There was also the rumor of the actor who put the hamster up their bum.
It was all innocent stupidity and none of it was malicious though.
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There was also the rumor of the actor who put the hamster up their bum.
It was all innocent stupidity and none of it was malicious though.
Or the woman singer who drank so much of her male SO’s cum that she had to have her stomach pumped
Viral word of mouth rumors were wild back then
Richard Gere, and it was a gerbil.
Armageddon!
Lemmiwinks?!
All hail the Gerbil King!
It was Richard Gere, and it was a Gerbil, not a hamster.
What about Ozzy eating a bat on stage?
Or when Ozzy wouldn't go on stage without a brandy glass full of M&Ms?
Was that Ozzy? Whoever it was, it was a request for a bowl of only brown M&Ms backstage and their reasoning was that, if that request wasn't fulfilled, whoever was responsible didn't do their job and they'd assume that other, necessary stuff also wasn't done properly. Kind of a canary, in a way.
It was Van Halen
So it was Van Halen and you're right, it was an easy way to be sure that venues actually read their contract which contained instructions to safely assemble their stage rig. But there was a parody of that story in Wayne's World 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7kg5ZzDZo
I'm sad that none of the other responses seem to have gotten the Wayne's World 2 reference.
We'll just have to beat them to deaf wif their own shoes.
So am I. We'll have to beat them to death with their own shoes...
Not ozzy. Van Halen.
That way they knew all the prep work was properly done by the crew: unsorted M&Ms = short on time, and it's possible something more important was missed.
I wonder if they ever thought that maybe the crew was short on time because they were too busy separating all of those M&Ms.
It's quaint, right?
Not just any guy, but Marilyn Manson, who used to play Paul on The Wonder Years. I'm not sure what was more shocking, learning about this, or learning of Mark Paul Gosselaar's fatal motorcycle crash. Taken from us far too soon.
Apparently Marilyn Manson playing Paul was just one of the first internet rumours and isn't true, which in itself is a pretty facinating piece of history.
Given that Mark Paul Gosseaar is still alive, I think Ivan was listing 2 things that weren't true