Sinbad!

Who here remembers that Sinbad movie from the early '90s where he played a genie?

My brother just asked me about it (I didn't) but apparently the Mandela effect is strong in my shop as everyone else not only remembered it but were angry when confronted with the truth. Brains are weird.

In reply to KyAllroad:

Wow, weird. I wouldn't have had a clue either way, but it's interesting that it is such a common phenomenon.

I will admit to thinking he was a genie in a movie. After reading that site I realized that he used to dress like a genie. For some reason he was the commencement speaker at my college graduation, and he wore a yellow pantsuit like thing with baggy pants and a weird little collar on the shirt--very genie like.

I saw Sinbad in an AM/PM in the San Fernando valley years ago. Big guy. He did not exhibit any genie like behavior that I remember.

Was it that awful Shaq movie?

In reply to Wall-e:

Shazaaaaaam

aircooled wrote: I saw Sinbad in an AM/PM in the San Fernando valley years ago. Big guy. He did not exhibit any genie like behavior that I remember.

He is a big guy. We bumped into him waiting in line at a movie theater in Benton Harbor MI some years ago. I didn't realize til later who he was.

RevRico wrote: In reply to Wall-e: Shazaaaaaam

Kazaam. Even though most people think its shazaam which probably leads to the misconception.

Hmm, in my informal polling around the facility I'm discovering a pretty clear correlation between education level and willingness to accept that ones' memory is wrong.

i.e. The folks with minimal education are much more likely to defend their erroneous belief than to accept new information which challenges their false memory.

minivan_racer wrote:

RevRico wrote: In reply to Wall-e: Shazaaaaaam

Kazaam. Even though most people think its shazaam which probably leads to the misconception.

Yea, I don't know how I confused Shaq with Michael Gray. I did go see it in theaters when it came out, but haven't seen or thought of it ever sense.

That's the thing with memory. It's... not actual memory, not like a harddrive stores information anyway. It's disturbingly easy, as I'm sure you're finding out in the office, to gt people to remember things that never happened. Police use this a lot to make cases, but so do advertisers, news companies, and just regular people. With minimal suggestion, you can change someones entire childhood, at least according to them. To me, someone with memory problems, it's an interesting field of study.

I can't remember the exact study(not making a joke, I really don't remember it's been years) but I recall reading that you never remember the same thing the same way. There are details lost or added every time you tell a story, whether it's from who you're telling it to, to people butting in with details, even your mood at the time of the telling.

I thought he was going to be the last celebrity passing of 2016 when i saw the title, then had to think as to whether or not he's actually still alive. I'm glad that he's still with us and that he's resisted the temptation to be the centerpiece of a reality show buried deep in cable entitled "Being Bad" or "Bad to the Bone"

I thought the Kazam! guy was Shaquille Oneal.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pgzWjjfAiNI

People that with dementia will confabulate. It's part of the diagnosis. I asked one once: Do you remember when we all went to the mall in Dr. Axx's (head shrink) Cadillac last week? "Yeah, I remember that." You can run with it and they will invent a whole incident around it.

I saw Sinbad perform at the SEMA banquet one year. He was pretty funny.

We actually got him to perform in the gym at our high school back in 84 or 85. Just as his career was starting to take off. Very cool event.

His bit about the Buick Deuce and Quarter is comic gold.

I have now spent the last two hours watching Sinbad stand up routines. Thanks

Edited to add: I forgot how fast that big dude can move. The dance routine at the start of Brain Damaged is impressive.

KyAllroad wrote: Hmm, in my informal polling around the facility I'm discovering a pretty clear correlation between education level and willingness to accept that ones' memory is wrong. i.e. The folks with minimal education are much more likely to defend their erroneous belief than to accept new information which challenges their false memory.

Probably an effect, not a cause. Those who are willing to accept new information that challenges their false memory are more likely to be educable.

I've waited on Shaq. I've also convinced my coworkers the new ish dishwasher is Tom Corbett.

KyAllroad wrote: The folks with minimal education are much more likely to defend their erroneous belief than to accept new information which challenges their false memory.

Lies! Wait... no. Yes. Damn. I'm wrong one way and stupid the other way. This is rigged!

In reply to Huckleberry: Don't sell yourself short. You can be both.

Huckleberry wrote:

KyAllroad wrote: The folks with minimal education are much more likely to defend their erroneous belief than to accept new information which challenges their false memory.

Lies! Wait... no. Yes. Damn. I'm wrong one way and stupid the other way. This is rigged!

Haha.

Wife: "You're so contrary!"
Me: "berkeley"

Have a very soft spot in my heart for the movie Houseguest. Probably because I loved Phil Hartman. The scene where Sinbad's character tries to pass as a wine expert is priceless. "Chatty Laffit - a very happy wine."

Here is the odd thing. I never saw any Shazaam movie. But up until this week, I would have believed it existed, complete with memories and mental images from the trailers I saw on TV.

I'm not surprised it never existed, but its amazing to me that the little clues I absorbed over the decades made a distant, yet vivid memory in the cobwebs of my brain.

Its like how we GRMers keep buying Jags, Rovers, and Yugos expecting them to run. We are the Bob Rosses of car ownership. No mistakes, just happy garages

I could be easily convinced that Sinbad made a genie movie, but its a very reasonable thing to beleive. The Shaq story triggers more reliable memories, but it could easily be lies, too

I once watched a documentary about how terribly unreliable eye witness accounts are. I find myself questioning my perceived reality sometimes, and will realize a particular memory from work was a dream.

And yes, my dream life is dull, too.