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[–] 110 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 87 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It's interesting that when you see them laid out like this you can more easily see the reasons people could have come to remember this way.

    For instance, conflating Jif and Skippy as essentially the same product, or getting an association of missing letters from the "eat mor chik'n" cows ad campaign.

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 6 months ago

    Agreed, also by putting so many together like this, you're gonna have some people who don't remember it that way. Like the Monopoly guy is half-convincing to me, but I'm pretty sure it's just a mix-up with Mr. Peanut.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    My personal reason for messing up Chick Fil A in my head is because there used to be a different chicken restaurant chain where I grew up called Krispy Chic. Not sure if any are still open, but all the ones in aware of closed down decades ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    All of the one where the spelling is wrong make sense, because people were projecting familiar versions of those words that made sense. Also Monkeys have tails—they gave him a design more reminiscent of a monkey than an ape, so people expect a tail

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  • [–] 68 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Ah yes, the Minglebingle Effect

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    That's Mandella, you're thinking of the bounty hunter that hangs with grogu

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    That's Mandalorian. You're thinking about the band that backed up Mike when he sang the 1980s hit song "All I need is a miracle"

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    That's the Mechanics. You're thinking about a tomato based sauce with herbs

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That's marinara. You're thinking of the Canadian province to the west of Ontario.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    That's Manitoba. You're thinking of a person who is not loyal to their own country or political party because they are under the control or influence of another country or party.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    That's manchurian. You're thinking of the largest, strongest and only movable bone in the human face.

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  • [–] 174 points 6 months ago (31 children)

    I'd rather believe in unconscious interdimensional travel then accept that my memories might be wrong.

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    The dimensional jump did a number on my back and knees, too. And hairline.

    We have to go back!

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago* (9 children)

    My two acceptable hypotheses:

    • We are in a simulation and these are remnants from server migration/discrepancies in the instances.
    • These are dry runs of the man seeing what history they can get away with rewriting and convince us was true.

    No. I cannot create false memories. Nope. I can’t do it. I won’t listen to you. It’s not true! Nonononononononooooooooooooooooooooo! This isn’t my fault! 👉😫👈 lalalalalala

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    OUR MUSHY BRAINS CREATE MUSHY MEMORIES

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    No no no, you're not buying extra crunchy peanut butter

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    The worst fucking lie they made up was the pronunciation of GIF being based on the peanut butter company. That is exactly the sort of bullshit excuse a shadowy cabal looking to rewrite history would come up with to gaslight everyone into believing it's true.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I love that pretty much everyone says the creator of the gif format is saying his format name wrong.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Just because the guy is good at tech doesn't mean he's good at naming things.

    I'd like to site the names of like... Half the FOSS software I see.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I’d rather believe in unconscious interdimensional travel

    The Organization is out to deceive you

    El Psy Kongroo

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

    Motherfuckers... is this why i've been remembering shit that other people say never happened? or remembering something people said and then them saying they said something different? wait i recently saw a movie about some guy trying to break out of his reality by flying a rocket to the edge of the universe and has been dimension hoping the entire trip, this is trippy...

    Edit: i can't find the name of the movie but the plot is as described and he realises he is dimension hoping because his partner is suddenly alive after he killed him or he died in an accident on the ship, can't remember what happened and at the end he also realises he is in a loop and after he crashes into the edge he chooses the dimension in which he never went into space and escapes the loop, anyone have an idea of what the movie might be called or am i just trippin balls and that movie doesn't exist in this dimension?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    ANy other info? New film? Old? Any notable actors? US film or from elsewhere? I dug around, but nothing I could find in ten minutes fit your description. Am interested in knowing too as I love these types of films.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Goddamn it took some specific digging but i found it, it's called "Beyond the Edge" (2016).

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Nice find! Rated 3.6/10 on imdb. Is it really that bad? Meh, I’ll watch it anyways.

    Edit: Alternate title is "ISRA 88". Adrienne Barbeau has a bit part in it. The film is a bit middling, but maybe not 3.6. Maybe a 4.5/10.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    is this why i’ve been remembering shit that other people say never happened? or remembering something people said and then them saying they said something different?

