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    Default I would like some help with properly debunking a very annoying "Mandela Effect"

    I am sure a lot of you have heard of this phenomenon, possibly from that "Berenstain Bears" video by Angry Video Game Nerd.
    Anyway, I am a skeptic when it comes to this "alternate dimension" talk (I am not saying that such a thing cannot happen, I am just not going to fully accept it until I see some serious scientific evidence of that) and I have been able to find rational explanations for almost everything;
    for example, those classics "Berenstain Bears", "Magic mirror on the wall", "Sex And The City" etc can be easily explained by faulty memories from lots of people (also, the phrase "Mirror mirror on the wall" did exist in the books - it was changed into "Magic mirror on the wall" in the Disney movie).
    However, there is one particular "Mandela Effect" that drives me crazy, and it would be a great relief to have it completely debunked once and for all.

    I am talking about that scene from the Bond movie "Moonraker" - there is a girl in that movie called Dolly, and for some reason thousands of people seem to recall her having dental braces.
    Well, guess what?
    They were never there:

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zb8enmbmkpM/hqdefault.jpg

    http://casinotheme.com.au/wp-content...7756301915.png

    Okay, so my first conclusion was that maybe a lot of people just think of Jaws' steel teeth, and the way the camera switches between Jaws and Dolly smiling at each other in that scene can probably easily cause false memories of Dolly also having some sort of "steel teeth" (in other words, braces).
    The problem, however, is that even BBC and other sites seem to mention those darn braces (try searching for "braces"):

    http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29160096

    There are other sites that mention "braces" as well, and it's pretty easy to find links to them on various Bond forums.
    There even exists a commercial with Richard Kiel where he has some flirty encounter with a female cashier who turns out to have braces, although this could of course be pure coincidence:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhLAWP7jGA

    So, what do you make out of all this?
    The most rational explanation that I can think of is that some people from the BBC have the same false memories as many other people, and that it's those sites that get the most attention.
    I don't know, I find this particular Mandela Effect quite bizarre and I would love to have it completely debunked, since it seems to confuse a lot of people.
    Last edited by Peter1986; 10-21-2016 at 09:19 AM.

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