# The Physical Geography of the world and our historical timeline are being supernaturally changed as I type this **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576 "2021-05-07T05:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/141 "2021-05-07T22:19:58Z")
But it does, the way I read it. You must be from… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/142 "2021-05-07T22:22:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Post #48. Larry Niven - “[All the Myriad Ways](https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10/page/n31/mode/2up?view=theater).” This isn’t the version _I_ remember-what gives? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/143 "2021-05-07T22:24:08Z")
**Modding** : OK, this thread has become completely silly. I’m going to kick it back out of GD and back to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/144 "2021-05-07T22:24:42Z")
No it hasn’t! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/145 "2021-05-07T22:25:21Z")
Yes it has! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/146 "2021-05-07T22:26:24Z")
Only in one universe it has. Did you send it back to the proper parallel universe? Why does it say “Administrator” by your name now? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/147 "2021-05-07T22:29:19Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Yes it has! No it _hasn’t_. Silly would be arguing that Stouffer’s ever made stove-top stuffing. This is just the automatic gainsaying of another poster. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/148 "2021-05-07T22:29:23Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > **Modding** : OK, this thread has become completely silly. When was it _not_ silly? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/149 "2021-05-07T22:32:01Z")
Wait, I just got sucked into either some alt universe or my memory had gone mandela- wasn’t there a emoticon of a guy wearing a tinfoil hat? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/150 "2021-05-07T22:32:13Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > This is just the automatic gainsaying of another poster. I’m sorry, your five minutes is up. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/151 "2021-05-07T22:33:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > When was it _not_ silly? That was our only option, once the OP ruled out vitriol. Sillyness is in room 12B. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/152 "2021-05-07T22:34:44Z")
In All The Myriad Ways, it took machinery to go to alternate worlds. Niven’s For A Foggy Night had accidental travel to alternate worlds - at least in this universe. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/153 "2021-05-07T22:41:27Z")
Room 222. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/154 "2021-05-07T22:48:52Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Niven’s For A Foggy Night had accidental travel to alternate worlds - at least in this universe. But it didn’t state the theory I mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/155 "2021-05-07T23:06:23Z")
In case the OP hasn’t been scared off by all this logic and reality… Here’s a 1975 Stove Top Stuffing commercial. It’s one I recall from my young married days. From what you’ve said, it predates you. At about the :26 mark, you’ll clearly see the General Foods logo appear on the screen. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/U8DRsT-mxk8/hqdefault.jpg "Stove Top Stuffing Commercial (1975)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DRsT-mxk8) Stove Top was made by General Foods, **not Stouffer’s**. It was _never_ made by Stouffer’s. And I CLEARLY recall it being made by General Foods because my uncle worked for GF at the time, and I asked him about Stove Top. His wife, my aunt, made pretty terrible stuffing, and I was hoping he’d brought some Stove Top home from work for her to make. He hadn’t–they didn’t get free product. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/156 "2021-05-07T23:09:06Z")
True. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/157 "2021-05-07T23:38:41Z")
Speaking of all these sneaky changes in our childhood foods, what about SpaghettiOs? I remember them being made by Chef Boyardee, but it turns out they aren’t 😱… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/158 "2021-05-07T23:50:09Z")
Different company entirely. Different “country” even. Although what the French have to do with spaghetti I can’t imagine. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/159 "2021-05-08T00:02:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Although what the French have to do with spaghetti I can’t imagine. Generalissimo Franco-American is still dead! (Or, maybe, he’s not.) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576/160 "2021-05-08T00:15:04Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This whole timeline-shifting mess would never have happened if Spider-Man hadn’t made that deal with Mephisto to save Aunt Jemima’s life. Would have been worth it if they brought back Gwen Stacy instead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-physical-geography-of-the-world-and-our-historical-timeline-are-being-supernaturally-changed-as-i-type-this/941576.md?page=9)