This is not a recent fenomo. . .phnylno. . .thing, people. Why, in 1795 you couldn’t find a map with Poland on it because it had completely vanished!
Don’t worry, I found it again. Stuffed down the back of the sofa cushions.
Maybe you used to be married to some alien who shape shifted to kinda sorta look like her. All in another time and dimension.
I remember when I was a kid that M&Ms were red, orange, yellow, green, brown, and tan. But that was more than 40 years ago. I could be wrong. There are lots of things from back then that I have no recollection of. Did my family go somewhere for my tenth birthday party, or did we have cake at home? I haven’t the faintest idea. If I went online and could find no evidence that tan M&Ms ever existed, it would certainly be a little unsettling, but I wouldn’t conclude that the whole universe changed just to mess with my head.
If the OP wants us to have an open mind about these things, I’d ask him to have one as well. Consider the possibility that your memory isn’t perfect. How we view, interact, and remember the world is a tremendously complicated thing. Accept your fallibility and do the best you can.
I used to love their potato salad. I think.
I’d hear that as well, but I’ve also learned that determining longitude was very difficult during the early days of the age of exploration. I wonder how precisely the longitude of the South American coastline was known when the pope drew his line on the map. Did any land change from Spanish to Portuguese when better surveys became possible?
But the OP says that South America is moving eastward, while the plate is moving to the west…
Ditto.
Put it back! He was still using it!
My standard answer back in the '70s: It’s part of a communist plot to take over Rhode Island. (Of course it was commies! Who else would have a plot to take over RI that included changing house numbers in Iowa?)
This was true but not until 1986. From Wikipedia, considerably shortened:
The original colors of M&M’s candies were red, yellow, violet, green and brown. Violet was discontinued and replaced with tan in the late 1940s.
In 1976, Mars eliminated red-colored M&M’s… [and replaced them with orange]. Red M&M’s were reintroduced as a result [of a campaign in 1986].
Then lots of stuff happened. Now everybody in the world has an individual M&M color assigned to them at birth that they can used as a universal ID, at least in South America.
Ah, so that’s why they moved it east a few thousand miles. Now it’s starting to make sense.
I was born in '65, so I’m probably remembering the color mix before red was discontinued in '76. But I don’t want to mock the OP. I just used M&Ms as something I remembered a certain way, but was so long ago that it’s hard to be certain.
There was a movie I saw when I was young. I’d forgotten almost everything about it, except some details of the plot and a specific quote that always stuck with me. Well, I saw it again a few years ago; the plot was as I remembered, but I kept waiting for that familiar line and it was never spoken. There wasn’t even a line that was similar enough that I might have conflated the two. I remembered it word-for-word. It felt wrong when it wasn’t there. I sympathize with the OP. It’s weird to be certain of something that isn’t there, and never was. I don’t think the universe changed to take that line out of the movie. I think that human brains are strange, complicated, intricate, squishy things that sometimes even fool themselves. Including mine.
Seriously, however:
I read that the pope’s line was suppoed to be far enough east that the entirety of South America was west of it, but as you said, the longitude measurement was incorrect.
Hmmm… Wiki sez:
So, between locating the Azores and measuring the distance:
Pick a line, any line!
My own memory tells me that some years back a science fiction writer said that travel between alternate realities isn’t difficult – in fact, it’s so easy that people do it all the time without noticing. That’s why, for instance, your keys are on the coffee table in the living room but you’re absolutely positive that you left them on the kitchen counter last night.
Unfortunately, I can neither find this quoted anywhere on line, nor find anyone else who remembers it.
My memory is that it wasn’t a sci-fi writer, but a neo-Fortean. Colin Wilson, maybe? (Clearly, you and I are from divergent timelines).
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.
Not only have geographical locations moved, they have also changed size. When I was in my 40’s I returned to my childhood home for the first time since I was 10 years old. The home still occupied the same physical space, but had actually shrunk in size from when I was a child. Not only that, but the long hill in my front yard that I had played on with my sled had flattened to a gentle rise from the street to the front porch. All the other houses in the neighborhood suffered from the same shrinkage.
IIRC they had a frozen stuffing out at one time. Kinda tasty too.
There were quite a few of those Dogs Playing Poker by Coolidge, dating from around the end of the 19th to the start of the 20th, plus a myriad of rip-offs, parodies and etc. It is quite easy to remember one of the non-originals, one say painted on velvet , by a different artist and hanging in the basement, and thinking that was one of the original 18. A search on Google images turns up the original and quite a few others.
Post #48. Larry Niven - “All the Myriad Ways.”
Which is?
Well, let us see. Who is President? Hillary Clinton in her second term, right?
True dat, especially the gravy. Even the REAL Colonel said that, after they changed his recipe to some sort of brown tasteless crap.
You may be getting the hang of this new fangled texting promise of yours! Good show!
My Dad was such a fantastic hero in WW2 he lassoed Japan to pull it into Bombing range. He was a direct descendant of Pecos Bill.
Oddly the same thing happened around 1939. Weird isn’t it? Twilight zone music plays…
Interesting story – I’ve read it several times – but nothing to do with what I mentioned.