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Quittobegin@reddit

Who grew up in the 90s and didn’t hear this?! I was a nerdy girl and heard it.

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Dassman88@reddit

As a young black youth growing up in Detroit, with very little exposure to Marilyn Manson or his music, I too knew of his commitment to self phalatio

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spderweb@reddit

Dude, I was in a small town in Northern Ontario. No idea how it got to us, but it did.

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Ill_Ground_1572@reddit

Small town Saskatchewan here. Can confirm. That is crazy. Telephone game x 100000000.

And the story was exactly that.

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Ralinor@reddit

The original was probably that he was eating ribs while getting felatio. Telephone is such a dangerous game

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ItaDapiza@reddit

Lol I'm a woman, and a vegan, and yet this sounds so relaxing and nice .😂😭

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waxkid@reddit

Chowing down on some saitan slathered in bbq sauce while getting... yea, I'll just stop there🤣

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EmergencyAbalone2393@reddit

But pastrami is the most sensual meat

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shawa666@reddit

Quebec City suburbs. both stories were known, It had crossed a language divide.

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Ill-Annual-5634@reddit

Ca l’aire que Marilyn Manson s’est fait enlever des côtes pour s’autosucer.

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SprinklesHuman3014@reddit

"O gajo fez uma operação e tirou duas costelas para poder chupar-se a ele próprio". 🇵🇹 (And I can't remember anyone doubting that it was true).

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michelle_is_lost@reddit

Tabernak. Hard k at the end. Don't let autocorrect spell it as if it's the church's object Tabernacle. It's a swear. It's THE swear.

Ta barrrr nak!

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Ill_Ground_1572@reddit

Haha dammit I knew that (as my wife is french). Autocorrect is the worst software ever invented.

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starmartyr11@reddit

Dude I'll take the occasional disastrous correction in lieu of my terrible typing on my mobile device 1000 times over

I sometimes use my girlfriend's phone that has autocorrect turned off (she's bilingual and switches between languages so autocorrect is the worst for her), and it showed just how abysmal my typing is. I can absolutely kill it on a real keyboard but good lord is autocorrect a necessary crutch for me

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batmansleftnut@reddit

Kinda starting to sound like the Canadians started this whole thing...

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Key_Cheetah7982@reddit

C’est formidable!!

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Good_Rest_7668@reddit

That's fucking hilarious.

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GrammatonYHWH@reddit

Bruh, I knew this in 1999 in Eastern Europe. In a city of 50,000 we maybe had 100 people with Internet.

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

Rural Florida and it was a fact.

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D-Laz@reddit

Also rural Florida. I never even heard any of his music before I heard that fact.

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Starsteamer@reddit

Rural Scotland and it was a fact here too!!

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Jetsam1@reddit

Rural Australia it made it here too.

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FearTheWeresloth@reddit

It even made its way to rural Tasmania...

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

Are you in the market for a wife?

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BlackBlades@reddit

I went to school in Hong Kong. We had it there too.

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ddotcole@reddit

Also from small town Saskatchewan. I think this misses the point that the Internet existed then, and probably only one kid per every other town needed to read it to spread it around like wildfire.

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Katman666@reddit

Australia checking in. I KNEW about this.

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Jasonross84@reddit

Nova Scotia got it too

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Jasonross84@reddit

Nova Scotia got it too

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Mord_Fustang@reddit

Yeah, we had this way down in Oz too!

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TheLuminary@reddit

Wait.. was that not true?

(Also from Saskatchewan haha)

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Honest-Respect-1635@reddit

Vancouver island here. It was not true but it spread everywhere apparently.

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Pu_Baer@reddit

I went to school in a small town in germany early 2k and it spread like hell here. Not really a remote area but on the other side of the globe lmao

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zaplinaki@reddit

Tier 2 city in bumfuck India - also heard this rumour XD

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LivingMisery@reddit

Outport Newfoundland, went to a K-12 school with 120 people in it. We all knew.

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No_Bet_735@reddit

I heard this story in the early 2000s in Norway.

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DaimoMusic@reddit

Podunk town of 2k in Alberta. I remember that rumour as well as the supposes sex change

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CelluloseSponge@reddit

Shit, it even made it’s way to New Zealand

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dikbisqit@reddit

The version I heard was that it was Michael Jackson not Marilyn Manson

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HappyHuman924@reddit

And it reached Edmonton. Possibly from you. :)

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Kinhammer@reddit

Winnipeger checking in. As far as I'm concerned he actually did it.

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LuckyEmoKid@reddit

I too was born and raised in small town Sask, and I too can confirm hearing the exact story.

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Purple-Bell-218@reddit

Des moines iowa here! Sane

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WhippidyWhop@reddit

Small ass town could Terrebonne, Oregon, that nobody has heard of. We knew about his dick-sucking ways, as well.

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Studds_@reddit

It boggles my mind how random as hell rumors spread far & wide before the mass adoption (or existence) of the internet & I just sit here wondering “how the hell did everyone know this or that rumor”

I can’t recall specific ones but I know there were these strange & bizarre rumors in the 80s. Nobody definitely got them from the internet then

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catscanmeow@reddit

richard gere put a gerbil up his own ass

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kittycity3@reddit

I was just talking about this last week! It’s haunted me into my 30s.

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blacklaagger@reddit

I wonder how Richards gerbil emporium is holding up?

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kirby_krackle_78@reddit

Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped after swallowing too many loads.

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Vicarchaeopteryx@reddit

Brittany Spears

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Juan-Claudio@reddit

I heard the same story about Lil' Kim.

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ZMAUinHell@reddit

Well yeah, but that one was true. Lil’ Kim takes a LOT of loads.

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peejaysayshi@reddit

I heard this about Alanis Morrisette.

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raven70@reddit

GenX flex here

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DJ_Micoh@reddit

I heard it was Marc Almond who got his stomach pumped.

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riddle0003@reddit

Heard it was one of the news kids on the block waaaay back in jr high lol

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ActiveImportance4196@reddit

I heard it was everyone's but my mom

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riddle0003@reddit

The 15 year old in me has like 30 comments for this but I’ll keep on with my day lol

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Shaking-Cliches@reddit

Well it would be weird if it was someone else’s ass

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nomoshtooposhh@reddit

My dad had an ex-girlfriend who swore up and down this was true because she was a nurse in the operating room. I still don’t know what to believe 😂

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FionaGoodeEnough@reddit

I’m pretty sure that one was spread by the really out there tabloids? Because I learned that one when I heard my parents. laughing their asses off talking about it in the kitchen.

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Rickblood23@reddit

Suddenly, the song FACK by Eminem has more sense

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Kratomite247@reddit

Yup I remember this

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gnalon@reddit

A lot of these are almost certainly from shock jock type of radio. I had no idea who he was outside the rumor, and when I looked him up Richard Gere was a stereotypical Hollywood liberal so it would make sense he would be a target for them.

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Studio_Junior@reddit

Wait, that one isn't true?🤯🤯

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Naw. Sylvester Stallone has denied starting that one. Gere hates him to this day for it and the mustard spill.

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Hootanholler81@reddit

People talked.

When I was in high school, everyone would hang out outside the "Tags" convienece store on Friday night. You'd go there and find out where the party was that night.

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Jakookula@reddit

Ciara was really a man was the rumor of the mid millennial generation

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knea1@reddit

Yep, in the 80s it was Prince who allegedly got ribs removed

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Pitiful-Painting4399@reddit

That was our version of it at my UK school.

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Civil_opinion24@reddit

Same

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IWantAStorm@reddit

This one was too crass to even be acknowledged by media at the time but I bet all our teachers heard about it too.

It hit that exact sweet spot of shock value, speculation, things to argue, and he had the persona of someone who would do it.

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2rfv@reddit

It's the original definition of a meme. A self-replicating idea.

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G3tsPlastered4Alvng@reddit

You’re really old if you knew that Mickey from the Life cereal commercials died eating pop rocks and coke.

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Street_Roof_7915@reddit

Damn it.

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doublepulse@reddit

Late night radio, college radio talk shows. Summer camps. Kids moving from state to state, school to school. Letters, postcards, underground mags, long distance phone calls. I recall hearing the Gere rumor referred to in jest during one of Stern's shows, the Manson rumor was something I picked up on the bus one afternoon.

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Embarrassed_Jerk@reddit

You all were in the western countries. I was in a small town in the desert in India and I knew about it somehow

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Dangerous_Housing314@reddit

Down in Guyana, South America. We heard it too.

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helpimlockedout-@reddit

I thought surely "every school in the world" was an exaggeration. Y'all are blowing my mind. Simply incredible

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Big_Cryptographer_16@reddit

Yup, not just high school. Heard this in college in the middle of Indiana

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blacklaagger@reddit

Tiny school in the middle of nowhere Northern Michigan, Marilyn Manson was known as Knob Goblin to all of us.

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Phrongly@reddit

A small town in Moldova. It is one of the few things I clearly remember from those times.

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Mabel_Waddles_BFF@reddit

Australian suburbia checking in.

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Totnfish@reddit

Small town in northern Sweden checking in, we heard it too

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Good-Jello-1105@reddit

Lol also from South American and the rumour spread there like fire.

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spderweb@reddit

That's amazing.

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letmelickyourleg@reddit

Australia here. That rumour was everywhere.

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I_am_elephant@reddit

Heard it in Sweden!

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HCagn@reddit

Yup - Swede here too, can confirm. I remember when I heard it. Went to ”Rocks Records” at Valbo mall, and my mate whispered the story to me. Blew my mind.

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letmelickyourleg@reddit

Fuck me was I that loud?

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dr3adlock@reddit

City of Bristol, UK. Shits wild.

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RamboLorikeet@reddit

Can confirm. Rural high school got it.

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NZImp@reddit

It made it to NZ

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Straight-Shallot9081@reddit

Also Taiwan

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Massive_Cancel@reddit

Growing up in the UAE, I heard this too. Crazy!

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The_Great_Belarco@reddit

I live in a tribe in the Amazon. We were recently contacted, and this one of the first things discussed

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ExplodingPager@reddit

Aboriginal Amish Incan here, and somehow I heard about it too back then.

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LucidFir@reddit

This is like the new S that everyone draws.

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LausXY@reddit

That S is way older than I first realised. I can't remember exactly when but there's a school book from the 18th or 19th century and some kid doodled that S in the corner. It's at least 200 years old if not older.

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rj_podiyadi@reddit

Kuwait here. We've heard it too.

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basra369@reddit

Was a big rumour in the UK when growing up.

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Fluffyfluffycake@reddit

Also the Netherlands

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SvenTurb01@reddit

Denmark, too.

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bboyfyrestorm@reddit

India. I still don’t even know who he is but I know of his commitment to self love

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mandelbratwurst@reddit

But we closed the ports!

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FunFry11@reddit

Dubai - and same. Well known fact

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Rent_A_Cloud@reddit

Netherlands, it also reached us. Honestly it's unbelievable how widespread this was.

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MiltonFarnsworth@reddit

Sentinel Island here, and I still heard about it.

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Good-Jello-1105@reddit

From Brazil and heard it too.

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NutDust@reddit

I bet my Chinese gf doesn't know who Marilyn Manson is (she's old enough to know).

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Kuntik88@reddit

Russia's here (Urals), can confirm

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vinoa@reddit

The Lord works in mysterious ways lol

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Fluke216kd1059@reddit

Classic

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awetsasquatch@reddit

Small town in Massachusetts here - no exposure to that music, but we also heard that rumor

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ceruleanstones@reddit

Winner right here!

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CheezeLoueez08@reddit

Omg!! This is awesome (or bad).

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heinousanus85@reddit

Same! I lived on Manitoulin Island and it got to C.M.P.S.

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MaximusBit21@reddit

You think that’s impressive…. It got over to here in the UK…. We all knew/heard of this …. Hilarious if you think about it

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thefizzlee@reddit

I am from Europe and even we knew the rumor

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pencilpushin@reddit

I'm in texas. Same. It literally traveled around the entirety of north America.

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Necromanczar@reddit

I was in a Boy Scouts camp in Bracebridge and carried the message from the border.

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Sea-Breaz@reddit

I heard this rumour at my school in England.

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charles879@reddit

Dude same here ! Elliot lake, Sault Ste. Marie for sure !

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Efficient_Practice90@reddit

Brother, it was early 00s in Croatia and we knew about it

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

Small town WV... same.

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thepinkyclone@reddit

Small town in small east Europe country called Lithuania and somehow we heard that too

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yollerballer@reddit

East Europe here..

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Marcyff2@reddit

Was a kid in Portugal and we too spread the same rumor

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stealing_thunder@reddit

In Québec too!

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Disabled_Robot@reddit

Remember the rumor that black belt Elvis Stojko knocked out Eric Lindros at a bar in Muskoka?

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BogiDope@reddit

I heard it in South Africa

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baller_unicorn@reddit

I was in Colorado and I heard this rumor too.

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sorej@reddit

Chilean here, the rumour even got here. Parents even used it to warn children not to listen to that "evil man"

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captainhaddock@reddit

Northern BC here. We got it too.

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batmansleftnut@reddit

Half of this thread is Canadians, and honestly I'm starting to think it was you guys who started the rumor.

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captainhaddock@reddit

Subliminal messaging during Mr. Dressup?

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prateek1232@reddit

Wasn't limited to small towns in America. I heard it in India too . Admittedly it early 2000's by the time i heard it

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corneilous_bumfrey@reddit

I was in a small town in the Irish countryside and it got to us

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Smart-Water-5175@reddit

Small town in southern Ontario here, we had a kid move to north bay in 2010. It was probably him, he was awesome. Although I think I remember hearing it wasn’t him it was his guitar player or drummer 😂

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spderweb@reddit

2010 is long after we found out about it. This news was pre internet. Back when Manson was first appearing.

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Smart-Water-5175@reddit

No no I’m pretty sure it was that kid. I just have a good feeling, you know? A deep, instinctive certainty—that it was my friend. Logic and chronology don’t match at all? Irrelevant. The geographical odds that it was the same location? Insignificant. What I’ve come to understand however is that the boundaries of cause and effect, as we perceive them, aren’t fixed points as we’d like to believe. By interacting with me now, in this moment, we’ve altered the flow of events, reshaping the past to a shared one. One where my friend moved to northern Ontario and told some people about Marilyn Manson or his Drummer possibly getting surgery to remove a rib so they could perform self fellatio, and you hearing about it. Against all odds, the timeline has been rewritten and you can either fight it, or accept it. It won’t matter.

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Smart-Water-5175@reddit

Nah just kidding it’s funny how some rumours just catch on and keep on spreading. It’s probably because certain ones are more fun to see people’s reactions to finding out or something

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Skinneeh@reddit

Small boarder town in eastern Ontario, heard the same thing !

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Onkelcuno@reddit

german here, heard it too while i was in school!

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Epicp0w@reddit

Australian here, it got to us as well

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Dsanse@reddit

I think it was those magazines they would sell at the grocery store registers.

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SweetContext@reddit

Got to a small rural middle school in nova scotia too. Wild

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extrememinimalist@reddit

I am from Czechia , Central Europe. Heard this as well 😅

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A_Delenay@reddit

<- south ont. it must have past through my school on the way north to you. =P

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bob25bit@reddit

Buttfuck nowhere, the Netherlands and I didn’t even know who he was but i knew he had ribs removed.

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coltees_titties@reddit

Grew up on a small, Caribbean island and even I heard that.

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madcapAK@reddit

We knew in Fairbanks, Alaska too

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ragvamuffin@reddit

Town of 2.000 people in Denmark. We knew.

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Ulsterman24@reddit

Northern Ireland here. Grew up during 'The Troubles' when local knowledge of the USA was essentially a loud former colony that occasionally stuck its nose into Irish business.

Every single kid on the playground knew the Manson story.

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FaithlessnessDry3771@reddit

It was very much present in Scotland too

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Right_Challenge1158@reddit

Small town outside Stockholm, Sweden here. Can confirm we talked about this aswell early 00s

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Zestyclose_Cap_3752@reddit

Dude. I was in a small town in New Zealand when this rumor was doing the rounds.

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leo_paints_minis@reddit

Small rural farm town in a bumfuck nowhere part of New Zealand and it made it here too.

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Danger__fox@reddit

The rumour made it to Australia 🦘🌏

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Good_Rest_7668@reddit

Toronto here. I heard it and believed it.

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CheezeLoueez08@reddit

Montreal Quebec checking in. 😂

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itrynottocuss@reddit

Germany clocking in. I heard the same shit

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sohardtochooseone@reddit

You telling me, im from Ukraine and I also heard it lol. My city had population 200k at the time.

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George_W_Kush58@reddit

Bro that story circulated in my school in Germany lol

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LabradorDali@reddit

I lived in a small town in Denmark and my brother told me.

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FloppyObelisk@reddit

Small town in rural Missouri. Less than 200 people. We all talked about it

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ZonkyFox@reddit

I'm in NZ and it reached us here as well.

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LittleFishSilver@reddit

On an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I can confirm that this rumor made it to Hawaii.

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Kev-lonium@reddit

Made it to Chicago in the late 90s.

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RecipeDangerous3710@reddit

Haiti here, can confirm!

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Austronauta@reddit

Argentina knew about this too

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Wunjoric@reddit

Came to Turkey as Eminem and was here too

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Bluffy_Disaster@reddit

I grew up in a small town in Sweden. Didn’t know who or what a Marilyn Manson was but I sure knew about the missing ribs!

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Miiirx@reddit

I was aware of this in Brussels, Belgium. Even if Marylin Manson was a goth poser. As a true black metal gothic doom metal kinda guy, it was beneath me to know that. But there I was.

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pile1983@reddit

In the mid EU this rumour was spread too. I guess thats how shock hype train works. Some people search him and into his music.

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Garderanz1@reddit

We also had this rumor in Italy

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SassyKardashian@reddit

From the suburbs of a small town in Croatia. It got to us around 2004

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frenchy_mustache@reddit

Heard that too in a small Normandy's countryside village when i was 12.

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kakhaganga@reddit

I knew that in Kyiv, Ukraine before I even heard his music.

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-Reverend@reddit

I will raise you one: Random middle of nowhere town in the German countryside. Heard of it on the elementary school playground, circa .... 2005-2008, if I had to take a guess?

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SickRevolution@reddit

Random town with 5k people in Portugal and we heard the rumour too

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HaveYouSeenMySpoon@reddit

But you did have internet by that point, right?

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-Reverend@reddit

Theoretically? Yes. Culturally, as first-to-fourth graders when social media wasn't really in common use yet, smartphones weren't a thing, and families usually only had 1 'family computer' in the living room (usually limited to playing Sims 1 for 30 minutes a day or whatever), if at all? Not really, no

Yes, the rumour most likely spread by internet somehow, but that it made its way to multiple German elementary schools in the middle of nowhere, considering all the barriers/hurdles of the time (even just the language barrier!) for it to get there, is still fascinating.

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CheezeLoueez08@reddit

This is wild. Montreal,Quebec here and early 90s when I heard it.

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DagothNereviar@reddit

England here. Heard it late 90s. My older brother said he heard it about Prince, but he might be mis-remembering. But it's wild it was still going into the late 00s

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danathjo@reddit

Yep, it was Prince for me too. Adelaide, South Australia.

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HitMePat@reddit

The Internet was in full swing by then, Facebook was already a thing by 2005. And this myth was already circulating in the late 90s. So that's not really much of a raise.

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saya-kota@reddit

Random village in France, I heard it around 2003-2004

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RedMoondaddy@reddit

There was a.i.m tho, so we did have that fuel. Good old dial-up. I use to throw those free hr cds they put in the mail like a frisbee.

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Chinzilla88@reddit

Mongolian from central Asia, born during Soviet times in the 80's. Even i knew this folk tale.

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LocationSufficient32@reddit

Small town somewhere in Germany, and I still heard of his legendary quest.

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Outside-Drag-3031@reddit

No exposure to him in my suburban New England town. Think I saw a picture of him once before high school.

But I knew damn well that mother fucker sucked his own dick because he removed his lower ribs

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TheOneTonWanton@reddit

My theory for these rumors and even things like "The S" is that military kids helped them all spread.

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LiberalSnowflake_1@reddit

Am a military brat and it’s possible I brought things with me. But some things truly were just everywhere I lived. This thread is making me question how we got these ideas to spread like they did.

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2rfv@reddit

Sadly I think the "S" died out. I showed it to my daughter and she'd never heard of it.

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Hobson101@reddit

Maybe? We had the same S and rumors about the rib removal in Europe

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TheOneTonWanton@reddit

I and my cousins were army brats in Germany in the early and mid 90s before the internet was ubiquitous, and mingled with locals. I'm just saying there's an explanation. Shit ain't magic.

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Character-Solution-7@reddit

Also cousins who went to different schools and weekend visits to the noncustodial parents’ neighborhood playground

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BretShitmanFart69@reddit

“Hey welcome to the neighborhood by the way Marilyn Manson had one of his ribs removed so he could suck his own dick, cya!”

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

Nah, but before the internet when you hang out with other kids from different neighbourhoods for more than a few minutes you run out of stuff to talk about quickly so these fallback topics that everyone knew easily became the common ground and probably come up more often than you think.

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

This tracks!! And summer camp. I grew up in rural Florida but spent every summer with kids from all over the place. I was an athlete and spent summers at a training camp that was internationally well known. The military kids always had the craziest news of the world.

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darkneel@reddit

I was in India . I heard this rumour before ever listening to a single English song .

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ItkovianShieldAnvil@reddit

I can do you one better. As a young, sheltered Christian homeschooler with almost no exposure to music except Christian music, I too knew of his commitment to self fellatio.

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rookinsmoke@reddit

Heard it in a small town in Finland too

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Holdmywhiskeyhun@reddit

It was also well known in many small Wisconsin towns. I went to multiple schools. Blows my mind seeing all these comments. Is this like the fabled graffiti "S"

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Aggravating_Fly_8778@reddit

That story came all the way here in the Philippines 😀

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urzayci@reddit

I'm not even from the US or a millennial and I still heard about that in the 2000s. Whoever started that rumor should come out and start a religion.

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SouthMicrowave@reddit

I heard it in Santiago, Chile. No joke.

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ubarra@reddit

Small town from Brazil here… Heard it too…

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BadIdea-21@reddit

Small town Latin Americans, gather here and discuss whether or not you heard that rumor, I heard it in my small town in a very poor Mexican state.

