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Originally Posted by Playbig2000
disclosure: I don't remember the bernestain/stein bears, maybe they were before my time but a couple days ago I saw a post on fb which was a video referring to the "Mandela effect", which theorized it was due to a particle experiment at CERN that tore us all into a new universe, which put us on a new timeline and some of the things in our old past are now different.
So in addition to the bears, there were several other false memories that a large percentage of the population has, and a few of them did blow my mind, since I remember things that were either different or didn't occur. Some of them are:
The song We are The Champions by Queen: I always remembered the very end of the song went "We are The Champions.. of the world" but "of the world" never existed and it ended abruptly right after "We are The Champions". I could have sworn it ended the other way.
Jiffy peanut butter: When I was young I remember it as Jiffy, but it's actually Jif, and the company swears they were never Jiffy. Maybe not a big deal.
Mr. Roger's: I remember the song as "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood" but apparently its actually a beautiful day in "this" neighborhood. I don't know how everyone can get that wrong.
Snow White: The queen in snow white who said "Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all" but now, apparently, in the move she actually said "Magic mirror on the wall"??
Maybe it's just a misconception of original content, but still a little mind blowing. The Mandela Effect could be a hoax, but it's hard to explain false memories.
The Mandela Effect was invented by an idiot blogger who, when Mandela died in 2013, was staggered because, being an idiot, she thought he had already died in prison in the 1980s. She had clear memories of TV footage of the funeral, and the riots in South African cities that followed.
She decided that she might be a 'slider' who migrates between universes, and that in another universe Mandela really did die in prison in the 1980s.
In fact, she was simply half-remembering the publicity for Richard Attenborough's 1987 movie Cry Freedom, starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington, about the white liberal South African newspaper editor Donald Woods, his friendship with Black Consciousness activist Steve Biko and Biko's death (i.e. murder) in police custody in 1977. When the film came out, US TV did re-show footage of Biko's funeral and the resulting riots. The film was not a big hit in America, but Washington did gain an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and his career prospered.
The blogger, however, is so dumb that she had no recollection of Mandela's release from prison in 1990 -- a global media event of the first magnitude -- or his presidency of South Africa, or his long and distinguished retirement with statesmen and celebrities from all over the world seeking him out for a handshake and a photo because he was one of the most admired men alive. All that passed her by.
That's how dumb you have to be to believe that, in an alternative universe, Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, the Berenstain Bears were called the Berenstein Bears and Darth Vader really said, 'No, Luke, I am your father' (people just quote it like that to make clear it's a Star Wars thing, but the original movie line omits the 'Luke'). People remember stuff wrong.
Freddie Mercury really did add '...of the world' to the last reprise of We Are The Champions at Live Aid in 1985, though.
Last edited by 57 On Red; 06-16-2017 at 01:53 PM.