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[emuboy]

John Pertwee or Jon Pertwee?

The late English actor was named John upon his birth in 1919, but apparently always acted under the name Jon. Or so I just learned, I swear I always remember him being credited as John Pertwee, never Jon. And I loved his tenure as the Third Doctor, so its not like I haven't watched his work before.

In any case, Jon is usually an abbreviation of Jonathon, while John is a stand-alone name. Actors obviously sometimes have stage names, but what would be the point of using Jon when one's legal name is John?

Does anyone else always remember him being John Pertwee rather than Jon Pertwee?

 

[edgie]

Would a random practice game played on neutral territory from the mid 90s even have much of anything reported on it? Without the coverage that the 21st century has bought I'd imagine many a practice game has been lost throughout history.

Apparently Fremantle played Port prior to AFL in a practise match so Port wore the bars, but there's very little record of it.

Clive Waterhouse played for Port before getting drafted to Freo that season.

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[emuboy]

I wonder if the residents of Hill Valley California encountered this in the later months of 1985 as follows:

BIFF TANNEN & DAUGHTER TIFFANY 'TIFF' TANNEN (Future mother of Griff Tannen)
Tiff: Hey Dad, I've got some really great news, I got a new part time waitressing job.
Biff: Congratulations Tiff, I'm really proud of you. So where is your new job?
Tiff: At the new Sizzler that just opened at the Lone Pine Mall.
Biff: Lone Pine Mall? Don't you mean the Twin Pines Mall?
Tiff: No Dad, it's the Lone Pine Mall.
Biff: I could have sworn it was the Twin Pines Mall, I must be mistaken. So when is your first shift?
Tiff: On Thursday evening after school.

PRINCIPAL STRICKLAND & PERSONAL ASSISTANT JOAN
Strickland: Joan, I can't work out what's gone wrong here.
Joan: What's the problem, Mr. Strickland?
Strickland: I know I gave that slacker Marty McFly five tardy slips last week alone, but when I went to write this report, it says he only got one - on Thursday.
Joan: And that would be unusual for Marty McFly, he's normally very punctual.
Strickland: Punctual? He's a slacker, just like his older brother Dave.
Joan: Are you feeling okay this morning Sir? Dave McFly when he went here had a 95 percent grade average, was on the student council and captain of the football team.
Strickland: Something is wrong here. I know a slacker when I see a slacker.
Joan: Talking of slackers Mr. Strickland, that kid everyone calls Needles - his father called to say he had been in a car accident on Sunday and would be in hospital all week.
Strickland: Needles? I've never heard of this kid Needles before. What is going on this morning?

DAVE & LINDA MCFLY
Dave: Linda, I was hoping to get your advice on something.
Linda: Sure Dave, what do you need my advice on?
Dave: I drew Jennifer in the Secret Santa, and I'm not sure what to buy her for Christmas.
Linda: How about a scarf? You know to keep her warm in the winter.
Dave: Thanks Linda, that sounds like a really great idea.
Linda: Get her a green or a blue scarf, it will go well with her red hair.
Dave: Red hair? Jennifer has brown hair.
Linda: No, reddish-brown, but definitely more red than brown.
Dave: Are you sure on that? Jennifer Parker has dark brown hair.
Linda: I think I know what color hair our brother's girlfriend has Dave.
Dave: She didn't die her hair recently?
Linda: No, Jennifer's always had the same reddish-brown hair.

 

[Nugett]

John Pertwee or Jon Pertwee?

The late English actor was named John upon his birth in 1919, but apparently always acted under the name Jon. Or so I just learned, I swear I always remember him being credited as John Pertwee, never Jon. And I loved his tenure as the Third Doctor, so its not like I haven't watched his work before.

In any case, Jon is usually an abbreviation of Jonathon, while John is a stand-alone name. Actors obviously sometimes have stage names, but what would be the point of using Jon when one's legal name is John?

Does anyone else always remember him being John Pertwee rather than Jon Pertwee?

He was Jon Pertwee in Worzel Gummidge

.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Some other ones....

Tostinos is now Totinos

The Michael Jordan logo used to be in shorts, now its long pants

Mississippi River was always the longest river in the US, now it's apparently always been the Missouri River

Any chance there is some confusion here with Tostitos?

 

[errant bounce]

The girl (hi, love you) just left and I chucked on a Simpsons episode from apparently season two.

I was a hardcore, hardcore Simpsons fan as a kid. watched it all on Channel 10/WIN and I've just watched an episode about Homer getting hair. this was season two. I do not remember this at all. it had no real jokes, it just revolved around Homer getting hair.

 

[hewetta]

The girl (hi, love you) just left and I chucked on a Simpsons episode from apparently season two.