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BerryChips@reddit

In Lima Peru as well

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ryan21o@reddit

Bro I was about to comment that I heard it in Santiago too!

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esm33704@reddit

Have you been to the Estadio Olimpico?

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SouthMicrowave@reddit

I watched that movie in the theater, and people booed when they talked about that nonexistent stadium. Later in the movie you find out he was also making stuff up, so it makes sense.

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Either-Handle-93@reddit

Beat me by three hours.

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RepresentativeEgg311@reddit

It spread all across europ to

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frewrgregr@reddit

Random small town close to Milan, north of Italy, heard it when I was in elementary school too.

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Confident-River-4866@reddit

I was in south africa as a kid and didn't listen or know his music and I heard this.

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jackystewart@reddit

Estonia

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Mattias_87_2@reddit

The schoolyard gossip i best remember from my childhood was that one of the Spice Girls had an "w" tattooed on each side of her butthole, so that when she spread her cheeks it read "wow".

This was late 90s.

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Naimuri@reddit

Confirming from a 5k population village in rural UK

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Mindless_Safety_7408@reddit

This is a well known fact in Belgium.

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CBpegasus@reddit

Heard it in Israel, also hardly even knowing who Marilyn Manson was

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dmk_aus@reddit

It made it to the suburbs of Sydney Australia.

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justitia_@reddit

Heard it as I was in primary school, in Istanbul, Turkey lmaoo and we believed in it w my friends

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TurquoiseBunny@reddit

Heard it in France too

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cruzcruzada@reddit

As a 31 yo brown Brazilian man who grew up on a neighborhood you could call a ghetto, I too believed he removed his ribs just to suck his dick

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crumpets4dinner@reddit

It made it to the UK. Wild.

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jrjh1997@reddit

Countryside farming village in U.K. we got it, believed it for a long time too 😂

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No_Contribution_5206@reddit

Iraq for me

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bfluff@reddit

I grew up in a small city in South Africa and we knew this.

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argylemon@reddit

Itoo

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-Selin8-@reddit

I was in a small town in South Africa and heard this.

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GoingLimpInTheBrain@reddit

I heard it in my hometown of Sillamäe. Try to find it on the map!

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Background-Pear-9063@reddit

I've been there

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MrHailston@reddit

Small town with 10k people in northern germany here. Everybody in school knew that fact.

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ravnen1@reddit

I lived in a small town in Norway and we all talked about this to its crazy. It went world wide.

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tasi671@reddit

Heard it on Guam too

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bloodtype_darkroast@reddit

As a military kid, I feel like this just proved the "military kid" theory.

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Why-so-delirious@reddit

I grew up in outback Australia and heard this rumour at school. A school of 100 students. How tf

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consilium_322@reddit

A really small town in .. Israel, we also had it as a fact

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Grationmi@reddit

I, too, came from Michigan. Didn't realize this was a normal rumor lol

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New_Catch878@reddit

This warms my heart. Maybe there still hope for America.

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freehi_5@reddit

I grew up in a town of 400 people in Iowa. I also knew.

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iSo_Cold@reddit

He can do it though. It's known.

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The_BAHbuhYAHguh@reddit

Small town outside of Philadelphia… it is known

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Scary-Aerie@reddit

As a young black boy growing up in Californian who had also never heard any of Marilyn Manson music and didn’t really know who he was, I also know about his desire for his own peen!

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PumpkinSpice2Nice@reddit

I was in a small town in the South Island of New Zealand and I heard this rumour too!

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hellbreker@reddit

Grew up in Wanaka we had it there too haha

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Emotional-Pirate-928@reddit

How small?

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Smoodiver76NZL@reddit

Yep, We all heard about it too in the North Island

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Limp-Seaweed3587@reddit

Haha same, south island, our school only had 40 students total. Still somehow reached us

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Umarill@reddit

Same here in France, everybody I ever knew during that time period knew about that rumor, including my parents lol

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UncagedKestrel@reddit

Us Aussies were also aware of Brian's alleged athletic achievements.

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Gimp-Satisfaction@reddit

We also “confirmed” that slap bracelets were banned because I kid in Kentucky cut the veins in their wrists and died.

Tragic times.

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Mantree91@reddit

Mountain town in Colorado and I heard it here

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bcman85@reddit

In Singapore, small country in South East Asia, and yes I heard of this too

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Physical-Sandwich496@reddit

Rural County Cork, Ireland checking in, we also had this rumour

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Ding_Ling_Bozo_Doh@reddit

Im from a little unknown town in the state of Parana, Brazil, and i also knew about that in the school

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Streetsofbleauseant@reddit

Lol i grew up in a small town in Zimbabwe africa and this rumour got to us too.

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Geralt-of-Tsushima@reddit

Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a widely known fact in schools over there as well.

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Dentros1@reddit

Grew up in St. Paul mn, I heard it too.

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fabrictm@reddit

Fist bump from metro Detroit

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FlorisTheFifth@reddit

Small village from the Netherlands represent. I also heard this rumor

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MakingItUpAsWeGoOk@reddit

Homeschooled. I also knew.

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ItMeRG@reddit

Lol, my friends and I discussed this as pure fact. We were teenagers in rural Greece in mid 90s.

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Ic3Hot@reddit

Sweden checking in!

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SignificantRecipe715@reddit

Regional NSW, Australia here & we also knew this.

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SignoreBanana@reddit

“White people trippin”

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Greedy_Sandwich_4777@reddit

All the way to Australia.

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cleanbear@reddit

Trondheim, Norway and we also knew that 😅

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Effelero@reddit

I am a 22 year old hungarian guy who has teo older sisters. It wan't America only. It got in my ears from two directions at the same time. From my sisters and my classmates who also saw the music video to tainted love. Yah know where the girl in a bunny costume wiggles her butt.

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falx-sn@reddit

West Yorkshire, UK. Can confirm hearing thism

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ThresholdofForest@reddit

Small beachside town in Australia, yep got to us too.

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ajsoifer@reddit

I lived in Argentina at the time: we knew about this MM fact.

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deathbytruck@reddit

I am old so bear with me.

I was on the internet in 1991 and bbs's before that. The old timie messaging boards were like how you imagine twitter and stuff like that should be.

Point is stuff got out just like it does now, word of mouth. The difference now there is no having to physically talk to someone face to as much anymore.

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nimloman@reddit

Dude I heard about that in school in the UK.

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Endgamekilledme@reddit

I heard about this when I went to school and I live in rural Germany.

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Ok_Avocado_9152@reddit

From India, we knew of the fact too

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nicold_shoulder@reddit

Small town in Washington State. It reached us too.

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PartofFurniture@reddit

I grew up in a rainforest jungle and somehow i heard this too.

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quebexer@reddit

I was living in Panama, and we speak Spanish down there.

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Head_Northman@reddit

In the early 90's in the North of England we had all heard this same story about Prince, long before anyone heard of Marilyn Manson.

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Trupedo_Glastic@reddit

Rural Germany here, we heard that, too.

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Revolutionary-Ice424@reddit

This sentence is a ki 😂

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GordenRamsfalk@reddit

We all knew….

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Slow_Yak_3390@reddit

Maybe you heard 2pac was not dead but in Jamaica. Or lil Kim had a pound of c pumped out

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JakePossu@reddit

Heard this in tiny Finnish town middle school too, it was everywhere.

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KRIEGLERR@reddit

Dude I live in France and I remember hearing about this in the early 2000s too

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l4adventure@reddit

Mexico City checking in. I didn't even know who he was until a classmate told me this story

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EspectroDK@reddit

I knew too - small town in northern part of Denmark.

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Norse_By_North_West@reddit

I think I heard this rumor back in 93 in Norman Wells, NWT, Canada. Though it might have been after, when I moved to the Yukon. Amazing how shit spread even without the internet

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getthis89@reddit

I'm from Lithuania, and we had this rumour too... just sayin

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RosemaryHoyt@reddit

I can confirm this rumour spread to middle schools all over Scandinavia, too.

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Specialist-Bit-7746@reddit

my guy, i personally spread this rumor in a Middle Eastern village that didn't have any sort of internet access for years. I genuinely have no idea where i heard it from

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electriclala@reddit

Im from northern Scandinavia and even we heard about this back then

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simondoyle1988@reddit

As a young Irish man in Dublin Ireland who knew of Marilyn . I knew of the fact that he removed a rib to pleasure himself

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vkazey@reddit

Moscow, Russia, the same.

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stuntbikejake@reddit

Nowhere Kansas as well.

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Sharp-Study3292@reddit

Netherlands somehow aswell

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FlamboyanceFlamingo@reddit

As a South-African who moved to the Netherlands when I was young, same! All those little Dutch kids were well aware of his selfservice skills.

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Significant_Echo2924@reddit

South america here, I couldn't even speak english properly, yet it was a known fact.

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OkSalamander096@reddit

Well I also did even know who Marilyn Manson was and live in a small town in FINLAND and even me and all my friends knew about this😆

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alanie_@reddit

Czech Republic as well

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What-Is-a-Fish@reddit

I truly believe this rumor to be started and spread by military children from around the country. It's the only thing that makes the most sense to how it proliferate our country so deeply.

Those are hundreds of thousands children who, every year to 3 years move to a new state with entirely new audiances. Their parents ETS at a significant rate and move back home, send kids to a public school instead of a dod school or wherever and the rumor gets into the civilian schools

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bplturner@reddit

I was a white kid in Colorado and I removed my own ribs to try myself.

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pleasefindthis@reddit

My brother in Christ, I heard this growing up in a small town on the tip of Africa.

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Ihatetheofficialapp1@reddit

Hungary checking in.

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tuhn@reddit

Helsinki Finland checking in, this was well known fact.

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NanderK@reddit

Checking in from rural Sweden. This was a widely accepted fact in the schoolyard in the 90s.

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Breadback@reddit

Miami, Florida checking in—knew all about Marilyn self-gawking.

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BigBoyShaunzee@reddit

Australian here who didn't get internet until I was about 12 in 2000, I also heard from school friends in the late 90s and I barely knew who Marilyn Manson was.

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nbshar@reddit

In the 90s we heard this on the playground too. In the Netherlands. Rumor wasn't Usa exclussive

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Sikkenogetmoeg@reddit

Suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. I heard it too. Like how the fuck? Someone must have said it on MTV or something, I don’t get it.

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Potraitor@reddit

I knew it in Chile dude

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MichaelEnright@reddit

Ireland too, insane given how this was pre social media 100, I guess word of mouth amongst 11 year olds was powerful back in day

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NeutralLock@reddit

Grew up in Canada and I knew it too!

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thelegoroom@reddit

United Kingdom checking in. Remember classmates talking about this. And the Richard Gere gerbal story.

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trollerii@reddit

was flowing around in the 90s here as well, in Sweden :)

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Pelidaq@reddit

I was in a small city in the southernmost point of South America and I also heard this rumor, I didn't know who Marilyn Manson was

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VeinyBanana69@reddit

Houston, can confirm.

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Username_NullValue@reddit

South New Jersey. Same.

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Traditional-Wait-257@reddit

Hate to break it to you but your elders already did the same thing with rod stewart. Further insinuating he had his stomach pumped after collapsing on stage and had a quart of semen in there

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AloofConscientious@reddit

Checking in from WNY. I have also grown up to hear this.

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Purple_Bluejay_9010@reddit

This isn’t worth bragging about. It’s just disgusting.

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Big_Surround3395@reddit

Happy to confirm this was a truth whispered in middle schools in Puerto Rico.

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

Also, that Marilyn Manson was Paul from The Wonder Years, and Courtney Live was really Tina Yothers.

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Mojo1727@reddit

That rumor for sire did even spread to Germany

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Nigglas24@reddit

Ahh yes, i too remember the rib rumor just like the super man s.

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4444ssss@reddit

when i got my wisdom teeth removed in high school on the ride home while still on loopy gas this is all i could talk about. i remember thinking, well marilyn got some bones removed to suck dick, and i also just got some bones (teeth) removed so i should be able to suck some more dick too. my mom was not pleased.

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Fine-Funny6956@reddit

Or that Paul from the Wonder Years grew up to be Marylyn Manson.

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SvensHospital@reddit

I thought this was just a proven fact and have never questioned it.

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Durivage4@reddit

How about Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pump after swallowing to much pizza? However, the one that seemed like the most known was Richard Gere having to go to the ER to have a pesky little gerbil removed from his ass? 🤣 good times

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OldSailor742@reddit

I heard that one and I’ve never bought any of his cds

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Machete-AW@reddit

Maaan. Heard that here in 90's Australia.

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Character_Whereas869@reddit

I was desperate to be cool so pretended to know who he was, so I too believed this rumor right up until this post said it was a rumor. I had to lycos search this on a colurful iMac in the "computer lab" to find out what this was all about.

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Dystopicfuturerobot@reddit

In the suburbs of Chicago this too was known as

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HansBammel@reddit

Ok, I am from Germany, and we shared this "fun fact" here, too. Even though i grew up in a very rural area.

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LifeguardEuphoric286@reddit

im more of richard gere- jerbil kinda guy

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DiscoDiner@reddit

And he was also that kid from the wonder years, the kid with glasses

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akairborne@reddit

And here we are, still so jealous.

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srboot@reddit

I had ribs added just so I would stop.

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Ok_Narwhal_9200@reddit

I grew up in sweden. This lore reached us too

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schoolisuncool@reddit

Also, Richard Gere and the gerbil

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zoinkability@reddit

That one can be credited to GenX though

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Seven22am@reddit

And that Jamie Lee Curtis was born with a penis. Or was that just where I was?

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faderjockey@reddit

"Jamie Lee Curtis was a hermaphrodite" is how I heard it delivered.

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Timid_Wild_One@reddit

They obviously never watched True Lies

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BarryTheBystander@reddit

I heard that about Ciara

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AdjunctFunktopus@reddit

Heard that one from a buddy’s dad. He sold medical devices and had many good stories about doctors and penises, so he was basically an authority.

Didn’t make her any less hot in True Lies though.

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skyfire-x@reddit

"Ass like a 10 year old boy"

Still can't believe this line was in the movie.

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WookieesGoneWild@reddit

My stepdad once mentioned that Jamie Lee Curtis was really hot, and I asked him "Isn't she a hermaphrodite?" And this easy going, timid man uncharacteristically blew up and chewed my head off.

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OkExam8932@reddit

Am i the only one not on the jamie lee curtis train? Like not even a wiggle for me, but I'm just one man with diffrent preferences not willing to take on her following.

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AdjunctFunktopus@reddit

Sorry, you’ve got to like the same things we all like or get out!

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chancesarent@reddit

Dude, my mom was a nurse and heard it from a frigging doctor. He said she was born with an extra Y chromosome and was some sort of hermaphroditic superwoman.

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misanthr0p1c@reddit

Didn’t make her any less hot ~~in True Lies though~~.

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ManBoyKoz@reddit

Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis in that red dress and the topless scene lives rent free in my spank bank.

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Mel_bear@reddit

What ever happened to Hermaphrodites? That was a choice topic in my group. Everything and everyone was a hermaphrodite.

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faderjockey@reddit

Intersex became the preferred term

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Ok_Thing7700@reddit

A lot of traditionally hot women are intersex. I encourage you all to get karyotype tests, might learn something about yourselves.

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Disabled_Robot@reddit

How about when Travis Barker died 🪦

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rick_blatchman@reddit

The one I heard was that her cocaine went missing during a hotel stay while shooting The Fog, and they practically lined up the entire staff in an effort to retrieve it. One of the cooks just disappeared the next day—not only did he not show up for work, but no one was able to reach him or find him, again. That's a more regionally bound yarn, though.

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letmelickyourleg@reddit

Bro telling a true crime story like it’s a widespread rumour lol

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rooseboose@reddit

Wait, she’s not?

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up_N2_no_good@reddit

She does have an extra chromosome or something, that's why she has the shape that she does

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

i think that was more a dig at her father for being effeminate. bigots were dumb in the 80s

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calmwhiteguy@reddit

Oh god what a throw back. Havent heard the word hermaphrodite since that era tbh

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Myfourcats1@reddit

I remember my dad telling me that. 😂 How did my boomer dad hear that rumor?

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Available_Leather_10@reddit

That was around in the 80s, as well.

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ItsWillJohnson@reddit

Same. And her vag is only 2 inches deep. We all had weird feelings watching her strip scene in true lies.

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VancityKing778@reddit

That was Ciara in our neck of the woods.

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ringobob@reddit

Bingo

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Seven22am@reddit

Yeah, that sounds familiar. Maybe that was it.

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larryb78@reddit

Likewise

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mapett@reddit

MN??

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Seven22am@reddit

Nope! So it seems to have gotten around.

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jumbipdooly@reddit

when I was younger it was lady gaga

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Redditor-at-large@reddit

I only heard she had a Y chromosome. Which did make it easier to understand later that that actually happens, there are women with XY chromosomes.

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CrossdressTimelady@reddit

Oh shit, I'm 38 and was still thinking she was trans or something.

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RoarOfTheWorlds@reddit

I had a Harvard trained professor of Human Genetics in college, and he was adamant that this was true. Good professor otherwise, I just wonder why he was so bent on believing it that he'd share it with the whole class.

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metroidmen@reddit

I was told that about Keira Knightley.

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PizzaDeliveryBoy3000@reddit

Manson and Gere, yes, but Curtis never crossed the Atlantic

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cheeseandcucumber@reddit

Absolutely did. Definitely heard it sometime in the 90s

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Slydiad-Ross@reddit

So many in-retrospect-inappropriate “I totally still would anyway, though!” comments from other kids’ dads. 🤦‍♀️

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Apycia@reddit

90's dads truly said 'trans women are women' - but only if they're hot.

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duksa@reddit

I heard that about Ciara

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jeremyrando@reddit

I remember one about one of the New Kids on the block vomiting up semen on stage because he couldn’t get enough dick. Turns out that was an earlier rumor about Rod Stewart.

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Not_Cartmans_Mom@reddit

I heard that about Lil Kim but she had to get her stomach pumped because there was too much semen.

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Jetski125@reddit

I heard the new kids dude had to have his stomach pumped for that reason

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Boomalabim@reddit

Lil Kum

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SRB112@reddit

Eastern PA and NJ had their own version of the gerbil up a Philly newscaster's butt.

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hygiene_matters@reddit

That was actually started by Sylvester Stallone.

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eureka909@reddit

Why don't gerbils drive? They can't get out of Gere (งツ)ว

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HighOnGoofballs@reddit

Rod Stewart getting his stomach pumped. Both a decade before Manson

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Cultjam@reddit

Heard that one in the mid 70’s.

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OuchPotato64@reddit

I love how people around the world and different time periods participated in this weird game of telephone. I remember this same post happening a couple years ago, and in the comments, people brought up the spread of the car game Slug Bug. There were a few people in the comment section that said they were playing it in the 60s and late 50s.

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jableshables@reddit

That one's got staying power. I memorized it in the '90s before I even really understood who Rod Stewart was.

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slom68@reddit

I believe Gere thought Sly Stallone spread the rumor as they both didn’t like each other, but apparently someone else started it.

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Bilski1ski@reddit

Scientology started it when left to become Buddhist

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

that's also been arrtibuted to about 10 people in the past 50 years. IIRC, incl Manson

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schoolisuncool@reddit

I heard Richard gere and only Richard gere since like 5th grade. Not saying you’re wrong, but I’ve never heard of it attributed to anyone else before

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

i'm probably older than you. i'm an olde

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schoolisuncool@reddit

Possibly! I was born in 80

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plasteroid@reddit

Yes that was GenX though yeah

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schoolisuncool@reddit

I’m a xennial and heard about it around 4th grade or so

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TRDF3RG@reddit

Or Pop Rocks and Coke

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shewy92@reddit

https://youtu.be/CDVFcsLYLQY

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Its_Froggin_Bullfish@reddit

"There was talk of gerbils"

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smokeydesperado@reddit

My mother in law believes this is a fact

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teddygomi@reddit

This was an internet meme in the 90s.

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Redheaded_Potter@reddit

Wait…. I thought that was true?!?!?

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schoolisuncool@reddit

Nope!

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dulyebr@reddit

Don’t forget about Rob Stewart needing to have his stomach pumped due to swallowing seamen.

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blackcatmeo@reddit

This one didnt make it to the chicago suburbs

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daneeyella@reddit

Additionally, Bon Jovi having his stomach pumped because it was filled with …

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canadiantaken@reddit

Canada can confirm

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jharrisimages@reddit

gif

LEMMIWINKS!

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Mrmakanakai@reddit

Was that 'raggot'?

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larryb78@reddit

*frozen

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Pandorasopinbox@reddit

😂😂I forgot about that one!

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_frogtied@reddit

Midwestern-er in his 30's, and this is still the only thing I know about the man.

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Unitnuity@reddit

I will never understand how widespread this was.

Along with Ciara was a hermaphrodite and Lil Bow Wow was raped by his bodyguard.

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Pansarmalex@reddit

Millennials stealing credit from Gen X again

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SenseAdorable1971@reddit

I hate when someone tells me that some thing I experience literally didn’t happen. I was born in 1983 and I fully remember hearing this rumor in elementary school and middle school.

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CosmicBureaucrat@reddit

That rumour even made it to Germany.

Source: I remember hearing it in school.

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Former-Astronaut-841@reddit

South Korea

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SouthMicrowave@reddit

In Chile too.

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the_midnight_skulker@reddit

India 🙋🏽

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canadiantaken@reddit

Canada! 🙋🏼‍♂️

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Uncreative_Aussie@reddit

Straya 🙋‍♂️

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No_Operation7130@reddit

Austria 🙋‍♂️

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msg_me_about_ure_day@reddit

Sweden 🙋‍♂️

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New-Honey-4544@reddit

🙋‍♂️ Mexico

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Dunha47@reddit

🙋‍♂️ Brazil

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theeldergod1@reddit

Turkey 🙋‍♂️

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OSArsi@reddit

Finland!

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Donpy_wb@reddit

Denmark!

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FernKet@reddit

France

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CheshirePuss42@reddit

Greece 🙋

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Former-Astronaut-841@reddit

South Korea 🙋🏽‍♀️

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Substantial_Win8350@reddit

Japan!

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DrellWzll@reddit

France.

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flaweddaughter@reddit

South Africa

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Commercial-Spinach93@reddit

Spain!

