson and also a younger brother played by the youngest child actor from ‘Homeward Bound’. I must have somehow conflated the two movies. Years later I had a similar revelation when I found out the brassy babysitter from Beethoven (that other classic 90s dog movie) wasn’t played by Patricia Routledge of Keeping Up Appearances fame. As a kid I distinctly remembered it being her.
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The subreddit for the mandela effect is called r/retconned and is a hive of undiagnosed mental illness and comedy The cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo - doesnt exist. They never had one
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I, my friends, and family all thought Chevy Chase was dead right up until Community first premiered. Only his career was dead.
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:The subreddit for the mandela effect is called r/retconned and is a hive of undiagnosed mental illness and comedy I checked out that subreddit and the #9 top post of all time is "John Titors first message in 1998 explains the Mandela Effect. [THEORY]". Two of the top 25 posts are about the Fruit of the Loom logo and another two were basically this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8 
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Sep 8, 2020 16:11
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I definitely remember john titor having a cornucopia too
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Sep 8, 2020 18:06
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So what do we call the thing where we all thought we dreamed The Peanut Butter film but then were surprised that it was actually a real film? Because I really got that when I saw it posted here last.
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Not sure if it entirely belongs, but the song Tubthumping was by a band called Chumbawamba 
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