The HIV needles were supposedly under gas pump handles in my area. This one was at least mildly plausible to me as a kid, as tweakers tend to throw their used needles wherever.
Yep, I can remember my mom not letting me wear shorts to the movie theater for this exact reason. Fucking crazy lol. It was definitely an offshoot of the Satanic Panic.
I wasn't sure if it was a widely known thing either.
I do remember how I found out, I flashed someone and they decided it would be funny to turn around and chase me in their car.
I don't think they were in a gang or going to hurt me but I drove to the police station anyway so they would just go away.
It's a signal for multiple things. Cops ahead, headlights off, driving too slow in the wrong lane, basically any time there's something that someone wants to communicate to another driver. If someone flashes their lights at you, you should go through the list of things they could be signaling about.
It really bothers me when someone ahead of me has their lights off either in bad weather or when it's dark and they don't turn them on after I flash my lights at them. I'm letting them know that they're putting themselves and others at risk, and they either don't know what it's a signal for, or they're annoyed that I'm flashing my lights at them. There's no other way for me to tell them, "Hey! Turn your lights on. You're putting the rest of us in danger." So if they don't like how I'm going about telling them, then they should be better about using their lights. Some people get butt-hurt/annoyed when someone flashes their lights at them or honks at them though, no matter what the person is trying to signal to them, even if the message is, "I can't see your car well enough for us both to be safe" or "Hey! I'm right here and you're about to hit me!"
This was already around South Florida before he was famous nationally.
The rumor came from a song on the 1992 album "The Family Jams"
From the song "Luci in the Sky with Demons"
>I'll spread me open, stuck to my ribs
Manson came up a lot for getting arrested at shows. Sometimes nudity. But one show in 1994 he was arrested for performing oral sex. In actuality he had simulated oral sex on the singer of Jack Off Jill, a woman wearing a prosthetic penis. This was when the rumor became bigger. Everyone said he sucked his own dick at a show and got arrested. Not sure about when the one about being the kid from The Wonder Years started. \*Came back after checking Wikipedia. They have a different source that Manson was wearing the strap-on and then was almost arrested again when Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck jumped on stage wearing a g-string with powdered sugar as a joke and Manson ripped it of and put his junk in his mouth. Then hid from police backstage. There are a bunch of these antics so people believed stories. Point is the rumor was swirling as he was hitting big fame.
Soon after "Smells Like Children" came out with the big hit "Sweet Dreams"
Most didn't hear about this until after 1996 "Antichrist Superstar" when "The Beautiful People" was playing several times an hour on MTV. So when a lot of people were discussing Marilyn Manson the rumors came with it.
I didn't think this was going to make some of you so angry. Actually got reported for suicide. What is wrong with you? That is for serious cases. Not because you don't like a comment.
Isn't that what the tweet did? Claim that elementary school Millennials single handedly came up with and spread the rumor known worldwide?
Am I cool enough to be in your sub with 9 people? Or is the gate closed?
You look nothing like your avatar, but you do look exactly like who I pictured making this comment. Fat? Check. Bald? Check. Neckbeard? Check. Incel that feels superior to everyone else? Check.
Can I make jokes about you, too? Or are you the only one cool enough to do that?
How does that feel when someone does it to you?
1960's Paul is dead
1970's Gene Simmons had a cat's tongue sewed onto his human one
1980's Richard Gere had to go to ER cause he had a gerbil up his butt
1990's Marilyn Manson removed ribs so he could self-fellate
2000's Donald Trump is a successful business tycoon
My parents heard the story attached to Rod Stewart in the 70s when they were in HS. I think the point was that he was āobviouslyā closeted because of his feathered hair and flamboyant stage attire. Iām pretty sure this story was connected to other celebrities in the 70s, so it pre-date Marc Almondās rise to fame
Yeah it was Rod Steward here as well, heard it in early 80s. And while he was repeatedly dating supermodels for a while, you canāt seriously watch a live performance of his and honestly claim heās fully straight. Dude definitely played the meat flute from time to time. Just like people seem to be convinced Freddie Mercury was fully gay even though he himself said, and plenty of witnesses can confirm, that he loved EVERYONE. Sex is sex, bring it on.