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Castr8orr@reddit

New Zealand

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tsooto@reddit

Georgia 🙋🏻

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Sad_Picture3642@reddit

Russia

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DownTongQ@reddit

Belgium

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Swimming-Pen-6372@reddit

Romania

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bbqnelli@reddit

Italy

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randomtoken@reddit

Venezuela

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Acm1ptplease@reddit

In Uruguay

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Muntjac@reddit

United Kingdom. I remember because we studied the Mechanical Animals album cover image for evidence.

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TheRealUnkleDom@reddit

South Africa XD

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Pikawoohoo@reddit

Same, boet

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Voldemorts_Mom@reddit

Yup dude I went to Benoni High and heard this in like grade 9

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orangebananasplit@reddit

Slovenia

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ILuvMostlyGuys@reddit

France 🙋‍♂️

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Motorsagmannen@reddit

Norway checking in

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Psychological_Pop707@reddit

Slovenia

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hokie179@reddit

Nicaragua

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BioCuriousDave@reddit

The Isle of fucking Man

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LostCausesEverywhere@reddit

This should be studied…

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New_Peanut_9924@reddit

It’s such an interesting phenomenon

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No_Eagle_1424@reddit

UK

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DelayedMailForceOne@reddit

Marilyn Manson: the true Mr Worldwide!

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hr_krabbe@reddit

Country side in arctic Norway.

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Erickck@reddit

That’s insane. 😂

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After_Emotion_7889@reddit

Netherlands 👋

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FlamboyanceFlamingo@reddit

Jep, can confirm! My Dutch primary school had the same rumour. And also weirdly that his girlfriend had had her eye removed and a glass one put in, for sexual purposes... Was that one just pur weirdo school?

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HaZalaf@reddit

Florida here. Never heard that one about the eye.

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FlamboyanceFlamingo@reddit

We might have had a few degenerate little Dutch kids running around that school then :) Quite the imagination!

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SodiumKickker@reddit

It’s because of the internet. OP is a liar lol

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BarrierX@reddit

Was also heard in Slovenia.

But it's not like we didn't have stupid tabloids or radio & tv shows where they talked about these things all the time.

Also around 96 I was chatting with people all over the world in microsoft comic chat or blizzards battlenet.

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sleepyt0ast@reddit

Husband just confirmed the rumor made it to Iran.

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PandasOnGiraffes@reddit

Yeah we had it in Palestine too which is wild because I didn't even know about Marilyn Manson before hearing it.

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CuCullen@reddit

And Iran so far away!

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Rik7717@reddit

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙋🏻‍♂️

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

Hearing people say countries like Russia, and Iran, now I need to know how far it went.

Can anyone from North Korea confirm if they heard it??

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darknesstwisted@reddit

No net so no reddit

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stormdahl@reddit

Maybe someone who escaped!

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stormdahl@reddit

Norway also!

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zoreko@reddit

Mexico

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mikebah@reddit

UK 😄

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mr_tolkien@reddit

Same in France

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Funny-Tomato-Salad@reddit

South Africa, heard it everywhere in mid to late 2000's

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BerryHeadHead@reddit

Yes, The Netherlands too.

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menackin@reddit

Greece

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Ordinary_Shower1573@reddit

South Africa too

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GrungeLord@reddit

Pitbull back the fuck off, Marilyn Manson is the real Mr. Worldwide apparently.

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skinny_apples@reddit

I’m from the US and told my cousins in England and in Denmark about this. It’s def true.

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

through AOL, probably. There wre like 2 major international ISPs in the 90s, AOL and Netscape, iirc. Tho some countries had their own.

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wait_ichangedmymind@reddit

Yahoo chat rooms

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Kratomite247@reddit

St. Louis, Missouri

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red_1392@reddit

Brunei

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sketchmirrors@reddit

Singapore !

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cabbarnuke@reddit

Turkey

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jumpyrs@reddit

Portugal 🙋‍♂️

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Starsteamer@reddit

Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Rapa_Nui@reddit

France 🙋‍♂️

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pleasewait@reddit

Estonia 🙋

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dan129@reddit

Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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atooooom@reddit

Poland 🙋

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almostnicegirl@reddit

Romania 🙋🏻‍♀️

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faha03@reddit

Switzerland

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Maneaaa@reddit

England 🙋🏽‍♀️

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vanalle@reddit

Belgium ✋

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Arkin47@reddit

France too.

lmao.

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Limp-Seaweed3587@reddit

New Zealand

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Poopybara@reddit

Bruh that shit made it to Russia. I remember it. Born 1993 baby.

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Roboboe@reddit

Japan 🙋‍♀️

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Skore_Smogon@reddit

Ireland too

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huxleyhun@reddit

Hungary🙋

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DistantKarma@reddit

Sorry, but we beat you to it. We did the same thing in the late 1970s with a rumor that Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped in an emergency room because he sucked his entire band off, and any other guy who happened to be around, and swallowed too much...

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Automatic-writer9170@reddit

Heard this one in Brazil

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ruth862@reddit

Bitch, please. Millennials heard it from Gen-Xers

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Prestigious_Ad_8458@reddit

I went to school in Brazil, and I heard about this

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coolestpurple@reddit

Beat you guys years earlier. Google Rod Stewart semen. Heard in school, got home, my mother asked me about it, asked her where she heard she said my grandmother who lived 1,500 miles away. All in one day.

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moosetacoz@reddit

We always heard the one about the cheerleader and all the football players from canton ohio. It was around the same time as the Manson story.

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Twin_Pines_Mallcop@reddit

And that he was Paul from The Wonder Years.

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KeepingItPimple23@reddit

I was a 15 year old in a small school in rural India, with zero exposure to his music, and even I knew this. 😂😂😂

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Senior-Sharpie@reddit

But didn’t God remove Adam’s so he didn’t have to?

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dandeliontrees@reddit

I was listening the the Behind the Bastards podcast, and apparently the origin of the "had ribs removed to facilitate autofellatio" meme was the inventor of fascism, Gabriele d'Annunzio. About himself, not Marilyn Manson.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-man-who-invented-56106119/

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Your-Momigator@reddit

Idk why this sub is getting recommended to me but as a Gen z we all still think this too You’re telling me he DIDNT have his ribs removed?

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Sour_Joe@reddit

Better is the rumor that Richard Gere had a gerbil stuck in his ass that had to be surgically removed.

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jessfrazerr@reddit

I’m 22 and this got to me as well

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Strict_Hawk6485@reddit

I live half a world away, and it's known among my peers. How this rumor jumped two continents is beyond me.

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Economy-Culture-9174@reddit

I can confirm it was being told also in central Europe.

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Humble-Message501@reddit

Getting told that information for the first time was a absolute right of passage as a millennial.

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Golden_Jiggy@reddit

Radio, it was on the radio.

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therealcookaine@reddit

Also, why would one less rib magically enable this?

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Prestigious-Pop-4646@reddit

I heard it was Michael Jackson who had the ribs removed. But yah we had the same jokes (barney song and batman songs but 'dirty') and culture like drawing Stuccis everywhere...I always wondered how that stuff spread.

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rcheek1710@reddit

Don't forget about Orangejello, Lemonjello and Shitthead.

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StreetExplanation569@reddit

Damn I still thought that was true until just now when I saw this post. Lmfao

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Fun-Victory-8313@reddit

Dude, this was something I was hearing in Dominican Republic in the 90’s…The greatest rumor ever spread.🤣

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Atheizm@reddit

It was definitely all over the internet in the 1990s.

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Suspicious_Main_2132@reddit

This spread through Australian schools too

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InAppropriate-meal@reddit

LOL! I remember that, all over every school in the UK as well

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Anoticerofthings@reddit

It reached Germany

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1minormishapfrmchaos@reddit

Same operation as Prince had

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Equivalent-Fan-1362@reddit

Weird flex but can confirm

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SumguyJeremy@reddit

I remember hearing this in New Jersey.

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Owww_My_Ovaries@reddit

We had that one.

Also. Stephanie from Full House apparently went to Six Flags and fell off of Batman The Ride

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Vicarchaeopteryx@reddit

Hot dog girl was true story in my town. Like no joke actually legit.

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Rhomega2@reddit

I remember hearing about the hot dog one in a chatroom I was a regular on in the early '00s.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

Our variation was that the “dirty” girl was using a glass Coke bottle and had to go to the ER because it created a vacuum and she couldn’t pull it back out

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BretShitmanFart69@reddit

Ours was that she put peanut butter on her pussy so that her dog could lick it off, I think I was the only one to question it because why on earth would a kid already struggling to fit in willingly tell anyone that?

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spasticity@reddit

why would anyone, regardless of how well they fit in, admit to having their dog lick peanut butter off their crotch?

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NotUndercoverReddit@reddit

Some of us have seen this happen. I was at a party she was a methed out gothchick that decided to take the truth or dare game too seriously. I was never the same.

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

You’re having a four way with buddy and 2 chicks and he blows his load in the condom so you turn it inside out and accidentally get your chick pregnant with his sperm…. This was scenario we learned about in sex Ed and apparently most people who took sex Ed heard this story too

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syndre@reddit

wouldn't that mean that the vagina, normally, is open like a glass that you would use to drink water with? The suction would be created by air trying to go in as the bottle comes out. why would there be air trying to go inside?

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Owww_My_Ovaries@reddit

That's way too much science and intelligence for the mean girls at my school to come up with.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

Well, to be fair, I went to an all boys high school, so there was lots of time to make up things about the “sluts” at any of the nearby all girls schools, who were paradoxically also “uptight prudes” because they didn’t sleep with someone on the first date.

“Blank from St Such and Such is such a slut”

“Yeah, and then that bitch wouldn’t even put out”

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Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit

Ours was one of those large Crayola markers.

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Ok_Egg_471@reddit

There was one girl in my school known as the Corndog Queen and now I have questions.

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1_shady_character@reddit

My hometown, it was a pickle. And, unfortunately for the poor girl, it actually happened.

At 16, I was a volunteer firefighter. Because of that, some of the younger kids mistook me for being an EMT. So this 13 year old girl down the street comes waddling to my house with her friend, crying because "it was a bet" and "it broke off inside."

After trying to talk her through getting it out, standing outside my bathroom door, I ended up giving her a ride to the ER & waited 'til her mom got there. By the time I got back home, her so-called "best friend" had already spread the information everywhere.

Even my (very young) aunt, who was only 10 years older than me, asked me about it later in the evening.

Kids are jerks.

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Floopydoopypoopy@reddit

Oh wow! This happened to a wonderfully kind and lovely girl at my school 30 ueRs ago. It changed her whole school experience. Kids called her "hot dog girl" for her entire highschool experience.

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GrungeLord@reddit

Kids are so mean.

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Barnitch@reddit

I’m still “friends” with our hot dog girl on Facebook. She seems to be have a troubled life and I have to wonder if the rumor led her down this path.

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HilariousMax@reddit

Our school had a rumor about a girl using a frozen hot dog and it caused some damage which required a hospital visit.

She was the quiet shy girl and apparently the 2 week hospital stay was due to a tree climbing incident turned into a tree falling one.

She lasted about 2 days back before she transferred out to another school.

Kids are cruel.

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Owww_My_Ovaries@reddit

Totally. Kids suck. I was tall and had a big nose. The amount of shit i got in middle school nearly destroyed all my self esteem

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Maleficent_Proof_958@reddit

ahahaha we used to tease our friend saying she "made out" with a hot dog. What does that even mean?

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Pinkleton@reddit

No way. You're school had a hot dog girl? My school had a hot dog girl!

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LoserBustanyama@reddit

There always seemed to be someone who put peanut butter on their genitals and let their dog lick it off too. sickos

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ImYourHumbleNarrator@reddit

nice try buddy. we know you did it, that wasn't a rumor

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three-sense@reddit

The hot dog thing, holy shit. In HS I heard that from a junior when I was a freshman. She just brought it up like we were family members or something. Like why the hell are you discussing this with me lol.

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8WhosEar8@reddit

I heard the Full House rumor too! That one confused the hell out of me because I heard the rumor on Monday but had just seen her on tv last Friday night. WTF!

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Somebodys@reddit

I actually knew the girl that broke a hotdogs in her hoo ha. I knew another girl that used a candle.

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Trick-Variety2496@reddit

"Made out with a hotdog? That was ONE time!"

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deanereaner@reddit

That works so well because there are like a dozen Six Flags around the country with "Batman" rides.

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ronniesfedora@reddit

Came here to say did you hear about the girl and the hot dog

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Iconclast1@reddit

I always use this as an interesting example of how i am.

Ive never even heard of him before. And despite everyone in my entire environment saying how bad this made him.

I still said "huh.....if thats what he wants to do. How interesting"

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FaceMaskGod@reddit

Yeap, from South Auckland NZ. We heard this too

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PzMcQuire@reddit

Just to let you guys know how successful this rumor was; I heard it for the first time in a REALLY small elementary school in rural Finland

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cjl99@reddit

This is an exceptional observation on every level and I have now joined this subreddit because of it.

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Murky_Ad_9408@reddit

That and Richard Gere having to go to the hospital to get a gerbil out of his ass..

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butcheR_Pea@reddit

Bro I remember hearing this and telling other people about it lmao. Insane.

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Poputt_VIII@reddit

Heard it NZ as "some guy in America" instead of Marilyn Manson

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Enough-Orange6136@reddit

And that he's Paul from the Wonder Years

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DirtyReddGhostface@reddit

🤣 soo true

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SandMallDay@reddit

I remember that shit lol

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electrodog1999@reddit

How about he was also Paul from the Wonder Years?

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rosemaryscrazy@reddit

Yep I still think about it sometimes when I watch The Wonder Years …….😭

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fizztothegig@reddit

lol i heard both of those

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mattchewy43@reddit

Which is totally insane that ap many of us heard this. Was it in a tabloid pr something?

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StanleyQPrick@reddit

I don’t think so. Did you hear the one about richard gere and the gerbil, or jon bon jovi getting gallons of semen pumped out of his stomach? I heard both of those in sixth grade. I don’t think they would have put those in tabloids. Too much lawsuit

I heard it all from older kids.

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OrcLineCook@reddit

The Jon Bon Jovi rumor was with Alanis Morrisette where I lived at the time.

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mattchewy43@reddit

I did here the Richard Gere one but I heard it was Alanis Morissette that swallowed all the semen.

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Sad_Letterhead_6153@reddit

It was lil Kim who had to get her stomach pumped after swallowing too much💯🤦🏼‍♀️

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Mackey_Corp@reddit

Same, I grew up in NY and the Lil Kim version was the one we got lol

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jayteazer@reddit

Yeah, this is the version I heard

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queenquirk@reddit

I heard Lil Kim

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Justjay0420@reddit

I heard alanis morrisette and that was right after dogma came out so probably internet

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zaminDDH@reddit

I also heard Lil Kim.

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Headieheadi@reddit

I thought it was rod stewart

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Gr00mpa@reddit

Yea it was Rod Stewart for me. And that one seemed the most implausible. I didn’t “believe” that at all. Not even a little bit.

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

Maybe the name changes because heaps of celebrities had their stomachs pumped from too much semen.

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oroofdog_77@reddit

That's why they called him mod Rod.

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StanleyQPrick@reddit

These all seem like things only kids would believe

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Universal_Verses@reddit

Based off some of the recent discoveries in music and film…. They could very well all be true

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AppropriateTouching@reddit

He pissed off his publicist and that guy started it or something

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GutterRider@reddit

Yeah. I heard Rod Stewart, 1976 or so.

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valeriesghost@reddit

Everyone is wrong, it was Jordan from NKOTB that got his stomach pumped for semen.

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HystericalUterus@reddit

With what we now know about the Diddy freak-off parties, this rumor may be rooted in some truth.

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HystericalUterus@reddit

It happened at a diddy party… now I’m thinking this rumor might be true

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sirbolo@reddit

Lil Kim was is what we heard as well ( San Diego)

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isharte@reddit

We heard New Kids on the Block lol

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Wpgjetsfan19@reddit

I heard Britney Spears

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IShookMeAllNightLong@reddit

Same

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Milksteak_To_Go@reddit

That's the one.

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TheDevil-YouKnow@reddit

Yuh, Lil Kim & Biggie Smalls.

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Izrun@reddit

Yeah, that’s what I heard too

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Optimal-Draft8879@reddit

funny i heard the alanis Morissette rumor, and my reaction was “what’s semen?”

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TeardropsFromHell@reddit

Gwen Stefani for me

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yaar_tv@reddit

NorCal?

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

Plot twist: it was all of them!!

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SspeshalK@reddit

It was Marc Almond around here.

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EduinBrutus@reddit

The stomach semen pump started with Freddie Mercury.

Its possibly older but tbh I doubt it.

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StanleyQPrick@reddit

Does it?

Why would someone need semen to be pumped out of their stomach? If that stuff is poisonous it’s news to me.

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EduinBrutus@reddit

Even at the time, Freddie's absolutely wild lifestyle was pretty well known.

I dont mean "makes sense" as in its plausible. I mean it makes sense in that if you were to consider it, its almost something that might be believable.

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kirby_krackle_78@reddit

It was originally Rod Stewart, started by a disgruntled employee.

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BlueShift42@reddit

I heard it was the singer for Bush that had a tummy full of cummy.

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81FuriousGeorge@reddit

In grade 3, I heard joey from new kids on the block.

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Lmf2359@reddit

I heard it was Donny!

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Micro_Cosmos@reddit

Yep, I heard it was Joey!

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FitCover9300@reddit

It was one of the Backstreet Boys for me

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bluesun_geo@reddit

I heard it was NKOTB vommiting each others cum and that the lead singer of Korn had full blown AIDS

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tass_man@reddit

Same, I heard it was Alanis… maybe that was the Canadian version of the rumour (no idea if you’re Canadian or not)

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mattchewy43@reddit

Nope. I'm in Florida.

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D-Rich-88@reddit

The Richard Gere gerbil thing made it into South Park with Mr Garrison and Mr Slave

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VERY_MENTALLY_STABLE@reddit

the richard gere one is true

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Gotis1313@reddit

I had a girlfriend who was a nurse. She swore up and down the gerbil thing happened at her hospital. It was just a random gay dude in her version though

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

It was Rod Stewart or Bowie with the stomach pumped first. I was really little but had an older sister. I remember the gerbil.

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ImaRaginCajun@reddit

Back in the late 70's I heard it was Rod Stewart needing the stomach pump

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dirkalict@reddit

Yeah- and that Alice Cooper was a grown up Eddie Haskell from Leave it to Beaver and that Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials died from swallowing pop rocks and Coke and that Bubble Yum gum was made out of spider eggs.

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StrangerDistinct7934@reddit

Remember when misinformation wasn’t weaponized against entire populations? I mean I know it has been for a really long time, just not nearly as insanely effective as it is today with the internet/social media.

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penfoldsdarksecret@reddit

Heard it was Marc Almond

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DumpsterDay@reddit

Missy Eliot had gallons pumped put at my school

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e-wrecked@reddit

It was Rod Stewart I heard got his stomach pumped. That's where I first learned about 'snowballing'.

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chancesarent@reddit

I've heard several versions of the semen one attributed to different celebrities. The ones I remember were George Michael, Joey Mcentire from NKOTB, Boy George, and again, Richard Gere and Marilyn Manson accompanying the other rumors.

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Stoooble@reddit

In my school it was Mark Almond. Richard Gere and the gerbil or possibly hamster. And my PE teacher sucking off half the rugby team.

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Lmf2359@reddit

I heard the one about Jon Bob Jovi except it was Donny Wahlberg.

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Character-Solution-7@reddit

I also heard the stomach pump rumor about Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Ricky Martin and All of the New Kids on the Block. That one was recycled a lot

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Paddington77@reddit

Heard the Richard Gere and the gerbil. Lol I feel like that one is true. Also remember the same seamen story but with rod Stewart instead of bon Jovi, but I grew up in NJ so he was God like, along with Bruce Springsteen

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Trentsteel52@reddit

I heard it was one of the backstreet boys who got his stomach pumped

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dragon_fiesta@reddit

I heard:
a cheerleader a couple towns/states over bet the head football player they wouldn't make it to/win the (insert championship here) and if they did she would blow the whole team from the seniors down to the 7th graders and the team won and she passed out from (clever pun about too much jizz here) and had to get her stomach pumped. after (impossible volume) being pumped from her stomach the doctors told her parents and they moved/moved and gave her up/sent her to be a nun/sent her to join the military

about 50 different ways with different details.

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quarmega@reddit

The Richard Gere rumor was true. South Park wouldn’t have made a whole episode about it if it wasn’t.

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chatondedanger@reddit

Was it Lemmiwinks or am I misremembering?

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quarmega@reddit

Yes but the Richard Gere gerbil incident was the inspo

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RhubarbGoldberg@reddit

Yes and yes to all of these, lol.

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NorrinRaddicalness@reddit

The Richard Gere rumor was started by Sylvester Stallone after he and Gere were involved in a fist fight on the set of “The Lords of Flatbush” back in 1974.

Later, during the success of the recently released “Pretty Woman,” a prankster flooded fax machines across the country with a fake press release from the ASPCA about Gere’s rumored animal abused.

The other rumor you mention was originally about Rod Stewart and spread by his recently fired and disgruntled publicist.

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tOaDeR2005@reddit

I heard Rod Stewart was the one who got his stomach pumped.

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I-like-the-chicken@reddit

I heard it was Rod Stewart and the rumour was started by a disgruntled tour manager.

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strippersandcocaine@reddit

I heard that semen one about Freddie Mercury

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Shiban_X@reddit

And I heard that it was Rod Stewart

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0bolus@reddit

This one, I remember! It was in a Reader's Digest in the 90s. There was a stupid article about it.

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JesusSavesForHalf@reddit

Morning DJs love spreading this kind of bullshit. I'm fairly certain it was Mancow I heard both these from.

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CheezeLoueez08@reddit

And in different countries. I’m Canadian. This rumour was heard here and in the states. I wonder if anywhere else

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Huge-Pen-9973@reddit

I heard both the Marilyn Manson ones in Scotland

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shrug_addict@reddit

Kid culture is weird. Like all the little songs like "Miss Suzie", the written S. Shit just pops up and spreads amongst kids

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ronniesfedora@reddit

He addresses these in his biography. I remember it be squashed basically as I heard it in real time. And we did have message boards and chat rooms also. Is that social media?

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mattchewy43@reddit

I did not have the internet in the early 90s, when I heard these rumors.

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CheezeLoueez08@reddit

Same. I got internet probably 1997-98

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Jonny_Nature@reddit

Also heard he was the kid on Mr. Belvedere.

