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The version of the Little Einsteins theme song i would sing in middle school and high-school everytime we went on a field trip on a school bus

We're going on a trip, in our favorite piece of shit! Doin' 95, we'll probably fucking die!

The teachers hated it but a bunch of the other kids thought it was funny and would sing along

But really though, have you ever ridden on the highway in a schoolbus during a fieldtrip? This is absolutely what it felt like, that you were going 95 mph with no seatbelts and you were gonna die

Hold B+Down to increase your chances of catching a pokemon.

Okay, so back in the 1990s Charter Medical Corporation ran a suicide prevention hotline with the number 1-800-CHARTER. They ran a massive TV ad campaign with the tagline "If you don't get help at Charter, please, get help somewhere." These commercials ran on daytime TV so they were a little...oblique. Euphemistic. So that children wouldn't understand them. So we didn't.

Around that time, it was popular slang among teh youthz to say "you need help" as a way of calling someone stupid. You can hear one of Roger's daughters say it in the first Lethal Weapon movie in response to his attempt at rapping.

And of course, people who "need help" should call Charter. So in the 1990's there was a fad of us school kids calling each other stupid by saying "You need to call Charter." And I wonder how local that was, I know at least two elementary schools in my county did that. American Millennials, do you remember this?

Not necessarily my favorite nor something widespread, but it was always the legend/meme that my middle/high schools had a pool on the roof (it was a one story building lmfao)

I middle/high school the best sub was rumored to live out of the back of his station wagon and had cardboard boxes to extend the back of it for extra shelter. It didn't help that the man embraced the rumor.

He once shared some pie with me when I was having a small breakdown in an empty room senior year due to my severe depression and from being bullied severely. He just offered me pie and we sat in silence and each ate a piece and then went on our way. It was nice.

The rumor that existed in every single school that Marilyn Manson had a rib removed so he could suck his own penis

Going way way back to the 1980s... there was a rumour around my school that there was a secret chocolate factory hidden in Super Mario Bros 1. We didn't really think there would be much to it, but we'd all been to the minus world and we saw the palette swap in some worlds (like I think world 6). The more reasonable or computer/code minded of us just figured it was a glitch that palette swapped everything to browns, so "chocolate factory" became the name for it, where it didn't officially have one.

Nintendo must have heard this rumour, because Super Mario World featured a "Chocolate Island." But this was before SMB2 was ever a thing.

You heard about that guy that took too much acid and couldn't sit down because he thought he was a glass of orange juice and he would spill?

You could somehow make a legal and illegal version of a ninja throwing star with popsicle sticks.

the swedish word for "dibs" is "pax". which, i only realized much later, is latin for "peace". always thought that was neat.

On another kid’s hand: “Circle, circle, dot, dot. Now you have your cooties shot.”

You can make yourself wake up at 6am tomorrow by hitting yourself on the head 6 times, you need to do it really hard though.

So many gaming ones.

When mortal kombat was released for consoles, the kids passed the “blood code” for the genesis

When mortal kombat 2 came out, their were so many myths about super fatalities and weird stuff about how street fighter was in it.

These video game ones now have me wondering if anyone else was told they could unlock extra characters in Super Smash Bros (N64) by clicking certain names in the credits.

We had various rules about how to do a "snow dance". Something about wearing pajamas and walking around a pillow to get school canceled.

In my elementary school there was a rumour that kissing someone on the mouth makes a baby in the throat. I've heard it still being spread years later. There are also parodies of famous German poems that you have or had to memorize in school, although I some kids learnt them from their parents. I know parody versions of Die Glocke and Die Bürgschaft.

This might be local but "Deem!" as the sound of magical transformation. As an adult I think some child heard/read something like "I deem you Sir Galahad, Knight of the Round Table" and mixed it up with cartoon magic sounds, but in our neighborhood any kid with a good stick could wave it and say "Deem! You're a horse!" or "Deem! You're a frog!" and the other kid would act the part for awhile. You could even deem yourself, like "Deem! I'm a wizard!" Which is redundant now that I think of it.

Blowing in the Nintendo cartridge. Miss Mary Mack.

It's gotta be The Cool S.

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