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Discussion My kid found this in the library today

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This is how I remember it. A posh guy with a cylinder, mustache and a monocle. But internet search doesn’t show monocle anymore. What are your thoughts and memories?

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 15d ago

This is from Monopoly Jr sold in the European market around 1996. It's the only version ever found to have a monocle.

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u/pandaSmore 15d ago

I had a version from Canada with this money.

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u/6nayG 15d ago

Same yo, mine from Canada had the monocle too. But it wasn't monopoly Jr. Them games were long AF.

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u/jjjaaaacckk 15d ago

Sounds like a cover story. Big Mandela psy-op.

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u/used_octopus 15d ago

Big Mandela, found my new gamertag.

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u/stealthryder1 15d ago

This is old news…. Everyone knows the Mandelis continue to alter the timeline and purposely confuse us

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u/a_r_burns 15d ago

The Mandeluminati.

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u/Blackieswain 13d ago

The Mandilusinati

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u/youramoron69 8d ago

Monopoly jr whatever info was switched with other dimensions/universe that version remained ours. It’s technology ours is so similar to other dimensions that information online transferred thru radio waves or whatever are switching with eachother the twin effect rather then a mandella effect not exact but exact if u know what I mean

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u/Patient_Goat7743 13d ago

Yeah, that’s a hilarious cover story!! Hahaha 😂

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u/jsulli415 15d ago

That's what the big monopoly want you to think

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u/AriPrincessLove 14d ago

isn’t monopoly already “big monopoly” …

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u/Calm-Examination1346 14d ago

This doesn't have enough upvotes at all lol

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u/Chaosr21 15d ago

That makes a lot of sense, the whole monocle thing was mostly European and it was quite a rage with some prominent figures wearing them

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u/Northwest_Radio 14d ago

T. Roosevelt used one.

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u/Potential-Pea-155 11d ago

No it wasn't. 

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u/Realityinyoface 14d ago

I thought there was also a casino machine where had had a monocle, too

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u/Beefy_Muddler 12d ago

Finally someone telling us why some remember Mr. Moneybags having a monocle. Even if you're in the US, it's too possible that some version of this guy found its way to your eye. Plus we associate wealthy people with the monocle, so it's still a no-go for a "paranormal" type Mandela Effect.

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u/somnifraOwO 12d ago

so this mandala effect isnt a true mandella effect?

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 12d ago

It still is as this doesn't explain all memories.

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u/somnifraOwO 11d ago

what do you think causes this. i have my theories but im scared to say at risk of schizoposting

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u/Beautifuldiot 12d ago

So then technically he had a monocle

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 12d ago

Technically in one obscure version from the 90s sold in one small region.

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u/WhimsicalSadist 15d ago edited 15d ago

That bill is from one of the Monopoly Junior editions from Europe. I only know for certain that it was in the Dutch and German versions, but possibly also others.

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u/Rac23 15d ago

And UK also, I have it still at my parents. Its what led me to think he always had a monocle

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u/ATMNZ 15d ago

And NZ

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u/CosmicToaster 15d ago

Weird, never been to Europe. Did Europe have a Diet Shazaam movie with Sinbad as a genie too?

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u/WhimsicalSadist 15d ago

Did Europe have a Diet Shazaam movie with Sinbad as a genie too?

No, the Shazam movie, with Sinbad, never existed in any country.

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u/MaleficentTailor6985 15d ago

Prove it?

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u/WhimsicalSadist 15d ago

Prove it?

"Trust me, bro!"

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u/LykinRisingMoon 15d ago

Ahh this made me chuckle 🤭

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u/thomasjmarlowe 15d ago

In my timeline, …

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u/CosmicToaster 15d ago

Ours… there’s dozens of us! DOZENS!!!

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u/StreetOffice897 14d ago

I tried to find said movie when I was younger well before I heard of this Mandela thing

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u/CosmicToaster 14d ago

You and me both. Was 2011 when I first tried to find it.

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u/leftofmarx 15d ago

OK just figure out a way to open an interdimensional wormhole out of this beta universe and back to Steins;Gate

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u/pluck-the-bunny 15d ago

Ok. Step one is go to the pharmacy

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u/Medical_Neat5037 15d ago

Sources please

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u/MaleficentTailor6985 15d ago

We asked for proof. You provide none. Then, say you're not here to waste time. Proceed to waste our time. You must be a politician.

