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[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 139 points 11 months ago

I loved the response he gave for that rumor.

It was essentially... "Do you think I'd be here giving this interview if I could do that?

Love that he knew about the rumor.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 72 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Also Richard Geere stuck a hamster in his ass

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] tym@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago
  • the sound Richard made when lemmiwinks reached the small intestine
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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 63 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's such a believable rumor though.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I definitely don't not believe it

[–] JPJones@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but middle school you totally would

Edit: got me with yer frickin double negative you bastard

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[–] StinkyRedMan@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 23 points 11 months ago

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 :(

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Snyggedi@feddit.ch 39 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Millenial from Switzerland - can confirm.

[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Tubics@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 12 points 11 months ago

Australia is present and aware.

[–] panchzila@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Makka@lemmy.one 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Netherlands checking in. Can confirm.

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[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (12 children)

That rumour was everywhere by the end of '94. Not a lot of millenials in high school then. Almost all Gen X.

[–] JPJones@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Late '80s. I was in middle school. That shit spread like wildfire.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I heard the rumor back in '74 when Malta became a republic.

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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

here is another one: did you know that Marilyn Manson was "Paul" from The Wonder Years

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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Never heard of him until the rumor. Took one look at him and believed it 110%

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

“Bro, just look at the back of this cd case. They’re drinking his piss through a hose. Of course he had his ribs removed to blow himself. He’d cut himself in half to do it!”

[–] ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of him

Fuck, we're getting old.

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Even further back, there was the same rumor about Gene Simmons from Kiss

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Heh. I think that was one of the first things I ever went down a rabbit hole to understand on The Internet. And it eventually led me to learn that with just a bit of yoga (which you should do anyway since it is a great way to improve flexibility and general muscle health) you don't need to remove the rib. Admittedly, I have too much of a "dad bod" and a "beer gut" these days. But... it is totally a thing.

[–] investorsexchange@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

This is why I’m losing weight. It’s not as motivating as I hoped it would be.

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[–] rekliner@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

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

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[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Amazingly this rumor actually has its origin from Gabriele D'Annunzio in the 1930s. It has been repeated for other famous people throughout history.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I heard it about David Bowie in the 1980s.

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I remember that one.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I definitely believed that for way too long.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Before that I remember hearing a rumor that Rod Stewart had had a hot hair curler shoved up his butt by his wife bc she had caught him having a homosexual affair. Years later I heard the exact same rumor about a local used car dealer and knew that it probably wasn’t true, but it was interesting that the same rumor had cropped up about different people (heard these in different states as well, so it wasn’t just the same people repeating it).

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

high schools too.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

What can I say, it sounded entirely plausible.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

AND he was Paul from The Wonder Years!

[–] stratmancj@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In the 80’s, I always heard it was Gene Simmons.

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