1. Kingtype

    Kingtype Banned Contributor

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    Berenstein or berenstain bears? (fun conspiracy theory)

    Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Kingtype, Aug 21, 2015.

    I know this seems like a somewhat pointless thread but I am a master of pointless and besides was curious what you'd all think.

    Obviously most of this is 99.9 percent craziness but there has been quite a big conspiarcy theory going around involving these children books and parallel universes.

    http://www.avclub.com/article/how-you-spell-berenstain-bears-could-be-proof-para-223615

    http://www.vice.com/read/the-berensteain-bears-conspiracy-theory-that-has-convinced-the-internet-there-are-parallel-universes

    http://www.canada.com/entertainment/all/98It+Berenstain+like+coffee+stain+Jell+stain+Berenstain/11285430/story.html

    http://woodbetweenworlds.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-berenstein-bears-we-are-living-in.html (creator's son commented on that blog)

    Okay so we all obviously know we aren't from mirror universes (as cool as that be ;))

    But I post this thread to ask.

    Which do you all remember?

    Because I remember it as Berenstein (I always said it like steen) but it seems to be Barenstain but boy I swore it was Berenstein? So about you all which do you remember it as or say it?

    Either way a fun little theory XD

    So which do you all recall it as just from going off memory....
     
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    Kingtype Banned Contributor

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    Really?

    I can't be the only that thought it was and remembers it as Berenstein XD
     
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    I don't think those books ever took off in my country, so I only ever came across one or two, but I remember it as Berenstain, rhyming with rain. Names with the suffix -stein aren't very common here, so perhaps I paid more attention to the spelling as I had less basis for assumptions.

    What's the prevalence of the surname Berenstain vs Berenstein in the US? Neither are on behindthename, and all Google gives me is this conspiracy theory.
     
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    It's always been Berenstain, going back to the first 'bears' book in the early 1960s. "Berenstain" is the last name of the authors of the books.
     
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    So what you're saying is, you're from Earth 2?

    :p
     
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    I really annoyed my family with this 'Mandela Effect.'

    The one that tripped me up was the 'location of Sri Lanka...' which has moved, if you look on the maps.
     

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