I was a hardcore, hardcore Simpsons fan as a kid. watched it all on Channel 10/WIN and I've just watched an episode about Homer getting hair. this was season two. I do not remember this at all. it had no real jokes, it just revolved around Homer getting hair.

Is this the ep where he gets promoted at the power plant and has a (gay?) assistant with blonde hair called Carl?

My Simpsons mandela effect involves the saxophone that Lisa plays in the opening theme. It's blue but I coulda sworn it was brass coloured. I know it's brass coloured in the newer eps but I only ever watched the classic eps.

 

[Cruyff14]

The girl (hi, love you) just left and I chucked on a Simpsons episode from apparently season two.

I was a hardcore, hardcore Simpsons fan as a kid. watched it all on Channel 10/WIN and I've just watched an episode about Homer getting hair. this was season two. I do not remember this at all. it had no real jokes, it just revolved around Homer getting hair.

S2 has some cracking eps. I remember that ep quite well.

 

[ioppolo]

Is this the ep where he gets promoted at the power plant and has a (gay?) assistant with blonde hair called Carl?

My Simpsons mandela effect involves the saxophone that Lisa plays in the opening theme. It's blue but I coulda sworn it was brass coloured. I know it's brass coloured in the newer eps but I only ever watched the classic eps.

You mean it isn't brass? It certainly was never Blue.

 

[hewetta]

You mean it isn't brass? It certainly was never Blue.

Nope always been blue and purple apparently

 

[Freak Dodgeball Accident]

This one is definitely new to me. Apparently The Mighty Ducks in Australia was called Champions.

Just read a heap of comments on an Aussie nostalgia Facebook page and half remember is as TMD, the others remember it as Champions. It's always been The Mighty Ducks to me.

 

[cats_09]

Always been The Mighty Ducks to me

 

[bomberclifford]

WTF!? Mighty Ducks is what it is.

"Champions"? no way.

 

[emuboy]

It's the 'lost media' that gets me - where you know you have seen a movie or TV show or even a particular scene - but years later you can find no evidence of it ever having existed nor can anyone else remember it.

Like in my case, I distinctly remember an episode of The Bill from 1990-1991 where an alien big cat is found to be roaming the East End at night causing no end of trouble, let out of the house by the weirdo who kept it and who had grown afraid of the panther and was unable to control it. Yet I never saw this episode again despite watching re-runs of the show from this era, there is no trace of this episode today on any website like You Tube or Daily Motion, no footage of it exists. Even if the episode had been banned for being too scary, it would still rate a mention and banned episodes tend to become the subject of curiosity.

There's also a kids/teen movie I also would have seen in the early 1990s in which actress Catherine O'Hara plays an interesting inversion of the 'wicked stepmother' trope. In this movie, O'Hara's character dotes on her star football playing stepson and her glamorous cheerleader stepdaughter but is dismissive of and even neglectful towards her own biological daughter, a somewhat plain and studious teenager. Whatever this movie was called I can't find any trace of it today.

While Everybody Loves Raymond definitely exists, I remember back in the late 1990s when the show was relatively new to Australia Channel 10 used to promote it with a short scene which saw the five main characters - Raymond, Debra, Frank, Marie and Robert - sitting at the kitchen table, with Marie getting up in a huff and leaving saying 'Sometimes I think Raymond doesn't even love his Mama'. To this Raymond protests, 'That's not true, Raymond loves his Mama,' and Debra laughs and taunts her husband like a schoolgirl, chanting 'Raymond loves his Mama, Raymond loves his Mama!' at him. This scene does not appear in any ELR episode nor deleted scenes (I have the box set DVD) and just where it came from is a mystery. It isn't on Youtube, and while it may have been a scene filmed to promote the show and then discontinued and forgotten, nobody else remembers it.

Could I really have dreamed up an entire episode of The Bill, a movie in which Catherine O'Hara was the star and a lost scene from Everybody Loves Raymond that I saw numerous times when the show was promoted? It doesn't seem very likely at all, but I'm out of other theories.

In more recent decades with the internet and social media it would in theory be easier to have false memories of movies and TV shows. For example, say a young woman when aged 12 back in 2012 along with her friends was a huge fan of the TV show Glee, which was very popular at the time, with the girls not only repeatedly watching many episodes of the show but also reading Glee fan fiction online on sites like Wattpad. Now aged 24, she decides to binge watch Glee on streaming or DVD, but distinctly remembers an episode that no longer seems to exist. The explanation for this may be reading fan fiction online which years later she remembers falsely as having been an actual episode.

But my experiences pre-date the social media age, and I'm nowhere near close to finding out why I remember these things or finding evidence that they really did exist.