# The Mandela Effect and Geena Davis in a Green Bikini **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179 "2020-03-24T14:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/21 "2020-03-25T15:53:46Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > I refuse to believe that Ed McMahon didn’t carry big checks to peoples houses, nor did he work for Publisher’s Clearinghouse. Heh, I remembered something like that too but it was American Family Publishers: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEMYatr\_j1o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEMYatr_j1o) ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/22 "2020-03-27T16:23:59Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Heh, I remembered something like that too but it was American Family Publishers: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEMYatr\_j1o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEMYatr_j1o) In the dimension I come from it was Publisher’s Clearinghouse. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/23 "2020-03-27T16:46:01Z")
In your dimension, did Ed have a job? I mean, where he did more than say “Heeeere’s Johnny!” then go sit on a couch and chortle at Johnny’s jokes… ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/24 "2020-03-27T17:17:58Z")
Apparently Andrew Zimmerman changed his name recently to [Andrew Zimmern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern), because I REMEMBER HOW IT USED TO BE. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/25 "2020-03-27T20:10:10Z")
> [@digs](#): > > In your dimension, did Ed have a job? I mean, where he did more than say “Heeeere’s Johnny!” then go sit on a couch and chortle at Johnny’s jokes… I don’t remember one, no. But interdemensional travel can mess with your head. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/26 "2020-04-06T14:53:45Z")
I watch subbed anime from time to time. When I remember it it’s always in English. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/27 "2020-04-06T17:23:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Agreed. The Mandela Effect is when a number of people all misremember an event in the similar way. The OP isn’t describing an example of the Mandela Effect unless he can show that other people also remember Geena Davis’ bikini being green. perhaps this was in the alternate ending to Big? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/28 "2020-04-16T17:47:21Z")
Trivia time! Mandela’s was one of the [draft obituaries CNN accidentally made public 17 years ago today](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries#The_CNN.com_incident). ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/29 "2020-04-16T18:11:15Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Trivia time! > > Mandela’s was one of the [draft obituaries CNN accidentally made public 17 years ago today](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries#The_CNN.com_incident). Yes. Years after the point in time when almost nobody\* thought he was already dead. \*Possibly nobody, because the idea of the Mandela Effect wasn’t dreamed up until 2009, another six years after the CNN incident. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/30 "2020-04-16T19:59:36Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > weird that people thought Mandela died in the 80s in prison since when he was released in 1990 that was a very big story . And then when he was elected president in 1994 that was also a big story. I guess people did not hear about those 2 events? When Mandela was released from prison in the '90s, it surprised a lot of people at the time, because they thought he’d died in prison in the '80s. The whole “Mandela Effect” stems from the big media coverage of him being released from prison. It’s not an ongoing thing. People weren’t shocked when he died in 2013 because they thought he’d been dead for thirty years already. (And like **TriPolar** just pointed out, it wasn’t actually a “thing” at the time, it’s something that came out years later when people were reminiscing about their reaction to the news.) ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/31 "2020-04-16T21:37:06Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Nope. I was remembering an episode from the original show. It was broadcast in B&W. But, decades later, my brain colorized it. I think this is a common experience. I know that I have pictured B&W photos or movies in my head as color, because memory is not a video recorder. It tries to correlate things to the world you know, and the world you know is in color. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/32 "2020-04-16T22:12:43Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Wait, is that something from THIS timeline? Please? > > (Oh, that’s something we do; “Please” with a cocked head means “I don’t understand, can you go on?”) > > sorry, just a tourist here… I took it as a brown acid reference–seeing colors that aren’t there. Still works, even if I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/33 "2020-04-17T16:29:41Z")
A minor example but actor Anna Faris started as Ana Faris (House Bunny, Mom). I’m sure of it, SWMBO is sure of it yet I can’t find anything online with her name spelled that way. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179/34 "2020-04-17T21:19:33Z")
When I search online for “Ana Faris” I find a lot of webpages with the name spelled that way, not as many as for “Anna Faris”, but still a lot. Wikipedia lists a lot of people who spell their name as Ana. Again, not as many as who spell it Anna, but still a lot. Apparently, it’s standard to spell the name Ana in Spanish-speaking countries and in the Balkans. Some Americans spell it that way. Apparently a lot of people who wrote articles, blogs, etc. about the actress spelled it Ana because they didn’t bother to check any good source before writing it. You probably first saw the name in one of those articles, blogs, or whatever and remembered it from that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-and-geena-davis-in-a-green-bikini/850179.md?page=1)