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StrangerAxolotl@reddit

I heard he was Mr. Belvedere

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Shut up Wesley!

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jimmyjong2000@reddit

Yep both rumours made it to Australia somehow too!

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brdmchpls@reddit

I heard both of these and I lived in Brazil.

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Asleep-Astronomer389@reddit

I grew up in Spain, and they traveled that far pre internet (or at least pre widely available internet).

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Lensgoggler@reddit

Estonia here, and even we knew about it somehow.

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Goodly@reddit

Same. I grew up in Denmark.

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Purple-Bell-218@reddit

Same, iowa here🙋‍♀️

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KamalaWonNoCheating@reddit

I heard that lil Kim swallowed a gallon of cum or something

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PassengerNo3416@reddit

Even in Colombia we heard that rumor. The Wonder Years was big back in South America in the 90s, so it totally made sense that Marilyn Manson was Paul Pfeiffer.

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joenan_the_barbarian@reddit

He was

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dathomasusmc@reddit

Heard that one too.

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LuisMataPop@reddit

This was the one I heard, to be honest being on BBS you’ll come across that rumor too

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Shablablablah@reddit

And that Mr Roger’s wore sweaters to cover up his full sleeve military tattoos because he was a former sniper with dozens of confirmed kills.

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EduinBrutus@reddit

That ones probably not even an urban legend...

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Shablablablah@reddit

He was found medically unfit for duty in a physical and became a minister after getting two degrees.

He most certainly has neither sleeves nor a body count lol

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EduinBrutus@reddit

Thats exactly what you're gonna read about a very specific person.

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OdysseusX@reddit

It very much is.

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Rendakor@reddit

I didn't hear this one as a kid, only started seeing in online 10 years or so ago.

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AGoodIntentionedFool@reddit

That was his bass player, obviously. /s

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ElkFantastic2288@reddit

Wait, you mean he isn’t?

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ihazmaumeow@reddit

He's not. Brian Warner (his real name) is a dork local to Broward County, Florida (my area). He played a bunch of clubs and shit doing shock rock.

I never liked his music but remember his last show before going mainstream which was at the former Sunrise Musical Theater in a BFE part of western Broward.

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Barnitch@reddit

And Billy Corgan was the boy on Small Wonder.

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Jellozepelli@reddit

My generation had the Rod Stewart stomach pump story.

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ShreksArsehole@reddit

In Australia I heard it as Bros

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Appropriate-Divide64@reddit

That was Jarvis Cocker in my school.

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Scadilla@reddit

We had a version of that with one of the members from NKOTB. Jordan, I think. 100 pounds of cum pumped from his belly. Kids are idiots hahaha.

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LegitimateEmu3745@reddit

Yes! Also, a little earlier, the members of KISS beat up Shaun Cassidy 😂

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rick_blatchman@reddit

A spin I've heard was that members of Black Flag and The Misfits ambushed Motley Crue in a green room and slapped them around

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ForGrateJustice@reddit

I have never heard of this one

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

that one was really convincing for a while, they have the same nose and transylvanian witch chin

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rohm418@reddit

Came looking for this. Was not disappointed

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AstroBearGaming@reddit

Yeah I heard this too, and had no idea who Paul or the Wonder Years were

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swing_daddy83@reddit

Wait, neither of these things are real? 🤯

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tiguerasso@reddit

Holy shit. I heard both of these back at the Dominican Republic

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Scadilla@reddit

I heard Kevin from Mr Belvedere.

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93c15@reddit

Both are true

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Boomalabim@reddit

YES- totally forgot that one

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Training-Seaweed-302@reddit

Ask GenX about Rod Stewart.

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Slammogram@reddit

Yes! I heard this one too.

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nyne87@reddit

Never heard this one

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alhumphrey2@reddit

Wow shows how badly it spread I was told it was prince.

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Gelbuda@reddit

Omg I heard this too!

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alphabrotherbuddy@reddit

Came here to say this

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Menonomeno@reddit

Wait, he wasn’t?

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brazilliandanny@reddit

Both were grassroots memes

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dudemanspecial@reddit

I thought that was the drummer

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rosemaryscrazy@reddit

Wait I did hear this !!!!! I can’t remember where I was!

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rationalgazex@reddit

Anyone hear the Alanis Morrisette one?

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black_king_13@reddit

I did too

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DisorientedViking@reddit

That’s disgusting!

Also, is it one or two ribs that need to be removed?

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SebastienBordeaux@reddit

This made it all the way to me inland Southern California at Rancho Bernardo Jr. High.

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Ricepudding1044@reddit

We did it back in the 80’s that Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped because he sucked too many dicks

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Crafty-Square2229@reddit

Gen x started that rumor yo

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payaso666@reddit

And that he was the kid with glases in the wonder years

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payaso666@reddit

🤣🤣🤣 coming from a middle school from "tijuana mexico" we heard this too that "he sold his soul to Satan and took his ribs out so he can suck his own pito

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FlyRepresentative644@reddit

Is this not true???

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momo12fish@reddit

We even knew that in the early 2000sover here in Germany

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SomeGuyFromArgentina@reddit

This was true in the city of Quilmes, Argentina

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amykingraman@reddit

Made it to the rural west coast of ireland

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Simple-Meat395@reddit

It went round all schools here, I’m from a small village in England lol

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m00njaguar@reddit

When I was a kid in the late 1970s, the equivalent rumor back then said that Richard Gere had to have a gerbil surgically removed from his anus

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eugeneyr@reddit

Wait, it was just a rumor?

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Snoo-35252@reddit

Hearing that is why I had the surgery. I can confirm it was just a made-up rumor.

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Extension-Ad55@reddit

Ummm millennials???? No. Firmly GenX territory. I remember this rumor well and I graduated in 94'. If millennials started this rumor they did it at age 3.....

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Erickck@reddit

And he drank Mountain Dew, which obviously shrinks your manhood. Or was that just a local urban myth?

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Otherwise_Gas_6819@reddit

Oh my god yesss 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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BoddAH86@reddit

I grew up in a small village in southern France and this was common knowledge. 🫡

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Kaloggin@reddit

Very true - even in a smallish town in New Zealand I heard this

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MillardFilmore388@reddit

This wasn't the only one. Remember the rumor from Blues Clues when Steve left the show to go to "college," we all said he was actually going to jail.

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nooneinfamous@reddit

Sorry juniors, I remember that rumor from high school class of '85. 😉

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Berlin_Blues@reddit

In my elementary school we learned, from other pupils, that David Bowie collapsed during a concert, was rushed to the hospital where his stomach was pumped, and they found his stomach full of Rod Stwert's semen.

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cumfarts@reddit

My favorite part is that the doctors felt it was critical to analyze the source of the semen.

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Stoooble@reddit

Doctor: My god, that’s looks like Rod’s cum! Nurse: How can you tell? Doctor: ….

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Cormorant_Bumperpuff@reddit

Two friends on an elevator, one goes to push the button but notices some white, sticky stuff and says "ew, is that cum?" The other leans in for a close look, reaches out a finger to touch, then tastes it. Considers for a moment and says "nope. Not anyone from this building."

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RGBGiraffe@reddit

Or even better, that they had some on hand to compare to.

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kpk_soldiers274@reddit

I hard the same but it was Elton John who passed away. Apparently they found traces of mercury up his ass.. ( Freddie Mercury ).

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zyonkerz@reddit

Ah here it is!!

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AztecGodofFire@reddit

I heard it about Rod Stewart. Rolling Stone magazine actually asked him during an interview about it.

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SlimJim0877@reddit

I heaed a similar rumor but it about Alanis Morissette and the semen was from her entire band.

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Kolipe@reddit

It was Troy Aikman when I was growing up.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

So many variations of this on who had to have their stomach pumped and whether it was all semen from one person or gallons from multiple people at some orgy

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skankhunt_191@reddit

How many of you heard drinking Mountain Dew lowered your sperm count? I heard in middle of nowhere Washington state

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Cormorant_Bumperpuff@reddit

I had a bunch of people tell me it would stunt your growth. I'm 6'1, my brother is 6'6 and drank at least 3 times as much Dew as I did. Guess he would've been over 7' if he hadn't, lol

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rokelle2012@reddit

I mean, Mountain Dew is pretty darn bad for you I wouldn't be shocked if it was actually true honestly.

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Wpgjetsfan19@reddit

Yup and stopped drinking it because of that 😂

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NotUndercoverReddit@reddit

Probably for the best considering the shi ton of caffeine in those cans. Like 2 cococolas or a cup and a half of of strong coffee. Could have saved yourself pituitary and other issues growing up.

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ItsWillJohnson@reddit

Yeah idk if ive ever had a Mountain Dew, even though I know it’s bs.

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ParsleyMostly@reddit

That and smoking pot seeds.

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TinHeartWarriors@reddit

My homeboys pager code was 4-5 for yellow 5.

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SuccessfulJelly@reddit

I heard it was anything with Yellow 5 food coloring. We wouldn't touch the stuff even though we were in middle school.

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edcculus@reddit

lol yea we wouldn’t drink it either even though we were in middle school, and about as far from getting laid as anyone could be. I also remember talking about it in college. All of us said “if that were true, I’d be chugging it by the gallon”🤣

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catshirtgoalie@reddit

Yep, I remember the Yellow 5 as well!

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Gemini_19@reddit

Mountain Dew and also for some reason I heard cream cheese did as well lmao

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okamishojo@reddit

this one I only ever heard about Surge, not MD

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StudioGangster1@reddit

Surge!!

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greatpoomonkey@reddit

For Surge, we heard it shrunk your junk. I still drank it had the most caffeine, and I figured how much harm could it really do to me, ya know cause it was already so small.

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r4r4me@reddit

I heard if you drink too much mountain dew you'll pee blood. Not sure if that's false though lol.

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MadRaymer@reddit

The version I heard in middle school was that it would physically shrink the size of your balls. I guess either "lowered sperm count" wasn't scary enough or it got telephone gamed into the version I heard.

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whistlar@reddit

There was also the “if you scratch your palm, it smells like Dr Pepper”. Then when the rube does it, you smack their elbow so that they slap themselves in the face.

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three-sense@reddit

“It shrinks your balls” “if you get hit on the groin it’s going to hurt more”

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SuccessfulJelly@reddit

I heard it was anything with Yellow 5 food coloring. We wouldn't touch the stuff even though we were in middle school.

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AmanitaMikescaria@reddit

That’s why you don’t hear much about him anymore. He’s too busy sucking his own dick.

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Magikarpeles@reddit

I saw him live many years ago, towards the end of his performing career. He really did suck dick.

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Cormorant_Bumperpuff@reddit

I was once flipping through channels and saw his performance on SNL. Took me a minute to realize it was actually him and not a parody sketch

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BigLoveMirage@reddit

Unfortunately, we’ve heard quite a bit about him as a SA’er. It’s horrific.

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timeiscereal@reddit

no, that's just a baseless conspiracy theory. there's more evidence his accusers lied and made the entire thing up for clout than there's evidence any of their claims are true. it's the reason why the music industry has embraced him again and no one is seriously pushing back against his return. he's on a major heavy metal label with acts like Ministry and Rob Zombie. no one is taking the slander against Manson seriously anymore.

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chronicpainprincess@reddit

What benefit is there in saying you were sexually assaulted? Mostly people are just awful to you and accuse you of lying. There isn’t any clout.

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SaorAlba138@reddit

Money

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chronicpainprincess@reddit

What money? From whom?

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NSFWies@reddit

..........wait that's right. The Rachel lady, right? From West world?

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BigLoveMirage@reddit

Rachel Evan Wood

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twoworldsin1@reddit

Maybe if he learned to suck his own dick he wouldn't "grape" (hurr hurr algo-speak) as many people 🤔

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Even-Education-4608@reddit

SA is rarely about sexual pleasure but power and control

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catscanmeow@reddit

its mostly about sexual pleasure but people like to rationalize it as being about power and control because theres always a power dynamic

the power dynamic just increases the likelyhood of someone trying it because they think they can get away with it. just like a thief is more likely to steal if nobody is around, ans theres no chances of getting caught. a thief isnt mostly getting gratification from being alone, they want the thing theyre stealing

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SerHodorTheThrall@reddit

the power dynamic just increases the likelyhood of someone trying it because they think they can get away with it. just like a thief is more likely to steal if nobody is around, and theres no chances of getting caught. a thief isnt mostly getting gratification from being alone, they want the thing theyre stealing

This varies. There are thieves who steal for wealth (and practical reasons) and there are thieves who steal out of compulsion (and mostly steal small things).

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catscanmeow@reddit

the VAST majority of theft is for personal gain

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OdysseusX@reddit

I think i understand the reason people are adamant to state that it's mostly about power. I am going to be loose with the definition of rape here to include all forms of sexual assault but I think it stands. If it's about power then anyone can be raped (true) if it's solely about sex then only hot women can be raped (false) and only by people who find them attractive. and if it's about sex then maybe the woman was asking for it by acting and looking so sexual (false) and also why would hot men rape anyone when they can sleep with whoever they want (false) if it's about power then it helps remove some of the victim blaming. not every child is raped by a pedophile. Some are raped because their shitty parent wants to punish them in a shitty way (that's a power thing)

Also inverse the sex of everyone in what I said and it's still valid, even if less common.

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BretShitmanFart69@reddit

As opposed to sucking your own dick because you had a rib removed, which I imagine is mostly about an ethereal sexual pleasure most can never experience

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AboynamedDOOMTRAIN@reddit

It is, but he'd be too busy sucking his own dick to have any time left over to SA people.

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Kibblesnb1ts@reddit

I was really upset about that one. He came across as so intelligent and respectful in interviews talking about violence and music. Was really hoping he was a reasonable guy behind the makeup expressing himself with music. Then it turns out he's exactly the way you'd expect. Go figure

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

He was the self proclaimed son of the devil. I expected a few SA’s. He was an edge lord before there were edgelords. You just like him cus you were a kid then

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Jonesbro@reddit

It's always the ones you most suspect

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38B0DE@reddit

The word horrific is really being misused here for dramatic effect.

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22FluffySquirrels@reddit

Go over to the MM sub for the updates on that situation. Apparently at least one woman recanted her statements against him and another one forged an FBI document.

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Diligent-Version8283@reddit

Damn wish he woulda just stuck with the SSA

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El-mas-puto-de-todos@reddit

Interesting, if dudes could suck their own weiner we'd still be in the dark ages. Nothing would get done. Not a diss on women at all, just pointing out us men would be more useless than we already are 😂

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

Idk about you but as much as I like getting my dick sucked, I'm not really into sucking dick.. I think I'd have to pass

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El-mas-puto-de-todos@reddit

You also probably don't like giving hand jobs but still jerk off, right? If the opportunity is there you may think about it differently 🤭

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OneSchott@reddit

What would you be doing?

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SporksRFun@reddit

It's more like sucking a dick than having your dick sucked. Two out of five stars. Wouldn't recommend.

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refusegone@reddit

sounds like a win win to me

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koalazeus@reddit

I guess I still gotta start the show.

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Heccubus79@reddit

I had ribs removed when I heard, now I feel so alone 😥

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AlanWattsCousin7@reddit

As a young black youth growing up in Texas with very little exposure to Marilyn Manson or his music, I too knew of his commitment to self fellatio.

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Distinct-Tea-7543@reddit

In my school it was that Paul from the TV's The Wonder Years (Josh Saviano) became Marilyn Manson. Pre-internet it was hard to know what was true.

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Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit

It's called an Urban Legend. Every generation has them.

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Apprehensive_Rice_85@reddit

Fact I heard here in Jr high in southern California growing up.

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Kiros66@reddit

Dude yes lol 😂 I remember that rumor

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Abject_Bottle59@reddit

Small town in the Midwest - less than 500 people. Yet, this was and still is a known fact.

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Makotroid@reddit

My best friend convinced me Matt Bellamy of Muse was completely blind and I blindly believed it for years.

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Virxen188@reddit

I heard about this back home in Puerto Rico. Thats crazy.

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pk1950@reddit

greatest accomplished was making us believe a naruto run would happen at area 51. biggest hoax

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dystopiadattopia@reddit

Much better than what happened to poor Richard Gere

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mastercelevrator@reddit

Newtown, PA junior high checking in. Can confirm

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lagent55@reddit

Wait, that wasnt true? Lol

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millenniumchode@reddit

HOLY FUCK

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ledheadification@reddit

In elementary we used to say that the actor who played Barney the Dinosaur died from smoking weed.

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RedMoondaddy@reddit

There was a.i.m tho so we did have that fuel

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Ordinary_Employer347@reddit

Anyone else hear that he was also the actor who played paul on the wonder years show?

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PantsFreeSince2003@reddit

I still vividly remember my best mate attempting to convince me of this rumour, lol. I'd literally just read his (Manson's) auto-bio, and he (my mate) earnestly tried to persuade me that Manson did this.
In a way, it made me respect Manson even more, by realising just how easily rumors and BS about him can be started and spread like wildfire - something he addresses several times in his writings.

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starscreamtoast@reddit

Bottom of the world NZ and this rumour was alive and well in the 90s and that he was the kid from The Wonder years

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Repulsive-Bus-8544@reddit

This is also true even in Spain 🤣🤣🤣 dont ask me how the rumour came here...

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anowulwithacandul@reddit

Oh my God we did 😭

Another regional rumor was that fitness infomercial guy John Basedow died in the 2005 tsunami

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Delicious_Pie5858@reddit

I remember this rumor from school in Bangladesh.

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redditnshitlikethat@reddit

Synchronicity

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Elvthe@reddit

I knew this for a fact in 90s in Poland. Everybody knew.

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eso_ashiru@reddit

You mean Paul from the Wonder Years?

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coffeeluver2021@reddit

Then how many guys tried it after hearing it was a possibility? 🙋🏻‍♂️

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External_Phrase_8184@reddit

I legit thought it was true, shows how gullible I was as a kid lol.

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gandazgul@reddit

I heard this in Cuba :)

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jay_screwz@reddit

Heard in san diego

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BluegrassDingus@reddit

It’s a fact. My best friend’s older brother told me…and there’s no disputing that source.

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HamHusky06@reddit

He was also Paul from the Wonder Years.

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cheeker_sutherland@reddit

Your best friends older brother was our Joe Rogan experience of the 90s.

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LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit

"Pull up that video of Marilyn Manson blowing himself, Jaime."

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Diligent_Whereas3134@reddit

I've never listened to a single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience and I still heard this in his voice

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BretShitmanFart69@reddit

puffs on pretzel stick like it’s a cigar my uncle totally works at Nintendo and he said there’s a new game coming out where you can actually go into the game and die in real life if you die in the game

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gnalon@reddit

Your best friend's older brother almost certainly heard it from some Howard Stern type of shock jock, so yes that was indeed the proto Joe Rogan experience of anti-PC type of humor.

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rick_blatchman@reddit

My uncle works at Nintendo so I get the secret boob games but you can't come over and play them.

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ambisinister_gecko@reddit

I heard the operation was shown on pay per view. But I heard that when I was young enough to still think it was paper view

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darcys_beard@reddit

Except Millenials didn't come up with that. We did.

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very_continental@reddit

That rumour made it all the way to my high school in South America. Also, that he was the kid in the Wonder Years

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Madrizzle1@reddit

This was a rehash of a Prince rumor

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suitablyuniquename@reddit

If I am remembering right the original rumor was about Gabriele D’Annunzio, the father of modern fascism.

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icor29@reddit

There was also definitely a schoolyard rhyme that claimed “Mussolini licked his weenie”.

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Chrosbord@reddit

I can confirm, I just finished listening to the series of Behind the Bastards on him. He is, as far as they could find, the earliest subject of this rumor.

Also responsible for the Nazi’s later use of the Roman salute. And for a brief period, the dictator of a small town in modern day Croatia. He was a wild historical figure.

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suitablyuniquename@reddit

That is where I heard it too. As terrible as he turned out it sounds like a hell of a party.

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Peanuts4Peanut@reddit

Which was a rehash of the Cher rumor.

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mess_of_limbs@reddit

Cher had ribs removed to duck her own dick?

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Peanuts4Peanut@reddit

To get her waist so tiny.

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logical_outcome@reddit

I'm sure when I was at school it was Michael Jackson

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dumblederp6@reddit

Rehash of a Bowie rumour.

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AwakenTheAegis@reddit

Wait, it’s not true?

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KingJeremytheWickedC@reddit

So true

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jtcordell2188@reddit

Wait this isn’t true? Damn 31 and I’m world has been shaken

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BIGdaddyYUKmouf@reddit

I remember this lol

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Hard-To-Convince@reddit

We in GA (U.S) are hearing this just now and are both appalled and perplexed.

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VanillaGorilla-420@reddit

I grew up in the UK and can confirm we all used to talk about this in elementary school circa 2000

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carrtmannn@reddit

Can confirm. Reached New Jersey.

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jimboberly@reddit

Was this rumor as big as "mountain dew shrinks your balls" ?

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BackgroundCaramel507@reddit

I heard that rumor in 🇰🇿 when i was growing up

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camowilson@reddit

Nowhere Kansas. Can confirm

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Some_Mongoose4624@reddit

This does in fact sound like a monumental achievement.

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BrilliantWhich990@reddit

Wait, I thought that was David Bowie in the 70s....

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meeseeksdestroy@reddit

Hahaha that shit spread far and wide. Hell I still think it might be true.

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Vintagemuse@reddit

Was this not factual information?!?

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Vintagemuse@reddit

This made me laugh out loud bc I remember

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nick4424@reddit

I grew up in a small country town in Australia and I heard this one

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Stinkbringer@reddit

I heard more about him being "Paul" from the Wonder Years.

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MowgeeCrone@reddit

What about the local legends? Did we all know of a kid who was seen in a paddock fucking sheep by the kids going past on the school bus? (No, I'm not talking about you, Aoteroans)

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MowgeeCrone@reddit

Small country town, buttfuck nowhere, Australia. Can confirm.

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ZiraPug27@reddit

This was bigger than the ghost boy in the scene from Three Men And A Baby.

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BootHeadToo@reddit

Wait…..he didn’t?!

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betterselfi@reddit

Dude, I was living in Africa and everyone there knew about this 😮

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FrostyIcePrincess@reddit

If it was anyone else I’d m say that has to be false.

But with Marilyn Manson you had to pause for a second and think about it. There’s a TEENY TINY chance that might actually be true.

