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I was 6 when Empire Strikes Back came out. Mom took me out of school that day to see it, and the line was around the block. I still say I saw a snowspeeder kamikaze into the cockpit of an AT-AT.
Nobody believed me for years and years…I was starting to doubt myself. Until our buddy Dooku (Now Morbo, I think) informed us that his parents owned a movie theater and he had seen that scene dozens of times.
-Joe
I am confused. Is the scene in the movie or not?
-FrL-
It is in the movie, but apparently only in a few very early cuts or something like that. Were Morbo around he might be able to give a better explanation, being a movie guy and all.
-Joe
You took the words out of my mouth. I saw the movie a few years ago and he said, “Play it Sam”.
At least 100,000 people claim they saw Wilt Chamberlain shoot 100 points one night. Trouble was that game was played in HS gym in Hershey, PA that seated about 4000. Probably most of that 100,000 have never been in Hershey.
Actually, she says “Play it, Sam.”
He says, more or less, “If you played it for her, you can play it for me, If she can take it, so can I. Play it.”
I had a friend in High School whose mom bought into that whole rumor about how the head of Proctor and Gamble was a satan worshipper who gave his money to the Church of Satan or whatever. We went to her with the book “Rumor!” (“Straight Dope” yet to be published, of course) showing her it was untrue and she swore up, down, and sideways she saw the man himself say it right on Donahue, even though it never happened! :smack:
I remember watching the game show, Super Password in the 1980’s with Bert Convey as the host. The contestant was a black person and their celebrity partner (to my memory) was either Jamie Farr or Alan Alda. The secret word was “deer”. The celebrity said, “doe.” The contestant answered back with, “knob.”
After a second of confusion, the celebrity (Jamie Farr/ Alan Alda) realized what the contestant was thinking and fell to the floor in convulsions of uncontrollable laughter. Bert Convey and the audience roared with laughter also, while the contestant sat there confused and bewildered.
I could swear on anything that i distinctly remember seeing this, but nobody I’ve ever mentioned it to heard anything about it. Snopes says it’s false, but Jamie Farr claims it happened, so who knows.
I first heard the P & G Satan crap ~'78. It still surfaces on the Internet on occasion!!!
He went on Donahue, or some talk show, to refute the rumor, did he not? I think that one was a matter of just talking about it at all gave the rumor renewed strength.
Given all this, doen’t this explain lawyer’s antics in front of juries? That is why I am in favor of juries being allowed to ask questions (and take notes (allowed in MA)). I think it is essential that the false memory syndrome be eliminated from jurt trials-take the OJ Simpson trial/farce-the defense got the jury so confused that they could not remember anything.
Cite?
If as many people who claimed they were going to Roman Polaski’s house but cancelled on the night of August 9, 1969 actually went there, they would have outnumbered the Manson killers 100 to 1.
Are these not slightly different phenomena though? The “I was meant to be having cocktails with the Polanskis that fateful night” type stories seem somewhat self-aggrandising whilst alot of the other false memories serve no other purpose but to be talking points. Ah maybe it is in the same, I dunno.
Apparently not - Cecil’s report claims the Donahue show spent 10 years fielding phone calls denying he was ever on the show!
That is exactly correct. It was in very early prints, of which my parents’ one-screen theater had one. I didn’t even know it wasn’t common until the Intarwebs told me so.
If I get around to it I’m going to grab that scene off of my Betamax copy that I recorded late at night in said empty theater and rip it onto YouTube.
Of course, that would involve <a> finding the Beta tape in my parents’ house somewhere if it still exists, <b> hooking up our old Betamax if it still exists, and <c> figuring out a way to MacGyver an NTSC capture board to it or however I’d go about grabbing it.
If I’m not mistaken, many people claim that they saw movie footage of the Kennedy assasination on the day it occurred in 1963 (either live, or in a newscast later that day). This is impossible because the Zapruder film was never broadcast publicly until the 1970s.
I did a thread two years ago looking for examples of this phenomenon that I called “Not bloody likely!”:
As an illustration of the unreliable way that memory works: You all (at least the Americans) know what a penny looks like, right? You can picture it in your head: A small copper coin with a picture of Lincoln in profile.
OK, now, if you can picture it so clearly, which way is Lincoln facing?
He’s facing to the right. A dime is to the left. A quarter is to the left. And the nickel…
dammit! Which way is the nickel facing?