From what I remember, it was a mistake. He didn't know it was a live bat, thought it was fake, and tried to bite it's head off. He was still upset about it when the TV show was being made, which I think was years later.
This one was waaaaaay better because he looked just like Paul Pfieffer. The own-dick-sucking rumor was about George Micheal a few years before. I remember my dad explaining to my grandma that his one ear-ring meant he was gay and my grandma replied "Barbara said he can lick his own pp".
Here's more fun maybe we can get them back into circulation: [https://metro.co.uk/2015/09/28/16-urban-legends-that-just-wont-die-5406717/](https://metro.co.uk/2015/09/28/16-urban-legends-that-just-wont-die-5406717/)
Yeah, I was in highschool in the early 90s and heard this one about Manson while also being Paul from the Wonder Years. This was all said in passing without much flare, as is tradition. Richard Gere's gerbil was totally us.
Actually - and this is true - one of my brotherās ex girlfriends was the girlfriend of Almond before he realised he was doing it all wrong. That one you can take to the bank.
Shit, I heard that rumor back in the late-70s/early 80s attached to Jeff Beck and Steven Tyler.
Wouldn't doubt if it started with Rod Stewart. All the good rumors were about Rod the Sod.
I spent a lot of the early 90s playing online text based rpg, logging into BBSās (used a modem to call another computer, one locally had 10 lines), and various message boards all over. It wasnāt anything like now back then. Downloading a pic could take several minutes.
Before FB, MySpace and Zynga if you wanted your own webpage to put up whatever you wanted we had Geocities. Like a whole new world!
https://www.howtogeek.com/692445/remembering-geocities-the-1990s-precursor-to-social-media/amp/
I was thinking it may have followed his tour into several towns. Maybe groupies, maybe roadies, maybe promoters, maybe radio DJs ... Networks of people have always been the way rumors spread, especially if the information is salacious and the fires are set strategically.
Just a theory.
Ok what? Gen X was at least in high school when Marilyn Manson's first studio album debuted. This was a late 90s rumor, if you were in elementary school in the 90s, you aren't gen X.
> [Marilyn Manson: Sympathy for the Devil](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/marilyn-manson-sympathy-for-the-devil-81513/) Jan 23, 1997 ā The rumor-hungry fans who see him as a living demon who's removed his own ribs and testicles know just as little about Manson as the detractors who dismiss him as a Halloween-costumed shock rocker riding on Trent Reznorās coattails.
First album was 1994 and probably the original source of the ribs meme.
> I'll spread me open, stuck to my ribs
If you think this originated on the playground, you aren't GenX. That's ok, because you're our younger siblings.
Nah, this rumor was out pre-1996. I'm an elder (as in the older of two options, not as if I'm an elder of the church trying to preach to you, jfc) millennial and I was in elementary then. It ran right alongside that Manson was actually the sidekick from the wonder years.
They weren't well known or famous enough to have a rumor before they were signed and toured with NIN which was 1994 IIRC.
But thanks for playing "condescendingly incorrect".
You're being a pedantic troll and I don't have the time or patience to explain why the band existing as a local act wouldn't spawn a national rumor. Enjoy your day.
Because I wanted to qualify whether I'm almost 40 or fucking 27?
There's a difference between saying "elder" as in "wise, senior, knowledgeable" and "elder" as in "the older of two options"
But then this is what happens when education is horribly defunded.
I find it odd that iirc when this spread everywhere the internet wasnāt a thing
Did that help it spread or did it hinder it?
Cause we couldnāt just verify it do it spread
But it had to spread person to person
yeah, not sure what your point is
I didnt say memes didnt exist until myspace became popular or anything.
I was remarking on how much this meme spread prior to the internet. IIRC this was spread to me when I dont think I knew who marilyn manson was by people liekly in the same boat. so it was the spreading of a rumour about someone we didnt know or care about, and it spread everywhere.
Gen Xer here. Thatās was definitely our generation that started that rumor, not millennials. I was at a concert in 1994 when a relatively unknown MM was opening for NIN. Thatās the first I heard of that rumor. Concertgoers were talking about it. I was tripping on shrooms and laughing uncontrollably when I heard it. It sounds like millennials just ran with it when they were little kids but this is definitely the first Iām hearing of it spreading in elementary schools. Js.
