The Mandela affect.

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He wasn't that nimble, silly beggar fell down a hill

No wonder. Joints dry because he ate no fat.
 

Threevok

Growing old disgracefully
Location
South Wales
Anyone know the one about the three goat kids that got ate by a wolf and when he was sleeping, they cut him open, replaced them with stones, and sewed the wolf back up. The wolf then drowns when he falls into the well, attempting to take a drink.

I remember hearing it as a child. Pretty gruesome though for today's market
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Anyone know the one about the three goat kids that got ate by a wolf and when he was sleeping, they cut him open, replaced them with stones, and sewed the wolf back up. The wolf then drowns when he falls into the well, attempting to take a drink.

I remember hearing it as a child. Pretty gruesome though for today's market
Same story, different number of goat kids. The mother does the cutting and sewing.

. When the story was adapted by Golden Book Video in 1986 on the videocassette 3 Richard Scarry Tales, the ending was modified so after finding the stones, the wolf vows to return, but a police officer arrives to interrogate him about his earlier thieveries. He goes out to his well to ditch the stones, but ends up falling down the well with them.
 

Shaun

Founder
Moderator
My daughter showed me some of these recently - I was sure I was 100% correct about the Forest Gump chocolates one, even hitting Youtube to find a video to prove her wrong, but nope - it's 'was' not 'is':
  • It’s Sex and the City, not Sex in the City

  • “We Are the Champions” by Queen - many of those familiar with the song remember the final lyrics being “No time for losers, ’cause we are the champions … of the world!” Guess what? There is no “of the world!” The song just ends but people feel 100% sure that they’ve heard otherwise in the past.

  • People think the Monopoly man, Rich Uncle Pennybags, has a monocle, but he doesn’t.

  • Darth Vader doesn’t say, “Luke, I am your father.” He actually says, “No, I am your father.”

  • C-3PO isn’t all gold. Many Star Wars fanatics recall C-3PO being completely gold and were greatly thrown off upon discovering that he’s supposedly had a silver leg the entire time. A lot of memorabilia doesn’t even feature the silver leg.

  • Kit-Kat doesn’t have a dash. It's KitKat.

  • Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It seems that the majority of people confidently remember Forrest Gump stating that his mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” Well, it turns out that he actually said, “Life was like a box of chocolates,” despite what you may’ve felt you distinctly remembered.

  • If you’ve seen The Silence of the Lambs, you know the most famous line is “Hello, Clarice.” The only problem is, that never happened — and when Clarice first meets Hannibal Lecter, he simply says, “Good morning.” That's it. How is a film’s most well-known line nonexistent?

  • Interview with the Vampire isn’t called Interview with a Vampire.

  • It's Fabreze not Fabreeze. The second e isn't in the product name, but it doesn't stop people searching Google for the 'ee' version more than the correct product name.

  • E.T.: When the wide-eyed extraterrestrial requested to contact his home planet he doesn’t say 'ET phone home' but actually 'ET home phone' - even still, it just doesn’t sound right ...

  • Crocodile Dundee, in the subway, to the knife wielding thugs, he says: "That's not a knife ... this is a knife!" - right? Well, no, what he actually says is "That's not a knife ... that's a knife!" as he holds his knife up.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
My daughter showed me some of these recently - I was sure I was 100% correct about the Forest Gump chocolates one, even hitting Youtube to find a video to prove her wrong, but nope - it's 'was' not 'is':
  • It’s Sex and the City, not Sex in the City

  • “We Are the Champions” by Queen - many of those familiar with the song remember the final lyrics being “No time for losers, ’cause we are the champions … of the world!” Guess what? There is no “of the world!” The song just ends but people feel 100% sure that they’ve heard otherwise in the past.

  • People think the Monopoly man, Rich Uncle Pennybags, has a monocle, but he doesn’t.

  • Darth Vader doesn’t say, “Luke, I am your father.” He actually says, “No, I am your father.”

  • C-3PO isn’t all gold. Many Star Wars fanatics recall C-3PO being completely gold and were greatly thrown off upon discovering that he’s supposedly had a silver leg the entire time. A lot of memorabilia doesn’t even feature the silver leg.

