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[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Richard Gere, and it was a gerbil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Armageddon!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

All hail the Gerbil King!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

It was Richard Gere, and it was a Gerbil, not a hamster.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

What about Ozzy eating a bat on stage?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

You fuck one sheep...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Or when Ozzy wouldn't go on stage without a brandy glass full of M&Ms?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

It was Van Halen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I'm sad that none of the other responses seem to have gotten the Wayne's World 2 reference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

We'll just have to beat them to deaf wif their own shoes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

So am I. We'll have to beat them to death with their own shoes...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

It's quaint, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-true-story-behind--wonder-years--star-and-crazy-marilyn-manson-rumor--video--164331931.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Given that Mark Paul Gosseaar is still alive, I think Ivan was listing 2 things that weren't true

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