Newsgroups were big in the day when this spread, proto Reddit. A meme that spilled back into real life.
Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons was also purportedly a tool to poke fun at the newsgroups bear. If only they knew how bad it would suck 30 years later.
Yes. It started after “Pretty Woman” came out. There were rumors that Gere was gay, which then morphed into a story about an emergency "gerbilectomy."
An anonymous prankster flooded fax machines in Hollywood with a phony "press release" purportedly issued by the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The newspaper in Hagerstown, MD ran an article back in the mid 70’s stating that Gene Simmons had a cow’s tongue grafted - along with a photo of Gene. I remember the first time I ever heard someone say, “Don’t believe everything you read.”
I use to listen to Chuck Harder and all that conspiracy nonsense. Most of the Clinton and Vince Foster conspiracies, the Bush New World Order, stuff like that.
-Richard Gere and his love for gerbils
-Marilyn Manson was the older brother on the show Mr Belvedere
- Michael Jackson slept in an oxygen chamber and that he and his sister were the same person
- Jamie Lee Curtis was born a man
That the song “I Can Feel It Coming in the Air Tonight” was about an experience Phil Collins had where someone died (drowned, I think?) and the person who could have saved them just walked away. The rumor was that Phil invited the person to a concert to play it for them to get them to confess.
There was a rumor in the early 1990s that Les Claypool, Primus bassist and singer/songwriter, had died.
This was before 1994, when Kurt Cobain died, and before I had internet access. I heard from a friend who heard it from a friend and so on and so on…
My moms bff (79 or 80F) claims that when Ronald Reagan was running for governor or president somebody found a pornographic movie that he did in his twenties that had some kind of same sex action. She’s a long term San Francisco resident and says it was played at the Castro theater and she watched it with a small group of people. I’ve looked online for any mention of this movie and have only seen one clip on like Alex jones type show from a very disturbed sounding individual and it sounded more like he got pegged by a woman (in this persons description)
My moms friend is a very smart and accomplished woman so I don’t think she made it up but maybe she heard it and it repeated it as her own story. She even described the scene.
"Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?" [Andy Kauffman faked his own death](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/andy-kaufman-hoax/#:~:text=Andy%20Kaufman%2C%20by%20all%20accounts%2C%20is%20alive%20and,recent%20interview%20with%20ABC%20News%20at%20his%20apartment.) as part of an elaborate performance art piece and will be letting us in on the joke any day now.
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