    I mean, if you want the real answer, it's just that it is incredibly easy to create false memories. Then add in all the social pressure fun that can warp your viewpoint, and you're off to the races.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    The flip side of this that that you can be lied to without consequence. I'm not saying most of these are real, but pretending like this has never happened is asking for an additional serving of boot.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    The cornucopia was there. I swear on my life I saw it.

    I'm now convinced that there was a knock-off brand that posed as Fruit of the Loom for years with the altered logo. That's the only explanation I'll accept. Mandela effect my ass.

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  • [+] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Years ago, after 57 Chevies became the iconic representation of the 50s, and got REAL popular, I read about how there were far more 57 Chevies around than could be accounted for by official production.

    It turns out that there were:

    A dedicated group of ex-Chevrolet stylists and franchised used-car salesmen continued to turn out close to 200,000 1957 Chevrolets, focusing on the 2-door Bel-Air model, between the years 1957 and 1967, in a small auto assembly plant located outside Jacksonville, Ill.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevy-duty/

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  • [–] 59 points 6 months ago

    Wait until people watch old shows from the 90s set in NYC, and there's these two buildings in the skyline. But when you go to NYC, those buildings DON'T EVEN EXIST!!!

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I recently did some digging on the fruit of the loom logo because I remember learning the word cornucopia and connecting it with the logo on my T-shirts and underwear.

    Yeah, I was mistaken. The dye on some of the clothes just made the logo look like there was a cornucopia. Like the leaves on the side being brown and a tiny bit of those leaves at the top right with the small white grapes at the bottom right also looking the same brown color? It definitely looks like a cornucopia until you look very closely.

    (The logo shown in the image above is a more modern one, look at the earlier ones from around the turn of this century and you’ll see it better)

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Yeah that one was a real mindfuck to me too. I haven't seen all of these as a kid, as I'm not from the states. We don't get all that many fruit of the loom shirts here, dit from the ones I saw I was sure about the cornucopia.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Froot Loops has always been that way. Back when I was a kid, they only had three colours - red, orange, and yellow - and I remember being bothered that they had to repeat one of them. Problem got solved when they rolled out green.

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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Thar reminds me how I misread "Disney" as "Disnep" in their cursive logo for a long time in my childhood. Does that mean there is a Disnep dimension out there? :P

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It wasn't Chic-fil-a it was Chik-fil-A I am From Atlanta

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The Pikachu one might been an influence from the Pichu design.


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  • [–] [S] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder how much they're paying you to say that.

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    Perhaps dyslexia would explain some of these?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If you're of a certain age, you can't get Oscar Mayer wrong.

    My bologna has a first name. It's O-S-C-A-R. My bologna has a second name. It's M-A-Y-E-R. Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    100%, this wasn't one I remembered differently.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    nope, Fruit of the loom got me, i had seen the monopoly and curious george ones had no tail, but they knocked me for a loop a decade ago, Looney Toons was kind of shadowy in my mind, toones makes more sense, but the "merry melodies" moniker muddled the water, we brain cells. I always called the bears by what sounds like the first one, but i always knew it wasn't spelled that way, i remmeber reading the books when I was young and my parents corrected the pronoinciation on me. I went with it because ... 'english' but i always knew it wasn't spelled like we said it, we don't genrally promounce february and wednesday very well so who was 5 year old me to argue with an adult that would smack my ass for being argumentative. :)

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Looney "Toons" is the stupidest one.

    It was always a pun on toons by spelling it "Tunes" and because music is extremely prominent for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I never got it as a kid, partly because it was a difficult pun for that age. I didn’t know the word tune nor would I later pronounce it like that. The first forms of that word, I ran into, were radio tuner and car tuning, nothing I’d associate with music

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Whats wrong with the febreeze one? They did used to use those bottles, right? I'm pretty sure I have one around somewhere.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

    The man would have you believe it's always been Febreze, one e.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Febrize according to the photo, but I went to check a recent purchase, and unless the change was made yesterday, it’s not real.

    And Jif has been Jif since at least the 80s when I was a kid. Here’s my proof.

    Also a Jif (and a Jeff):

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Missed opportunity for fruit of the loin

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