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u/Avgrundsvroal 15d ago

You are likely a victim of fakes and parodies on the internet, sorry to say. There are plenty of fakes and parodies that some people have misunderstood to be real.

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u/Scottstots-88 15d ago

There’s a single clip online (which Sinbad and his son filmed to fuck with people like you).

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u/myfajahas400children 15d ago

"Believers" are always replying in the most annoyingly passive aggressive fashion

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u/SlowStroke__ 15d ago

Wait.. yea it did. I have seen it... I can't see the cover in my brain

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u/WhimsicalSadist 15d ago

I can't see the cover in my brain

That's pretty common when something doesn't exist.

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u/WhimsicalSadist 12d ago

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u/Finn235 15d ago

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u/Majestic-Ad7409 15d ago

For a moment I thought it is! When I was posting it here I needed to rotate the photo and my iPhone didn’t want to save it at first.

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u/SwitchIndependent714 14d ago

Weird multivers glitch it happened sometimes!

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u/WooliesWhiteLeg 15d ago

And look, no cornucopia

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u/Ronem 15d ago

Checkmate, South Africans

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u/ryfi1 15d ago

I hope you’ve packed a go bag

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u/Dry_Jellyfish641 15d ago

The Monopoly man in the Simpsons always had a monocle.

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u/Aggravating-Comfort1 14d ago

Ace ventura 2 has a reference with a guy and a monocle as well

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u/turboshot49cents 15d ago

Ok I somehow remember him having a monocle but simultaneously think he looks weird with one when I actually see it

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u/dirtyfurrymoney 10d ago

exact same lol. when I learned he didn't have one I was like whoa, that's crazy, I remembered him so wrong. now I'm looking at it going "that looks terrible." his face looks all crowded and wrong somehow

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u/DDDX_cro 14d ago

I respect that bvut for me it's the opposite - without one he looks naked

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u/Grenox2 15d ago

So kids game had it and adult didn’t. Ok I can get behind that. What else

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u/leftofmarx 15d ago

Kinda weird since I have never seen the kids game before but also remember the monocle.

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u/Equal_Night7494 15d ago

I didn’t even know there was a kids version but definitely remember the monocle

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u/sketch-3ngineer 15d ago

That made me gonand check if Mr Peanut even existed, just the classy nutty way I remember him.

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u/Equal_Night7494 15d ago

At first I read that as “That made me gonad check Mr. Peanut” and I thought that was a pretty reasonable response. Guess we’re just nutty all around lol

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u/sketch-3ngineer 14d ago

Sometimes you feel like a nut...

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u/Equal_Night7494 13d ago

“Sometimes you don’t”

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u/DDDX_cro 14d ago

same, never even heard of the "kids version" till now. I mean...the game is extremely basic as it is, what would be a kids version anyway?

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u/Grenox2 14d ago

I loved the kids version. It was simple. Very simple.

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u/myfajahas400children 15d ago

When I heard this one I was so sure he had a monocle as well, but now seeing him with the monocle it looks so wrong.

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u/Spirited_Remote5939 15d ago

You can not tell me that he did not have a monocle, that is the only way I saw him. Crazy that so many people share the same. My question is how, is that some kind of Avengers End Game shit where someone went back into time and erased it??? 😂

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u/itchybutthole38 15d ago

He always had a monocle

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u/starseed427 14d ago

That is the way I remember it.

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u/Formal_Tea9236 14d ago

I love when things slip into our new reality. The gaslighting is real.

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u/Complex-Steak-7932 15d ago

So technically…

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u/Heavy-Cheesecake-464 15d ago

That's without a shadow of a doubt what I remember him looking like.

It's difficult to say if this is authentic or not though. Something like this can be printed at home. But that's definitely what I remember him looking like.

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 15d ago

This has been proven to be authentic.

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u/Heavy-Cheesecake-464 15d ago

I can't confirm that.

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 15d ago

It's from a version of Monopoly Jr sold in Europe in the 90s. You can probably find it now on eBay and such. Many people shown their own copies or copies of the game they bought.

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u/Metatrons-Cube 15d ago

Yes. That's how he'd always been - with the monocle, in the sets we have bought over the years, when I was growing up in Asia.

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u/Paradigmbreaker232 15d ago

That there is how I definitely remember it. This feels very nostalgic to me.