  • Kit-Kat doesn’t have a dash. It's KitKat.

  • Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It seems that the majority of people confidently remember Forrest Gump stating that his mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” Well, it turns out that he actually said, “Life was like a box of chocolates,” despite what you may’ve felt you distinctly remembered.

  • If you’ve seen The Silence of the Lambs, you know the most famous line is “Hello, Clarice.” The only problem is, that never happened — and when Clarice first meets Hannibal Lecter, he simply says, “Good morning.” That's it. How is a film’s most well-known line nonexistent?

  • Interview with the Vampire isn’t called Interview with a Vampire.

  • It's Fabreze not Fabreeze. The second e isn't in the product name, but it doesn't stop people searching Google for the 'ee' version more than the correct product name.

  • E.T.: When the wide-eyed extraterrestrial requested to contact his home planet he doesn’t say 'ET phone home' but actually 'ET home phone' - even still, it just doesn’t sound right ...

  • Crocodile Dundee, in the subway, to the knife wielding thugs, he says: "That's not a knife ... this is a knife!" - right? Well, no, what he actually says is "That's not a knife ... that's a knife!" as he holds his knife up.

Febreze, not Fabreze(I'd to check the label to make certain!) It's "full of "E's".
Wasn't the hold-up in a park?

I'll be corrected on both later, I bet.
 

Shaun

Founder
Moderator
So it is ... my own little Mandela effect creaping in there ... I've always thought it was pronounced fab but it's feb.
 

Beebo

Firm and Fruity
Location
Hexleybeef

  • “We Are the Champions” by Queen - many of those familiar with the song remember the final lyrics being “No time for losers, ’cause we are the champions … of the world!” Guess what? There is no “of the world!” The song just ends but people feel 100% sure that they’ve heard otherwise in the past.


In his most famous performance Freddie Mercury sings “of the world” at the end, so it is hardly surprising that people get this wrong, as most have probably seen the live aid version many times.


View: https://youtu.be/yPKlrRwJB8A
 

Joey Shabadoo

My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Didn't we have this discussion before?

I read that the effect is caused by the brain substituting what it thinks are correct details drawn from memories of similar events.

For example, my wife and I did a road tour of the USA which unsurprisingly necessitated long hours for me at the wheel as my wife doesn't drive. One of my strongest memories is driving south through the cotton fields of Georgia under impossibly blue skies singing "500 miles" by the Proclaimers together whilst we held hands with my wife to my left. Which is impossible as it was a left hand drive car but in my mind's eye I can see my wife sitting in the left hand seat as clear as day - the seat she sits in every other time we travel by car and have done so for the last 25 years. You can see why the brain thinks the more common memory is the correct one.
 

winjim

Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
I was installing a headset and was utterly convinced that I dropped a part. I can even describe it, it was a flanged o-ring type seal that sat under the bearing cover. I can see it in my mimd's eye and can see myself dropping it. I searched all over the shed, moved everything out of the way, checked all my spares boxes. I even emailed the manufacturer asking them to send a new o-ring out. They sent one, but it was different to the one I needed so I asked them to send the other type. They asked me for a photo of the headset so they could identify the part. I sent them a photo and they duly replied...

The part does not exist. That headset does not have that type of seal, I must have imagined the entire thing. It's really weird because even though the manufacturer has told me this, there is still part of my brain that wont accept it, and remains convinced that I dropped it on my shed floor or put it in a box, and one day it will turn up.
 
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Deleted member 26715

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She will argue black is white because she can "remember" what happened, even when it happened before she was born.
It is a standing joke in my wife's family, she is often accused of this even remembering her brother who is 2 years older than her being born.
 

Cycleops

Legendary Member
Location
Accra, Ghana
Anyone know the one about the three goat kids that got ate by a wolf and when he was sleeping, they cut him open, replaced them with stones, and sewed the wolf back up. The wolf then drowns when he falls into the well, attempting to take a drink.

I remember hearing it as a child. Pretty gruesome though for today's market
In fact it was the wolf and the seven little kids. I remember being terrified of those Grimms fairy stories and made all the more horrible by the rather disturbing illustrations by Mervin Peake.
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