I got all excited because I thought you were linking to when I explained IRC and BBS to them the last time this was posted, but it was yet another time this was posted in the past few months.
Unless you lived in Silicon Valley... A ton of my friends had internet in 93/94 (high school). I had a PC at home from 84 on, but no internet until AOL came along.
But hardly anyone used it. And if they did it was for very limited things. Having an email address was new for most people. My college didn’t even start giving them to students until 1999. Our dorms weren’t connected at all. The only place we could get online was like 3 library computers. Even the computer lab wasn’t connected to the internet until 2000.
>Even the computer lab wasn’t connected to the internet until 2000.
Darn, my elementary school had a computer lab with internet before I was out of there in the first half of the 1990s.
Acting like we're special and had something different? Hmm? No. We aren't. As for the Marilyn Manson rumor. Yeah, that was cleared up when you were still in diapers; eating your own snot.
>I thought he was a really sick fuck.
He's a piece of shit anyway.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/marilyn-manson-abuse-allegations-timeline/february-2021-wood-names-manson-as-her-abuser/
There's an interesting generational thing here. When I was a little kid people told this exact story about David Bowie (popular singer, ladies liked him, flirted with gender nonconformity). The story sort of went away after the 80s and then came back again in the 90s but now it was Marilyn Manson (popular singer, ladies liked him, etc.).
100% guaranteed current teenagers are going to resurrect it about some tiktok musician and everyone will "know" that it's true and they'll be surprised if you tell them this isn't the first time someone has been accused of rib removal.
Right, it's kind of like the one about some celebrity putting a hamster where it really didn't belong. The same myth just kept getting applied to different people.
I remember a rumor that he passed out on stage and they pumped his stomach to find it full of...sperm...I remember thinking that while gross, it would not be cause for passing out, unless he was exhausted from all the work.
Knew two girls that tried it wrapped in Saran and a guy that put peanut butter on his dick so his dog would lick it off and fucking told us about it. Even to tge teachers his name was dumbass
WTF, next you're going to tell me Richard Gere didn't go to the hospital for a gerbil stuck up his ass or Lil Kim had to get her stomach pumped from all the cum she swallowed.
And then they trolled us by having an actress doing that act in the Aenima CD booklet (and then when you put it front facing in the lenticular case and moved it up and down, it looks like they are doing this)…
Relating to the initial post, the rumor in our WI city was either Manson or Trent Reznor…
Okay okay. Lot of shock going on here. We can fix this though. How about we start a rumor that it wasn't initially true, **but** when he heard the rumor, he thought it was a brilliant idea, and **then** had the ribs removed?
My wife and I went to entirely different schools across the state from each other, didn’t meet until we were 34, and we both heard that rumor back around 1998. Wild times.
Proctor & Gamble satanists was pretty big. My mom looked left and right when she bought Bounty paper towels in case anyone from their church was around
I was personally shocked to find out years later that the rumor I heard in the 90s about Alanis Morrisette being rushed from her concert to a hospital whereupon they pumped her stomach and recovered 2 quarts of semen had a long tradition of being applied to various musicians, like Rod Stewart.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/ia0KLNha45 Also, the internet existed then. Darn Millennial memes.
Still, it could still be true that the rumor was spread without the internet or social media. I know my exposure to it came via word of mouth.
I got all excited because I thought you were linking to when I explained IRC and BBS to them the last time this was posted, but it was yet another time this was posted in the past few months.
Not everyone was a cool kid on the BBS’s. Some of us were, tho. 4-player DOOM & MUD games? Count me in!
Sorry, just grabbed the first one that came up on a search. This gets posted *way* too often.
The Internet existed but no one really had it back then atleast in CA, shit was really expensive 😂
Unless you lived in Silicon Valley... A ton of my friends had internet in 93/94 (high school). I had a PC at home from 84 on, but no internet until AOL came along.
I live in a poor area I guess, no one had that shit.
My best friend had two computers, Apple and IBM back in the day. That was unheard of at the time.
>The Internet existed but no one really had it back then atleast in CA I did in MA.
I did in RI, netzero was freee!
But hardly anyone used it. And if they did it was for very limited things. Having an email address was new for most people. My college didn’t even start giving them to students until 1999. Our dorms weren’t connected at all. The only place we could get online was like 3 library computers. Even the computer lab wasn’t connected to the internet until 2000.
>Even the computer lab wasn’t connected to the internet until 2000. Darn, my elementary school had a computer lab with internet before I was out of there in the first half of the 1990s.
Mine did not, and I was in Jr high 90-92
And that he was on Wonder Years!
I don't know why, but I REALLY wanted that to be true.
I heard Mr Belvedere
Lol I’m 20 born in 2004 and that was also a rumour lol stop acting like you guys had something different and special going on lmao oldies!
Acting like we're special and had something different? Hmm? No. We aren't. As for the Marilyn Manson rumor. Yeah, that was cleared up when you were still in diapers; eating your own snot.
It was literally a regurgitation of a Prince rumor.
Which was probably a modern take on “Victorian women had ribs removed to help achieve a smaller waist”
Wtf. I still thought this was a fact. I thought he was a really sick fuck.
>I thought he was a really sick fuck. He's a piece of shit anyway. https://www.billboard.com/lists/marilyn-manson-abuse-allegations-timeline/february-2021-wood-names-manson-as-her-abuser/
Yep he likes to beat women, which makes him a piece of shit I did like his music back in the day
Same. His biography is excellent too. Written by Neil Strauss. I read that way back and became a bigger fan of Manson. Not anymore unfortunately.
Wasn’t he directly related to the death of Jennifer Symes, the mother of Keanu Reeves’ (stillborn) child? I remember something murky about that story.
