Very weird theory that I found on the Internet

Last post of the night but I wanted to leave this here...

I will be contacting BOTH Mike and Leo Berenstain tomorrow, via snail mail...

If anyone has any questions they think may be pertinent to our discussion(circumstance?) feel free to U2U them to me, or in an on-topic manner post them here...and I will be sure to include them as well as my own personal questions involving the matter...

Hopefully, Mike and Leo will both reply quickly and we'll be able to put our collective minds at ease knowing all is well....



A2D

originally posted by: Agree2Disagree
Last post of the night but I wanted to leave this here...

I will be contacting BOTH Mike and Leo Berenstain tomorrow, via snail mail...

If anyone has any questions they think may be pertinent to our discussion(circumstance?) feel free to U2U them to me, or in an on-topic manner post them here...and I will be sure to include them as well as my own personal questions involving the matter...

Hopefully, Mike and Leo will both reply quickly and we'll be able to put our collective minds at ease knowing all is well....

A2D

I would like to see if they ever recall a mass misprinting of the books in question. Those would probably be collectible and they may very well have seen one or have one in their collection if it happened.

They're going to think we are fifty shades of crazy...

I found this video on it just now...



ATS is even mentioned. We are ever increasingly NOT alone.

a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

oh geez,

marsupials arent extinct yet =P

jk I love you kangaroo everytime I read your name I love the play on words =D

I am in the stein group mom told me she not only has old books but old drawings I accredited to BERENSTEIN when I drew their bears they used to make us do that credit stuff art work, quotes etc before everyone had the net mom says she kept alot of my stuff from a kid if she finds it im posting my 5 yr old self here

originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

oh geez,

marsupials arent extinct yet =P

jk I love you kangaroo everytime I read your name I love the play on words =D

I am in the stein group mom told me she not only has old books but old drawings I accredited to BERENSTEIN when I drew their bears they used to make us do that credit stuff art work, quotes etc before everyone had the net mom says she kept alot of my stuff from a kid if she finds it im posting my 5 yr old self here

Nope. Not extinct yet. and always glad to cause a smile here and there.

I'm so going to check out your 5 year old self if you post it. I bet you were a cute non shiite giving honey badger back then.

I would almost pay to see a misprint at this point. It seems the numbers for "Stein" are growing larger. At least you're in good company brotherman.

a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

The guy on the video pronounces them Beren"steen", too. Why would so many people mispronounce the "-stain" as "-steen"? It's eerie. I should stop thinking about it again... lol

originally posted by: nOraKat
a reply to: queenofsheba

That's a really interesting observation.

A (real) scientific test for this would be to ask kids pre-(whatever fixed year) how it was spelled (well I guess they're not kids anymore), and kids after the year of said change. If there is a high consistency (or 100%) consistency, in how they spell it, then we know this is some genuine crazy sh*t.

Exactly, that is what I was thinking. This particular "kid" is nineteen going on twenty and I could ask him to pose the question to some of his friends to see what their answer is. It was eerie how he so quickly and easily answered the question with the first letter of the alphabet, A, of course. When I talk to him tomorrow, I'll ask him to ask his friends/peers. The target audience this book series is geared towards should be questioned.

originally posted by: _Del_
a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

The guy on the video pronounces them Beren"steen", too. Why would so many people mispronounce the "-stain" as "-steen"? It's eerie. I should stop thinking about it again... lol

I hope that works for you. I tried and tried, but can't for some reason. It's not for fun anymore... It's a mission. lol

changes like this are quite normal and happening more often than any of us realizes. Fun thing is I think Stephen King saw this as well as he incorporated it effectively in his Dark Tower epos, about different worlds/times overlapping with a central 'governing' pillar. This makes me think about psychiatric stuff like DIS and Voice Dialogue where the central 'I'/"ME" governs the rest of your personality parts...maybe this shift in times/worlds is one (also?) between personalities of yourself...and how do thóse things overlap?

originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

I accredited to BERENSTEIN when I drew their bears they used to make us do that credit stuff art work, quotes etc before everyone had the net mom says she kept alot of my stuff from a kid if she finds it im posting my 5 yr old self here

I'll have to see if I can dig it up. My mom was showing me a bunch of drawings saved from when I was in kindergarten. There is one of a Berenstein bear and it has six legs. I thought that was funny when she showed it to me many years back, but now it's a little creepy. It seems like a 5 year old would know that bears don't have six legs.

a reply to: skunkape23

Maybe you were drawing them in the midst of the timeline merge and the movement made it appear as though the bear had six legs??

