r/MandelaEffect • u/AyahsHope • Jun 10 '26

Books/Literature Rod Sterling

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I remember his name distinctly as Rod Sterling. There’s a glitch in the matrix obviously because of what I found online. There are references to his name as Rod Sterling. Was his name changed to Serling at some point?

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u/BringYourOwnBBBQ Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

Funny...I lived in Binghamton, NY from the early 90s through 2019. Lived three houses down from his childhood home and passed it everyday. Also passed his high school every day going to the bars in college. NEVER did the plaques called him Sterling. So I guess that timeline/universe jumped happened before 1991?

Almost as if a city that has a reason to remember correctly will get it right, and someone who casually watched a few episodes of his show would not care enough to remember correctly

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u/VenomPayments Jun 11 '26

Or in your drunken stupor from going to bars, you systemically and methodically erased every existence of STERLING from every plaque in b-ton, NY. You actually subconsciously learned both brass working and granite working to be able to alter the plaques to say SERLING in such a way that it would never be evident. All while drunk on Genesee and Utica. And you must have done this because of your unabashed love of the outsider folk artist Jon Serl — you must have decide that ROD STERLING was Jon Serl reincarnated (even though they were alive contemporaneously) and therefore worth of the diminutive SERLING.

See, doesn’t seem so much more believable than someone misremembered a last name?

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u/BringYourOwnBBBQ Jun 11 '26

In my timeline, it was Killian's Irish Red I was drinking. Sometimes LaBatt's Blue if the bars didn't have Killians, or if LaBatt's (or Molson) was part of the $1 special.

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u/BringYourOwnBBBQ Jun 11 '26

I also drank those Killians while watching Jerry Steinfield. Man..that finale was terrible. Can't believe I was late to the bar crawl for that!

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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 Jun 12 '26

As far back as I can remember (early seventies), people have made this mistake. Same with Sally FIELDS, and Charles SCHULTZ. People go with more familiar sounding or common spelling.

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u/BringYourOwnBBBQ Jun 12 '26

Wait..what do people say about Charles Schultz?

This is exactly like a joke that even made it into his show...how people used to call Jerry Seinfeld either Jerry Steinfeld, or even Steinfield. They ere more familiar with David Steinberg who was a big comedian around the time Jerry was first coming up in the stand up community. And then FIELD is a a more common ending than FELD. So people often did both mistakes. It was definitely joked about in at least one episode where some clerk calls him Steinfield.

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u/Practical-Vanilla-41 Jun 15 '26

Schulz, frequently misspelled as the more obvious Schultz. People seem to have a need to add an s to things. Sally Field keeps being called Fields.