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loupr738@reddit

Shit, I’m a millennial and that shit got all the way to High School in Puerto Rico. The whole weird eye no ribs was crazy. And then you get to see the dude and wholly shit, he looked scary

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Err_rrr_rrrr@reddit

Don’t forget that Ciera is a man

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uppercut962@reddit

Omg I remember this one

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whispering_pineapple@reddit

Covid spread without connecting to WiFi too

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Sulubezi@reddit

South African here. Can confirm we heard the rumour too.

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Substantial_Win8350@reddit

I went to high school in Japan on a military base in the 90’s, and we missed a lot of stuff from the States— but not this! This was common knowledge.

And Richard Gere puts gerbils or hamsters in his butt.

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Anxious-Snow-6613@reddit

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14yo me

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Astuar_Estuar@reddit

I grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. We also had that rumor and I had no idea who this Merlyn Manson was XD

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Liquid_machine81@reddit

Well, it's not gonna suck itself.

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SinistralLeanings@reddit

And the DRAMA between those who believed it and those who didn't, at least in small town Northern California, was WILD.

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Mammoth_Assistant_67@reddit

Gawd damn that rumor was crazy. 99-03 high school years. It was spoken amongst all the cliques (goth, rockers, gangstas)

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Unique-Ad-3693@reddit

Richard gear stuck gerbil's in his ass, no internet needed.

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Forsaken_Instance_18@reddit

In a remote town of the UK is was well known

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assimilated_Picard@reddit

I remember the rumor that Marilyn Manson was Paul Pfeiffer kid from The Wonder Years.

Anyone else ever hear that one?

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chorizo_chomper@reddit

This was a common rumour about prince years earlier when I was in school in the UK.

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Book-Faramir-Better@reddit

Damn, this is a fantastic point! Never thought of it like this. Lol

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Busy-Strawberry-587@reddit

....wait is that not true?

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Busy-Strawberry-587@reddit

....wait is that not true?

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SuperAd515@reddit

The good ole days! Irl rumors

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fool_on_a_hill@reddit

I just know some smug bastard out there knows he’s the one who made it up out of the blue lol.

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Icy_Aardvark9549@reddit

Another wild 'pre internet' conspiracy theory that went round, at schools mostly, was that Taurine in Red Bulls was bull spunk. Like raw bull spunk. 😤

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Clean-Witness8407@reddit

This was a warning sign that we didn’t heed. Now it’s misinformation all over the place.

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remnant_phoenix@reddit

Pre-internet memes are fucking fascinating.

What about those schoolyard songs?

“Miss Lucy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell…”

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Any-Video4464@reddit

That felt more like X to me. Eating tide pods comes to mind for me.

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theNerdyWarrior@reddit

Or Mew is under the truck by the ss anne.

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kennymo12@reddit

Was this before or after when everyone was saying that he was Paul from The Wonder Years?

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LausXY@reddit

Really shows how interconnected the world actually was before the internet was really popular. It would just take 1 cousin from another country you see and tell and they go and tell their school, repeat about a million times but eventually every kid in the world knew Marilyn Manson got his ribs cut out to suck his own dick.

I wonder who came up with it?

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surejan81@reddit

The most effective game of telephone ever lol

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TheVenusMarta@reddit

Change that to 70’s and Alice Cooper, and it’s still accurate.

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Fluffy-Expert6860@reddit

So he didn’t remove his ribs? I remember hearing this in elementary

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

I bet you still believe Daddy long legs can kill you but there mouthed are big enough to bite you. They aren’t poisonous at all. They don’t bite either at all.

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Fluffy-Expert6860@reddit

I remember that too

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No-Net-5880@reddit

Nah. He denied it himself.

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hastaknow@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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Difficult_Coconut164@reddit

That rumor spread everywhere....

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Tex-Rob@reddit

So sick of this stupid thing, and each and every time I will correct it. Just because you guys were busy being jocks and crap, doesn't mean there weren't BBS, IRC, Usenet, etc. It wasn't spread just by rumor, it was spread via BBS forums.

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Remarkable-Fox-3890@reddit

I don't think that changes things a ton. The reality is that this made it to my school and no one my age was on BBS or Usenet. The interesting thing is that at a time when global communication was *nothing close* to what it is today, rumors still could spread globally.

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NotUndercoverReddit@reddit

You think you were old enough that you heard and consciously knew her marilyn Manson was but nobody your age was on the internet on usenet or bbs dial up systems? Lets not for get aol chat. AiM or ICQ etc. Just because your parents didnt care or wanted a computer and all you did was play oregon trail in the library... lmao

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ruizach@reddit

I’m sorry school was such a hard time for you

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

I laughed hard af at this.

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morningsaystoidleon@reddit

Yeah what a weird hill to die on

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Notsurehowtoreact@reddit

I was going to say the same thing, albeit a little less aggressively, but even things like AOL existed and was more commonplace around 1995.

Maybe not how most people know it today, but the internet certainly existed then and was in wide enough use for it to spread shit like wildfire.

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toooldforthisshittt@reddit

Such a typical Redditor

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RunDNA@reddit

I first read the rumor on Usenet. Probably in alt.music.nin

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NotUndercoverReddit@reddit

Or the one about Limp Bizkit being named after a madlad homeorotic game of group wanking and disgusting culinary shame.

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ChasingKayla@reddit

Kind of heard this at my school, but it was about the lead singer of Tool instead of Marilyn Manson.

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Jennnnifur@reddit

Winona Ryder caught shoplifting

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Jennnnifur@reddit

Jean Claude Van Dam was a wife beater

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Jennnnifur@reddit

Richard Gere and a gerbil

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Frogs4@reddit

That rumour is decades older. Just the pop star changes. Same as the "stomach pumped for a gallon of sperm."

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kmr1981@reddit

The best part about this was that I did a lot of yoga in the early 2000’s, and each class had 2-3 guys who weren’t there to meet girls… they were suuuper focused on all the stretching and anything to increase flexibility.

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PissedPieGuy@reddit

That was nothing compared to Richard Geres ass gerbil.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

Which apparently was started in the 70s by Sylvester Stallone

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GrungeLord@reddit

I heard it was started by Richard Gere when he shoved a gerbil up his ass.

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lurkme@reddit

I read this in Norm MacDonald's voice.

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SaltyLonghorn@reddit

Didn't he spill something in his car or some shit to get that going?

Probably shoulda just sprung for the deluxe interior wash.

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AndTheMirrorSays@reddit

Oh, that’s not true?

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Zaphod1620@reddit

Or that Liz Claiborne was a Satan worshipper and said so on Oprah.

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notlykthis@reddit

Came here to say this👆

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pixelpheasant@reddit

Dude, the internet very much existed then.

It was majority AOL chatrooms and maybe that meant some schools had -0- kids w internet and some others, a handful, which still makes this an accomplishment no doubt, but it's not like paper fortune tellers and "circle circle, dot dot ..." organicness

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shicacadoodoo@reddit

Refinery towns of southeast Texas knew too

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MommaOats-1@reddit

Bahahahaha! I remember this. It's crazy how EVERYONE heard this rumor!

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edwardothegreatest@reddit

The Rod Stewart sucking off a football team was before that.

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101001101zero@reddit

To much chagrin of our computer teacher we managed to switch the win 95 startup logo to a Marilyn Manson bmp on all the lab computers

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nofolo@reddit

We also said he was Paul.from the wonder years show.

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Candldust@reddit

It was Jimi Hendrix before Marilyn Manson.

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jpopimpin777@reddit

I WANT TO BELIEVE.

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ASAP-Tiii@reddit

Can confirm I heard this in sixth or seventh grade

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viktorv4ughn@reddit

Ngl, in elementary school here in Brazil, this fact is well known.

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SheldonMF@reddit

I still believed it until about... 10 years ago. 😅

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ParkingFabulous4267@reddit

That’s a rumor

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ReverendSunshine@reddit

And for us older folks, it was Gene Simmons from KISS that did it.

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

I woulda just assumed his tounge was just long enough

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Useful-Strawberry833@reddit

Rural England. We too knew of this fact.

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LajosvH@reddit

Y’all need a rib removed? Skill issue

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

Length issue.

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Difficult_Bit_1339@reddit

I was doing my part

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Prossdog@reddit

The fact that this rumor was so ubiquitous without texting and social media is truly incredible. The closest thing we had was AOL instant messenger and that was only like 2 nerds in each class at the time.

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

We had lady Gaga had a penis and vagina. We half ass had social media but you didn’t talk about that shit on there this was word of mouth.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

In my high school (class of 98) it wasn’t even AIM. The handful of “nerds” using the internet were using ICQ

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fosterdad2017@reddit

Damn thats how I learned to type, ICQ conversations in the 90's.

I had the first DSL line installed in my county, and three men in suits showed up to witness the job. But the Manson story, that had to be a few years earlier. Sometime before my 14.4k external modem with a data cable you could slot a modern iPhone into. I'd say it went through my Midwest high school around 1997.

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canteen_boy@reddit

IIRC, AIM hadn’t become free at that point yet. You still needed to pay for AOL in order to keep your AIM screen name. A lot of people were starting to realize that paying for AOL was pretty pointless because there were much cheaper (or in a lot of cases, free) dial-up ISPs. Even my grandmother stopped paying for AOL once she found out she could dial in to the local college for free and use the internet with Netscape.

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FullyAdjustableFunk@reddit

I still remember my ICQ number. 6 digits!

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Norse_By_North_West@reddit

Same, I had a 900k number. Apparently they only finally shut down last july

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Peking-Cuck@reddit

Uh oh!

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FRESH_TWAAAATS@reddit

My class of 98 nerds were all on IRC. Not hip enough for something newfangled like ICQ

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jacox200@reddit

Nice try kids. That was Gen X or Xennials. You lads were still in diapers.

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Optimal-Draft8879@reddit

whats a xennial?

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jacox200@reddit

1977-1983. Not Gen X but not quite Millennials either. Kids that graduated High School around the turn of the century

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bikemandan@reddit

Marilyn Manson wasnt really a thing until at least the mid 90s right?

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CR8ONAKKUH@reddit

1994 is when his first album came out and that rumor hit almost immediately. I was 15 at the time and I heard the rumor from some older kids in my math class. No way that was started by some 11 year old millennial kid.

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Gecko23@reddit

It was a retread anyways, same rumor was going around about Prince before that. Pretty even that wasn't original.

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rigobueno@reddit

I’m pretty sure he created the rumor to go along with his “shock” persona

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beany2217@reddit

At the time of Manson’s first release median age for Gen X was 22. So hell yeah, let’s give this one to gen x! That is the generation known for eating lead paint chips and glue right?

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BataleonRider@reddit

You mean sticky wall candy?

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

high school

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ScanRatePass@reddit

You're all acting like you didn't just repeat what you heard in the radio.

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Salt_Hall9528@reddit

You know if your hands bigger then your face your…

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Greenking73@reddit

Now stop and think that those rumors matriculated down from the Highschools to the middle and primary schools.

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AntonCapac@reddit

It was well-known in southern France.

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ericcrowder@reddit

No he just forced Evan Rachel Wood to do that against her will

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I_Boomer@reddit

Richard Gere enters the chat.

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TheLordVader1978@reddit

Wait, He didn't?

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Sad_Picture3642@reddit

Middle schoolers in Russia also discussed this

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Locke2TerrasLhrt@reddit

I remember this rumor. It wasn't true?...lmao! They said the same thing about Maynard, but at least with him, I actually had respect for Maynard, so, I didn't believe it. Haha...

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Equivalent-Interest5@reddit

Just so people know I heard this back in India as well.

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sam-serif_@reddit

The ‘S’ is leading evidence for simulation theory

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thachumguzzla@reddit

The most harmful thing about that rumor is tricking young boys to have their ribs removed. When in reality it totally doesn’t work and leaves you with unprotected organs and a dry dick 😢

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DreadSocialistOrwell@reddit

You mean Paul from the Wonder Years?

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WesternResearcher376@reddit

I am from Brazil and even us talked about it!!!!!!

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Sensitive-Power-5615@reddit

Wait, are you telling me he didn't?

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KarateTid@reddit

27yo french here, can confirm.

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hoehandle@reddit

Rod Stewart cums to mind…

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Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat@reddit

Where I grew up it was Prince who did this.

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RunZombieBabe@reddit

....and he was the guy from "Wonder Years".

I totally believed it😂

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WholeCelebration2221@reddit

👏😂bahaha! I forgot about that

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

Good for us for doing the same thing that had been going on for a long time.

Remember Mikey and how his stomach blew up from drinking Coke while eating Pop Rocks? Or how every kid knows the words to Jingle Bells Batman Smells? Those all spread before the internet, too.

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RedMenaceProductions@reddit

I heard it at an American School in Warsaw Poland.

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PandasOnGiraffes@reddit

Wow! I heard this rumor from my best friend when I was maybe 12 or 13 in Palestine. Crazy how far and wide it spread!

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AffectionateStorm947@reddit

The joke's on you. There is no need to have your ribs removed for this maneuver.

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freefromthenegative@reddit

This is objectively true.

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QuailFabulous7625@reddit

Pretty sure that was gen X that did that bro

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KebertXela87@reddit

I was balls deep in the Midwest when I heard it. Today, I learned it's not true.

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MisterHyman@reddit

Or that guy who jizzed in the Rallys meat?

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BillyYumYum2x2@reddit

I grew up in a small town in rural Maine and I also remember this rumor.

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komtgoedjongen@reddit

I grew up in Poland and everybody in my school was spreading that rumor. Shit went worldwide

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ItsSpaghettiLee2112@reddit

You mean the guy who played Paul in The Wonder Years?

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ISSABABBO@reddit

Can confirm it somehow ended up in Australia too

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ParsleyMostly@reddit

That sort of stuff was our ice breakers. See a new kid on the playground, hanging out with out of town cousins, or vacationing somewhere else and playing with kids there. The exchange of urban legends, gossip, and swear words was how we greeted each other and vetted other kids to see if they were cool while simultaneously tried to appear cool ourselves. Cultural anthropologists will have a field day. It will be taught in universities.

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CauseSpecialist5026@reddit

Did any else have the rumour that he was Paul from the wonder years.

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Glad-Awareness-4013@reddit

Yes I lived it

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erino3120@reddit

What a grad school thesis topic

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NG_Adm@reddit

I'm from Chile and a i heard that rumour too

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Over_Intention8059@reddit

Acting like accessing bulletin boards from dial up wasn't a thing back then.

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Ilikethngsnstf@reddit

We knew, all of us, the entire school

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Ilikethngsnstf@reddit

It's true

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tolyro_@reddit

Wait… that’s not true? Lmao. TIL, at 33 years old, that Marilyn Manson did not remove his ribs to give himself what he wanted. Dang.

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whozyourdatty@reddit

Richard Gere and that gerbil

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_chillow@reddit

I was from a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in Minnesota and I heard this.

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joenan_the_barbarian@reddit

Wait, he didn’t?

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Galavanta@reddit

Wow so truly no experience is unique.

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swefree2001@reddit

It made it all the way to Sweden too!

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Traditional_Ice_1205@reddit

Gabriele D'Annunzio

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fmspp@reddit

Is it a rumor? Me and my friends thought it was real back in the day here in Brazil

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Venelice@reddit

Little city in south italy and we knew.

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Pikawoohoo@reddit

Bro I'm from South Africa and I heard this rumour

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EffectiveCompletez@reddit

The significance of this is what impressed me: that as a teenager in the 90s I knew someone that knew someone that knew someone in every corner of the globe. That's amazing.

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Capable-Mongoose-871@reddit

I took that as absolute fact too

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GreenHazeMan@reddit

Southern parts of Africa here. We heard the same thing in Primary School.

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Fugaduga69@reddit

I’m a gen X and we had the Rod Stewart got his stomach pumped because of all the semen he swallowed rumor

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Appropriate-Newt7335@reddit

I REMEMBER THIS! I don’t remember if I was living in FL or NH, but damn!

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Appropriate-Newt7335@reddit

Omfg I remember this!!!

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Offandonandoffagain@reddit

In the '80s, one rumour/legend, was that Gene Simmons had the muscles /tendons under his tongue cut to give him the long tongue. It was also attributed to his ability to spit blood. We were so dumb back then, not like now, with the internet, everyone knows truth from fiction. (/s in case it's necessary)

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popeyepaul@reddit

Having the tendons cut is a pretty common operation (I had it done and it took like 10 minutes) and it will give you more maneuverability with the tongue so this very plausible.

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Offandonandoffagain@reddit

If you don't mind sharing, was it medically necessary for some reason? Also, can you spit blood?

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Sckillgan@reddit

He was on the cover of some magazine too around that time. Hoses or some shit going from two guys mouths to his dick...

Maybe I am making this up. Don't really wanna google that.

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jp_trev@reddit

Wait, it’s not true? ITS NOT TRUE???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Voldemorts_Mom@reddit

Bro I literally heard that rumour in my South African highschool

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Dubjbious@reddit

As a gen x I can claim the same roomervabout Michael Jackson and prince.

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EllessdeeOG@reddit

Confirming this rumour made it to the UK

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Comfortable_Act_7577@reddit

I heard about it being a studeb in Russian small town in 98-99

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TheHawthorne@reddit

North England here, same rumours in our school. How strange.

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ExtremeTax5376@reddit

I’ve heard it and believed it too 😂 (Denmark, Europe)

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Excellent-Ad-3186@reddit

Romania!🫡

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maple_crowtoast@reddit

N. Texas and SW MO...true in both!

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Ancient_Bonus2395@reddit

Here in mexico was a huge rumor

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wedloxk@reddit

She did, right?

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virindimaster@reddit

In the 80’s here in the UK, we had the same rumour but it was Prince not Marilyn Manson that was the subject of the rumour.

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Evening-Platypus-259@reddit

In northern sweden i too heard of this

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Optimal-Draft8879@reddit

dude you heard about that too!?!!?

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ultraclutch9@reddit

North Attleboro Massachusetts growing up was a rumor up here late 90s early 2000s somewhere around there same time him and Eminem were getting in trouble for school violence

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stormdahl@reddit

Wait, so he didn’t actually?

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A_World_Divided@reddit

We heard about it in Serbia in the early 2000s

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nylons_cape@reddit

Anyone else remember spending hours perfecting the art of the burned CD mix for your crush?

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Lanky_Flamingo_221@reddit

Wow, we talked about it in French school aswell

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JoeiiJames@reddit

Wait? That wasn’t true?!

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Fragrant-Celery6455@reddit

I'm from chile and this happen here too.

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IcyPhilosopher2002@reddit

City in norway with 7000 people, we heard it😂

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Nirixian@reddit

Was definitely through the use of internet...cod 4 lobbies

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xdrynjolfx@reddit

Bro that shits still going around , whoever spread that shit prolly has a crown on all the time

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xdrynjolfx@reddit

Bro that shits still going around , whoever spread that shit prolly has a crown on all the time

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gujwdhufj_ijjpo@reddit

This isn’t the only rumor like this. Another one from the 70s was that pop rocks and soda together would kill you. That rumor almost put pop rocks out of business.

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Kevnmur@reddit

80s kids heard that one about other artists

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liltinyoranges@reddit

Yeah, ok, but that rumor was way more prominently spread about Cher the same way, long before Marilyn Manson. Yall really think you were the first ones to do anything lolllll

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AltamiroMi@reddit

Wait what? I live in the very south of Brazil and I heard that from s colleague.

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de_sasterous@reddit

We heard this in my city in South Australia in the 90s 😂

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Much_Progress_4745@reddit

I believed it and held no judgement.

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menudo_fan@reddit

In the 70s we had Mikey from the Life Cereal commercial dying from eating Pop Rocks and Coke

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No_Quantity_2741@reddit

Paul Pfifer could suck himself off.

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Ok-Student-5345@reddit

Toronto Canada here. Yup, definitely heard this shit as a kid.

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-SheriffofNottingham@reddit

I got two extra ribs put in to make it more of a challenge

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RottenDelicious@reddit

London too

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MartianoutofOrder@reddit

German here, I can confirm. But I think it was after 2000 I heard it the first time

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stoptheboatsuk@reddit

I knew about this in the UK at an age of about 6

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Visible-Fruit-7130@reddit

As Millennials in the '90's

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Notacutefemboygamer@reddit

My wife grew up in Kazakhstan and she heard this rumour

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SomeDeviantDanish@reddit

I lived in a small town in Denmark, and even i heard that rumor.

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VirtualSafety3062@reddit

the Netherlands too

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alldaydumbfuck@reddit

Even here in Germany the whole school "knew" about Marilyn Mansons operated ribcage

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ShitJustGotRealAgain@reddit

German here. I heard that too. And the wonder years thing.

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ElementNumber6@reddit

That rumor was 100% internet-assisted. You're probably just one of the ones who didn't know how to use it yet.

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LordADKellner1992@reddit

As a teenage boy in Germany at the time I knew of this truth and proudly told my mom

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Cevisi@reddit

It even reached to german highschool's

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PanchosLegend@reddit

Wait, he didn’t do that?

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Dawn_Of_The_Dave@reddit

We had the same rumour about prince in the 80's.

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missmiia212@reddit

I want to deny that but as someone who grew up in the Philippines I too have heard the rumours... as well as the demonic ritual sacrifices thing.

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zethololo@reddit

Moscow, Russia, we all heard it in middle school

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Useful_Speech8448@reddit

To realize how big this rummor got. I live in FUCKING ROMANIA and we shared that information like hot water in middle school 😆

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Complex-Tradition368@reddit

TBF Gen X made the same rumour about Prince a decade earlier

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DadooDragoon@reddit

Ours was Ron Jeremy and his spine, but the sentiment is the same

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Plastic_on_Mars@reddit

Xennial here… it was Prince in my day

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wjb943@reddit

It got to us in Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Relative_Walk_936@reddit

And he played Paul in the Wonder Years.

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ArcticPangolin@reddit

It also made it to a small city within the arctic circle.

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onsinsandneedles@reddit

He was also the kid with glasses in The Wonder Years.

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CzarKong@reddit

It is known.

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ridiculusvermiculous@reddit

With all the comments here confirming the same, this sounds more like part of the "act's" marketing to drum up buzz. Certainly would fit his look

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danch-89@reddit

You might not even understand how far it went. I live in a somewhat small country in Europe, and we were telling that shit too.

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duck7001@reddit

Also this

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potato_v_potato@reddit

Made it to Australia. I think I heard it around 96/97

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scots@reddit

Ask your parents, in the 80s not two days after Slippery When Wet was released, every high school in America was buzzing with the (false) rumor that Jon Bon Jovi had AIDs.

