Mandela Effect...the abbreviated version...

The original post is here:

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Thanks to Glen Cannady for the original post and video link.  But if you’re like me, the video was a little too long, so I’ve summarized it below for you.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Fortean phenomenon known as the “Mandela Effect”…let me inform you.  Many people claim Nelson Mandela died in prison and did not ever become President of South Africa.  People swear to it…recall seeing his funeral on television…and all provide similar details regarding it.  Yet most of us know him to have died only a short while back and long after having been president.  Anyway, so this “memory” of things that did not happen has become known as the “Mandela Effect.”  Recently, it’s been picking up steam in the Fortean circles as more and more unexplained phenomenon are being discovered and shared. Have we all taken the red pill?  I don’t know.  But here’s a little test.  Write down your answers to the following set of questions and then click the link for the answers.

Fill in the blank to the following statements from TV, movies, and commercials:

1. “________” I am your father [Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back]

2. “_________,  ___________” on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? [Snow White]

3. It’s a wonderful day in ” ________ ” neighborhood [Mr. Roger's Neighborhood]

4. Nobody ” _________      __________  ” like Sara Lee [Sara Lee Commercials]

5. Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny cartoons were called, “Looney _________”  [spell this one out how you remember it spelled]

6.  Interview with ” ______ ” Vampire [Name of Tom Cruise movie and book by Anne Rice]

7.  Sex “____” the City [The television show and movie]

8.  Is actor Jim Nabors who played Gomer Pile on the Andy Griffith Show dead?

ACTUAL CORRECT ANSWERS
1. No
2. Magic Mirror
3. This
4. Doesn’t 
5. Tunes
6. The
7. And
8. No

ANSWERS NEARLY EVERYONE GIVES
1. Luke
2. Mirror, Mirror
3. My -or- The
4. Does It
5. Toons
6. A
7. In
8. No, died in the late 80′s or early 90′s of throat cancer or aids

And so now I know you’ll argue over Star Wars.  It’s cool.  I had to dig out my own DVD to check it.  I had a small emotional melt-down.  I have not met one person yet who does not say, “Luke” as the answer.  So where it did it come from?  Did we all frick’in imagine the wrong line from the movie?  Watch Empire Strikes Back.  It don’t even sound right in the scene at Cloud City.  ”No, I am your father…”  WTF???

Mirror, Mirror…’nuff said.  How?  I have no words for it.

I actually remember “MY” neighborhood…as in “be my neighbor”…and I remember the song differently as well.  My wife remembers the “the” version.  I recall it specifically as the following:

“It’s a wonderful day in my neighborhood, a wonderful day to feel so good…won’t you be, could you be, my neighbor?”

Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee?  It’s a double negative.  It doesn’t even make sense.  It also doesn’t sound right when you hear them sing it on the commercials.

Tunes???????  That’s a musical word.  Like iTunes!  It was frick’in LOONEY TOONS!  Check the Roger Rabbit movie…they lived in TOON-Town!  How???????

There’s actually video clips of Tom Cruise saying, “Interview with A vampire” and yet there it is.

Sex AND the City???  Again, it sounds stupid.  Look at the logos that pop up on Google search.  Not right.  It was distinctly SEX IN THE CITY and the logo was all white in color.

Jim Nabors…I distinctly recall seeing the funeral on television and I’m fairly certain it was from throat cancer…others remember aids.  Who knows.  Apparently the dude is still alive…or so we’re told.  Ask me again tomorrow after the Matrix resets.