This is a thread where we discuss items we were positive were true when we were younger but now have figured out that we weren't quite right.
When I was a youngster in the mid 1970s, I thought that "Watergate" referred to the time President Nixon opened the gate and all the water from the Potomac River came rushing into downtown Washington, D.C. It only made more sense to me when I found out there were "Plumbers" hired to fix the leaks.
My misconceptions of Watergate continued after catching a few minutes of All the Presidents Men on TV. I walked in one night when when my parents were watching the movie and I caught the scene with Meredith Baxter-Birney's Debbie Sloan talking to Redford's Woodward and Hoffman's Bernstein. I later found out that the two reporters spoke a secret source in order to find out who was responsible for "Watergate". I was convinced that Meredith Baxter-Birney was "Deep Throat". I believed that for a couple of years.
Woodward and Bernstein had nothing on me.
Also, when I was a child I thought that Starblazers was a documentary. It had all actually happened. Derek Wildstar was the greatest hero in the history of earth and the wave motion gun kicked total ass.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:58 pm
by SamDBL
pedro wrote:Also, when I was a child I thought that Starblazers was a documentary. It had all actually happened. Derek Wildstar was the greatest hero in the history of earth and the wave motion gun kicked total ass.
LOL. Starblazers was amazing. The only thing I was a bit confused of (at the time) was that the spaceship looked like an aircraft carrier.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:54 pm
by James
Man, I haven't thought about Star Blazers in decades!
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:59 am
by gregpolard
This is embarrassing but...oh well:
In the summer of '99 I was freshly 18. Some channel on cable ran a "news story" about these kids who filmed a documentary on the legend of a witch that lived in the woods of MD and never returned and their footage had been found and was now going to be available for viewing.
So yeah...because of this mock news story to promote the film, I thought the Blair Witch Project was real.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:44 am
by version sound
I used to think that Soul Side only got better after Less Deep.... I know, I know, but I was just a dumb kid.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:20 pm
by JGJR
version sound wrote:I used to think that Soul Side only got better after Less Deep.... I know, I know, but I was just a dumb kid.
No, in that case, you were right when you were younger and your ears have deserted you.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:20 pm
by JGJR
gregpolard wrote:This is embarrassing but...oh well:
In the summer of '99 I was freshly 18. Some channel on cable ran a "news story" about these kids who filmed a documentary on the legend of a witch that lived in the woods of MD and never returned and their footage had been found and was now going to be available for viewing.
So yeah...because of this mock news story to promote the film, I thought the Blair Witch Project was real.
A lot of other folks did, too, as I remember the confusion/debate about it before it was revealed to be a hoax.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:03 pm
by version sound
JGJR wrote:
version sound wrote:I used to think that Soul Side only got better after Less Deep.... I know, I know, but I was just a dumb kid.
No, in that case, you were right when you were younger and your ears have deserted you.
You'll understand one day, kiddo.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:56 pm
by JGJR
version sound wrote:
JGJR wrote:
version sound wrote:I used to think that Soul Side only got better after Less Deep.... I know, I know, but I was just a dumb kid.
No, in that case, you were right when you were younger and your ears have deserted you.
You'll understand one day, kiddo.
Your deafness is not my issue, senor.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:21 pm
by jason powell
Okay, when I was little there were these egg shaped toys called Weebles, and there were commercials about them, and in the commercial, there was parent Weebles, and two kid Weebles, just like my family at the time, and then in another commercial was a grampa Weeble with a boat AND MY GRANDAD HAD A BOAT. So, obviously, I thought that the Weebles were modeled after my family, and I asked my dad about it, and he didnt exactly understand what I was saying, he was like "yeah, kinda like our family" and I took that as confirmation that somehow we were famous and that people were making toys based on my family's life. I really believed that for a long time, even to the point of thinking how it was kind of unfair that they had made toys based on my family but hadnt bothered to give us those toys.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:53 pm
by SamDBL
My older cousin told me he was Spiderman. I was like 'yeah, right'. He 'proved' it to me by making the little web hand thing that Spiderman does when he shoots webs. Like, that's all he did... make a hand gesture. I was totally mystified and believed him. The oddest thing is I don't ever remember being delusional enough to believe that Spiderman was a real person.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:29 am
by xxxHunterxxx
My brother and I were watching Wonder Woman. I left the room for about 30 seconds and, when I came back, my brother reported that Lynda Carter's top had fallen off and he saw her boobs. I was devastated that I had missed it. In retrospect, however, I think he may have been lying.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:56 pm
by version sound
xxxHunterxxx wrote:My brother and I were watching Wonder Woman. I left the room for about 30 seconds and, when I came back, my brother reported that Lynda Carter's top had fallen off and he saw her boobs. I was devastated that I had missed it. In retrospect, however, I think he may have been lying.