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capman511@reddit

I went to high school in Milnerton in Cape Town and we had this rumour, it was spread in 1996 I think

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Key-Upstairs-5594@reddit

the rumor about Ciara having a dick was also legendary

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SokkaHaikuBot@reddit

^Sokka-Haiku ^by ^Key-Upstairs-5594:

The rumor about

Ciara having a dick was

Also legendary

^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

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Spayse_Case@reddit

We had internet though, I first saw this in a chatroom

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Unlikely_Nothing6132@reddit

That was a rumor…oh shit

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rileyoneill@reddit

I didn't have cable TV growing up, so no MTV, and Marylin Manson was not played on the radio, so I didn't hear his music until long after hearing this rumor. I remember some kids in middle school (1996-1998) were huge fans of his and this would often come up. I wish someone could study how this rumor spread, because Antichrist Superstar came out in late 1996, and I never heard of him prior to that, but by 1997, the rib removal rumor was in full force.

I always figured that it had something to do with kids who traveled a lot or something like it spread in some summer camps where kids from several dozen schools all heard it and then took back to their home schools. Or something like kids in military families where they travel around a lot but then would meet up with their family members on holidays who go to regular schools.

This is up there with the Jingle Bells Batman Smells meme. No one has any idea where it came from but every kid knew some version of it.

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Desperate-Finance516@reddit

Even in Puerto Rico lmfaooooo

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Soft_Author2593@reddit

I was there

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FakeUsername1942@reddit

Bahahahahaha OMG - 100% happened in my school !

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im_not_a_dude@reddit

I heard that rumor at my tiny rural primary school at the bottom of New Zealand

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accountsdontmatter@reddit

I grew up before MM was around. Same rumour - Ozzy.

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eYeS_0N1Y@reddit

Hive mind

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Zealousideal_Meat297@reddit

We're all stars now, IN THE DOPE SHOW.

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TrickyVonSlicky@reddit

Hit London too...

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Luna_bella96@reddit

I grew up in a small town in South Africa and even I heard this rumour back in primary school in the late 2000s. We had internet, but the access was limited and slow

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littlepiskie@reddit

I was in the Philippines and heard this, too!

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Swayzeebaby@reddit

As I stroll through the comments in a city in NC, I too heard and STILL believe lol this rumor. However, the question that boggles my mind. Who was the kid that started it? They created a slice of Americana, and that's legendary.

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TheJDudeAbides94@reddit

South Georgia u.s. heard it, my wife is from Massachusetts and she remembers hearing it lol

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Calm_Somewhere_9317@reddit

Milwaukee ! We gossiped about it. Absolutely

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Thefdt@reddit

It made it across the pond, same rumour in the uk

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microwavecoven@reddit

Gen X had this for Prince in the 80s, sorry guys

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kresh89@reddit

I lived in a small town in Sweden and I also heard about that rumir.

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Glum_Noise3914@reddit

Its true, it made its way to Germany as well. All of us knew that story.

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Repulsive-Hat-5907@reddit

Poland, here;)

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Dylanslay@reddit

Fucking christ we had the Internet in the 90s.

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horsesmadeofconcrete@reddit

I mean there was internet… Richard Gere and the Gerbil… that’s predates the internet

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PacoDenero22@reddit

WTF? Is this not true?!?

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Shadow969@reddit

This was known all over Germany as well 🇩🇪

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Slappfisk1@reddit

I literally heard this in Norway in school.

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osckr@reddit

Can confirm this from Eastern Europe

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Wibbigu@reddit

Dude I went to school in Turkey and I also heard about it.

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Mundane-Agent-1544@reddit

This is the proof that we all can love one another despite our differences... Language and culture is no barrier to a word of mouth rumor of sucking ones one cock.

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Jumpy_Fish333@reddit

Also remember the rumour that Marilyn Manson was Paul from The Wonder Years

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tunaandthefishgang@reddit

Damn this one’s a banger. What a memory!

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big-titty-serpent@reddit

I knew exactly where this tweet was going before I even finished reading it lmao

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miguelag08@reddit

Classic…. I remember this 😂

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realchrisgunter@reddit

That and that Paul from the wonder years was actually Manson.

Another one was that Surge and Mountain Dew shrunk your dick lol.

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Someguywhomakething@reddit

Longest game of Telephone and the original message wasn't lost.

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rickynopting@reddit

I thought that was legit....

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HousePoor420@reddit

How about yellow 5 shrinks your dick? Anyone else heard that rumor?

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Mysaladistoospicy@reddit

It’s true

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MonkeyBucket1@reddit

It's the truth.

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dlivesenator@reddit

Gen X did this 10 years earlier with the Richard Gere gerbil rumor.

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Western-Plankton-244@reddit

Wait. Is it a rumor? Asking from Brazil 😂

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hiremeimbroke@reddit

Ngl seemed like a great idea to me at the time

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queenquirk@reddit

I didn't hear this rumor until middle school.

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yummie4mytummie@reddit

Do you know, this rumour….made it to Australia

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used_to_island@reddit

At my school it was the lead singer of Tool JMK

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NotYourTypicalMoth@reddit

I didn’t know anything about Marilyn Manson. I didn’t know what he looked like, any of his songs, or even that he was a singer. The only thing I “knew” was that his ribs were removed for the sake of giving blowjobs to himself.

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orbanpainter@reddit

Haha somehow i heard that in Hungary when i was a kid. Good job guyz.

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tinzor@reddit

Here to confirm this rumour was present in 90s elementary schools in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Superb-Switch334@reddit

Grew up in Brazil and i can confirm it got to us there as well

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HangingDuck@reddit

Studied in a school on a hill in India. Heard it there too.

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muffinmamners@reddit

I don't think anti-rock propaganda created and pushed by the American Family Association Journal, a conservative christian group is an accomplishment of any kind, let alone the best of a generation.

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dudeofsomewhere@reddit

I vaguely remember this one. Here are some even more whacked out ones if you could imagine from my neck of the woods during that time: Trent Reznor got 'service' one time from MM in the back seat of a limo and then there was the rare gem spread in my area involving Trent yet again that he and Billie Corgan were responsible for Kurt Cobain's death so they could rise to the top of 90s rock royalty over Nirvana. Please make my day and tell me you remember at least one of these. Or not!

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alf_ivanhoe@reddit

I remember this one from elementary school for sure, I went to a Baptist school and we even knew that one

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3kidsnomoney---@reddit

This one was 'common knowledge' in Canada too. It crossed borders!

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Alternative_Key_1313@reddit

That was only a rumor???

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Mundane_Smell_5820@reddit

I remember hearing this one growing up in the early 2000s. Brings me back.

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unknowner1@reddit

Just because i havent seen it yet, someone started a rumor in 5th grade that Zack Morris died in a motorcycle accident crash and multiple girls were in tears

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ascisco_27@reddit

I'm from Argentina and I'm a 100% I heard it when I was in school, early 00'

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VanArchie@reddit

Wait, it was only a rumor..?

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Rizzkey_Rascal@reddit

This had to be some US government experiment to measure information dissemination in different countries or something

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mattidee@reddit

I'm 46, it wasn't a millenial thing.

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andytdesigns1@reddit

Was after he finished Wonder Years as Paul for sure

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annoyas@reddit

Cute. I remember we had one where some singer I can't even remember shoved a gerbil up his ass. But couldn't get it out.

Good times.

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KooKooCrazyCarbide@reddit

sad that the kiddos of the future won't know D:

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zorbacles@reddit

And that he was the dude from Wonder years

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Financial_Chemist286@reddit

Lest we forget about the lil bow wow rumor.

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freehi_5@reddit

Wow. Never thought about this and just wow. So real.

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jhguitarfreak@reddit

I wanna know what makes people think the internet didn't exist in the 1990s when it's been around since the 1980s.
Sure, it wasn't as popular, but it existed and rumors like this were like the bread and butter of the internet even in those days.

You can go onto Google Groups right now and pull up results from the mid-90s of this very fucking rumor.

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.marilyn-manson/search?q=ribs%20after%3A1980-01-01%20before%3A1997-01-01

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Dartmouthest@reddit

East Coast of mainland Canada knew about this autofellator too

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PublicCraft3114@reddit

IRC was involved.

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EconomyCorgi727@reddit

This made to Estonia too.

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Knish_witch@reddit

My friends and I heard a rumor that he was going to kill himself on stage at Halloween at a show in, if memory serves, Asbury Park, NJ. I don’t know why we felt that we absolutely had to be there?!?! We were little NYC gothy spooky children (I had just turned 16) and one of my friends was really REALLY rich. We hired a DRIVER to take us. We didn’t back to the city until like 2 in the morning. My friend basically had her own apartment (her mom’s apartment was so huge that she had her own entrance) so I didn’t think we’d get caught but her doorman told on us. No one cared but my mom who was REALLY PISSED. And she was right, what the fuck were we doing?!?!

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Churk-Olso@reddit

Also, if you turn the lights off in the bathroom and spin around three times whilst saying bloody Mary three times.....

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awesomeness6000@reddit

wtf its not true?

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fox-recon@reddit

I'd never thought about it before the rumor. Then found out ribs aren't the limiting factor.

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Winky95@reddit

Wait… this is true? 🥺

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Winter_Piccolo_9901@reddit

Yup, it definitely is.

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Garbage-Plate-585@reddit

Compuserve and QuantumLink(AOL) existed in the 80's

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Crazy_Response_9009@reddit

I forget who supposedly did that in the '80s, but yeah, a version of that story was kicking around for a long time. "Rod Stewart got his stomach pumped from blowing so many guys" was probably our most prurient urban legend.

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No-Purchase-5930@reddit

True, but how many of us considered the procedure? LOL. Guilty here BTW. Unfortunately it would have rendered prisoner to my bedroom.

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Due_Bumblebee6061@reddit

I mean Gen X had everyone convinced Richard Gere shoved gerbils up his butt. I’m pretty sure ppl still believe it. lol

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Altruistic-Tank4585@reddit

Is it just a rumor? I guess I never really knew

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HeavenlyMusings@reddit

i remember playing kick ball at recess and hearing about it 😂

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ConfidentChipmunk007@reddit

There’s nothing we can’t do

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baudman@reddit

Heard this in high school in Nanty Glo Pennsylvania. 🤣

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Both-Invite-8857@reddit

Us 80's kids had the Richard Gere one. 70's kids had Rod Stewart.

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AmonRaDawg@reddit

Northern Illinois. Town of only 35k. This was also rampant and well known.

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pizzaschmizza39@reddit

That rumor totally hit me when living in South Carolina in the 90s. I can confirm lol

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SissyWhiteBNWO@reddit

They said the same thing about Ron jeremy

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Meep4000@reddit

This was Gen Z.

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jamhair@reddit

I forgot this until now 😂💀 I’m fucking dying rn

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lellenn@reddit

I think Gen X started it! You’re welcome!

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Brilliant-Book-503@reddit

It was mostly analog, but we had the internet. I was using AOL chatrooms in the early 90s, Manson wasn't that widely known until the mid-late 90s. Sure we didn't have the kind of social media that spread shit to everyone and their grandma instantly, but I'm guessing the internet played some role in the widespread nature of this particular rumor.

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Ok-Brush5346@reddit

https://youtu.be/5JzfKiGJ5jE?si=kb7rKoYgEt3E8JUt

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Saucey_Lips@reddit

Hug, TIL this was a rumor

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cavortingwebeasties@reddit

You mean Paul from the Wonder Years? No way!

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BadLuckEddie@reddit

Little town in WV and this was gospel

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TheManicProgrammer@reddit

I can confirm the rumour was wild and alive here in the UK too

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SimonOfOoo@reddit

Well, he does suck

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klv3vb@reddit

I lol’d

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radium-v@reddit

u/Global-Bumblebee-765 is a repost bot

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/comments/18arh4u/it_is_known/

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Ryan_D_Lion@reddit

Nah we had internet then

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cursivelie@reddit

Ahh yess that was a fateful spring day in 3rd grade when my friend told me the tale.

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GreenGuidance420@reddit

We also thought bears hibernating meant bears sleeping the entirety of the winter without getting up to eat or use the restroom

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Soggy_Porpoise@reddit

How weird of a world view. Even adults were talking about that one. This tweet always comes up attributing it to millennials but Gen x was in high schools at the time in their music scene phases. I'm sure it started as a pr stunt.

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brandonspade17@reddit

Or the Alanis Morissette stage drinking rumor. Wtf is wrong with us..lol

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Theperfectool@reddit

I appreciate how this one comes around like, annually or semiannually. Nice repost op.

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DelBocaVistaRealtor-@reddit

Gen X’s Richard Gere and his hamster has entered the chat.

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Eeeeeeeeehwhatsup@reddit

Wow, I remember that. And that he was Paul from the Wonder Years 😅

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Jefferyd32@reddit

Is this not true? It must be.

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riding_writer@reddit

Brian is the biggest asshole and is nothing like his onstage persona.

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Bman0491@reddit

Him and Tom Delonge if I recall correctly.

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colmcmittens@reddit

I’m not convinced he didn’t start this rumor himself

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FreeIreland2024@reddit

Small town in Vermont, heard it there first

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concretecat@reddit

Northern Saskatchewan, yes we had it here too! So weird.

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dr_zivox@reddit

Sometimes I just think existence is only suffering, but then I read things like this and let out a happy chuckle of fun, acceptance and gratefulness.

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mahzian@reddit

Can confirm this was a thing even way over here in Australia.

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Off-BroadwayJoe@reddit

How about spreading the word that those fuzzy creatures on Return of the Jedi were Ewoks. Never mentioned once in the movie…

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Fancykiddens@reddit

I bet he started that rumor...

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fhughes642@reddit

Hilarious!

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No-Manner2949@reddit

Wasn't he also the friend in the wonder years?

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Kent-1980@reddit

From Toronto - can confirm I heard this rumour.

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ChiBurbABDL@reddit

Lol I remember hearing that one back in 8th grade.

Believed it for a couple years... until I found out that you don't actually need your ribs removed to accomplish that.

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StudioGangster1@reddit

“Found out”?

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ChiBurbABDL@reddit

You know exactly what i mean

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Total_Guard2405@reddit

In the 70s the rumor was Alice Cooper crapped on stage then ate it.

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StudioGangster1@reddit

Did he not?

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ChildOfChimps@reddit

I just want to point out that this rumor was spurred on by homophobia. Manson’s early image was very sexual and a part of that was the cross dressing and a bit of gayness. Every homophobic kid in school back then hated Manson and called him gay slur available. This rumor was part of that.

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mac194959@reddit

Thought that was micheal jackson

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StudioGangster1@reddit

No, Michael Jackson sucked little - oh, nevermind.

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jxm_199@reddit

My rumor was; Cal Ripken won the record for most consecutive games played in MLB, one evening the lights went out at Camden yards preventing the game from being played. The rumor is that Cal Ripken caught Kevin Costner banging his wife so they got into a brawl and Cal was unable to play the game.

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Eredin-Breac@reddit

Iam from Hungary. And even we heard that rumor lol

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fucklehead@reddit

Thank satan I was in High School and not Elementary. That would have been an odd rumor to hear in the sand box.

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StudioGangster1@reddit

Also, Alanis Morrisette had to have her stomach pumped because it was full of Dave Coulier’s semen. Heard that from a senior when I was a freshman, so it was definitely true.

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Substantial-Crazy-72@reddit

Alaska.... Checking in too. How the hell??? And why?

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TheDogerus@reddit

This was a rumor in my middle school in the 2010s you guys did good

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Hrtpplhrtppl@reddit

Does anyone else remember what he said when asked if he could say something to the columbine shooters what he would say to them? He said, "I wouldn't say anything, I'd listen..." Same time I guess must have just been a rumor I heard those dudes were bullied for being gay.

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bonerb0ys@reddit

He did. I'll die on this hill.

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jschmalfuss@reddit

I'll never not believe he did this

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rigobueno@reddit

I don’t believe it, because I know for a fact it’s possible to do without removing ribs, I’ve seen plenty of videos

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GrungeLord@reddit

Plenty

🤨

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Brightness_Nynaeve@reddit

It totally sounds like something he would do, hence why it spread so far and wide.

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HilariousMax@reddit

When I was told of the Manson one, they brought up Ozzy biting the head off a bat (or some kind of bird) as a "those rockers are crazy" kind of thing so I 100% believed it.

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Brightness_Nynaeve@reddit

Did he not??? I swear I saw some sort of biography and Ozzy admitted it? Manson will never admit anything one way or another.

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HilariousMax@reddit

Yeah my understanding is that Ozzy had a bit where as part of the show he'd bite the head off a fake animal (typically a fake bat) and during a concert here in the US someone mid-show tossed him a real bat (or dove) and he didn't know until he'd done the thing.

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Brightness_Nynaeve@reddit

Yeah that’s ringing some bells now

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Umarill@reddit

You just need some yoga to do it, no need to remove ribs.

Source : me doing yoga

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bonerb0ys@reddit

Are you blowing yourself?

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martinslot@reddit

Technically speaking, if you remove the low set of ribs your lungs would collapse and you would die but if you do it with your butt in the air, you could grab the penis in the downfall and in theory, you have done what asked. I think it sound very Manson-like. Maybe an extra track on Holly Wood.

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Synpharia@reddit

Good i so remember this EXACT scenario!!!! And everyone believing it for so long!

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Dead_Man_Redditing@reddit

Nah, it was way more impressive that some how every school and student was convinced that soda tabs were made from special metals that would be worth enough to save everyone with kidney issues, decades earlier.

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Bosstis@reddit

Someone please give an explanation for how this happened.

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billiarddaddy@reddit

Some people still believe it

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phillysleuther@reddit

400 girls that I went to school with in Philadelphia knew of this. This girl named Lisa told it to me in homeroom junior year.

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cawcawfuckimdead@reddit

I don't think anyone ever told me this I think I was just born with this knowledge as a goth wierdo

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coachstevethicknwarm@reddit

pffft Richard Gere and the gerbil.

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Delicious-Skill-617@reddit

What about Richard Gere?

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MurkyProtection1067@reddit

Oh my god 🤣 I remember this!

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Captain_So_Close@reddit

Grew up in a small town of 1100 in north texas and I too heard this!

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Final-Intention5407@reddit

lol I forgot abt this !

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Ok_Record_563@reddit

I remember that

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Dcroig@reddit

Also Lil Kim.

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Beneficial-Ad-6956@reddit

I heard this and I’m from turkey

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superfractor@reddit

Also that yellow 5 shrinks your dick. So many people didn't drink Mountain Dew for years.

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designgrl@reddit

Was definitely a thing in Tennessee.

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AmmoJoee@reddit

Made its way to private school in NYC

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MKatieUltra@reddit

I heard Ronald McDonald removed the McRib so he could suck his own dick.

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OuchMyVagSak@reddit

I heard he replaced the bottom two with glass. Never made much sense to me as a kid.

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swantonist@reddit

I thought Kel was dead until my late 20s

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NickFotiu@reddit

Gen X here. That's a great one.

We had the rumor that Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped because he had swallowed so much sement after sucking a lot of dicks (seriously).

That Bubble Yum gum contained spider eggs.

And that the child actor from the Life Cereal commercials died from a combination of Pop Rocks and Coca Cola (apparently his stomach exploded). Good times.

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BigDonMega10@reddit

UK middle schools heard it too

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Turbulent_Funny_1632@reddit

And that S thing

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skankhunt2121@reddit

Grew up in Switzerland and heard this one

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wheresthehash@reddit

damn that’s insane. i’m 26 i remember hearing about this in elementary/middle school in northside georgia. crazy.

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catnip_sandwich@reddit

To this day nobody even knows if it’s true 🤣

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Coccquaman@reddit

What was a winner for me was every school had the written official rules of Four Square we learned in gym class, and then the special throws and such that were word of mouth around the school.

There was some overlap, but no school had all the same special throws. Watermelon. Cherry bomb. Lemon drop. Etc.

But, the named special throws were all the same action, and named the same thing.

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DeeSt11@reddit

It wasn't true? 🤣

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Due_Sand_8885@reddit

Just copying the boomers: Rod Stewart needed to get stomach pumped and Richard Gere's gerbil.

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thelivinlegend@reddit

And nobody knew what that fucking “S” thing was

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gold__blooded@reddit

We had the hip hop version as well.

Lil Kim had to go to the hospital to get her stomach pumped…

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Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit

That one was originally Rod Stewart I believe. Lots of different variations but they all seem to be musicians for some reason.

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YourALooserTo@reddit

Yep,Jon Bon Jovi was the one I heard.

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Cardiff-Giant11@reddit

yup and apparently it was started by a disgruntled fired publicist

https://www.thewrap.com/rod-stewart-addresses-stomach-pump-story-you-never-thought-hed-ever-address-ever-62366/

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RGBGiraffe@reddit

Hahah, for some reason this is a core memory for me. Some girl in my 8th grade art class pulls out the brush from a bottle of rubber cement and goes "this is what the inside of Lil Kim's stomach was like"

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Character-Solution-7@reddit

Considering all of the P Diddy debauchery, the Lil Kim version is an actual possibility in retrospect

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ambisinister_gecko@reddit

And that's how lil pump was born

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Not_Cartmans_Mom@reddit

Also our "Jamie Lee Curtis was born with a penis" was Cassie, and then Lady Gaga after that.

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black_flag_4ever@reddit

Memory unlocked.

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roncopenhaver13@reddit

It was one of the NKOTB years before that

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Gourmeebar@reddit

Oh my god. I’ve never heard a Marilyn manson song, but yes I knew that he was really into himself. Not a Google in site.

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Philly_3D@reddit

Idk.. I think the hot dog girl might have reached more people and definitely ruined more lives.

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Gecko23@reddit

This one escalated to someone leaving a pack of Oscar Meyer wieners' on a girl's desk in middle school. The school, and her parents, were not amused.

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Philly_3D@reddit

Years later, I was blown away when I found out that pretty much everyone had this girl in their school.

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Appropriate_Car2462@reddit

I didn't even know who Marilyn Manson was when I first heard this rumor but I believed it 100%

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DistinctTeaching9976@reddit

Lies - we spread this by code using pagers in the 90s.

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YourWifeIsBunny@reddit

I was homeschooled and we talked about this at church.

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jbirdbath@reddit

Farmington, Michigan - can confirm

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Awkward_Attitude_886@reddit

Yeah, no. One kid had the internet and that’s exactly how it spread. It just wasn’t well documented

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quijibo2020@reddit

MM was also the boy from Mr. BELVEDERE.

