Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 The Mandela thing is really odd, I've never ever heard of that being a common misconception. That's got to he an American thing, as KVD says. Using such a stupid example to name the effect after really doesn't do it any favours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 Surely a misquote isn't quite the same as a mass belief that something actually occured when it didn't? Â "Luke, I am your father" is just a pop culture reference from the time that people would have heard on things like Saturday Night Live. Sticking "Luke" at the beginning of the actual quote is just to contextualize it. Â The average person not remembering a line from a movie word perfect - when a slightly different version was being banded about in parodies - is hardly a phenomenon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 Yeah, the movie quotes don't really belong in the conversation, that's not what the supposed Mandela Effect is about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Surely a misquote isn't quite the same as a mass belief that something actually occured when it didn't? Â "Luke, I am your father" is just a pop culture reference from the time that people would have heard on things like Saturday Night Live. Sticking "Luke" at the beginning of the actual quote is just to contextualize it. Â The average person not remembering a line from a movie word perfect - when a slightly different version was being banded about in parodies - is hardly a phenomenon. Beat me to it. And in Forrest Gump, he says 'my mama always said life was like a box of chocolates'. Is it the fact he's recounting his mum saying it that's meant to be misremembered? I always remembered it that way anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 I dunno, I think they are the same thing just different ends of the scale and different levels of importance. In the broad sense it is still about people collectively remembering information differently to how it actually is  Another interesting one is how many people were in the car with JFK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 It happens with wrestling too. In fact just the other day on here, someone was convinced that Mabel had won a King of the Ring tournament. The mind is a fascinating thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 "It was me Austin". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 (edited) not a movie quote but a quote nonetheless, the Moon Landing's Neil Armstrong quote? the actual quote was... Â "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" Â **edited** Â does that count? or is that simply seen as a misquote? Â but yep, count me in as another guy who's never heard of the Mandela thing. Edited August 8, 2016 by Egg Shen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 (edited) Never heard the Mandela thing, either. Kel, of Keenan and Kel fame, now he definitely did die in the mid-90's. Anyone will tell you that. Edited August 8, 2016 by d-d-d-dAz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 (edited) I've literally never met anyone who thought Mandela died in the 80s. Amazed this is an actual thing. Â Yeah, whole thing seems rather mental. Edited August 8, 2016 by bAzTNM#1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 not a movie quote but a quote nonetheless, the Moon Landing's Neil Armstrong quote? the actual quote was... Â "That's one small step for a man, one small step for mankind" Â does that count? or is that simply seen as a misquote? Â Â Â It was definitely meant to be "a man" and Armstrong insists that's what he says. Virtually everyone else just heard "man", so the only debate is whether Armstrong forgot to say it, or if he said it and it isn't properly audible, perhaps because of the crackly reception. Â https://www.nasa.gov/wav/62284main_onesmall2.wav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkchopcash Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 The different Ultimate Warrior who came back at WM8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Well, he definitely didn't say "one small step for mankind". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevestofdeanambrose Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 I have never heard of this before reading this thread but it is really interesting. One I read was about C3PO's leg always being silver in Star Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted August 8, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 8, 2016 (edited) It has. It's just not particularly noticeable in the original trilogy unless you're looking for it, and they never made reference to it.  I thought it was a retroactively added thing too, but I've checked my old VHSs that predate the "special" editions and it is, and always has been, silver.  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/fuck-off-did-c3po-have-a-silver-leg.php  I suppose this one could work in reverse, in that masses of people remember him having two gold legs, but the truth is that masses of people just didn't notice that one was silver. Edited August 8, 2016 by Nostalgia Nonce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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