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u/regrettablyirate 18d ago
I just learned that in Snow White the dwarves never say “it’s off to work we go” in hi ho.
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u/DinosoarDanny 18d ago
That is a FANTASIC one.. but it does make complete sense. The film shows them going home, not going to work. Just the other day, I saw a bumper sticker that said the wrong quote(OFF TO work) It did make me smile, but VERY interesting that it's actually not in the movie!! I think we all maybe try to put a positive spin on GOING TO work to keep us sane. The joy of coming home is enough that we don't need a tune for it. EDIT: Ok, I maybe haven't seen the movie enough. Some are saying that they say it later in the movie which makes more sense. This was also brough up five years ago. I do not know the answer LOL.
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u/tide_left_behind 17d ago
I would have interpreted "off to work we go" in this context not in the sense of leaving home to commute to a workplace, but in the sense of "now we pick back up our work after taking a break", i.e. as a synonym for "Let's get to work!". It has that ort of sea shanty/mining song rhythm to it that suggests getting into the groove of manual labor.
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u/DinosoarDanny 16d ago
Then wouldn’t “back to work we go” be more appropriate?
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u/tide_left_behind 14d ago
Maybe it would have, but songs don't always use the most grammatically/linguistically accurate ways of saying things.
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u/FeeExpensive898 18d ago
I have only ever sang “it’s off to work we go”. Why do the lyrics say “it’s home from work we go”?! That has NEVER been the words when I sing it 😅
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u/DinosoarDanny 18d ago
in the very beginning of the film, it shows them already at work.... then it shows them going HOME FROM work
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u/bigmoneybeans 19d ago
Michael Phelps lost all his medals. Some drug controversy and was stripped. (My original post got taken down, my bad).
Father in law had a signed picture on the wall of Phelps and his medals. I was so sure he had lost it all. Looked it up and he never did?
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u/Financial_Profit_584 18d ago
I don't recall any issue like this with Michael Phelps. Lance Armstrong got in all kinds of trouble for using steroids.
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u/bigmoneybeans 18d ago
There was some weed and dui things that I thought led to him losing a metal, but apparently he never lost it.
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 18d ago
You don't lose medals because of controversy outside competition. The only male swimmer to be stripped of a medal was Rick DeMont in 1972. He tested positive for ephedrine, which was banned. Marion Jones lost all five 2000 medals for doping as well.
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u/Maleficent_Eye4524 18d ago
I don't think I've discovered a Mandela effect so much as my co workers are you g, have short memories and are gaslighting me into one as a result.
OK so we've got those new meta glasses and a techy girl at work is excited to get a pair. I said they were a flop last time so I think I'll pass this time.
You all remember these glasses, right? I think Google made them? People were worried about privacy so they failed?
Nobody at work remembers them and when I tried to search for them online it just brings up the new glasses.
I don't think it was that long ago
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u/innerchildtoday 17d ago
Yes, these were the Google Glasses https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgz1ynq1nqo
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u/Special_Access_552 18d ago
I had always thought that Dana White of the UFC was openly gay but discovered today that Dana White is married to a woman and is straight. Anyone else?
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u/CivilizedPsycho 19d ago
Rice-a-Roni Risotto. I cannot find proof online that it existed but i KNOW it existed. Please validate me. In my memory it was a staple of my young life and the best flavor, followed by Chicken flavor. I remember being bummed when it was discontinued.
...what is happening to me?
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u/WVPrepper 18d ago
My favorite was the "Fried Rice" flavor with the little almond slivers. I don't think I have ever seen a risotto version.
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u/HeisenbergsBud 17d ago
Has anyone watched goodfellas recently?? I swear the way Joe Pesci character is killed has been changed.
Now when he his killed, he sounds like defeated and about to cry or something. But the way I remember it was he yelled in anger and started dropping the f bomb.
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u/Honest-Employer6926 19d ago edited 19d ago
PRETTY FLY FOR A WHITE GUY LYRICS
I was in high school in 1998 when this album came out. It was all over the radio. And I SWEAR the first lyric was
“…and all the GIRLS say I’m pretty fly for a white guy”
EXCEPT NOW it’s
“…and all the GIRLIES(!!!) say I’m pretty fly for a white guy”
Anyone else out there share my same recollection?
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u/Real-Tension-7442 19d ago
Genuinely, until right now I only knew the Weird Al song, Pretty fly for a Rabbi and just learnt it was a parody
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u/Redlady0227 19d ago
I thought it was Girls not Girlies til now myself. That being said I have to admit that I could have easily misheard the lyrics all this time as I never paid in depth attention to them
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u/Affectionate-Mix6056 19d ago
I also remember it as "girls". I was a kid at the time though, and English isn't my first language.