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Beautiful-Bug-9022@reddit

I thought that was Maynard James Keenan that did that lol

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karangoswamikenz@reddit

Indian here. Somehow this was spread in my high school in India too

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mjf829@reddit

Hear this as a kid in the 90s growing up in NY.

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Powerful_Direction_8@reddit

So it's a very low bar

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WendySteeplechase@reddit

In the 1980s we were saying that about RuPaul

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madmedic22@reddit

They said it about David Lee Roth, too

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No_Bodybuilder1632@reddit

In our elementary it was Michael Jackson. Late 80s.

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maryelizabeth_@reddit

I’m so proud of us for this one.

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fabrictm@reddit

Oh wow I remember that rumor, only late hs/early college for me lol (76 baby)

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jim_jiminy@reddit

In the 80’s in the uk the rumour was it was prince that had done this.

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No_Bodybuilder1632@reddit

In the late 80s, in Alberta, Canada, it was Michael Jackson.

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notchoosingone@reddit

Same in Australia in the 80s.

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t3khole@reddit

I remember this, but it was Michael Jackson.

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parkavenueWHORE@reddit

Grew up in a tiny coastal town in Sweden. Everyone knew of Marilyn Manson's ribs 😂

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Different_Brother562@reddit

It was also spread that it was the friend from The Wonder Years lol

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carvajaloso@reddit

This got to Costa Rica, so it was international, can't believe it.

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Rickblood23@reddit

Can confirm for DR too. This shit really was a pioneer meme

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cheesecheeseonbread@reddit

Agreed

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sKuarecircle@reddit

This was a thing in South Africa as well. Truly phenomenal.

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yashua1992@reddit

I am from Greece and it made it there too. Same with Jimi Hendrix and the whole LSD in the bandana shit.

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nails_for_breakfast@reddit

That and the missingno cheat in pokemon red and blue

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forogtten_taco@reddit

I didn't even know who that person was, expect for the rib dick thing. Still don't know who it is

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Smedfoker@reddit

I call your millennial rib and raise you a boomer mud shark.

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bundyratbagpuss@reddit

We heard it all the way over in Dubai too.

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Shpadoinkall@reddit

Paul from The Wonder Years would never do such a thing.

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JonathonWally@reddit

Why do people keep repeating this bullshit? Dial-up modems with AOL and Prodigy chat rooms and BBS services existed.

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sqlphilosopher@reddit

Why do people keep repeating this bullshit? Dial-up modems with AOL and Prodigy chat rooms and BBS services existed

Which were used only by a handful of people. I heard about this rumor back in 1999 touching grass and playing outside with my friends. In the world, the internet barely started to become popular among masses starting in 1995, and my country at least, it wasn't until 2002.

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Asleep-Astronomer389@reddit

I’m sorry no. That’s GenX.

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sqlphilosopher@reddit

You were toddlers or weren't even born lol I first heard about this in 1999.

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SharMarali@reddit

I was about 15 when I first heard this, and I’m technically a baby Gen X (born 1980). My boyfriend (1981) is technically an elder millennial. He heard it too, and I’m sure people a few years younger than him. It was definitely going around in 1995, and I’m sure it probably went around for a couple of years at least.

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Pinkleton@reddit

I remember hearing it right around when Antichrist Superstar was released, so 95/96.

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SlimJim0877@reddit

No way, this rumor started in the mid-late 90s.

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ShoulderPainCure@reddit

What about Richard Gere and the gerbils??!!

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Kranke@reddit

Made it it way to Sweden

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IRollAlong@reddit

It definitely unseated Gen X's hoax that Richard Gere shoves gerbils up his ass. That one really got legs man 😂🤣😂

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GWCS300@reddit

It is kinda insane how every young kid knew about this, I’m really curious if theres more to the story about how this rumour came about and spread

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imdieting@reddit

This was def the government testing something.

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newusernametomorrow@reddit

People still believe this.

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sqlphilosopher@reddit

This was a worldwide phenomenon. It even reached my shit-hole forgotten country.

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Flowbeat@reddit

This definitely made it to my southern California school. Everyone knew

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GlenBaileyWalker@reddit

They beat us to it in the 70s with Alice Cooper.

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RantMannequin@reddit

And blowing on Nintendo cartridges

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H3lls_B3ll3@reddit

Hahahaha! This was later for me, but yet.

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Kratomite247@reddit

Bro this

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AssignmentFar1038@reddit

There was also the one about Alanis Morisette blowing an entire football team and then having to go to the hospital to have her stomach pumped.

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dreamobscene29@reddit

Hello, I can vouch for the fact that this made its way to UK schools. Sincerely, 90s kid.

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jralll234@reddit

How bout everyone in every school across the country knew a girl that had to be hospitalized with a broken off piece of frozen hotdog up inside her?

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Butwhatshereismine@reddit

Thats just a rehashed Prince rumour.

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MaintenanceFamous679@reddit

Gen X had the ‘Mikey likes it’s kid from the Life cereal ads dying from a lethal combo of Pop Rocks and soda.

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MerrittWeverFanClub@reddit

How did that happen? How did we do that? That and the S remain the biggest mysteries to me.

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Octyss@reddit

I'm from France and was in a cathholic dchool and I hear that rumor too

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SplakyD@reddit

This ends up being a good segue because I was honestly thinking about making a separate post about this, but do y'all remember hearing a rumor back then that Stephanie from Full House had died? Supposedly, she'd been decapitated during a car wreck. I swear I even vaguely remember a little blurb in the newspaper acknowledging that rumor had spread across the country among school kids and either the show's producers or her management felt the need to address it.

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Pandering_Panda7879@reddit

"Without the use of the internet" - it was apparently started by someone on the internet, so that's very likely not true.

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pepchang@reddit

Remember his big hit " gurgle gack, ah rub rukkin ma own Rick"?

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Vegetable_Vacation56@reddit

Wait.. it wasn't true??

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Defiant-Specialist-1@reddit

I just listed to him the other day and thought abt that.

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Disastrous_Code_3473@reddit

OMFG I remember this!!! In middle school this was going around. I’m 39 now. 😂🤣

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Blahblahblurred@reddit

i was raised in Peru, how the hell yall spread the rumors there

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Apprehensive-Case785@reddit

There no some without fire

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Tisme72@reddit

Australia here. Big one of the 80s was Richard Gere getting a gerbil stuck in his but

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nunchaq@reddit

Fun fuct. I was told that "news" in high school...in Poland. Rumors do travel fast.

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walker_hockey@reddit

Omg I heard that in New Brunswick Canada!!!!

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ArachnidAlarmed4721@reddit

Yep as a 10-year-old in Australia, before ever hearing his music, I knew his was a de-boned cocksucker. I also knew that he bit the heads off live-chickens and sometimes bats at his concerts.

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mondomiketron@reddit

Why are acting like the internet and social media (chat rooms) didn't exist back then? I was definitely in chat rooms in AOL and using ice in 90s talking about this with other people.

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Atzadio2@reddit

what a pathetic thing to be proud of

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Chunk5587@reddit

Sadly, I agree.

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HilariousMax@reddit

Ok it's a decent enough accomplishment sure but it doesn't hold a candle to the Cool S

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Accomplished_Sun1506@reddit

Not really. Look what gen X did with Richard Gere and that hamster.

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Brilliant-Surprise54@reddit

Knew about it in Pakistan 😅 what convinced us completely was the cover of one of his albums, i think mechanical animals(?)

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in_tranquillum@reddit

I was born on 1990, on Portugal, Europe.

It was a known fact, here, in our schools. Everyone was talking about it 😂

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aubreypizza@reddit

Thanks for the belly laugh!!! As a Xennial I remember that. Wonder how many years that rumor lasted?

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Tomagathericon@reddit

200 souls backwater village in germany. Heard about it.

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i81u812@reddit

Millennials are trying to take more Gen X cultural icons. They can have Brian though.

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thunderouschunks@reddit

The same rumour went around in the 80s about Prince

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That_1_1992@reddit

Nah the rumor was tupac was still alive 😂 but this is wild too LOL

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Legitimate-Relief464@reddit

It is true. We know it in Europe. Belgrade, Serbia

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cheftellmesomin@reddit

That was you?!?

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Grube1310@reddit

And the famous Rod Stewart stomach pumping episode.

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ThisAutisticChick@reddit

Well. I think that can only be because it was true. Obviously.

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Grube1310@reddit

Before that was that Richard Gere shoved a Gerbil up his ass.

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Masbig91@reddit

Dubai checking in. It made it there somehow

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Far-Mammoth-1418@reddit

Small town in WV heard this rumor also! And believed it 🤭

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3156468431354564@reddit

In the 80s it was Prince

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

I heard apparently MM created both the rib and Paul Pfeiffer rumour himself. If so, he doesn't get enough credit for this genius move.

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amandaem79@reddit

In my school, it wasn’t Manson; it was Maynard.

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Jebgogh@reddit

On one hand I am pissed the last urban myth has this Jack hole involved but then I remember its about him self fellating. We always added it was also auto erotic asphyxiation involved saying he had just survived cause a roady found him. Should have been him rather than Hutchins

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FooodFiiight@reddit

Am I the only one who heard a story about a guy who took a hit of acid and was stuck in a psychotic episode where he thought he was a glass of orange juice?

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Perfect-Syrup8462@reddit

Where did it start

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KryanSA@reddit

5th grade in Johannesburg, South Africa. That FACT was well known.

It was then followed by the Britney Spears needing to get her stomach pumped one...

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Open_Sir6234@reddit

Gen X convinced everyone Richard Gere stuck a gerbil up his butt and Christopher Reeve had to drive him to the hospital to get it extracted.

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SirPilarius@reddit

So is it true or not?🤣

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Ghostronic@reddit

To be fair though some of us had dial-up internet in the 90s. Chat rooms existed!

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lastcallhall@reddit

It was everywhere!

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makemeadayy@reddit

Wait so that’s not true?

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LT568690@reddit

He totally did though

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andsendunits@reddit

I heard it in high school. I thought it sounded like bullshit, but didn't really care anyway.

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Kellysi83@reddit

It is known.

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h0neyball@reddit

Eastern europe, slovakia and i heard it too

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j_grouchy@reddit

See, the only MM rumor I ever heard was that MM was the older brother from Mr. Belvedere

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danboy@reddit

This is one of those evergreen rock star rumors. Manson wasn't the first, won't be the last.

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Direct-Avocado-9225@reddit

All the way in South Africa, we knew this too 🤣

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_name_goes_here@reddit

The same story went around UK schools in the late 80s about Boy George having the same medical procedure.

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mariscc@reddit

I remember this except I was in high school.

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SchizophrenicSoapDr@reddit

Pretty sure Marilyn Manson started that rumor

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evanwilliams44@reddit

Yeah and he went all over the place. He even played my small town at the college arena. Local churches came out to rebuke him and hold a prayer circle around the building.

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Bakingsquared80@reddit

It apparently wasn’t pre internet, it started as a very early internet rumor.

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FatOlMoses86@reddit

Class of 05, can confirm. I also remember being told he was Paul in Wonder Years

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MagnusVasDeferens@reddit

I didn’t know who Marilyn Manson was in middle school but I did know this for a fact

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DerScarpelo@reddit

I am from Brazil and lived my whole life here, somehow this rumor also was also around in my school

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ThatGuyYouMightNo@reddit

Don't forget how to draw that fancy S

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Apollonialove@reddit

Did you know he was also the kid on The Wonder Years?

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Professional-Bag5530@reddit

This reached me in Ireland.

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ctang1@reddit

Welp. TIL that this isn’t true.

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Listefar@reddit

Can confirm I heard this in a Danish school 20+ years ago from older kids

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Ohwell03@reddit

So your telling me that wasn't true?

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Jodid0@reddit

7 degrees of Marilyn Manson Autofellatio

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bumpywall@reddit

This was definitely a worldwide thing. Even in my secondary school in the UK in the 90s this was a rumour, in a pretty insignificant town.

I don't even think the internet was in wide use back then either.

How did we communicate this shit in those days?!

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Scattareggi@reddit

I knew about this back in 2005, in São Paulo Brazil!

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Thunder_Chunky_Fresh@reddit

💯

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Professional-News362@reddit

My own dad told me this when it was like 1999

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ThePanther1999@reddit

I’m in England and was CERTAIN that this was true. Wtf??

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JagsOnlySurfHawaii@reddit

How did everyone feel when they finally made Freddy vs Jason?

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MarkHowes@reddit

Even as a school kid in the UK, everyone knew Jimmy Saville was a paedo...

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Maleficent_Proof_958@reddit

Wait, that's not true...?

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FindOneInEveryCar@reddit

Literally every generation did this. It was "Rod Stewart sucked off his whole band" when I was in high school.

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phoenixliv@reddit

We all knew what Richard Gere did too

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TiaHatesSocials@reddit

That’s true though right? 😳

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enaud@reddit

Not to mention his role in the wonder years

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ipeezie@reddit

I think this was a joke Gen x started on millennials.

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single_ginkgo_leaf@reddit

I grew up in India and even we knew this to be true

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cheesey_sausage22255@reddit

We were talking about this far down south in Australia.

About as away from the US as you can get lol

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Oriasten77@reddit

He even addresses it in his autobiography. Which is a fantastic read.

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ItsaMeaPoncho@reddit

Did you guys hear about Ciara being a dude?

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zyonkerz@reddit

We had the Rod Stewart stomach pump story long before this one too.

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Repulsive_Soup461@reddit

I live in Greece and i still heard that lmao

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alebrew@reddit

The rumour made it to Ireland

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Liquid_Magic@reddit

Isn’t there some scientist that studies things like this? I think I remember reading a paper about the Jingle Bells song with Batman smells and it had different regional versions until that Simpsons episode fixing a particular version in everyone’s minds after it aired? I dunno.

It’s fascinating though. Like how that particular idea just works. It’s outrageous yet almost believable. Like we won’t believe it if it was Bob Ross but somehow when we hear that it’s this shock rocker our brains are like: “Yeah that checks out” and at the same time we remember and tell everyone.

Reminds me of the various topics in the book: Made to Stick.

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Manofmanyhats19@reddit

That and the rumor that the kid from the wonder years was also Manson as a kid.

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Liquid_Magic@reddit

Oh Brian Warner. You crazy guy!

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ActiveImportance4196@reddit

😂😂😂

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Itafol@reddit

Wow. Thank you. Got to Jerusalem as well.

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LegLeft3106@reddit

You mean that wasn't true?

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Angellotta@reddit

I definitely had the internet in the 90’s. In a tiny rural town. Plenty of people were on the internet by the time MM was big and it only takes a few people to get the rumor going! :) it was believable in middle school!

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gogonzogo1005@reddit

I heard the rumor about 95. AOL only had 1 million users that year. Windows 95 released that year. To be blunt the internet existed.. but most of us had little to no access to it. Maybe one computer in the library. Maybe. It wasn't a thing to a few years later, and even then we didn't really have search engines. So trying to Google Manson lower ribs removed? Yeah not a thing.

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Notsurehowtoreact@reddit

AOL hit 3 million in 1995, and it wasn't the only provider. CompuServe, and Prodigy, and others existed as well.

Estimates have it from between 16m-25m people out of 266m had active internet in the U.S. in 1995 with 14% of adults saying they used the internet as well.

It's just not correct to claim this rumor didn't have the assistance of the internet even if it was in it's infancy (I'd call the 90s more the prepubescent years, infancy being the 80s).

Also this is one of those rumors where it's more ubiquitous because it became an urban legend that spread more year over year while Manson maintained a career still steadily in the spotlight until the early 2000s while the internet started booming.

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Angellotta@reddit

Wow, so I guess our family was 1 of the early adopters. We had the internet starting in the early 90’s. The only other person who had the internet that I knew until high school for me was the random dude who ran our isp. :)

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Little-Engine6982@reddit

we also had phones, they were just at home, and then everone had a nokia, exchange students, family members in other countries.. it wasn't the stone age

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krissym99@reddit

Yeah, I was online for most of the 90s and I'm pretty sure that's how I heard the story about Marilyn Manson.

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_i-o@reddit

Reminds me of writing “Clean me” on the backs of dirty vans. Truly memonic.

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idontreallywanto79@reddit

🤣

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CarpeNoctius@reddit

I went to a tiny elementary school with about 60 children in a village of roughly 600 inhabitants in the swiss alps and the rumour reached even us hahah

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RightMolasses6504@reddit

There was a rumor in the 70s that Rod Stewart had to get his stomach pumped because he had swallowed so much sperm giving blowjobs.

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Bustymegan@reddit

Yup this circulated my school. It was kinda assumed too be true, dude was wild.

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RedditUser109273@reddit

I think AOL chat rooms were out by then and may have helped the spread.

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FlyingVigilanceHaste@reddit

And email, newgroups, bulletin boards/bbs. Not excellent methods but would aid.

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alxkwl@reddit

What about Richard Gere and his gerbil incident?

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gorillagargoyle@reddit

I mean, as a member of GenX, we did that, but ok....

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Ziegelphilie@reddit

don't forget about catching Mew by using strength on that one truck

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KuKiSin@reddit

You really have to wonder how this shit spread so far and wide.

I've heard both of these in Portugal, I remember specifically starting a new game just to get to that damn truck.

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Double-Thought-9940@reddit

I 100% read this on some forum or message board in the internet when i was in grade school

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killertortilla@reddit

This was not spread by millennials. You can go back to the boomer generation and find versions of this.

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Effective_Trouble_69@reddit

As a younger Gen X I know that was a repurposed rumour that we told about Prince

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AlarmingAffect0@reddit

Ah, Marilyn Manson's chili baby back ribs (with BBQ sauce): "and I don't want you, and I don't need you"

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Ilikechickenwings1@reddit

in my time it was that Richard Gere stuck a gerbil up his butt

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PBJdeluxe@reddit

who else had a pool on the roof of the school?

and you can eat the cinnaburst gum wrapper!

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Big_rizzy@reddit

The pre Marilyn Manson version of this story was about Prince!

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evergreendotapp@reddit

Except it came from AOL chat rooms in 1996. I remember this vividly, because I then went to my school the next day after a long night of chatting in MTV Yack on AOL 2.5 using dial-up, where I had learned this tidbit. I told all my friends, who told all their friends and younger siblings, and so on and so forth. So yeah, the internet did kinda help a little bit. ;]

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ultimatemacho@reddit

It reached Easter Europe. It reached everywhere.

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Ninjatendo90@reddit

This and the little Snot like Alien babies in the goo that everybody thought could get pregnant if you left two of them together….

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Nuo_Vibro@reddit

Was Prince when i was at school. I think Iggy Pop as well

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IndependentSir164@reddit

It's true

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volission@reddit

Wait… this isn’t true?

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Mike_Magicman_Honcho@reddit

Motherfucker, I believe it to this day.

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peejoneill@reddit

Pretty sure this was just a recycled urban myth about someone before him

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gopec@reddit

I do recall this. I assume it's complete bullshit like most other crap on reddit...

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TwistingEcho@reddit

Population 1550 in rural South Australia, we all knew it too.

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-Zubber@reddit

Bro. I went to school in the West Bank. In Palestine. That West Bank. Halfway across the globe. Arguably a Warzone. I was one of 4 students that spoke english and I still heard this rumor in middle school! And never thought twice about it until now.

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atomsforkubrick@reddit

I still choose to believe this

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romulan267@reddit

It was Michael Jackson where I grew up

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Zassothegreat@reddit

In a town of 12k in rural northern California.. he indeed had his lower rib removed to blow himself.. haha

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ArugulaAltruistic742@reddit

I also heard from my older brother that he ate a of fetus

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ikkaku999@reddit

France here, we knew this too!!! Amazing

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xThrillhoVanHoutenx@reddit

This isn’t a rumor my friends older brother has a vhs of it.

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thejamesbondy@reddit

It travelled overseas and i've heard it in Brazil also.

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Bleezy79@reddit

Or that Richard Gere put a shaved gerbil up his butt.

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Take_the_ringer@reddit

Hell yeah we did. And did anybody else hear that he was on the Wonder Years?

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jmedi11@reddit

He didn’t?

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Practical-Trash-4976@reddit

Hey, plenty of us older kids helped with that effort

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SailAwayMatey@reddit

Over in England too. 😅

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gklmitchell@reddit

And the Ricky Martin one with the girl and the dog food ..

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herbsmoker@reddit

I heard this back in 2006 in India!

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arthurdentstowels@reddit

In my high school in the 90's the rumour was that Peter Andre ate so many bananas that he got potassium poisoning then died and was radioactive. There was the Marilyn Manson one as well. Standard rumour that the P.E. teacher was either gay or a paedophile.
The most infuriating one was, if you use strength on the hidden van by the SS Anne there is a pokeball with Mew under there.

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KurlzV@reddit

This made it all the way to Australia too. I don't think we knew who he was yet, but we knew this

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Kotlang@reddit

Somehow this rumor made it to Romania, small city even

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Muted_Scratch_6142@reddit

As a Latvian I remember the talks about this. How did it reach us?

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SettingAcceptable230@reddit

I live in Sweden and heard it at school, it truly was global!

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Educational_Date224@reddit

When I was a kid (in the '70s), it was David Bowie who lost his ribs.

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Ancient-Village6479@reddit

There were still tabloids and shows like Howard Stern. I remember hearing Stern talk about both the Manson and Richard Gere rumors.

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ghostjava@reddit

Heard in Arkansas. Go figure

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TRDF3RG@reddit

Right... sort of like the Pop Rocks and Coke rumor.

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bomland10@reddit

Millennials? Uh huh

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Kindly_Astronomer572@reddit

I grew up in England UK, and I heard that rumour also. Well done guys.

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JusticeAyo@reddit

I grew up in Southern California and I remember this one too!

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Tim-oBedlam@reddit

That's just a variant on the GenX rumor that Rod Stewart had to visit the ER to get his stomach pumped because it was full of semen. Or the one about Richard Gere and the gerbils.

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JusticeAyo@reddit

I was in middle school at the time. Had never listen to a single song, and I definitely remember this.

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Ruairicoin@reddit

🤣💀

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durk1912@reddit

Don’t forget where Richard Gere put a gerbil 🐹!

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

that's not even a new rumor, in the 70s it was Freddy and in the 80s, Iggy Pop

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aliasisalreadytaken@reddit

I'm from Argentina.. and that was a truth not a rumor haha

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Renovatio_@reddit

Internet definitely helped spread. There were always a few kids who had access to something even if the majority did not.

