The Evil Genius Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.. Fringe was right. The Berenst#in Bears Problem: Are We Living In An Alternate Worldline?By Rob Schwarz on January 21, 2015 // Image: ESO via CC by 2.0 and The Berenstain Bears A couple months ago, someone left an innocuous comment on my post 4 Weird “Clues” that Parallel Universes Exist. The comment was this: My response at first was probably what yours is now: The what? But after a quick Google search, I realized what this person was talking about. The Berenstein Bears. “You need to look up the Berenst#in Bears problem.” Now, if you don’t know about The Berenstein Bears, they were a series of children’s books, and eventually a cartoon, created by Stan and Jan Berenstein. They focused on a family of bears, and did the usual educational children’s book/tv series thing. Simple enough. I remember them, vaguely, and I believe I owned a book or two when I was a kid. It’s been a while. So what’s the problem? They’re not The Berenstein Bears. They’ve never been The Berenstein Bears. Despite the fact that many others remember them as The Berenstein Bears, and I myself still pronounce their name as The Berenstein Bears, this is false. This is wrong. They are The Berenstain Bears. It was such a strange feeling to find that out. To see Google correcting my spelling, to seethe Wikipedia entry titled The Berenstain Bears, to see book covers that seemed at odds with the memories I had in my head. What was going on? The “problem,” as it were, became clearer when I found this post by someone named Reece (“a graduate student of physics”) at a blog titled the Wood between Worlds (an interesting place, check it out). Reece’s post is a trip down the rabbit hole for anyone, like myself, who remembers that cartoon family as The Berenstein Bears, not The Berenstain Bears. And with it comes a strange hypothesis. http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2015/01/21/the-berenstin-bears-problem-are-we-living-in-an-alternate-worldline/ MORE AFTER LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Why is the # being used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 Why is the # being used? Stain vs Stein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Why is the # being used? because of the only letter thats different in the 2 spellings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 I remember it as Berenstein...so there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 That's a bit heavy for a Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 because of the only letter thats different in the 2 spellings. I don't get it. What the hell is Berenstain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 TEG musta visited Chew and hit up some of his Double OG Kush. Nothing to see here, move along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I don't get it. What the hell is Berenstain? Did you read the article? When growing up most of us read books called the Berenstein bears...or so we thought. Apparently, now (or maybe it was always like that) it's the Barenstain Bears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Sorry, I haven't dropped enough acid this Monday morning to get into the right mindset to understand WTF this dude is talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 there may be a point to this. After all, thngs are a lot harsher and people are ever more inclined to be mean. Our society is becoming more of a dog eat dog world, where sides are drawn over everything, and things get nasty fairly quickly. And as anyone knows, evil parallel universes are distinguishable by the fondness the male inhabitants have for wearing goatees ...which have become very popular in the last 20 years. Coincidence? ~Banğ By the by, even when i was a kid i called them Bearen-stain. Don't know why. and further,, to really get to the bottom of it, who reads it as BearenSTINE and who reads it as BearenSTEEN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Lol ok...asked a bunch of people at work...all remember it as Barenstein... Cue the twilight zone music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balki1867 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I used to love those books as a kid and I made the same realization a couple of years ago when I was reading with my niece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 This sounds like a Mel Brooks skit "That's BerensTAIN" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCSaints_fan Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Reminds me of that late 90s show Sliders (with Jerry OConnor and John Rhys-Davies). The theme of the show was that the main character had invented a device to travel into parallel dimensions where civilization had turned out differently. (What if the Germans won WW2, that type of thing) and the chracters were all trying to get back to their home dinmension. Anyway I remember at the start of one the episodes, they had travelled to an alternate San Francisco where everything was pretty much the Same, except the Golden Gate bridge was painted blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I remember that show. I thought it actually wasn't that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Is this supposed to be serious? I stopped reading as soon as I got the the hypothesis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I loved the books when I was little. It was Stein. Clear as day, as real as I am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 This is when I point out that the famous Mr. Ed was really a zebra. http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 A zebra is a zebra of.... Noooooo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 This is when I point out that the famous Mr. Ed was really a zebra. http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp You are a bad bad man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I always pronounced it Baren-STEN. Not STEEN or STINE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I always pronounced it Baren-STEN. Not STEEN or STINE. regardless of how you pronounce it, they're still Jewish. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Did you read the article? When growing up most of us read books called the Berenstein bears...or so we thought. Apparently, now (or maybe it was always like that) it's the Barenstain Bears What ... no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchogs Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Stein here. ****ed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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