I saw that episode. They were real and they were spectacular.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 2:04 am
by obik
version sound wrote:
xxxHunterxxx wrote:My brother and I were watching Wonder Woman. I left the room for about 30 seconds and, when I came back, my brother reported that Lynda Carter's top had fallen off and he saw her boobs. I was devastated that I had missed it. In retrospect, however, I think he may have been lying.
I saw that episode. They were real and they were spectacular.
'Strewth.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 5:54 am
by gregpolard
version sound wrote:
xxxHunterxxx wrote:My brother and I were watching Wonder Woman. I left the room for about 30 seconds and, when I came back, my brother reported that Lynda Carter's top had fallen off and he saw her boobs. I was devastated that I had missed it. In retrospect, however, I think he may have been lying.
I saw that episode. They were real and they were spectacular.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:16 am
by xxxHunterxxx
version sound wrote:
xxxHunterxxx wrote:My brother and I were watching Wonder Woman. I left the room for about 30 seconds and, when I came back, my brother reported that Lynda Carter's top had fallen off and he saw her boobs. I was devastated that I had missed it. In retrospect, however, I think he may have been lying.
I saw that episode. They were real and they were spectacular.
Damn.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 8:59 am
by SamDBL
Lynda carter during her heyday is probably the most beautiful woman that has ever existed. She actually still looks ok at 80 or whatever.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:53 pm
by lewdd
upon further review i wish i could have met pedro
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:36 pm
by version sound
lewdd wrote:upon further review i wish i could have met pedro
It’s not too late. I’ve met him. He’s a good dude.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 11:14 pm
by lewdd
version sound wrote:
lewdd wrote:upon further review i wish i could have met pedro
It’s not too late. I’ve met him. He’s a good dude.
Well, can you arrange for the three of us to meet Hunter at Sbarro?
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:14 am
by version sound
lewdd wrote:
version sound wrote:
lewdd wrote:upon further review i wish i could have met pedro
It’s not too late. I’ve met him. He’s a good dude.
Well, can you arrange for the three of us to meet Hunter at Sbarro?
Undoubtedly
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 8:00 am
by scannest
Upon further review...these appear to be loafers
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 1:45 pm
by FlexMyHead
That Side B of My War is better than Side A.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 1:56 pm
by version sound
FlexMyHead wrote:That Side B of My War is better than Side A.
Duh.
And the live versions on Live ‘84 are better than the studio versions.
Overall, though, BF is still trash (relatively speaking) after the TV Party EP.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:14 pm
by scannest
version sound wrote:And the live versions on Live ‘84 are better than the studio versions.
The Live '84 video is currently streaming via Amazon Prime. When Hank started with that Henry Miller quote... Funny what we took seriously at 18 vs. 50.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:20 pm
by version sound
scannest wrote:
version sound wrote:And the live versions on Live ‘84 are better than the studio versions.
The Live '84 video is currently streaming via Amazon Prime. When Hank started with that Henry Miller quote... Funny what we took seriously at 18 vs. 50.
Is that the same show? That one filmed in England with his black short-shorts was painful for me to sit through. There is virtually nothing of the BF that I loved evident in that video.
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:29 pm
by version sound
Re: Upon Further Review
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:39 pm
by scannest
version sound wrote:Is that the same show? That one filmed in England with his black short-shorts was painful for me to sit through. There is virtually nothing of the BF that I loved evident in that video.
Yes, Rollins in black short-shorts. It's that show.
(In all seriousness, yes it must be the same one.)
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 12:22 pm