If it was the early 90s then they were on some BBS like compuserve or genie.

If it was the mid/late 90s it was probably something like AOL.

Throughout the whole 90s there was always the "Fwd:fwd:fwd check this out!" way of meme transmission.

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FigureFourWoo@reddit

I was literally that kid. BBS/Prodigy/etc., were tiny and finding the content like that was very rare. I knew every kid at school who had a PC and got on BBS boards. We used to make schedules of who could be on which board and when to avoid busy signals. The Marilyn Manson rumor I still heard at the lunch table.

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Renovatio_@reddit

Oh sure, there was a lot of lunch table talk. I remember getting my friend to go to a BBS and get instructions on how to get into a secret room in Doom.

But the OP implied that this was all organic person to person spreading, which really wasn't the case in the 90s. We were connected, not in the way that we were now but we did have resources to get exposure to weird things.

Oh and 90s teens were perpetually on the phone, my older sister probably was on the phone 2 hours per night because she somehow got a phone line in her room.

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blackrockblackswan@reddit

12 year old me thought it was for sure true

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Davies301@reddit

Same thing happened with old game consoles. Your game not working? Just blow on it.

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chiefbushman@reddit

Lived in the south of England when I heard this. Then just before high school I moved to New Zealand. Heard it there too. Must be true.

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kirby_krackle_78@reddit

And he was also either Paul from The Wonder Years or the older brother from Mr. Belvedere.

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saskir21@reddit

I rhink the first time I heard this was 2005-2006. Or atleast somewhere around this time as I was still an university student at the time.

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No-Jello638@reddit

In Turkey, it was Eminem who did this.

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Erikthered00@reddit

That rumour even made it to Australia

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thezoomies@reddit

And all of us are here going “wut?! I thought that was just at my school!”

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Automatic-Stretch-48@reddit

Bruh forgot about AIM.

Shit was all over it.

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Norse_By_North_West@reddit

That rumor predates Aim. I heard it 93/94ish, in an area where no one was using the internet or BBS's

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emuboo@reddit

and that Ciara is intersex. lol at the gossip that trended from schoolyard to schoolyard across the country.

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Evol_extra@reddit

First time I heard it in early 2000 in Ukraine

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InvaderZimbo@reddit

He was also the nerdy kid from The Wonder Years

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Inferno_Zyrack@reddit

That is because it was actual a Gen X playground rumor about a different musician.

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cahrens414@reddit

Take. Me. Back.

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AlissonHarlan@reddit

we did it, reddit !

we also all knew about this disgusting jelly candy story

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shit_creeks_paddle@reddit

How easy it would be to spread rumors now....

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KroopaLoops@reddit

Yes we did

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zignut66@reddit

Yes this made the rounds in Seattle high schools too.

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johneldridge@reddit

Statisticians (or communications experts) should study this because it’s ABSURD how far this rumor traveled in the pre-internet era. It was legitimately a global phenomenon.

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imbtmn1976@reddit

This was the way!!!

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Throwitinthebag891@reddit

This rumor made me try it with all my ribs intact. My bottom ribs still stick outwards and I blame this

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Neat_Bug6646@reddit

This was even a rumour in German schools. Thanks for the throwback

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TwithabigD1@reddit

Wait, he didn’t actually do this?

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JohnnySasaki20@reddit

Or that blowing on the NES cassette helped it work better. Which i think it does, but not for the reasons we thought.

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neffthewurld@reddit

Jasper, Texas was in the know

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Supertom911@reddit

They found semen in Rod Stewart’s stomach!

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skyciel@reddit

Lmao. High schools too

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uabeng@reddit

Wait, I thought that was true?

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Thick_Apartment3417@reddit

Crazier that this reached my quite town on the west coast if Ireland.

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tosurfornottosurf@reddit

Can confine. Going to an elementary school in country side The Netherlands early '90's. This was a well known fact.

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Benjay83@reddit

I laughed too hard at this. This is prime ‘97 I believe.

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DirtMcGirt9484@reddit

So it is written…

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RedShirtMutiny@reddit

For Gen X, it was three nationwide rumors spread by some unknowable current:

Mikey from Life cereal died eating pop rocks while drinking coke.
Richard Gere went to the emergency room from allowing a gerbil to crawl into his ass via a tube.
Rod Stewart also went to the ER to have his stomach pumped from having too much seman there.

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brandiLeeCO@reddit

I also tried to start the rumour that Paula Cole did the same thing so she could suck her own pussy but it never gained traction.

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mysteryprickle@reddit

This reached New Zealand. There was also the same rumor about Prince.

I forget which celebrity but there was also one about someone having a disproportionately large amount of semen pumped from their stomach.

If anyone can get back to me about who that was supposed to be, much appreciated.

Regards.

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SpecificJunket8083@reddit

I was married and had kids in the 90s and heard this.

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ConstantPop4122@reddit

In our school it was Prince that the rumour was based around.

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lgjcs@reddit

lol I remember that one!

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crewman4@reddit

I remember this ! From high school in Norway !!

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Prinosil@reddit

German here, i Heard that too

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den_eimai_apo_edo@reddit

In Australia I heard it was Mick Jagger

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Traditional-Leg-1574@reddit

Does anyone remember the one about bubble yum, a chewing gum brand, containing spider eggs?

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Jogirl379@reddit

Washington state checking in

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teddygomi@reddit

This meme was spread on the early internet in the 90s.

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Number175OnEarlsList@reddit

It’s pretty cool- Look up the 100th monkey theory.

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bikemandan@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect

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Shiticane_Cat5@reddit

It makes sense. How did everyone know how to draw this?

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ambisinister_gecko@reddit

Telepathy?

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Number175OnEarlsList@reddit

Maybe. Or some kind of collective consciousness. Most likely some part of evolution that we just don’t understand yet.

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louse99@reddit

I just looked this up and learned something. Ty.

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PilotIntelligent8906@reddit

I listened to Marilyn Manson as teen in the mid to late 90s and I heard this rumor, I live in Peru in South America btw.

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PatSwayzeInGoal@reddit

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Powerful-Goal-4770@reddit

Reddit always reminds me that I am not unique

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watevauwant@reddit

Also he dismembered puppies on stage

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SporksRFun@reddit

If you save the tab from soda cans you could trade them for sex.

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Ornery_Departure6262@reddit

Yo I remember this. Also that one S thing.

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EquivalentFlat@reddit

Next you'll tell me Lady GaGa isn't a hermaphrodite.

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Gnovakane@reddit

By the time Marilyn Manson was popular, the internet was very much a thing. It already had loads of news groups and forums.

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SoaDMTGguy@reddit

I mean it's all based on that one album cover, it's not like we made it up.

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LBSTRdelaHOYA@reddit

yeah, school net went viral for life

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dougcbj@reddit

TIL that Marilyn Manson actually didn’t do this.

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Otherwise-Carpet4444@reddit

I heard this in Lynn. Massachusetts and 90% of my school was into hip hop. Only the 5 emo kids were into manson, yet we all knew the rumor.

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marshmallowest@reddit

Our qa/qc for rumors was superior. At our school it was one of the backstreet boys getting his stomach pumped for semen

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KillaMike24@reddit

How did this start? Anyone with a general idea grew up in poor area of New Jersey didn’t even know who he was but knew how he got down lol

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Radiant-Map8179@reddit

I believed this well into my 20's😅

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i_am_a_real_boy__@reddit

I hate to break this to an entire generation, but that rumor did not start in elementary schools.

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llapman@reddit

He didn’t?😹

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stopklandaceowens@reddit

this isn't a rumor, its 100% true............... LMFAO000ooOOOoOOO0oOo0O0

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ricknardo@reddit

Wait, do you mean to tell me that Paul from the ‘Wonder Years’ did NOT grow up to be Marilyn Manson and had his ribs removed so he could suck his own dick? PROVE IT!

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Appropriate-Divide64@reddit

It was Prince in my school who did that. This was way before Mason was even famous.

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Neat_Flounder_8907@reddit

I also remember around the same time hearing the band would put cats inside of the bass drum drum during the concerts 😿

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Swizzlefritz@reddit

I’m still not convinced that he didn’t.

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happyhippy27@reddit

I also remember this being said about Maynard James Kenan. So stupid

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elbowpastadust@reddit

A lot of millennials were older than elementary school when MM was popular and definitely were chatting their friends on AIM…maybe even had a xanga

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ImpressionOdd1203@reddit

I was 7 in the 90's so It wasnt me

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Slipperytitski@reddit

I thought it was that mew hides under a truck

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_undercover_brotha@reddit

It sure was the talk down here in 90’s New Zealand high schools 😂

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onestaromega@reddit

Hold up!! That isn't true????

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Mental_Medium3988@reddit

im still amazed at know mary-kate and ashley olsen had a sister that was a better actress than they were. as a kid in rural va i dont know how that rumor got around us but it wa true.

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Lemonwater925@reddit

Buddy of mine had an extra rib inserted to stop sucking his own dick.

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kormus7@reddit

I heard that rumor also in Estonia.

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MB-Taylor@reddit

Ok I heard the Manson one here in Scotland.....

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TiiGerTekZZ@reddit

I'm Belgian and even here, that was a rumor on school.

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lfcman24@reddit

As a guy growing up in a mountainous town of 100,000 people in India. That’s like not even in top 100 or 500. I also know this and to this day believe it 😂😂😂

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PipingaintEZ@reddit

It was the cousin from another school network. The original viral social network!

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Longitudo94@reddit

The funny thing is, you literally don’t even have to do that to suck your own dick. Look at my posts for details (nsfw).

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SolusIgtheist@reddit

What's funny is that this story would have made more sense to be about Jimmy Urine.

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Scorpions_Claw@reddit

😂

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Charger2950@reddit

Rib Gate. I remember it well.

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popeyepaul@reddit

The Internet existed in the 90s. Not everyone had it but all it takes is for one person to have access and they can then share information with others.

And this may be a radical idea for younger folks, but people used to talk and information was passed along that way pretty effectively. I often see people asking for example how could anyone beat The Legend of Zelda without hints (if not a complete walkthrough) but as kids we would just all share what we knew at school every day.

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TheFoxsWeddingTarot@reddit

In the 1970s it was that Rod Stewart blacked out on stage and when they pumped his stomach it was full of semen. Elementary school kids go hard.

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shug7272@reddit

My favorite one was that Japan had hover boards just like in back to the future but they were illegal in the US.

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CheezeLoueez08@reddit

Is this what’ll unite the world?

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Think-Log9894@reddit

Wait...that wasn't true???

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Primary-Cat-13@reddit

Millennials greatest accomplishment is taking credit for things GenX did apparently.

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TrainingWoodpecker77@reddit

Credit us Generation Jones for the rumor that Rod Stewart passed out onstage after swallowing his own semen. Circa 1979.

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tudonabosta@reddit

I'm from Brazil and I first heard this rumor during the "recreio" in school in the 90's

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troyberber@reddit

It did tho. No?

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MrChipDingDong@reddit

From The Sun: "But the original source of the rumor seems to date back to December 27, 1994, when he was arrested after a concert for "violating the adult entertainment code."

Reports state the 52-year-old was held at a police station before being released without charge.

Cops allegedly believed he had performed oral sex on a man while performing on stage - but it turns out Jack Off Jill vocalist, Jessicka, was reportedly wearing a prosthetic penis at the gig.

The story of the musician's on-stage antics somehow became warped into a tale of self-pleasure, that sparked the rumors of his rib removal.

In his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, he also wrote: "If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own d**k on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper.""

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FarkGrudge@reddit

lol I remember hearing that and finding it plausible.

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Sertancaki41@reddit

It was Eminem removed part of his spine to suck his own, in Turkey, around 15 years ago.

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vandy_207@reddit

I heard Lil Kil swallowed so much cum she had to get her stomach pumped. I may have heard the same thing about Alanis Morrissette.

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Gatorae@reddit

I mean... some of us were on the internet in the mid90s. That's where I heard this, in IRC chatrooms. Then we told people the story IRL. Same with the Richard Gere gerbil story. If you heard this story IRL it's because you heard it from someone who heard it from someone who was on the internet already.

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Relevant_Pause_7593@reddit

Except that Marilyn Manson wasn’t popular/well known until 1996 with antichrist superstar and there was definitely an internet then…

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jyc23@reddit

Holy shit I distinctly remember this rumor!

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model3113@reddit

And lil' Kim had to get her stomach pumped because of all the c*m.

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shadowboy@reddit

How about drawing the super S? __ / \ | | | \ \ | | | _/

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My_Name_is_Imaginary@reddit

Don't forget Mew under the truck

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NoCantaloupe5361@reddit

I remember language and informal lingo spreading across the US pre Internet that was always mind boggling

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RelativeAd711@reddit

Rod Stewart had the stomach pumped that was full of jizz

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angry_salami@reddit

Y’all know we had the internet in the 90s, right?

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CopperSteve@reddit

That and penis inspection day

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Glittering-Design973@reddit

I remember this haha, and really believed it!

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joeybagofdonuts80@reddit

In my high school that was Maynard James Keenan.

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dupontred@reddit

15 years earlier it was Elton John/Rod Stewart having his stomach pumped from all the jizz he swallowed the night before.

And Richard Gere, obviously.

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AriaStarstone@reddit

It truly is amazing how much that spread.

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RickyWVaughn@reddit

What about that chick that fucked a frozen hot dog and it got stuck? Maybe this was regional, but every high school in my area had one.

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m_faustus@reddit

This is just the later version of Mikey from Life cereal eating Pop Rocks candy and having his stomach explode.

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Natrix421@reddit

I heard about this. My parents did not approve

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postinganxiety@reddit

I thought this was going to be - if you flush every toilet at the same time, you can blow up the school.

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sarcastic1stlanguage@reddit

Another strange one was that Ciara had a penis and a vagina. That one confused Me cause She's hot lol

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Lanky_Independent_85@reddit

The same rumour but about Prince when I was at school

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shooter1919@reddit

what. thats not true lol.

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Riots42@reddit

The internet was a thing before Manson was famous...

"Social media" was instant messangers like AOL and ICQ, as well as chat rooms. It would have been spread along these lines.

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DM_ME_UR_BOOBS69@reddit

Everyone I know heard and spread this rumor.

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tusgavomelo@reddit

I'm from Brazil and I heard that story when I was in highschool

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Obvious_Sale_6068@reddit

Wasn’t it Gene Simmons?

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Zardozin@reddit

Uh, you do realize that the internet existed in 94, right?

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Drawkcab96@reddit

That one grew like the might oak. One of the first things I think of when he is mentioned.

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rBjorn@reddit

That was a blast from the past!

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bognostrocleetus@reddit

Can confirm that rumor even reached rural Arkansas schools before the internet was widespread.

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SubparBartender@reddit

It's amazing how many of these rumors get out there and last forever. Then if you correct someone who believes them they tell you they're right and you're wrong. Strange phenomenon.

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ConsistentStand2487@reddit

LMFAO. or the geeky kid from Wonder years was Marilyn Manson grown up.

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GentlmanSkeleton@reddit

I thought it was Cher.

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Slammogram@reddit

Or that Lil Kim had to get buckets of semen pumped from her stomach at a hospital.

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Inevitable_Ticket85@reddit

can you explain where that came from because I literally had that rumor at my school in Australia

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PPPeeT@reddit

Literally how did this actually happen, how did this rumour make it all the way to my small primary school in outback Australia?

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lucasplays_yt@reddit

Here in Brazil, we had that rumor going around here as well lol

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colcardaki@reddit

He never denied it, so I’m just assuming it’s true still.

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Fionnghal@reddit

He actually did, in his autobiography.

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colcardaki@reddit

I choose to believe

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Dramatic_Hat8115@reddit

I can confirm it was known in Denmark

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Geiger8105@reddit

Wait, that wasn't true??

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LaGorda54@reddit

Plenty of us had the internet by then tho.

I feel like the real rumor we spread sans internet was about Richard Gere and his particular interest in pets.

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Goodbusiness24@reddit

Omg I think I first heard that in like 1996 or 97, honestly thought it was just at my school lol

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BodheeNYC@reddit

Speaks volumes about Marilyn Manson that no one doubted this for a minute.

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KleioChronicles@reddit

It was in the metal magazines. I remember reading Kerrang! or something that had an article speculating about MM having rib surgery and breast implants. That would have been late 90s, early 2000s.

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DarthVerus@reddit

I remember a Spice Girls one getting around back then as well…

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sachmo86@reddit

Heard this in London UK along with kel from Keenan and kel dying in a car crash

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BillyBlazjowkski@reddit

And he was Paul in the Wonder Years.. urban legends playing telephone

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rhinofeet@reddit

The internet was definitely around when this was spreading. His first album came out in July 1994, by April 1995 there were 20 million AOL users alone, and 3 million on CompuServe.

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Lordborgman@reddit

I was under the impression back then this rumor had been around for 20 years or so and changed people. I heard it had previously been Freddy Mercury, Prince, and a few others.

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C0gD1z@reddit

Yellow-5 never forget those poor shrunken balls.

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Shnazzyone@reddit

Literally every one of these rumors came from early internet at our school. The internet existed in the 90's guys.

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My51stThrowaway@reddit

Also how about them song parodies?

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Leila_TS@reddit

Lmaooo the fact that this rumor made it internationally without social media and limited internet access makes it even more gold

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flaming_bob@reddit

Y'all youngin's all proud and shit 'til we older Xennials remind you that we spread the rumor about Alfonso Ribiero breaking his neck while doing a headspin right after doing that Pepsi commercial in the late 80s.

Lawd, that was a long run-on sentence.

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eldritch_elder@reddit

More like Xennials in high school, but it is known.

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Fun-Persimmon-4831@reddit

Is this not true?

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Time_Literature3404@reddit

Omg I remember this!!

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sonicle_reddit@reddit

Tiny Rural Austrian town here. Knew about it as well.

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ordinaryalchemy@reddit

Heard it in the Midwest in 8th grade (1998). Said and taken as gospel.

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meatlessboat@reddit

What about getting Mew if you used strength to move the truck

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biffrov@reddit

I grew up in small town in rural Sweden with like 3000 people and I heard this rumor.

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LeBaconator@reddit

There was also the one that lil bow wow was butt raped by his limo driver(or body guard depending on your region)

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Idntwnt2choseusrnme@reddit

We heard that in Egypt believe it or not

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JoyousDiversion2@reddit

The exact same rumour was made about Prince a years before.

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HexenHerz@reddit

I was in high school at the time, but I remember that!

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manilvadave@reddit

Wait.. I thought that was Prince?

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trixdesaryn@reddit

I also heard he had a child skeleton???

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otheraccount-8@reddit

22 year old. Midwest. I too heard this rumor in school. Had no idea who Marilyn Manson was.

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mr_mlk@reddit

Pretty sure the first time I heard this was on an internet newsgroup back in the late 90s...

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Subject-Butterfly-50@reddit

This was done by gen x, not millennials

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javlin_101@reddit

I think the internet played some role in that. AOL was like 92? 93? There were lots of early internet users who had opinions about Manson

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BadassSasquatch@reddit

This is 100% true. My older brother heard it from his girlfriend's older brother who graduated last year.

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Sallende11@reddit

Generational peak.

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Zequez@reddit

I'm from Argentina, and I remember this fact from back then. How did it travel through countries?

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tclerguy@reddit

Wait, are you saying it’s not true??

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trashed_past@reddit

Marilyn Manson had ribs added so he could eat his own ass.

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ChesterDrawerz@reddit

dont you mean rod stewart and the 11 different types of semen story?

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Steeveep32@reddit

Prince

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Otherwise_Coyote4885@reddit

Yeah. The wonder years dude was a FREAK!!

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12thMcMahan@reddit

The internet ruined everything.

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Dumbledores_Closet@reddit

Just so you know this went as far as New Zealand

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Kindsuco@reddit

I'm brazillian and it was a well known fact over here too

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Ricky_Rocket_@reddit

i'm still unsure if this real or not. very impressive indeed

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Kuzkuladaemon@reddit

Don't forget broken hotdog girl.

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andyrocks@reddit

Just so you know, these rumours (about the rib and the Wonder Years) were alive and well on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Im_Ashe_Man@reddit

It absolutely was spread around my school in the 90's.

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AdDense7020@reddit

I was in high school in the 90s and also heard this.

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yukonhoneybadger@reddit

Wait... so this isn't true?

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CommanderSmokeStack@reddit

Wait till you hear about Richard Gere and the Gerbil.

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Dirac_comb@reddit

It was common knowledge in Iceland too. Word got around!

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Overall_Status_5828@reddit

It was prince in the 80’s

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herecomestherebuttal@reddit

Manson showed up a year or two after most households were set up with the internet. Next.

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Salty-Woodpecker-951@reddit

What about blowing in the nes cartridges?

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Wpgjetsfan19@reddit

That’s true

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Deadline042@reddit

Both are true.

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BackgroundGrade@reddit

We Gen Xers had to live through the wave of deaths caused by pop rocks and soda.

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Asleep-Range1456@reddit

And then Tool put out an album with a linticular animation of a guy actually doing that.

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OwlfaceFrank@reddit

That was Christian groups spreading lies because that's what they do. It wasn't a bunch of 12 year olds. It was adults obsessed with telling kids weird sex stuff.

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Throwaway_For_X@reddit

Ah, the classic celebrity urban legends!

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tuberlord@reddit

I remember hearing the same thing about Trent Reznor a few years before.

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Enough_Structure_95@reddit

Wait,are you saying Paul Pfeiffer, A.K.A. Marilyn Manson DIDN'T remove ribs so he could suck his own dick???

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yerwanindublin@reddit

I love that we had the ribs rumour and the Paul from the wonder years rumour and it made it across the Atlantic to Ireland where we spread it further. Pre Internet grapevine!

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Adept_Friendship_795@reddit

Captain Kangaroo is Ozzy Osbourn’s father. Class of 1985.

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Warm-Cow-1702@reddit

I remember this😊

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CalSwete@reddit

I went to school in Germany and heard the Marilyn Manson

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DckThik@reddit

I remember being very disappointed about learning of this when reading Long Hard Road Out of Hell.

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angrybadger77@reddit

I heard that it was Prince

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jasonmoyer@reddit

I always see that meme, and it's weird because AFAIK that rumor started on Usenet. In any case, no one knew who he was before 1994 and the Internet was a thing lots of people used by then.

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