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The Mandela Effect: False Memory

Trevp666

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No, that was an actual Emily.
Ah yes of course, Emily Davison....I'm getting my Emmeline and my Emily mixed up.
It's easily done.
But then we don't know for sure if the Pankster wasn't also fond of equine annoyance. Maybe she did it in her spare time.
 

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Ah yes of course, Emily Davison....I'm getting my Emmeline and my Emily mixed up.
It's easily done.
But then we don't know for sure if the Pankster wasn't also fond of equine annoyance. Maybe she did it in her spare time.

Indeed, while she never shoed a horse, she did once tell a donkey to duck off.
 

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I was sure this guy had died of cancer maybe a year ago and I even remember seeing his obituary. But he's still here.... maybe it was another extravagantly bearded Scouser, or something?

Ricky Tomlinson, actor
 

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I was sure this guy had died of cancer maybe a year ago and I even remember seeing his obituary. But he's still here.... maybe it was another extravagantly bearded Scouser, or something?

Ricky Tomlinson, actor
I’m very surprised to see this as I also have a memory of reading about Ricky Tomlinson’s death not too long ago. Definitely one for the “people you thought were dead” thread.
 

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BBC article today citing the Mandela effect as being behind people misremembering famous quotations from TV and movies.
But surely the Mandela Effect posits that we slip universes or timelines or something and that's why we believe something to have happened that didn't (or the other way round). People 'misremembering' is something else (and probably the real reason). How can the Mandela Effect be 'behind people misremembering'? Either the Mandela Effect is in...er...effect, or people are misremembering - one or the other.
 

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I’m very surprised to see this as I also have a memory of reading about Ricky Tomlinson’s death not too long ago. Definitely one for the “people you thought were dead” thread.
Ricky is lovely. My Scouser workmates adore him.
I've met him just once. His demeanour was delightful and he made me laugh so much I seriously thought 'I could run away with him!'
Didn't know who he was until afterwards.
 

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I have only ever heard Emily Pankhurst not Emmiline - when I checked Wikipedia, it has the following tucked away "Emmeline Goulden was born on Sloan Street in the Moss Side district of Manchester on 15 July 1858. At school her teachers called her Emily, a name she preferred to be called."
Biography Online refers to her as Emily about half way into this entry - https://www.biographyonline.net/emily-pankhurst.html
"In 1912, Emily Pankhurst was convicted of breaking windows and sent to Holloway Prison. In prison, she went on hunger strike in protest about the appalling conditions that prisoners were kept in."
Also it now seems she went and joined the Conservative party in 1926 - not in the Universe I started out in she didn't.
Are we mid "change" ?
 

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Are you possibly getting her mixed up with Emily Davidson? She was another suffragette almost as famous due to being killed after George V's horse collided with her at the 1913 Epsom Derby.
Could be a contributing factor, but seems Emmeline preferred to be called Emily so that adds to the mixup.
 

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Shortening of names can lead to much confusion. My youngest daughter's name is Riyadh. At home she's known as Addie, although when she was younger (and still sometimes) I call her Libby (long story, favourite book when she was small).

As a result, one of my workmates thought I had three separate daughters: one called Riyadh, one called Addie and one called Libby. As I do have three daughters, but the other two are Vienna and Fern, this caused much confusion when they met my children.

I also know an Evangeline who is always always known as Evie.

So Emmeline being shortened to, and known as, Emily, would be perfectly common, just confusing when both forms of her name are used. We should agree on one and stick to it!
 

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I have a friend called Ross, who I’ve known since childhood. It wasn’t until the exchange of vows at his wedding ceremony that I found out his given name is actually Kevin which caused me to do a proper cartoon double take. Ross doesn’t appear in his ‘proper’ name at all, either first or middle.

At the risk of a slapped wrist for mentioning a political figure, it has been reported that Boris Johnson is univerally known to his family and friends as Al - the shortened form of his first name, Alexander. “Boris” is just a sort of trading name for his bumbling comedic political character which he adopted at Eton College in the late 1970s.
 
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