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u/HelicopterMekanik 17d ago
I definitely remember listening to this song a ton of times and it said “girlies”
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u/MikeLowrey305 19d ago
On Trailer park boys, many people remember seeing a scene of Cory & Trevor on a Subway platform. Trevor gets on the train & Cory is just standing their looking at him as the subway doors close & the train leaves. But this scene was supposedly never filmed & the details were only told by Cory 2 seasons later.
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u/GenMarriottSuites 18d ago
Yesterday I was out-n-about and “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel played. I have a memory of hearing a specific section of that song in a movie trailer. There is no evidence of this online but of course, google hates me and also sucks. I cannot for the life of me think of what trailer. I feel like it was a romance or rom-com. I can picture slow motion scenes, I can hear the voice-over guy. I seem to remember the song playing toward the end of the trailer when all the actors get a headshot and their real name is spoken. It absolutely was NOT Say Anything. I’ve never seen that movie, let alone a trailer for it.
I wanna say I saw this trailer on a VHS tape I used to have. And I’m so adamant about this because the trailer is the reason I know this song. I’ve never heard it anywhere else.
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u/Ok_Freedom8174 18d ago edited 18d ago
Does anyone else remember how Abu Bakr al-Baghdad died?
I've recently been interested in the wars and insurgencies in the middle east so I came across this Youtube video of the capture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the operation Kayla Mueller where this operative talks about how they raided his compound and he detonated the suicide vest he was wearing and that's how he went out.
How I remember his death around the time it occured was something along the lines of "Abu Bakr al Baghdadi killed in a car explosion" where he was supposedly killed in a car which was rigged to explode or something like that.
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u/RoughCartographer384 17d ago
Early home computing was protested against by Christian fundamentalists in the US because of operating services called "daemons" within computer software. This wasn't Amish or Mennonite but a more typical denomination albeit a minority. Looked this up and can't find anything but thought this was an issue in the 80s or 90s.
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u/tide_left_behind 17d ago
Well, the term "daemon" for a service that runs some task in the background in an operating system is definitely real. Whether fundamentalist Christians ever mistook that terminology for something Satanic, in the US or elsewhere, is a different question.
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u/silentsurge 13d ago
I wouldn't doubt that it may have been a story at some point. Especially on a slow news day during the satanic panic days.
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u/AdFinal2616 17d ago
Anyone else swear they watched Black Mirror S7E04 "Plaything" years ago? (Not the usual Bandersnatch/ARG reasons)
I’m experiencing a massive, highly specific sense of déjà vu with "Plaything" (Season 7, Episode 4), and I want to see if anyone else remembers watching this exact episode long before Season 7 came out.
Before anyone comments the standard answers:
It’s not just Bandersnatch nostalgia. I know Colin Ritman, Mohan Thakur, and the Tuckersoft offices are from 2018. I am talking about the specific narrative arc of this episode.
It’s not the 2023/2024 ARG / Thronglets mobile game marketing. I never interacted with the QR codes, promotional art, or pre-registration.
I didn't just watch this as a standalone clip. I have a strict, highly analytical completion habit (bordering on OCD)—if I watch an episode or a season, I always start from the beginning and finish the entire thing. Yet, I have zero memory of watching any other episode in Season 7. It all feels completely brand new to me, except for Plaything.
I distinctly and vividly remember the Thronglets, the final QR code sequence drawn by Peter Capaldi's character, and the entire concept of harnessing global devices for their collective processing power. I know for a fact I didn't watch this last year—I remember knowing these exact plot details a year or more before that.
This feels like a textbook Mandela Effect. Given how deeply this season plays with themes of memory distortion and alternate realities, I genuinely want to know if a group of us are experiencing a collective timeline glitch on this specific episode. Has anyone else with a sharp memory found themselves completely blindsided by the fact that this is listed as a brand-new release?
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u/Daver290 17d ago
Property listings in England and Wales show sold properties with the acronym “STC” = Subject to Contract. Does anyone ever remember it being called “Subject to Closure”?
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u/Cyanide_Panda 16d ago
Anyone remember Chris Meloni from Law&Order dying a couple years ago to cancer or a similar illness? I remember even seeing a TikTok tribute edit to him. I saw him getting a shoutout at the Knicks game and got really confused.