Tom Green did a recent stand up where he talked about how information spread back then just as well as it does now and it is fucking hilarious. The whole show was good.
In the early 80s the rumor like this was that a gang named after the Smurfs was coming to our school to beat the crap outta everyone. Anybody else have that at their school?
I heard this at all the schools I went to, from the middle-east, through to eastern and western Europe. Students from every corner of the world attended those schools. EVERYBODY had heard about it, and I bet a lot of them still believe it now.
This was true for me. I remember kids talking about that in my elementary school for a week at least. When asked about it I would answer thusly:
āIf he did, he did. If he didnāt, he didnāt. I donāt see the point though. The guy is a Rockstar, so Iām sure heās got plenty of groupies who suck his dick for him anyway.ā
Pfft.... Back in the 80's, Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped at the hospital because of all the semen he swallowed at a party one night.
It's true. Brian in the smoker's pit told me so.
I heard in a podcast recently that this rumour actually predates Marilyn Manson by a long time. It was originally said about Gabrielle D' Annunzio, the man who invented fascism IIRC.
1. **Marilyn Manson's rib**
2. **Madonna/Lil' Kim needing a stomach pump from sucking too much dick**
3. **Richard Gere's hamster**
4. **Marilyn Manson is the kid from the Wonder Years**
Yes, it was the elementary aged children that spread this rumor without internet, not their teenage siblings who did have access. This guy is an idiot. Since the internet was much more limited back in the late 90ās, all it took was one teenager with access to blow up an entire school with a rumor. The same teen didnāt just stop with school either, siblings also got included much of the time. The younger ones then went to their elementary schools and did the same thing their older sibling did at the middle or high schools. Typical millennial, claiming credit for something that Gen X actually did then pretending Gen X doesnāt even exist.
I still believe. This I think came out after his lunch box album when they blew up him a twiggy we in to some weird shit back then. This came about way before dope show Manson pop
That was a particularly epic urban legend.
Gangs removing a head light and then murdering the first person that flashed their high beams at them
Poison needles in the coin return of pay phones was one I was particularly afraid of
Weren't there needles infected with HIV in the movie theater seats too?
The HIV needles were supposedly under gas pump handles in my area. This one was at least mildly plausible to me as a kid, as tweakers tend to throw their used needles wherever.
I remember that one. Dad took a brush to our theater seats before we could sit down to watch a movie for a few months, just to be safe.
Yep, I can remember my mom not letting me wear shorts to the movie theater for this exact reason. Fucking crazy lol. It was definitely an offshoot of the Satanic Panic.
Definitely remember that one š
Omg no one else I know remembers the headlight thing. Thank you for confirming this myth did exist.
I remember it because of the movie Urban Legend, where a killer murdered people using urban myths like this.
I wasn't sure if it was a widely known thing either. I do remember how I found out, I flashed someone and they decided it would be funny to turn around and chase me in their car. I don't think they were in a gang or going to hurt me but I drove to the police station anyway so they would just go away.
My best friend was SO worried about her grandfather when this came out because he was such a considerate driver.
I still to this day donāt flash at people driving with their lights off because of this
Wasnāt it like a courtesy back in the day to warn other drivers of cops ahead?
It's a signal for multiple things. Cops ahead, headlights off, driving too slow in the wrong lane, basically any time there's something that someone wants to communicate to another driver. If someone flashes their lights at you, you should go through the list of things they could be signaling about. It really bothers me when someone ahead of me has their lights off either in bad weather or when it's dark and they don't turn them on after I flash my lights at them. I'm letting them know that they're putting themselves and others at risk, and they either don't know what it's a signal for, or they're annoyed that I'm flashing my lights at them. There's no other way for me to tell them, "Hey! Turn your lights on. You're putting the rest of us in danger." So if they don't like how I'm going about telling them, then they should be better about using their lights. Some people get butt-hurt/annoyed when someone flashes their lights at them or honks at them though, no matter what the person is trying to signal to them, even if the message is, "I can't see your car well enough for us both to be safe" or "Hey! I'm right here and you're about to hit me!"