That's what I would go with anyway. Much more interesting.

originally posted by: caterpillage
So I'm asking of you all, lets put together a plan to figure this out. We can do this, together.

Where do we go from here?

I never saw these books so I'm just an observer amazed by this thread.

My suggestion would be to get everybody to go through all the books in their collections, their families collections, and maybe even neighbors to see if there was a batch of misprints from the publisher, and scan the covers if any are spelled -stein.

In fact I would have expected to see some scanned books like that already if such a misprint, typo, or whatever had occurred.

If no such books can be found, I guess the next step would be to just accept it's an interesting memory glitch, and to remember that none of us who sit on juries should never, ever, ever convict someone solely based on witness testimony because all of our memories are flawed. Too many of us have higher regard for our memory than we should and we are seeing evidence for that here.

If no misprints can be found we just need to admit our memories aren't as good as we would like to think.

I'll start with scans of 4 books consistent with -stain, though the header says -stein.

a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

I would simply assume that the alternate dimension he inhabited at age 5 was both a "-stein" universe and one in which there lived six-legged bears.

originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
a reply to: skunkape23

Maybe you were drawing them in the midst of the timeline merge and the movement made it appear as though the bear had six legs??

That's what I would go with anyway. Much more interesting.

Maybe I had the same concept that Marcel Duchamp had when he painted "Nude Descending Stairs." That or I saw through the holographic screen that the insectoid aliens were projecting.

Ha! That made me laugh so hard. My daughter used to draw mermaids with such long hair she would need like 2 extra sheets of paper just for the hair. Kids are hilarious. She's drop dead good now, it's scary.

So now we know you probably channeled Jeff Goldblum in your Berentein piece. I REALLY hope your mom can find it now. I can't wait to see it!-

I have in front of me 8 books. 1 from 1969, 1 from 1975 and several others from the early eighties to mid 90s.
They all say STAIN and feel my very existence being rattled like everyone else here.
I will take photos if I must but I really can't be stuffed.
This is bloody strange to say the least. My mum called "bull#" on me and went and got the books (she is/was a librarian and was firmly in the "stein" camp....
While she was looking for said "bear: books, she found I book from the 50's I'd mentioned a few days ago.
It was called "You Will Go To the Moon" and without derailing this thread, I emplore some of you to google it and marvel how slowly we've colonised our moon compared to the way this early book says we would.

a reply to: Kangaruex4Ewe

I was born on halloween at 10:21 pm 1985, my favorite berenstein book was about halloween my mom says i used to redraw the pictures in the book and use them as show and tell projects, I had alot of art and other things ruined in a flood 3 years ago but my mom has a way of keeping stuff in attics especially artwork from when i was little she doesnt believe berenstain she was shocked when she googled it.

Ive always been a little honey badger, want to see me run backwards? Honey badger is nasty all he does is eat stuff and ewww hes eating larvae honey badger is so nasty oh what is that cobra, eww honey badger eats cobra

a reply to: Arbitrageur

dude there are ads to sell the damn books posted in this thread as stein as well as books with both stain and stein printed on the same spine not to mention the t show that pronounces it as stein etc etc

a reply to: Brotherman
Yes but from the book scans I've seen the -stein spelling is a rarity. The vast majority of the books say -stain.

Now how stupid would everyone feel if it was always spelled "Berenstain" in any universe, and just a case that (almost) everyone misperceived it because 'Berenstein' is a more typical spelling for a name.

Of course you will never know for sure since, in this universe, it has always been "Berenstain".