It's Berenstain Bears?! Ive Been Saying Berenstein All My Life!

"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind) 05/04/2017 at 08:25 • Filed to: Misunderstandings

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Stain? STAIN?! SSSSSSTAINNNN?!!! Shut the front door...and the authors are ACTUALLY Stan and Jan Berenstain? I legitimately thought they were bears and the mystery was figuring out which of the bears they were. Like that Lemony Snicket dude turning out to be Jude Law. *Googles in interest* Berenstain isn’t even the surname of the bear family?!!! Their freaking last names are “Bear?!!!” My poor, youthful paradigms are crushed!

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 08:28

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I just finished a children’s lit class. It’s always been that way.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 08:29

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I’ve always said “steen” or “stine”.

Huh.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 05/04/2017 at 08:30

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me too.

ttyymmnn > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 08:34

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Yup. Always been “stain.” I loved The Big Honey Hubt as a kid, and read many of their books to my kids, but they got kind of preachy and religious in their later books.

McMike > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 08:36

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I remember those books from my childhood.   Never gave the name a second look because I was convinced it was “Burn steen” Boy, was I wrong.

How the hell do you say it? “Barron Stain”

Tripper > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 08:37

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Holy shit I remember that book page for page! “Burger and Fries please, in a sack!”

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Tripper 05/04/2017 at 08:45

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Putt putt said little red

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 05/04/2017 at 08:48

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Follow that bee

CalzoneGolem > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 08:54

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It’s enough of a thing to warrant a section on Wikipedia about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears#Name_confusion

Tripper > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 05/04/2017 at 08:55

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Whenever I’ve been a point in my life where I find myself languishing in one area or another, I think of myself as that jackass getting something to eat when he should be winning the race.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Tripper 05/04/2017 at 08:57

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That’s... clever, actually.

nerd_racing > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 09:32

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There is a theory that someone slightly altered the time space continuum and that is why things we swear were one way growing up are now slightly different. Berenstain vs. Berenstein is one of the more notable ones.

AdverseMartyr > nerd_racing 05/04/2017 at 09:57

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They came from the timeline where Superman lost.

nerd_racing > AdverseMartyr 05/04/2017 at 10:05

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Or from the timeline where Kirk’s father survived.

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > Wobbles the Mind 05/04/2017 at 17:27

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My wife and I went through this same wormhole of confusion. Our childhoods are changed forever.