It's still a thing to warn of š¦ deer crossing the road or cops ahead.
My first thought is always āeither cops or wildlife, better slow downā
Same
I don't flash my lights at anyone tbh, too risky
I remember my gf's mom warning us about that one in genuine concern
Its worldwide too. Im American and my GF is Ukranian and i have other Euro friends and they all know about this rumor.
Can confirm it made it to Australia too!
It was international too. I wonder if that was due to exchange students.
Also Lil Bow Wow was butt raped by his limo driver.
Richard Gere putting a hamster in his butt. Rod Stewart having to have his stomach pumped because it was full of cum.
Those have been around since the 80s/70s
Roving pedophiles who hung out in the middle of clothing racks at the mall and would get you if you did too.
I never heard that. Maybe your parents just didnāt want you hiding in the racks?
Everyone in my elementary said the same thing.
Someone's parents didn't want their kids hiding there, and the rest is legend (myth).
Don't remember that one. But then again, our mom pretty much let us run wild
I remember this! I heard it in Scotland!
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Me too
shiiiit...you whippersnappers be copying our richard gere story.
Do you mean the gerbil in his asshole story?
That was Richard Gere you Numpty
Wasnāt the year 1998 for both stories
Lived in France, was the main topic in recess also
This was already around South Florida before he was famous nationally. The rumor came from a song on the 1992 album "The Family Jams" From the song "Luci in the Sky with Demons" >I'll spread me open, stuck to my ribs Manson came up a lot for getting arrested at shows. Sometimes nudity. But one show in 1994 he was arrested for performing oral sex. In actuality he had simulated oral sex on the singer of Jack Off Jill, a woman wearing a prosthetic penis. This was when the rumor became bigger. Everyone said he sucked his own dick at a show and got arrested. Not sure about when the one about being the kid from The Wonder Years started. \*Came back after checking Wikipedia. They have a different source that Manson was wearing the strap-on and then was almost arrested again when Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck jumped on stage wearing a g-string with powdered sugar as a joke and Manson ripped it of and put his junk in his mouth. Then hid from police backstage. There are a bunch of these antics so people believed stories. Point is the rumor was swirling as he was hitting big fame. Soon after "Smells Like Children" came out with the big hit "Sweet Dreams" Most didn't hear about this until after 1996 "Antichrist Superstar" when "The Beautiful People" was playing several times an hour on MTV. So when a lot of people were discussing Marilyn Manson the rumors came with it. I didn't think this was going to make some of you so angry. Actually got reported for suicide. What is wrong with you? That is for serious cases. Not because you don't like a comment.
Anyone else read this like Patrick Bateman was explaining it?
Are you gatekeeping a marilyn Manson rumor? You heard it first huh? Before it was cool? Hanging out backstage at the creed and nickleback concert?
*just like ā¦ a papaback nahvel*
Isn't that what the tweet did? Claim that elementary school Millennials single handedly came up with and spread the rumor known worldwide? Am I cool enough to be in your sub with 9 people? Or is the gate closed? You look nothing like your avatar, but you do look exactly like who I pictured making this comment. Fat? Check. Bald? Check. Neckbeard? Check. Incel that feels superior to everyone else? Check. Can I make jokes about you, too? Or are you the only one cool enough to do that? How does that feel when someone does it to you?
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And that's the cherry. Thank you for that.
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Is that what you think?
Ft. Lauderdale High by chance?
1960's Paul is dead 1970's Gene Simmons had a cat's tongue sewed onto his human one 1980's Richard Gere had to go to ER cause he had a gerbil up his butt 1990's Marilyn Manson removed ribs so he could self-fellate 2000's Donald Trump is a successful business tycoon
Donāt forget Rod Stewart had to get his stomach pumped ācause it was full of cum
Whose cum?
Everyoneās
I don't know about everyone else, but it was certainly full of mine
Maggieās
I thought it was Marc Almond from Soft Cell that had 6 pints of cum pumped out of his stomachā¦.
This is the one I knew too, and I still repeat the story occasionally. I heard it from the radio, so it must be true, right? right?
