Sinbad!

He does clean comedy - I am a fan of this style of comedy - no swearing or derogatory comments - just funny stuff.

curtis73 wrote: 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.

Curtis:

I try not to have the same dreams as you, but I dreamt this one too.

I even found myself googling it last night, because I am so positive I remember it.

Weird.

SVreX wrote:

curtis73 wrote: 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.

Curtis: I try not to have the same dreams as you, but I dreamt this one too. I even found myself googling it last night, because I am so positive I remember it. Weird.

I thought I even remembered a snippet of the trailer where he's standing at a doorway on the front porch of a house, camera 90 degrees to his left side, and he says something funny and walks through the door. Such a specific memory of a movie that didn't exist.

I feel like I've stepped into the Twilight Zone. How many people are walking around with false memories about genie movies?! I am certain that someone has been messing with the space time continuum.

EastCoastMojo wrote: How many people are walking around with false memories about genie movies?!

Lots, but we are not supposed to talk about that stuff.

Berenstain vs. Berenstein bears. I had this argument about 2 weeks ago.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I feel like I've stepped into the Twilight Zone. How many people are walking around with false memories about genie movies?! I am certain that someone has been messing with the space time continuum.

Totally freaky, right? The only difference between me and the "shazaam-ers" is that when I heard it didn't exist, I believed it and chocked it up to random synapse activity. There are tons of people out there who believe it existed with every fiber of their being and will tell you all about the conspiracy to conceal it.

I think some people could use an acid trip or two. Once you realize how tenuous what we agree upon as "reality" really is it's easier to accept your brain as deeply fallible.

Every time a time traveler changes history ... it messes us up a little. :)

SVreX wrote:

Also, thanks for the reminder of my childhood and burgeoning awareness of my sexuality. Barbara Eden FTW! (I saw it in reruns, I'm not that old.)

If you told me Sinbad made a genie movie, I'd probably believe you at face value since I don't know if you'd be right or wrong. If my curiosity was strong enough, I'd Google it.

One of the first things I was taught in journalism school: The "truth" changes. Often. So I never really accept anything I read or hear as being "true".

Ian F wrote: One of the first things I was taught in journalism school: The "truth" changes. Often. So I never really accept anything I read or hear as being "true".

This is why I love cameras at work. I can go to an incident, interview 5 different people and get 5 different accounts of what happened then watch the videos for a 6th completely different version.