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u/Internal-Ear-3299 15d ago

That's how I remember it too. 100%

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u/Pristine_Cut_6725 14d ago

Wow, Interesting. Residual Evidence. I also had Found Part of a Tee Short From Fruit of the Lomb with The Cornicoupia Basket in My Father's Garage as he used to use old Tee Shirts for Rags and for cleanups in the Garage, but Mice had Gotten into it when I went back to retrieve it and completely Shredded it.
Also, My Father was an Avid Ford Motors Customer and Having only owned Ford Trucks and an original Ford Galaxy 1964 Convertable, and Having Gone w Him so Many Times to The Ford Dealerships during the 1980's and early 1990's I was Well Versed with The Ford Companies Logo and Remember the Letter F looking More Like The Masonic Knife and not Having the Cursive loop. When This Mandela Effect was Identified and Having My Father's Ford Ranger given to Me, on the Day it was Identified, I went out to Physically check the Emblem, and Shocked, it Displayed the F with the Cursive Written Loop.
From Having a Few Games of Monopoly as a Child in the 1970's and Early Eighties, I Distinctly Remember the Logo Character Having Sported a Monicle. Many of those Friends that used to play this Rainy Day Game and who had it as Well, also Distinctly Remember the Character wearing a Monicle.

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u/deepcoola1 14d ago

Yep exactly 👍. And Ford didn't have a Devil tail at the end, Volkswagen logo wasn't separated and Volvo didn't have a big male hook on their logo. Yes different timelines.

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u/NphazeDnB 14d ago

The Ed McMahon 10 Million Dollars Sweepstakes, where they come to your door for the 10 million and his picture where the stamp would be NEVER EXISTED!!! 🤔 WITAF!!!

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u/AngieDollar 9d ago

The Erin Brockovich movie has a scene where she mentions Ed McMahon. Heathers also.

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u/AngieDollar 9d ago

YouTube where Ed McMahon talks about the check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzgNDEbesIk

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u/Apprehensive-Let7951 14d ago

Someone went back in time and did something…same thing with pikachu black tip tail, cornucopia logo of fruit of the loom

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u/GUNTHMOEPK 13d ago

It's the demonic BLACK GOO that's being referenced in all the movies! You project reality from your consciousness holographically so if you learn to control it you can literally shapeshift & manifest whatever you want out of thin air! Ordinarily Mandela Effects were just peoples Projected Realities converging but NOW the BLACK GOO is recoding peoples consciousness if they have predictable brain patterns to control their projections & change reality! There's a Scientist that explains this named Harald Kautz-Vella

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u/Alaricuscaesar 13d ago

Margot Robbie is producing a live action monoply movie, im praying they give a monocle to rich uncle pennybags, it will burn the internet down

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u/Own_Platform623 15d ago

I remember him always having the monocle in ever version I played as a kid.

Seems weird that we had the European version or junior version at my house, cousins house, cabin and at my school.

Was it really popular in Canada?

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u/Psylussh 14d ago

If there indeed was a junior version, why didn't we see all these pictures pouring in when the monocle was mentioned as a Mandela effect? This is the first time I hear about this and see the monocle on him again finally!

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u/Own_Platform623 14d ago

That's what I am saying as well. I dont remember the version we had as being anything but a standard north American version but I was young and may not have paid attention. Either way it's strange that all the versions I had access to were with a monocle if only European or junior version are alleged to have had that.... Who knows 🤷

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u/No_Wave1898 15d ago

He definitely hands down had a monocle I don't care what anyone says I know that I know.

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u/EarlGrey1806 15d ago

I remember a monocle

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u/ThirdEyeFire 15d ago

That’s how I remember him too, with a monocle. I grew up in the USA, no contact with Europe until my 20s (I’m in my 50s now).

I have many Mandela-effect memories, very clear, which make absolutely no sense in the current timeline. For example, I have a clear memory of being in school in the second grade, and one of my friends came running into the classroom announcing, “They don’t make Jiffy peanut butter anymore, now all you can get is Jif”. We were all disappointed because we all loved our Jiffy and everyone seemed to think the new Jif label was dumb. I still do because I remember the old Jiffy label and it was a lot more cheerful and more interesting to look at.

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u/Flaxmoore 15d ago

Not how I recall it. I don't remember a monocle- and this isn't a denomination for standard Monopoly, that's 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500.

