mctoasterson,

And everyone knew how to draw the “smile” graffiti style “S”.

And everyone knew some version of the promotion where you supposedly got free something if you got a Tootsie Pop wrapper with the Indian and the star on it.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

I had forgotten about the Tootsie Pop wrapper!

tryagain,

I heard it for Prince first.

aseriesoftubes,

The same way that every kid in the 80s knew where the hidden 1-up in level 1-1 of Mario Bros was.

blazeknave,

AND he was Paul from The Wonder Years!

AngryCommieKender,

I heard it about Ron Jeremy, which made sense because, allegedly there’s a porn out there in which he does suck himself, but I have no way of verification, as I am not aware of the film name, and I’m not watching a bunch of 70s porn to find the right one

lorez,

I heard the same thing for Gabriele D’Annunzio.

tias,

What can I say, it sounded entirely plausible.

Rubanski,

After 100h playtime of Pokemon red/blue, MS Anne would come back

mindbleach,

If nobody’s done a ROM hack that implements as many bullshit rumors as possible, I’m sorely tempted.

Rubanski,

That would actually be amazing. School rumors edition

Leon,

that’s when you go around the side of the ship and use a level 100 Mewtwo with strength to move the truck to find Mew

mindbleach,

Having caught Mew by fishing 100 times off this one particular pier with the good rod.

otp,

MS Anne… featuring Clippy!

It looks like you’re trying to catch !

Aggravationstation,

Ywa I live in northern Englanf and heard that as a kid

StinkyRedMan,

Not as impressive but in the town where I grew up there is a really skinny woman who seems to be jogging like non stop. When I was in elementary school there was a rumor saying she had some disease which would make her heart stop if she stopped running and all the kids thought it was true. A few years ago when mentionning it to a younger sister (6 years difference) I learnt the rumor was still going strong when she was a kid, and then we both learnt that it was still the case when our even younger sister (12 years difference) was a kid.

smeg,

A rumour so strong that your friend’s uncle (who works at Nintendo) heard it and designed spoink

Misconduct,

There was an old man and his elderly wife that would take regular walks by my school as a kid. The woman looked like she was made of plastic and the rumors were that she was a giant doll. They called her the barbie lady. When my sister went to school it was just the man walking and the rumors were that he melted his wife and made his cane with her. Kids are WILD. Those poor elderly people were just trying to have a damn walk lol

Damn… It was just him walking though that sucks :(

Lennnny,
@Lennnny@lemmy.world avatar

Used to go to festivals in the late 90s/early 2000s and there was ALWAYS a rumor that one of the Chuckle Brothers had died. Or Cliff Richard.

Tar_alcaran,

Or Cliff Richard.

Simultaneously the most likely person, and the least likely person to have died at basically any time

Malfeasant,

Related to that, Abe Vigoda is still dead.

jenny_ball,
@jenny_ball@lemmy.world avatar

i know the guy who invented the phrase weak sauce

rekliner,

Glad to see the other misinformation classics like Richard Gere’s gerbil mentioned.

Anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis was secretly a hermaphrodite?

It was known. I don’t trust anything I learned pre Internet anymore, including the number of planets.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

When I was a kid in the '70s the big rumor was that Rod Stewart had to go to the hospital once to have a gallon of sperm pumped out of his stomach. I was surprised when I saw a fairly recent interview with Stewart where he mentioned this rumor and he was even aware of where it came from.

nepenthes,
@nepenthes@lemmy.world avatar

This rumour was recycled for New Kids on the Block in the 80s.

mihnt,
@mihnt@lemmy.world avatar

And pretty much every female musician or actress.

linuxPIPEpower,

I mean a gallon of anything is a lot but if you drank too quickly I think you’d just vomit

KuroiKaze,

Heard this about Lil Kim

niktemadur,

Where’s the one about Rod Stewart’s stomach getting pumped at the hospital? That was a doozy that I heard in two different countries and two different languages, and this was in the late-70s/early-80s, people didn’t even have fax machines then. How did this one get around so quickly?

Malfeasant,

Anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis was secretly a hermaphrodite?

Yes, I remember that one!

And Catherine the Great really liked horses…

linuxPIPEpower,

It wasn’t millennials who started that one. I heard it from my genx history teacher. Who honestly I had a lot of respect for at the time, maybe because he told us stories like that, but the more I learn about the world the more I find he was so full of shit and he was like my favorite teacher so its disappointing. One of these days I’m going to find out that the Maginot Line was actually a great idea and if you are France after WW1 you should always build the Maginot Line.

Re Catherine the Great’s horse thing, my understanding is that the stories were contemporaneous with her rule and that all powerful women in europe had similar sorts of things said about them. There as a whole early tabloid industry describing in detail the various imagined exploits of Marie Antoinette.

AlecSadler,

I went to a 20 person private school in rural Oregon at the time and even heard it.

That and everyone drawing Stussy symbols for a hot minute.

Dkarma,

It’s the infinity symbol 😂😂😂.

DigitalAudio,
@DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz avatar

Hell, I’m from a South American country and even I heard it!

smasm, (edited )

New Zealand checking in, for Marilyn Manson and for the stussy symbols.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

The rumor I remember more was that the boobs he had in a music video were actual implants and not just an external costume.

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