PS Contest: Schoolyard BS Rumours

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It's contest time again and instead of trivia, I thought it'd be more fun to share personal stories, namely "What's the worst BS rumour you heard on the playground as a kid?" I'll share a couple:

In 78, I was that unfortunate kid who didn't see Star Wars when it came out, my pal Gerry claimed to have seen it. Gerry regailed me about the scene in which Obi Wan plays the Star Wars theme on the organ in the Millenium Falcon or the ending in which Luke, fresh from killing Darth Vader, deposits his light saber in R2 D2, who promptly blows up.

In '79, I finally caught Star Wars and can remember sitting in the dark thinking "Hey Gerry is filthy liar!" When confronted, he simply denied saying any of it, I was crazy you see....






In fifth grade, I sat next to a kid named Geoff, one of the cooler kids in school who told me he had seen an episode of "Battle of the Planets" that revealed Zoltar's identity to be none other than "a scientist at Center Neptune". It was a shocking series ender that other deskmate Dean confirmed as seeing. Must be a rare, lost episode....

Tell me yours, either in the comments section here or at the Museum Forum, Myspace or Facebook pages, I'll check them all and send the top three Fabulous Prizes! The winners will be poster here next Friday.

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[Mikey]

Right before the movie Earthquake was released there was a rumour that the special theatre effect "Sensurround" was actually made by giant hydraulic jacks that were mounted under the theatre - and actually shook the entire building at certain times (to simulate the Earthquake effect).

I don't know exactly where the rumour started, but it was all over my school.
It was so bad, my local newspaper reported my local fire department refused to let the movie show in my town (due to effect which they considered too dangerous)

By the time the movie was actually released, the rumour was all but dismissed and my theatre showed Earthquake on opening day in "Sensurround".
I was there .... but my good buddy's mom refused to let him go with me - (still believing the rumour was true).

BTW, incase you haven't experienced it, "Sensurround" basically felt like somebody turned the movie theatre speakers up and hit the low bass switch - giving a vibrating feeling in your ears.

Good times

[UnderdogDJLSW]

The only big rumor I remember was the proposed end of Star Wars back around '82 where there was going to be a huge light saber battle between Darth Vader and Yoda. It was going to take place on a pre-historic Earth and Luke and Leia were going to hook up like Adam and Eve. Apparently Han Solo stayed frozen, but I don't remember anyone talking about him.

[highquality]

Bruce Lee was killed while fighting a Lion. I must've heard that from 3 or 4 different kids.

[Emgee]

Irwin Allen was not involved in the movie EARTHQUAKE. Big screen disaster movies THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (and the sequel) and THE TOWERING INFERNO of course along with the TV movies FIRE! and another I think called FLOOD but not EARTHQUAKE. Maybe you picked up the idea of his association with the movie from a kid in the schoolyard too?

[highquality]

One more...

Gene Simmons of KISS had some magical "Fire Rock" implanted in his back teeth to blow fire.

[huedell]

The only big rumor I remember was the proposed end of Star Wars back around '82 where there was going to be a huge light saber battle between Darth Vader and Yoda. It was going to take place on a pre-historic Earth and Luke and Leia were going to hook up like Adam and Eve. Apparently Han Solo stayed frozen, but I don't remember anyone talking about him.

Vader kills Yoda and hooks up with Luke and Leia creating the
vilest taboo menage a trois in all film history!!!!!!

[Mikey]

I have another one that was all over the schoolyard back in 73/74-ish.....

During the filming of Jaws, a stunt man was killed by a real Great White and the footage was left in the movie .... The rumour goes on to say it's the scene where the shark smashes the guy in the cage, the cage breaks and the guy floats down to the bottom of the ocean - supposedly he was already dead when the end of this scene was filmed.

[vulcan2074]

When I was in Elementary school. The rumor was Wrestling was Fake. Bunch of dirty liars LOL
Sammy

[rche]

Never heard the fire rock thing, but I recall the rumors that Gene Simmons had his tongue surgically replaced with a cows, thus the forehead licking ability.

[vulcan2074]

Never heard the fire rock thing, but I recall the rumors that Gene Simmons had his tongue surgically replaced with a cows, thus the forehead licking ability.

I remember that ha ha ha. That was a good one
Sammy

[goldenryan]

The only big rumor I remember was the proposed end of Star Wars back around '82 where there was going to be a huge light saber battle between Darth Vader and Yoda. It was going to take place on a pre-historic Earth and Luke and Leia were going to hook up like Adam and Eve.

i like that idea

[jwyblejr]

I have another one that was all over the schoolyard back in 73/74-ish.....

During the filming of Jaws, a stunt man was killed by a real Great White and the footage was left in the movie .... The rumour goes on to say it's the scene where the shark smashes the guy in the cage, the cage breaks and the guy floats down to the bottom of the ocean - supposedly he was already dead when the end of this scene was filmed.

Another rumor similar to this one was the girl in the opening was killed while filming.

[txteach]

I remember being told by my buddy, Patrick that the Jaws shark was actually a trained shark and that his uncle was the one who trained the shark. I remember thinking to myself "Wow, now that's cool". Unfortunately I never met Pat's "Uncle". I remember Pat had a great story on how his uncle let him swim and pet the shark. I know it sounds, stupid now, but boy was I jealous. I was only 8 but I sure wanted to swim with that shark.

[Marvelmania]

Here's a couple I heard as a kid. One was the 70's song Rollercoaster that it was recorded at a theme park and in one part of the song you can hear a girl scream because she was supposedly stabbed in the back while riding a roller coaster.
Another was in the movie Rocky II. Rocky loses and dies in the ring at the end.