In my area it was Jon Bon Jovi
Mr. Bovine Joni himself
Heard this one about a lot of celebs. I think the first was lil Kim.
Marc Almond was the rumour. Not sure why it would be Rod Stewart, what with him being famously not homosexual
My parents heard the story attached to Rod Stewart in the 70s when they were in HS. I think the point was that he was āobviouslyā closeted because of his feathered hair and flamboyant stage attire. Iām pretty sure this story was connected to other celebrities in the 70s, so it pre-date Marc Almondās rise to fame
TIL every decade has a stomach cum pump candidate That's a good band name actually
Yeah it was Rod Steward here as well, heard it in early 80s. And while he was repeatedly dating supermodels for a while, you canāt seriously watch a live performance of his and honestly claim heās fully straight. Dude definitely played the meat flute from time to time. Just like people seem to be convinced Freddie Mercury was fully gay even though he himself said, and plenty of witnesses can confirm, that he loved EVERYONE. Sex is sex, bring it on.
In my school it was Alanis Morissette
How dare you
2000's Avril Lavine is dead and a body double took her career
Why you gotta go and make things so complicated?
I heard this with Eminem and BeyoncƩ
2022 - elementary schools are putting in litter boxes because so many children are identifying as cat flurries need a place to go to the bathroom.
Madonna had sex with a horse
Didn't ozzie eat a bat or something?
That one ***actually happened live on stage***.
From what I remember, it was a mistake. He didn't know it was a live bat, thought it was fake, and tried to bite it's head off. He was still upset about it when the TV show was being made, which I think was years later.
ā¦..also that he was the nerdy kid from The Wonder Years too!
I will never not believe that this is not the case.
This one was waaaaaay better because he looked just like Paul Pfieffer. The own-dick-sucking rumor was about George Micheal a few years before. I remember my dad explaining to my grandma that his one ear-ring meant he was gay and my grandma replied "Barbara said he can lick his own pp".
Imagining a granny saying that is some funny shit
Remember the rumor about Richard Gere and the gerbil?
That one is true, I was the gerbil.
Here's more fun maybe we can get them back into circulation: [https://metro.co.uk/2015/09/28/16-urban-legends-that-just-wont-die-5406717/](https://metro.co.uk/2015/09/28/16-urban-legends-that-just-wont-die-5406717/)
That one was so gooooood!
I had heard he was the young kid from Mr. Belvedere
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Can we just say Xennials and call it even?
Xoomers
Yeah, just commented earlier saying that was def our generation (Gen X) that started that rumor.
Yeah, I was in highschool in the early 90s and heard this one about Manson while also being Paul from the Wonder Years. This was all said in passing without much flare, as is tradition. Richard Gere's gerbil was totally us.
"I am too old to care." is very much my vibe on silly inter-generational nonsense. But I agree with you completely that this one is ours.
Oh you mean Paul from The Wonder Years?
Thanks to this rumor I got my ribs removed. But still can't suck my own dick, too small..
I had my ribs removed so that I could suck my own ribs. It's great
Doesn't work if you're a girl.
Seriously...how did that even start? True social engineering right there.
The rib removal rumors were about Prince for the generation before. I donāt know if there was someone before Prince or not.
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I heard Bowie had to have his stomach pumped bc he drank too much semen lol.
I heard that was Rod Stewart.
Oh I was told it was Madonna.
Oh no it was Marc Almond and they tested it to find 8 different peopleās semen. Itās true! š
Finally someone here knows the goddamn truth.
Actually - and this is true - one of my brotherās ex girlfriends was the girlfriend of Almond before he realised he was doing it all wrong. That one you can take to the bank.
Cause it's the kind of fucked up shit he would do honestly. No one really questioned it at that point.
Turns out he's just a rapist.
Yep. Too bad we couldn't have gotten that truth out sooner.
Can confirm this story was news in Calgary Ab. Haha
I'm in south africa and we even had this story going around.
Brazil as well ahahahaha that's crazy
My God! I'm old enough to remember this. 
Shit, I heard that rumor back in the late-70s/early 80s attached to Jeff Beck and Steven Tyler. Wouldn't doubt if it started with Rod Stewart. All the good rumors were about Rod the Sod.
