I loved the response he gave for that rumor.
It was essentially... "Do you think I'd be here giving this interview if I could do that?
Love that he knew about the rumor.
Also Richard Geere stuck a hamster in his ass
*Geeere
It's such a believable rumor though.
I definitely don't not believe it
Yeah but middle school you totally would
Edit: got me with yer frickin double negative you bastard
Not as impressive but in the town where I grew up there is a really skinny woman who seems to be jogging like non stop. When I was in elementary school there was a rumor saying she had some disease which would make her heart stop if she stopped running and all the kids thought it was true. A few years ago when mentionning it to a younger sister (6 years difference) I learnt the rumor was still going strong when she was a kid, and then we both learnt that it was still the case when our even younger sister (12 years difference) was a kid.
There was an old man and his elderly wife that would take regular walks by my school as a kid. The woman looked like she was made of plastic and the rumors were that she was a giant doll. They called her the barbie lady. When my sister went to school it was just the man walking and the rumors were that he melted his wife and made his cane with her. Kids are WILD. Those poor elderly people were just trying to have a damn walk lol
Damn... It was just him walking though that sucks :(
Millenial from Switzerland - can confirm.
That rumour was everywhere by the end of '94. Not a lot of millenials in high school then. Almost all Gen X.
here is another one: did you know that Marilyn Manson was "Paul" from The Wonder Years
Come on man. Don't do Josh Saviano dirty like that...
Never heard of him until the rumor. Took one look at him and believed it 110%
“Bro, just look at the back of this cd case. They’re drinking his piss through a hose. Of course he had his ribs removed to blow himself. He’d cut himself in half to do it!”
Rod Stewart’s pumped stomach is unimpressed
I heard that one too!
Apparently he addressed it himself:
"I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor, let alone a ship's worth in one evening. And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen or of any other kind of semen."
Even further back, there was the same rumor about Gene Simmons from Kiss
Glad to see the other misinformation classics like Richard Gere's gerbil mentioned.
Anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis was secretly a hermaphrodite?
It was known. I don't trust anything I learned pre Internet anymore, including the number of planets.
When I was a kid in the '70s the big rumor was that Rod Stewart had to go to the hospital once to have a gallon of sperm pumped out of his stomach. I was surprised when I saw a fairly recent interview with Stewart where he mentioned this rumor and he was even aware of where it came from.
Heh. I think that was one of the first things I ever went down a rabbit hole to understand on The Internet. And it eventually led me to learn that with just a bit of yoga (which you should do anyway since it is a great way to improve flexibility and general muscle health) you don't need to remove the rib. Admittedly, I have too much of a "dad bod" and a "beer gut" these days. But... it is totally a thing.
I went to a 20 person private school in rural Oregon at the time and even heard it.
That and everyone drawing Stussy symbols for a hot minute.
Hell, I'm from a South American country and even I heard it!
Amazingly this rumor actually has its origin from Gabriele D'Annunzio in the 1930s. It has been repeated for other famous people throughout history.
I heard it about David Bowie in the 1980s.
Damn, that rumor was still going around in the early 2010s when I graduated high school.
I heard it about Ron Jeremy, which made sense because, allegedly there's a porn out there in which he does suck himself, but I have no way of verification, as I am not aware of the film name, and I'm not watching a bunch of 70s porn to find the right one
I remember that one.
The rumor I remember more was that the boobs he had in a music video were actual implants and not just an external costume.
Before that I remember hearing a rumor that Rod Stewart had had a hot hair curler shoved up his butt by his wife bc she had caught him having a homosexual affair. Years later I heard the exact same rumor about a local used car dealer and knew that it probably wasn’t true, but it was interesting that the same rumor had cropped up about different people (heard these in different states as well, so it wasn’t just the same people repeating it).
I definitely believed that for way too long.
What can I say, it sounded entirely plausible.
high schools too.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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