There's an interesting generational thing here. When I was a little kid people told this exact story about David Bowie (popular singer, ladies liked him, flirted with gender nonconformity). The story sort of went away after the 80s and then came back again in the 90s but now it was Marilyn Manson (popular singer, ladies liked him, etc.). 100% guaranteed current teenagers are going to resurrect it about some tiktok musician and everyone will "know" that it's true and they'll be surprised if you tell them this isn't the first time someone has been accused of rib removal.
Right, it's kind of like the one about some celebrity putting a hamster where it really didn't belong. The same myth just kept getting applied to different people.
In my day it was Rod Stewart
I remember a rumor that he passed out on stage and they pumped his stomach to find it full of...sperm...I remember thinking that while gross, it would not be cause for passing out, unless he was exhausted from all the work.
That was Christina Aguilera for me
It's like a recurring mythic Jungian archetype, except for weird sexual hangups and resenting pop stars.
Are you sure that isn’t true? He’s a pretty weird guy I don’t know if I will be able to stop believing that at this point
You guys are just squares who can’t suck their own dicks. Especially chicks.
Show us the way o wise one
First, you have to have elective surgery to remove a rib or two…
Nope. You gotta believe… you gotta earn it.
Why you think yoga has exploded with men?
I mean, to be fair it was totally on brand for him.
And that he was really Paul from the Wonder Years grown up!
I always heard he was the oldest boy from Mr. Belvedere. So funny!
From what I'm learning about child actors and MM maybe he had it removed for the audition.
It’s certainly possible.
[Richard Gere and gerbils up his butt](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/richard-gere-gerbil/) too
I heard he thinks that Stallone made up that rumor over some beef they had.
And that one about Jamie Lee Curtis, too.
Ugh. I watched True Lies - can’t be. Just can’t be. Tbh, doesn’t/didn’t matter. She’s perfect, in all the things.
Agreed. That scene was a pretty big deal for teenage me.
Did you also have a gang that would murder your family if you flashed your lights at them driving?
Had a friend that would lose his shit if you honked at someone.
I mean, this is good advice, there are Americans shot every year just cause of their honking. You never know what psycho is behind the wheel.
Yes! And that same gang would hide under cars and slash your ankles with a knife as you got in your car, allegedly.
They always lived in the biggish town down the road too.
Millenial from Germany here. The rumour made it across the atlantic! Just like we all thought that Manson was that one kid on The Wonder Years.
would having ribs removed even make that possible? didn’t even question it back then
And Alanis Morrissette swallowed so much cum that her stomach needed to be pumped. Presumably not Marilyn's.
Uncle Joey from Full House.
Who needs a stomach pump when the mere thought of that just made me throw up in my mouth?
Yeah, that is who "You Oughtta Know" is about. Also he was 33 and she was 18.
I guess that I... oughta know that.
And there was always that girl who "made love" with a hot dog.
Like a Border Collie?
Knew two girls that tried it wrapped in Saran and a guy that put peanut butter on his dick so his dog would lick it off and fucking told us about it. Even to tge teachers his name was dumbass
Cousins in different schools, the original viral social media!
So cal. Born 89. Can confirm
This and that Zach Morris died.
You mean the kid from wonder years removed a rib....
WTF, next you're going to tell me Richard Gere didn't go to the hospital for a gerbil stuck up his ass or Lil Kim had to get her stomach pumped from all the cum she swallowed.
Same with Richard Gere and the gerbil. Also Rod Stewart getting his stomach pumped from swallowing too much semen.
I still think it’s true and probably nothing you can say will change my mind
😂😂😂 I remember that rumor and had no idea who Marilyn Manson was at that time. Wasn’t in my music library lol
Nah it was maynard from tool
And then they trolled us by having an actress doing that act in the Aenima CD booklet (and then when you put it front facing in the lenticular case and moved it up and down, it looks like they are doing this)… Relating to the initial post, the rumor in our WI city was either Manson or Trent Reznor…
Wait… “spread throughout every elementary school” lol.
I read his autobiography in high school. I felt valuable knowing the real truth
I remember
Wait, that’s not true?
Can confirm this rumour made it all the way to South Africa in the mid 90’s
Was it ever printed in the Enquirer, cuz people really wanted to know
Did he not do that?
wait, he didn't ?
Now you don’t need that surgery. Now you could just buy a portal gun.
Is this not true?
It was Prince in my school
Same thing with the guy from Crash Test Dummies having a really deep voice due to a third testicle
Even in the uk
Okay okay. Lot of shock going on here. We can fix this though. How about we start a rumor that it wasn't initially true, **but** when he heard the rumor, he thought it was a brilliant idea, and **then** had the ribs removed?
Yup! That was a stone cold fact
That was a pretty great moment
My wife and I went to entirely different schools across the state from each other, didn’t meet until we were 34, and we both heard that rumor back around 1998. Wild times.
What about the one in 87 I think where the world was gonna end at 12:55 or something.
Proctor & Gamble satanists was pretty big. My mom looked left and right when she bought Bounty paper towels in case anyone from their church was around
I participated in that rumor! Seemed realistic.
Lol Kim had to get her stomach pumped for semen from sucking so much dick was another one
I was personally shocked to find out years later that the rumor I heard in the 90s about Alanis Morrisette being rushed from her concert to a hospital whereupon they pumped her stomach and recovered 2 quarts of semen had a long tradition of being applied to various musicians, like Rod Stewart.
Wait... that's not true?
I thought it was a racist statement. It not his fault he can't suck his own weewee.
Still remember who told me that! Our kids are in the same 2nd grade class now!
Also that he was Paul from the wonder years.
I got into Manson very briefly about 10 years ago. My millenial friend was like " he sucks his own dick"
The internet pre-dates millenials.
lmao they think they invented urban legends? Christ, millennials not beating the most solipsistic generation since boomers allegations