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[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 139 points 1 year 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 74 points 1 year ago

Also Richard Geere stuck a hamster in his ass

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] tym@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
  • the sound Richard made when lemmiwinks reached the small intestine
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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 64 points 1 year ago

It's such a believable rumor though.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago

I definitely don't not believe it

[-] JPJones@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 year ago

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 24 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] Snyggedi@feddit.ch 39 points 1 year ago

Millenial from Switzerland - can confirm.

[-] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago
[-] Tubics@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Australia is present and aware.

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[-] Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Netherlands checking in. Can confirm.

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[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

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[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 31 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Come on man. Don't do Josh Saviano dirty like that...

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

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

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Never heard of him

Fuck, we're getting old.

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[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Rod Stewart’s pumped stomach is unimpressed

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I heard that one too!

Apparently he addressed it himself:

"I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor, let alone a ship's worth in one evening. And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen or of any other kind of semen."

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] rekliner@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

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[-] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Kben@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

I heard it was Prince in the early 90s,before the internet.

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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Damn, that rumor was still going around in the early 2010s when I graduated high school.

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I remember that one.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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 1 year 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.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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).

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

AND he was Paul from The Wonder Years!

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

What can I say, it sounded entirely plausible.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I definitely believed that for way too long.

[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

high schools too.

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