teehee!
TBH I didn’t know that Jackie was crawling after a part of JFK’s scalp until someone said something about it ooh 20 odd years ago…
Oh, thems fighting words mister!
sits back and waits for someone else to throw the first punch
My mother thought the USS Enterprise was a real spaceship for years. I think we finally convinced her it isn’t.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise was real, although it never went into space.
For a long, long time, from my 7th birthday, when my parents told me, until sometime into adulthood, I believed the canard about all your body’s cells being replaced every 7 years, so you had no cells in common with yourself from 7 years ago.
I also believed brain cells never get created after birth. I believed those things concurrently, though they were never in my mind at the same time.
The people who raised me still believe all that stuff - you only use 10% of your brain, you should drink 8 glasses of water a day (and coffee doesn’t count, nor anything else that is mostly water). I guess they believe because they’re old, and that’s what old people do.
Check under your cars at the mall before you open the door. There have been guys who wait under cars to grab your legs and then kidnap you!
Hell, this is the first I heard of it.
I, too, just assumed she was just trying to crawl away. Never affected my impression of her, but it just would never occur to me that crawling back to retrieve the portion of someone’s skull or brain would be something to do in that situation. Of course, now that I think about it, crawling would just make you a bigger target, but I never really thought about it.
I think Jackie mentioned this [crawling for a piece of skull] in some of the recordings that aired in the 20/20 special “Jacqueline: In Her Own Words.”
BTW, she pronounced her own name as “zhock-a-LEEN” (sorry, don’t know IPA).
While it’s far more likely that the person checking in the car messed up, an unscrupulous person could rent a car and sit in it with the engine running and the AC on all day (making business calls or something), drive only 16 miles, and turn it in with a nearly empty tank.
I believed that the events described in the book Sybil (about a woman with 16 personalities), especially the horrific child abuse scenes, were all true from the time I first read the book in the late '70s until a few weeks ago, when I read Sybil Exposed. It is surprising how much of an influence the original book had on my worldview, and what a difference it made to me to know the truth.
True, but what would be the motive for that?
ETA: It was clear from the following rental agreement that the car had been checked out to the next guy with approximately 1/8 of a tank less than full. This corresponded to the renter’s story that he’d only used about 1/8 of the tank. Had the next person checked the car out with an empty tank, your theory would have warranted further investigation.
Well, I seriously doubt she was thinking super-clearly.
I wouldn’t call that “exactly the right thing to do.” JFK was dead the instant that bullet hit him in the head. Trying to gather up chunks of his skull in the hopes the doctor can patch it all together isn’t a rational reaction, it’s a shock reaction to a terrible event. “Exactly the right thing to do” would have been to get down in the footwell and cover your head, not expose yourself to more bullets to save a man who’s already dead.
I don’t mean that as a criticism, incidentally. I wouldn’t expect anyone in that situation to react rationally, and it’s to her credit that her first thought was to help her husband, rather than to protect herself, but I don’t think that’s a good example of “coolness under fire.”
I disagree. I don’t think it was her call to decide her husband’s case was hopeless.
Embarrassing: I can recall arguing with my sister, insisting to her that the chocolate confections called “truffles” are made out of mushrooms.
Science and mythology: Arguing with my Mom that YES THERE WAS TOO such a thing as dragons. Not NOW of course, but you know, back in the ancient times, when dragons and dinosaurs roamed the earth. Stalked off in a huff to find scholarly books with reconstructions and fossilized dragon bones so I could prove her wrong.
Yeah, I’ve looked at the film closely, and I can’t find an EEG in the back seat. Nobody can know the absolute best course of action a split second after something like that happens out of the blue, but as I said, she attempted to do her best with the facts at hand. I think most people would have either ducked, or just started screaming.
You’re the first person I know of who admits to that (other than people on the Art Bell show or something), so kudos for your honesty. May I ask why you thought they were faked?
There were a lot of things I believed until my 20’s.
Like a lot of people, I believed the poison and razor blades inside of Halloween candy or apples.
Also, I could have sworn that vacuum was spelled vacume.
Doing a Google check, apparently vacume is the spelling used in Ontario & Quebec. I’m an American who has never been to Canada, but maybe I saw that spelling somehow when I was a kid and it stuck with me.
And for the most stupid. For a long time I thought that there was something called a lemon-lime. I mean, I knew about lemons, but I had never heard of just a lime. I saw a lot of ads for things like Sprite and 7-Up and didn’t realize they were talking about a soft-drink that combined the flavors of two separate fruits :smack:.
Eh, that’s okay, my 14 year old nephew a few months ago in the grocery store asked what was up with the green lemons.
Makes me feel a little better.
Oh, I just thought of another one. Until a year or two ago I had only heard of aborigines referring to native or indigenous Australians. I didn’t know that it could be used for other indigenous peoples.
DOH! :smack:
FWIW, I’ve lived in Ontario my whole life and I’ve never, ever, seen vacuum spelled that way.
If you’re picking up chunks of someone’s skull, then its hopeless. You don’t need to be a doctor to figure that one out.
Tell that to Gabby Giffords…