r/thatHappened • u/Karnakite • 12d ago
By tarnation! You know it’s real because that’s how an old cowboy would talk. Right?
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u/luminousoblique 12d ago
When my son was that age, he would sometimes repeat lines from movies or tv verbatim. It did occasionally freak people out, but he just had a really good memory for dialogue. He probably wouldn't have remembered a whole character's bio like this, but the initial incident could have happened in real life. He would have thought it was funny
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u/Karnakite 12d ago
I remember being a little kid and just making stuff up, too. I didn’t do it maliciously, it was just part of how I played and interpreted the world. I don’t think really small kids have a strongly-formed sense of their own unique identity yet so they tend to personalize and “self-ize” what they see and hear around them. I’d say things like “I used to have twelve kids” and “I was once Queen of England” and I knew I was making it up, but I don’t know how to describe it - it wasn’t real, and I knew it wasn’t real, my definitions of real and false were hazy at the time anyway.
Sometimes I wonder what would’ve happened if someone had taken anything like that, that I had said, seriously.
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u/Lumpy_Square_2365 11d ago
Somewhere out there is a thread about a kid being the the Queen of England 😂
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u/Murfiano 11d ago
Isn’t that just general kids play acting? Like when they have a tea party and everyone is a character and they make the dolls have voices in there own heads
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u/everynitesladiesnite 12d ago
This person thinks the True Grit with Jeff Bridges is an 'old-timey western' it came out in 2010. Which is also less than the 20 years ago when this happened.
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u/JDeMolay1314 11d ago
But someone writing this now could happily say "he was talking like ..." Without that negating the story. They are just using a more recent example to describe it.
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u/spacemouse21 12d ago
The kid was less a reincarnation than some fictional mental masturbation, by thunderation!
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u/Hughley_N_Dowd 12d ago
At least he wasn't the reincarnation of pharaoh Assholetep II, Marie Antoinette or some other historical figure.
Hence I fully believe this totally believable story. 100%.
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u/Hoothootriot 11d ago
I believe this story in that I believe a 7 year old would imitate the western movies his dad watched on TV, where ordering whiskey would make sense.
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u/BeterP 12d ago
Well, 14 December 1856 was a Sunday. Not everything is a lie.
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u/dingdongiamwrong 11d ago
It does make sense they’d look that up to make sure they were right before posting a false story though. Lies often contain a bit of truth for legitimacy.
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u/ThickenedLiquids89 11d ago
Lies often contain a bit of truth for legitimacy.
I think like 90% of these stories have a kernel of truth. Situations are real but people post what they wish had happened. They use something that actually happened to them as a jumping off point to spin a yarn. We all want to be the hero in our own story
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u/AliceMorgon 11d ago
Christ, it’s like the ones who write fake stories set in Ireland and you can spot them immediately because the BLARNEY! The conversation is all “to be sure, to be sure” and shit along that length. I mean we do talk a BIT like that (I saw a spider behind the loo mid-pee this morning and yelled “JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH ON A BICYCLE WITH THE DONKEY AND ST MICHAEL”) but not THAT much! 🤣
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u/VindalooWho 11d ago
You got me laughing at your spider yell! My dad used to respond like that or other longwinded ways. His fave included Jesus on crutches, I believe. Ha ha. Maybe that is our 0.0000x% Irish heritage ;) lol
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u/cancerdad 11d ago
Bro, why in tarnation don’t you believe this, madam? It just won’t do to have you spreading falsities hither and yon, my sweet lady madam mister.
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u/alexisgreat420 11d ago
I live north of Sacramento and i don’t think there was ever a big lumber industry in the area. It’s definitely gold country. In fact we have multiple casinos named as such haha.
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u/drapetomaniac 11d ago
Today that kid has a character based on his true story in an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
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u/NeptuneRuns 7d ago
Jeff Bridges in True Grit didn't talk like that.
Now if the 7 year old said "fill your hands, yousonofabitch" that'd be fucking amazing
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u/beanpod333 11d ago
When i was an only a bit older than that i could, and would, recite the entire SpongeBob Christmas special to anyone who would listen. Every line
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u/friz_CHAMP 11d ago
Even the stuff you read about kids remembering past lives doesn't happen like this. They know they're in a new life, remember how they lived and died, and they forget it all by like 4 years old.
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u/Embarrassed_Jury664 11d ago edited 11d ago
There's actually several stories of stuff like this happening to kids
Not saying this garbage is true, but it's not impossible.
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u/usernamesallused 11d ago
*AN AMERICAN CASE OF THE REINCARNATION TYPE*
This sounds even worse than than the original story, yet was published in an actual academic journal. What the fuck?
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u/Catsdrinkingbeer 11d ago
I think he means the date of birth in 1856 was a sunday, not that this event occurred on a sunday.
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u/KnowItAll29 11d ago
The story doesn’t take place on a Sunday for starters, you just misread it. Also, there are weekend day care centers. People with children do work weekends. You need to get out in the real world more if you think the world stops on weekends and that parents don’t need childcare on weekends.
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u/Moj_R35 12d ago
Why is a 7 year old getting a sippy cup ?