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I wrote something about this for a client a while back and was reminded about it today. I thought I'd share it with you.

The reason I was reminded about the Mandela effect is that I have a new client by the name of Clarice. Every time I send her an Email starting with 'Hello Clarice', I can't help but think of The Silence of the Lambs. I'm sure most of you know what I am referring to --- the part when Agent Starling (Clarice) first meets Hannibal in his cell and he greets her with 'Hello Clarice'.

Except - THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. He did not say 'Hello Clarice' at all. He said 'Good morning'. I had to download the movie myself to check because I did not believe it. But, yep, he says 'good morning'. You don't believe me? Download the movie or dig out a DVD or whatever and watch it yourself.

The Mandela Effect is so named after countless people expressed their surprise when Nelson Mandela died in 2013. Many were CONVINCED that he died in the 80s. Many were so convinced that he died in the 80s that they refused to believe the news that he died in 2013. Their faith in their false memory was so strong that that could believe otherwise.

There's other examples...

You remember when Darth Vader said "Luke, I am your father"? DIDN'T HAPPEN!. He said "No, I am your father".

And how Captain Kirk was always saying 'Beam me up Scotty'? WRONG. It was never said, in any episode.

Happy Friday.

Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it Again Sam” in Casablanca, he just said “Play it”.

The Kirk one is a sentence used to describe the show as opposed to a line isn’t it?

And the hello Clarice one is common, I would have thought the same.  It seems to stem from the end when she answers the phone and he says “Well Clarice”.  Funny how that happens.

The one that springs to mind is from Fawlty Towers.  Basil is often quoted as saying "Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain..." when talking about the view from the Torquay hotel window.  Except he never says the "across the plain" bit.
If you google the misquote, it's absolutely everywhere.  How did it even start?   

My memory told me that it was a catchprase used in most episodes.

But, nope. It was not use once.

The Captain Pugwash characters!

Life is like a box ofchocolates. Forrest Gump doesn’t say that.

Dolly having braces on her teeth in film Moonraker.

Mirror, mirror on the wall isn’t said in Snow White either

We are the Champions by Queen did not end with 'of the world'.

I listened to the YouTube clip titled "life is like a box of chocolates"

and yet it's definitely ".. life was like a box of chocolates".

you're absolutely right

Fuck me, lockdown has taken it's toll.

Must be to do with radio edits cutting the final chorus off  :hmmm:

Oh and "jack of all trades, master of none." is a complete mutilation of its original form. Since it's only part of the phrase. So when someone says it tell them to fuck off (or you can be polite).

Same goes for:

"Curiosity killed the cat..."

&

"Blood is thicker than water"

So when you fall out with a family member and they try to use it as a guilt trip...you can tell them to fuck off.

That is today's English lesson over kids. On the other thread is lesson on the History of Rum  :pint:

Money is the root of all evil

Should be

The love of money is the root of all evil

I confess, I don't think that I had heard of this before now.  I have just had a mooch around the net and I will avoid the temptation to post an example which everyone else will have already seen on one of the freely available web based articles.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary my dear Watson" as alleged.

I always thought he had a fetish for shoving fruit up his arse, particularly fond of the citrus variety, hence ‘lemon entry’ my dear Watson, ‘lemon entry’.