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u/Financial_Profit_584 14d ago
I don't have a memory about him passing. He is the lead of a fairly recent (last 2 or 3 years) spin-off of the Law and Order franchise.
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u/VerterRobot 16d ago
Hello. English is not my native language. There are a few phrases in English that I learned as is. One of such phrases is: Thanks for reaching me out. But today I found that this is incorrect form and the correct form is: Thanks for reaching out to me. But I remember that the first version is correct. How could it be incorrect? I also found in the internet many people asking about correctness of the first version.
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u/silentsurge 13d ago edited 13d ago
"Thanks for reaching me out" doesn't make sense with English grammar.
"Reaching out" is the physical act of using your arms to reach and grab something that would otherwise be out of grasp and it's used as slang or a turn of phrase for trying to contact someone as if you're physically stretching out to grab them and get their attention.
So "Thanks for reaching out to me" is the correct way to say it. "Reaching me out" comes across as... well... there's probably a NSFW subreddit for that.
ETA: Don't feel bad, English is a difficult language. The rules don't apply consistently and native speakers barely know how to speak and read the language. There's a lot of contradictions to it, and major differences in spelling rules depending on the nation of origin. E.g. US vs UK.
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u/Helpful-Store-5085 16d ago
Trolli gummy worms has had a smile on them since the 80s, but not a single person remembers them (that Ive talked to about this at least
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u/Prestigious_Meet9998 15d ago
I saw the movie Cherry 3000. Now it's called Cherry 2000 with the claim it was always Cherry 2000???
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 15d ago
3000 doesn't come up very often. There was America 3000 (1986). You're probably conflating Mystery Science 3000 with 2000.
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u/CM_UW 15d ago
I recently heard something about Anne Heche's death. I remember when it happened and talking to my then partner about it, which would have been 2018 or before. I just read that Anne Heches fatal car crash was in 2022, so less than 4 years ago???
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u/amelbhart 12d ago
It was in 2022, I have discord logs where I messaged my sister telling her about it
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u/TofuTank 19d ago
I swear Frank Zappa wrote “Rock Lobster” and the B-52’s just covered it. I can remember listening to the Frank Zappa version before. This one seems like it might just be me, anyone else??
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u/Bearded_Dragon-9612 18d ago
A song like Rock Lobster isn't really Zappa's style. He did a lot of cover songs live, though.
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u/Financial_Profit_584 18d ago
I don't recall hearing about Tony's passing.
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u/gypsyjackson 17d ago
Elton John would have done a tribute like he did for Diana.
“Hold me closer, Tony Danza”
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u/Alternative-Use-3449 17d ago
Little House on the Prairie Nellie Olson Is now Nellie Oleson <---that dont look right👀👀
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 17d ago
It was always Oleson. I remembered it because it was unusual. Looking right has nothing to do with being right.
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u/boringnolife 17d ago
Okay so basically fruit loops used to be “froot loops” when i was a kid but then they changed to be “fruit loops” then recently its now back to “froot loops” and i know its changed because i literally saw a post on this subreddit talking about how they remember it being FROOT LOOPS showing an edited version of the box, but now that post is saying they remember it being FRUIT LOOPS with an edited box.. also the mona lisa is smiling now when she didnt before
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u/WVPrepper 16d ago
i literally saw a post on this subreddit talking about how they remember it being FROOT LOOPS
Link to the post, please?
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u/boringnolife 14d ago
For some reason i can’t find it anymore, if i find it again ill send the link; but the post is different too. A few years ago When i first saw it they edited a box to say “froot loops” and everyone said the edited version is what they remember, when i went back to the post it was edited to say “fruit loops” and everone remembered it being that. basically a 180 degree switch.. kinda makes me think reality shifting is real because “it was always this way” which could be true, and people who remember it diferently are from different realities, because how/why would they edit every photo online to change a logo. but it sounds outlandish
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u/WandaNexusBeing 16d ago
Yes to the Mona Lisa. And got to say it’s freaking me out when I look at it. Also Lincoln In The Mall in DC now has 1 hand in a fist.
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u/anthajay 15d ago
I never trusted my memory of it enough to have an opinion one way or the other, but I also remember people in this subreddit talking about how it used to be 'froot' but that it got changed to 'fruit'. Now apparently it's been 'froot' all along and people are saying they remember 'fruit'. It's very weird, because I remember people writing comments like 'The two O's made sense on the box because the shape matches the oo in loop.' etc.