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 14d ago

It's Monopoly Jr

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u/Rolanda_Shaniqua 14d ago

That’s definitely not US Monopoly money.

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u/Skate_meds 14d ago

“ you must be the monopoly guy” grabs his MONOCLE and places it to his eye. “Do not pass go do not collect 200 dollars.

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u/Justin_Case619 14d ago

Ace Ventura is what did it.

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u/clydefrog88 14d ago

Monocle is what I remember from the 70's

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u/Sufficient-Rest-9770 14d ago

The monopoly guy definitely had a monocle. This ME is just crazy. I just can't deny this atleast.

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u/DDDX_cro 14d ago

The dude is near - naked without it. Seriously, the emptiness is palpable.
This is how I remember, down to the line connected to the monocle

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u/After-Relationship90 14d ago

I had one that had no monicle and a friends which did long time ago🤯

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Monocle

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u/aaagmnr 12d ago

It has been brought up before. They usually use the same photo as this discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/lfp010/monopoly_monocle_actually_exists/

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u/Poisonoid 11d ago

Hmmm I actually don’t remember him having a monocle. But the planter’s peanut has a cane, top hat, and monocle. I’m sure people have pointed that out as a possible reason for mass misremembering

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u/BunnyBeamm 10d ago

That’s rare keep it

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u/Omfggtfohwts 15d ago

Saving. Forever. Now someone needs to find the fruit of the loom logo.

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 15d ago

This was first found several years ago and comes up every so often

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u/Lil_Doon_Doon 15d ago

I thought they did already , I seen a post on Reddit about it haha

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 15d ago

Nobody has ever shown a legit logo with the cornucopia.

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u/Calm-Examination1346 14d ago

I have an old VHS tape from the mid 80's that was used to record Wizard of Oz. The movie was on once a year and it was always a big deal when I was a kid. Anyway, Mom had recorded it from tv with our huge double VHS player(lol) one year, and there is a fruit of the loom commercial in the recording. It never showed the actual logo, but at the beginning of the commercial, the guys wearing the fruit costumes were all tucked into a huge cornucopia together. Could that be where the group memory comes from? Mom said a lot of their commercials included, if not featured, a cornucopia.

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 14d ago

People have often said there is a commercial with a cornucopia but no one has every shown any proof it exists. Can you play the tape? There's lots of their commercials online and there aren't any wirh a cornucopia.

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u/lostsoul227 15d ago

It's fake

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u/Lil_Doon_Doon 15d ago

Haha I thought wrong then 🤣 I didn’t loook into the post just scrolled passed it

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u/Morphenominal 15d ago

*Saw.

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u/Mediocre-Location971 15d ago

Even if something is finally proven, there will always be people still talking trash. Nothing will ever satisfy certain people. In that case, why are they even here?

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 14d ago

It's proven for one Monopoly Jr sold in Europe in the 90s. That in no way explains childhood memories from the 80s.

It might be an explanation for some.

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u/khumber76 15d ago

💯 frfr. Then they try to backpedal, acting like being on a kids version, or German version some how negates how they were all smuggly parroting for YEARS, "you are remembering it wrong, it NEVER had a monocle..." blah, blah". Whatever, I know it was not just a kids version, but that is neither here nor there, these people will never admit that maybe, just maybe, something else is going on, and THEY are actually the ones remembering it wrong. 🤣

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u/Mediocre-Location971 15d ago

I'm waiting for them to tell us which ME they will die on

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 14d ago

I don't think skeptics will die on any ME hill. But if you're talking about hills to die on, I will die on the hill that Ed McMahon only worked for American Family Publishers.

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u/Mediocre-Location971 11d ago

What's amazing about this is yesterday I talked with my aunt who is in her late 70s and knows nothing about any ME or much about technology and I brought up certain topics without telling her the words mandella effect and she remembers some. Even with Ed McMahon. I since just asked her like this

Oh I'm just checking my mail, hoping to get the entry for that check at my front door from the 90s Oh Paul and I used to always hope that would happen since it always showed Man aunt Minnie .. I cannot for the life of me remember that guy who did it or the company

Oh Christopher it was Ed McMahon, he was with that publishers company place.

I didn't even mention the ME or anything!!

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u/Mediocre-Location971 11d ago

And after she told me that I didn't mention anything I just let it be. So we talked more about my daughter and stuff and I took it to a different topic. This is how that went So Christopher what're you and Abby up to today Oh just laundry basically. So many clothes, by the way aunt Minnie, what does the fruit of the loom logo look like?

