Things you were shockingly old when you learned

comes in a keg i thought?

The distress call “mayday” = French “m’aidez,” “help me”

wrong French to boot, it should be aidez-moi

Indeed. But it's actually short for '(venez) m'aider' or '(viens) m'aider'.

That the right and left wing delineation of politics comes from seating arrangements in the French Parliament during the French Revolution.

Americans pronounce 'jaguar' as 'Jagwa' or something

Pretty much, except the 'r' isn't silent (rhotic English and all that).

Jagwaaaar

OK, wow, I just listened to UK and Australian pronunciations of "jaguar" on Forvo. That one I did not know.

many an NFL commentator pronounces it 'jagwire' which I would not recommend

Technically we're all mangling the original Old Tupi pronunciation, so…

OK, wow, I just listened to UK and Australian pronunciations of "jaguar" on Forvo. That one I did not know.

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You're the ones saying it weird, wow

How do you pronounce "guano"

Guay-noh

Jk

trying to figure out how "guitar" fits into this

I play the gee-you-it-are

ah, so that's how Gwar got their name

Guava?

Elvis presley was introduced on TV by Charles Laughton because Ed Sullivan had recently had a nasty car crash.
Just heard that a couple of minutes ago.

That seems like a great set up for the Mandela effect, given how iconic and historically significant Elvis' Sullivan appearances are and that people have vivid reference points for Sullivan intros (Beatles most prominently). I wonder how many people would swear up and down that they distinctly remember Sullivan introducing Elvis' first appearance.

Spent time with my anxiety ridden agoraphobic father in law which means sitting around watching weird classic rock performance from PBS on his dvr.

This taught me that the guy who sang “Hang On Sloopy” was Rick Derringer of “Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo” fame which led to learning that he co-wrote “Real American”, the Hulk Hogan entry song and also played guitar on a bunch of Steely Dan songs as well as “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Air Supply’s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All”, produced a bunch of Weird Al albums, used to hang out with Andy Warhol, and is now a right wing nut job.

Elvis presley was introduced on TV by Charles Laughton because Ed Sullivan had recently had a nasty car crash.

When Lennon/McCartney appeared on "The Tonight Show", Joe Garagiola was sitting in for Johnny.

Thread trending towards “trivia nobody cares about at any age”

Funny thing about Joe Garagiola, he grew up across the street from none other than Yogi Berra (who was also a baseball catcher.)

what a Mandela effect is

(It seems like a kind of dumb phenomenon tbh?)

It kinda just occurred to me that in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's quest to get home takes on extra poignancy because in the frame story, she's living with her aunt and uncle. What happened to her parents is unclear.

(It seems like a kind of dumb phenomenon tbh?)

Same goes for the Baader-Meinhof effect, which is doubly irritating when you're familiar with the tale of the Red Army Faction. Kind of like being fluent in German and watching Hitler's Downfall memes.

I just learned what that is now too (the 'effect', not the Baader-Meinhof gang, which I did know about ofc.) That just seems like a new term for a common psychological phenomenon, though, right? Is anyone claiming that the recency illusion is evidence of something of greater significance? Mandela Effect people seem to think that it means something that a bunch of them made the same dumb mistake, that this is possibly even evidence of parallel universes.

Mandela Effect truthers are one of the stupider species of crazy, it’s not just that they’ve constructed a wacky sci-fi narrative just to avoid admitting their own fallibility but the reality-shattering plot is constructed almost exclusively of banal, inconsequential pop culture garbage. These morons are going all Keanu whoa at commonly misquoted movie lines and children’s authors with slight variant spellings on their surnames, funnily enough the chilling goings-on at cern haven’t affected anything that actually matters

The exception to that obviously is the paradigmatic case, which is even more annoying if anything cause it’s just Americans stubbornly clinging to their racism and myopia. The ppl who “remember” Mandela dying in the 80s never come across as being really on the ball when it comes to international events (or anything else lol)

Is there a database anywhere where you can list all your dumb mistakes and see if anyone else thought them too, so they can be Offically Mandela Effect? e.g I was convinced Patricia Routledge had died some time before she had

^^ I just wrote that and then checked and she hasn't even died lol

There’s a subreddit dedicated to cataloguing them, you can post the thing you misremembered and then someone who earnestly believes that a different black celebrity than they thought starring in a shitty movie is a sign of the end times will be like “that’s not a real ME you idiot, you’re just wrong”

They should've dubbed it the Shazaam effect instead.

Yeah, I mentioned the paradigmatic case on the IA thread:

Like, a bunch of non-South Africans mixing up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko is not a supernatural phenomenon.

Or the berenstain effect, I feel like that’s the most famous one still xp

William Shakespeare's extant handwritten signatures are another obvious instance of time travel:

Willm Shakp
William Shaksper
Wm Shakspe
William Shakspere
Willm Shakspere
William Shakspeare

That only four companies account for the manufacture of truck cabs for virtually all semis on US highways, and only one, Volvo, also makes cars.

This may be a less than common piece of knowledge, but what shocked me was how little attention I've paid until recently to the nameplates of the countless 18-wheeler beasts I encounter while driving, other than the attention required to avoid getting crushed by them. (By the trucks, not their nameplates.)

I should perpetuate the Shazaam Effect by saying our next-door neighbor drove a Mack Roda sedan back in the late 70s, but I haven't seen one since.

John McEnroe has a stepdaughter whose father is Richard Hell!

the Everly Brothers are not brothers

i will never be old enough to learn that

Nor were the walker brothers

Please don’t break my heart re Ed and Tom Chemical

Patty Smyth! xpost

The confusingly named Patty Smyth, indeed.

the opening sentences of her wikipedia entry are weirdly and thus amusingly written:

Patricia Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention in the band: Scandal. She went on to record and perform on her own. Her distinctive voice and New Wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on cable music video channels such as MTV.

In what way are two male siblings born to the same parents not Brothers. I think the Everly brothers name describes the referent quite well.

Sure, and I suppose Mr and Mrs Rigtheous are proud of their two boys?

The Warrior is very easy to recall in multiple current situations.

I was a minorly obsessed with R. Hell in college so I knew of Smyth. I randomly got him to agree to design a tshirt for my radio station's fundraiser and it was memorable. He said he liked my voice and that fed me for years. I do not like McEnroe. Boomers. so weird.

:p