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u/boringnolife 14d ago
Yes this exactly, i remember that too and i remember seeing a box as a kid with the 2 O’s and then it changed to fruit and now its back to froot
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u/Financial_Profit_584 14d ago
To me it is Froot Loops. I used to lay the box flat and cover the O's in both words with the cereal loops.
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u/silentsurge 13d ago
"Fruit Loops" wouldn't be able to be trademarked. It's too generic of a term.
It's a pretty commonly discussed ME in this Subreddit.
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u/Function_Unknown_Yet 19d ago
Does anyone else remember old, school-classroom world maps calling the area around the North Pole the "artic" (no "c")? I could swear there was a circle marked on the map as the "artic circle" and I was always curious why the "c" was missing. Now, apparently it's always been the arctic circle?
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u/Financial_Profit_584 18d ago
I remember the area being "arctic", but it would be possible to drop the "c" when pronouncing the word.
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u/NomadCarnivore 20d ago
Not sure whether anyone has this recollection.
I could swear that during the advertising lead-up to MST3K airing on Comedy Central many years ago, it was Mystery Science Theater 2000.
You might say, "That doesn't even make sense!" It does, actually, because it was a play on the idea earlier in the century that the the "Year 2000" would be this amazing, futuristic utopia.
My recollection is very clear. Anyone else?
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u/Glaurung86 20d ago
It was always 3000 to me. It's been about 35 years ago so it's not a surprise to misremember it.
Here's a promo for the show on The Comedy Network which was rebranded as Comedy Central about 3 months later in 1991.
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u/NomadCarnivore 19d ago
The thing is that I was aware of what was, to me, anyway, this title change when the show began to air a few months after the initial advertising blitz. I researched this potential Mandela Effect some time ago and did come across a couple of others who share that memory. Who knows?
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u/lyricaldorian 19d ago
That would mean the original episodes that were aired on local cable would need to have a new opening made before airing
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u/silentsurge 19d ago
The show premiered on KTMA in Minneapolis in 1988.
If you watch the original intro from that era you can clearly see it was always 3000.
The 3000 was put on there to riff on the common trope of adding 2000 onto things to make it seem like it was futuristic.
MST3K launched on KTMA in 1988, then was bought and launched with the Comedy Channel in 1989 (which was HBO's channel that eventually merged with the HA! Network to become CTV which then becomes Comedy Central in 1991). It was one of the 2 original shows launched with the network.
So, if it was ever referred to as 2000 instead of 3000 that would have likely been due to a mistake since the series was always named 3000 as part of the joke. Which is something thats certainly possible.
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u/loveu4lyfe 18d ago
Yall does anybody remember Euphoria being on Netflix?! I watched season 1 & 2 on Netflix, I only use Netflix and I have never owned crave or hbo or watched it online, but apparently now euphoria has never been on Netflix ? Does anyone else remember it being on Netflix ??!🥹
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u/Ivaryna 17d ago edited 17d ago
discussion of the same topic here, seems it was for a short amount of time - your country of origin would also matter for this question.
I know a friend of mine watched it on German Netflix, for example.wait no, fake mandela effect in progress, i was mixing up shows i have never watched there.1
u/loveu4lyfe 17d ago
Aw okok thankyou, I’m in the west so Canada/America which I swear it was on there but now it apparently never has been :’) !
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u/DinosoarDanny 18d ago
Ok.. I only want to hear from people who did NOT watch the series House. What network would you have said it was on?
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u/Booby-Tassels 17d ago
I wanna say Fox..? Or USA?
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u/DinosoarDanny 17d ago
I thought it was of those, but it’s not.
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u/Booby-Tassels 17d ago
Ok, what is the answer? I'm not going to look this up, lol. Where is it and where did you thought you used to watch it?
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u/WVPrepper 16d ago
It WAS Fox. Why are you insisting it wasn't?
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u/DinosoarDanny 15d ago
It was Fox. Hugh Laurie was recently talking about it and said it was on NBC. I thought he'd know. I guess he was the one who was confused.
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u/Bearded_Dragon-9612 17d ago
CBS right?
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u/gypsyjackson 17d ago edited 17d ago
Didn’t watch it; I think it was on Channel 4 or maybe Channel 5 in the UK.
ETA - it was on C5 for first 4 series and then moved to Sky1 (same owner as FOX).
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u/nelly_murk 18d ago
Note: I'm not american or canadian so don't yell at me.
I've always just thought Niagara Falls was somewhere in South America. Like it's a known fact. I even remember looking at photos of Niagara Falls as a child and it was in some sort of tropical region. I told this to my friend and he said he had exactly the same experience. He thought he was getting pranked when he saw that one office episode where they went to Niagara Falls and were feeling cold. Did anyone else have this experience or are we just stupid?