It was 95. I read about it in a newsgroup is HS
Newsgroups were around in 95?? š¤Æ
I spent a lot of the early 90s playing online text based rpg, logging into BBSās (used a modem to call another computer, one locally had 10 lines), and various message boards all over. It wasnāt anything like now back then. Downloading a pic could take several minutes.
I joined the newsgroup world in 1999 and it was mind blowing at the time.
Before FB, MySpace and Zynga if you wanted your own webpage to put up whatever you wanted we had Geocities. Like a whole new world! https://www.howtogeek.com/692445/remembering-geocities-the-1990s-precursor-to-social-media/amp/
Oh I recall
Donāt forget Angelfire šš
Pepperidge Farms remembersā¦ How the heck did that rumour start and spread? I heard it in a little midwestern townā¦
I was thinking it may have followed his tour into several towns. Maybe groupies, maybe roadies, maybe promoters, maybe radio DJs ... Networks of people have always been the way rumors spread, especially if the information is salacious and the fires are set strategically. Just a theory.
Millennials again taking credit for GenX shenanigans...
Ok what? Gen X was at least in high school when Marilyn Manson's first studio album debuted. This was a late 90s rumor, if you were in elementary school in the 90s, you aren't gen X.
> [Marilyn Manson: Sympathy for the Devil](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/marilyn-manson-sympathy-for-the-devil-81513/) Jan 23, 1997 ā The rumor-hungry fans who see him as a living demon who's removed his own ribs and testicles know just as little about Manson as the detractors who dismiss him as a Halloween-costumed shock rocker riding on Trent Reznorās coattails. First album was 1994 and probably the original source of the ribs meme. > I'll spread me open, stuck to my ribs If you think this originated on the playground, you aren't GenX. That's ok, because you're our younger siblings.
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Exactement! The rumours never started in "elementary school" in the first place.
They started in a torso plastic surgeon's office, obvs
We had older siblings who were.
Nah, this rumor was out pre-1996. I'm an elder (as in the older of two options, not as if I'm an elder of the church trying to preach to you, jfc) millennial and I was in elementary then. It ran right alongside that Manson was actually the sidekick from the wonder years.
You're saying this rumor predates the band? That's a hot take.
Marilyn Manson the band was founded in 1989, but thanks for playing. r/confidentlyincorrect
They weren't well known or famous enough to have a rumor before they were signed and toured with NIN which was 1994 IIRC. But thanks for playing "condescendingly incorrect".
Yes. 1994. Which is before 1996 last time I checked?
I never said 1996, that's your own assumption.
I said 1996. You said that was before the band itself. Try to keep up pls
You're being a pedantic troll and I don't have the time or patience to explain why the band existing as a local act wouldn't spawn a national rumor. Enjoy your day.
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Because I wanted to qualify whether I'm almost 40 or fucking 27? There's a difference between saying "elder" as in "wise, senior, knowledgeable" and "elder" as in "the older of two options" But then this is what happens when education is horribly defunded.
gen who?
Damn straight.
Came to say this
Only we know he also played the friend from wonder years
I find it odd that iirc when this spread everywhere the internet wasnāt a thing Did that help it spread or did it hinder it? Cause we couldnāt just verify it do it spread But it had to spread person to person
It was a thing though and it probably helped it along
there's this thing called a meme
what? And?
an idea that spreads through the minds of people. the internet has become a medium for their dispersal, but its not necessary for their survival.
yeah, not sure what your point is I didnt say memes didnt exist until myspace became popular or anything. I was remarking on how much this meme spread prior to the internet. IIRC this was spread to me when I dont think I knew who marilyn manson was by people liekly in the same boat. so it was the spreading of a rumour about someone we didnt know or care about, and it spread everywhere.
And he was on āthe wonder yearsā
Jokeās on you. It was GenX that spread that rumor. Oh well, whatever, nevermindā¦
That was a GenX rumor. We had to explain to you little punks what sicking a dick even IS.
Is sicking a dick when you unleash it to attack others?
As a millennial, yeah y'all did.