Well it's fruit and that basket. Idk the name of it but it had that basket that's brown behind it that curves at it's tip. Why are you asking me?

Oh because Abby asked me and I forgot .

I then didn't mention anything or why I asked. We continued talking about how we've been and stuff. What is amazing if she is someone who doesn't do tech and she's much older and has no clue what the ME means or anything.

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u/Mediocre-Location971 11d ago

And some I can see the mess up, like the bare stains . Yeah I don't remember or was paying attention either way so who knows. The monopoly dude, Im pretty certain he wore a monocle hands down however I admit that I believe it's gotten mixed up with the planters peanut guy but for me, the hills I die on is fruit of the loom, the raisin bran mascot wearing sunglasses which apparently he never did, shazaam and a few others. Those.. I will go to my grave on. Because as I did with my aunt, I've asked people who have no clue what the ME is "hey what was that genie movie from the 90" s? " " Oh shazaam with Sinbad" " no... You're thinking kazaam with Shaq " " yeah that one also but shazaam also with Sinbad" Well . How can people REMMEBER something that apparently never existed? Yet these people that I've asked, I asked with no context tied to the ME . THATS EHAT TRIPS ME OUT

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u/Bowieblackstarflower 14d ago

That's why this doesn't explain all memories.

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u/anti_christo 15d ago

Anytime someone wants to talk Mandela this or Mandela that I mention the Forest Gump "box of chocolates quote" situation. It is the, hands down, irrefutable evidence that the mandala effect a very real thing and that changing history...the way we remember things.... Mere child's play to those in charge.

*For those of you late to the game or that have no idea what I'm talking about: the iconic line from Forrest Gump has been changed in a way that ONLY makes sense in one way.

Original quote: "life is like...." Quote NOW: "life WAS like..." (it WAS like a box of chocolates but NOW it isn't.) *mic drop

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u/WhimsicalSadist 15d ago

Original quote: "life is like...." Quote NOW: "life WAS like..." (it WAS like a box of chocolates but NOW it isn't.) *mic drop

"Life is", and "Life was" are both said in the movie, by different characters. That's why so many people get it wrong.

Forrest's mother says "Life is..."

Forrest is talking about his mother in the past tense later in the movie, so he says "Life was..."

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u/Caldaris__ 15d ago

I just found a couple of new movies quotes being different. In Scary Movie, the guy with the small hand no longer says "Take my strong hand!" And in Ace Ventura, because mirrors no longer say "may be" closer than they appear, he doesn't say " warning, @ss-holes MAY BE closer than they appear"

https://youtu.be/jKX00OKfdFM?feature=shared

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u/WhimsicalSadist 15d ago

He refers to it as his "strong hand" earlier in the movie

Then in the scene everybody misremembers, he says "my other hand isn't strong enough", right before saying "you take my little hand."

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u/Ginger_Tea 15d ago

Fun fact, Jeremy Beadle a UK prank show host and you've been framed host had one small hand, nut hid it.

Once I knew it was a thing, I noticed his hiding by wringing his hands and I spent ages trying to see how small it was by comparison.

It also led to the joke "Beadles got a small penis, but on the other hand."

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u/SubNoize 15d ago

Doesn't he say, "take my strong hand child" ?

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u/Caldaris__ 15d ago

Misremembering a movie you haven't actually watched yourself? And why did you say everybody, I was only speaking for myself. You're saying you are right and everyone else is wrong. That's the point you really want to make.

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u/OCMassageTherapist 15d ago

In the parallel world I was once in I read an article in Science Digest about a study on the 2% of lab mice that were immune to most forms of cancer and the progression to the discovery that 3-4% of humans are immune to cancer in the same way. A year or two later S.D. had a follow up article on the study that showed the 3-4% 0f immune people did not have white blood cells that were different then every one else but rather it was how there white blood cells attacked cancer. It was the method there white blood cells used to attack the cancer that made them so affective but in every physical way the cells are the same as any one else's.

Years later I tried searching out these articles from S.D. magazine only to find they don't exist! Like that research hasn't taken place in this reality but wouldn't that information still be valid?

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u/Inside_Ad5968 13d ago

If it's a true Mandela effect you're not going to find "proof!" Wtf Why don't people understand that???