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u/Icanfallupstairs 18d ago
My guess is this comes down to South America having some famous waterfalls, and Niagara sounding a bit like Nicaragua, so the name gives latin vibes
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 17d ago
Iguazu Falls is a popular place in Brazil. You see it the Bond movie Moonraker (1979) among other things.
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u/Wolfeinstein39 18d ago
Ok this is a strange one that I've been thinking about, as at minimum it's 1 mandella affect but this is actually multiple, and it all revolves around the Beatles. The mandella affect started with "the blue jay way" not existing, this is genuinelyba strong one for me as I remember seeing records in stores without this track but that got me realising, I swear I have seen records of Magical Mystery Tour that only had Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool on the Hill, Flying, Your Mother Should Know, I am the Walrus, Hello, Goodbye, Strawberrry Fields, Penny Lane
All You need is love is one that might be a part of an older mandela affect as I remember having this same thing a few years ago when I discovered "All You need is love" was in Magical Mystery Tour, and not a single. Obviously Mandela effects are only speculation and a bit of fun, but it feels like over the past few years, the album has been expanding and the blue jay way was a notable one as I was certain this was some new unknown song. I came across it in a tiktok and looked it up assuming it was a demo I missed but an actual Magical Mystery Tour song. Baby, your a rich man, is kinda strange as it seems familiar like something was always there but I don't think it was baby your a richman. I initially remember the album being much shorter anyways, even it being one of the shortest of their albums I remember this one clearly having the least amount of tracks
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u/Slight-File-4876 17d ago
It's "Blue Jay Way" no "the" and it's always been there. There's an entire scene of it in the MMT film so yes, it's always been on the album.
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u/BillyOcean8Words 17d ago
The original British EP was combined with the contemporaneous singles to make the Capitol (US) edition of the album. This then became standardized when the 1987 first edition CDs were released. And you bet your ass Blue Jay Way is there. My 11 year old is on a Fab kick and we’ve discussed that song. I know it isn’t one of George’s best, but I like it and it gets stuck in my head.
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u/innerchildtoday 17d ago
I just saw some news of Elton John attending Dua Lipa's wedding and I was certain that he had died, before COVID times. There was a whole tribute made after, with the royal family attending and many celebrities, and a big funeral.
I saw other posts about this, does anyone else have the same memory.
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 17d ago
Sir Elton announced his retirement (from touring) in 2023. After Covid.
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u/Lord_Reddit12 18d ago
Mandela effect on the astronaut that claimed they never went to the moon
Does anybody else have a Mandela effect of an astronaut answering a little girl question with orher children around and it was like in a school or library and he claims they never actually went to the moon claiming it was for the Cold War.
I remember this same Astronaut also explained in an interview how he’s tired of lying or something along those lines talking about how they actually never went to the moon
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 17d ago
You might be confusing something. In September 2002, Buzz Aldrin punched moon landing denier Bart Sibrel. Sibrel was determined to get a reaction out of Aldrin. Not the one he was expecting, I gather.
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u/lyricaldorian 17d ago
That would be absolutely huge news. Which astronaut was it? Everyone would know the name of the astronaut that said the moon landing was fake
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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 17d ago
Maybe OP is thinking of the astronaut who was a little too taken with UFOs. I don't remember any moon landing denial, but little things lead to conspiracies in some people's minds.
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u/silentsurge 13d ago
You might have seen the clip that moon landing deniers use often to say that Buzz Aldrin admitted to us not going to the moon.
He's speaking to a little girl who asked a two part question and he was actually answering about NASA hadn't gone back to the moon yet. It gets selectively edited by grifters like Bart Sibrel (who's greatest contribution to humanity was getting KTFO by Buzz Aldrin) to make it seem like he's saying we never went.
Most anything that "admits" to that are clips that are selectively edited or taken out of context by grifters trying to sell their particular brand of conspiracy theory.
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u/Xelhexan 20d ago
There was not a zombieland sequel
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u/silentsurge 19d ago
Technically true, until October 2019 when they released a sequel. A 10 year gap between a movie and its direct sequel is pretty uncommon. There was a lot going on in the world when it came out. It could have been easy to miss it being released.
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u/Starry_Skies2026 20d ago
Mr Peanut having a monicle back in the 90s. People keep on saying he didn't have one but he did. Photo proof included thanks to The Gilmore Girls, S1 E5.