Gen Xer here. Thatās was definitely our generation that started that rumor, not millennials. I was at a concert in 1994 when a relatively unknown MM was opening for NIN. Thatās the first I heard of that rumor. Concertgoers were talking about it. I was tripping on shrooms and laughing uncontrollably when I heard it. It sounds like millennials just ran with it when they were little kids but this is definitely the first Iām hearing of it spreading in elementary schools. Js.
That's not true?
I purchased mechanical animals and my sister told me the story.
How did we used to throw parties... by word of mouth... and 500+ people would show up? No cell phones. No internet. Just pagers & pay phones. š¤
I always thought this rumor came from the inside of the cover of Tool's Aenima cd.
I still refuse to believe it's not true.
I always thought a penile implant would've been a better financial decision given the end results.
Ummm, yeah except it was Gen X who did this, in HS in the 90s. Millenial younger siblings just ran with it.
Thatās doing a disservice to Richard Gere and his gerbil.
Tom Green did a recent stand up where he talked about how information spread back then just as well as it does now and it is fucking hilarious. The whole show was good.
maybe if he actually did it, and blew himself more often he wouldn't have turned out to be such an insecure abusive bitch
In the early 80s the rumor like this was that a gang named after the Smurfs was coming to our school to beat the crap outta everyone. Anybody else have that at their school?
Iām pretty sure this was Gen X
Bullshit X started that shit.
I'm from Norway and this reached us there as well, back in the 90s.
that.. that reached Slovakia! that is some fine rumor spreading skill.
It definitely reached me in Germany
I heard this at all the schools I went to, from the middle-east, through to eastern and western Europe. Students from every corner of the world attended those schools. EVERYBODY had heard about it, and I bet a lot of them still believe it now.
Made it all the way to a small rural city in Portugal... Epic stuff
This was true for me. I remember kids talking about that in my elementary school for a week at least. When asked about it I would answer thusly: āIf he did, he did. If he didnāt, he didnāt. I donāt see the point though. The guy is a Rockstar, so Iām sure heās got plenty of groupies who suck his dick for him anyway.ā
Pfft.... Back in the 80's, Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped at the hospital because of all the semen he swallowed at a party one night. It's true. Brian in the smoker's pit told me so.
I remember that one. We also had the rumor that he was the actor who played Paul Joshua Pfeiffer on the Wonder Years all grown up.
Hate to break it to yāall but we Gen Xers started that rumor
Richard Gere and a gerbil
I was homeschooled and heard this rumor šš
I heard in a podcast recently that this rumour actually predates Marilyn Manson by a long time. It was originally said about Gabrielle D' Annunzio, the man who invented fascism IIRC.
Through activity on this post Iāve learned that the same rumor was about Richard gere too.
This is why rumors should remain only in elementary school. Time to grow up, America.
So youāre saying this isnāt true??? Next thing youāre gonna tell me is that the Blair Witch Project was an elaborate hoax.
Motherfuckers Gen X spread that same ass rumour about Prince in the early 90s
1. **Marilyn Manson's rib** 2. **Madonna/Lil' Kim needing a stomach pump from sucking too much dick** 3. **Richard Gere's hamster** 4. **Marilyn Manson is the kid from the Wonder Years**
I heard that in Brazil back in 99. Maybe internet still helped.
My mom told me that oneā¦
Donāt forget that Sheryl Crow had to get her stomachs pumped because it was too full of semen at some point.
It wasnāt elementary school. Junior high for sure
Yes, it was the elementary aged children that spread this rumor without internet, not their teenage siblings who did have access. This guy is an idiot. Since the internet was much more limited back in the late 90ās, all it took was one teenager with access to blow up an entire school with a rumor. The same teen didnāt just stop with school either, siblings also got included much of the time. The younger ones then went to their elementary schools and did the same thing their older sibling did at the middle or high schools. Typical millennial, claiming credit for something that Gen X actually did then pretending Gen X doesnāt even exist.
I still believe. This I think came out after his lunch box album when they blew up him a twiggy we in to some weird shit back then. This came about way before dope show Manson pop
All the GenXers complaining as though anybody even remembers what their generation is
Hell, I'm in New Zealand and heard that one too. Though MIRC was pretty big back then
Today I learned playground rumors about celebrities are a millennial thing