This Is Not A Quiz

[nailit]

Without googling, can some of you ABers help me out with a bit of research?
Ive always known just how fallible human memory can be but after discussing some of these (below) with friends its more fallible than I thought, would just like to know from a few others on here if its the same.
If you google first, then its defeating the object but can you fill in the missing word(s) or part of words and then see if your memory is what you thought it was afterwards?

1) Malt_______ (small round choclates)
2) _____mans (a mustard brand)
3) _____Walker (a whisky)
4) Sex ____The City (an American comedy)

As Ive said, its not a quiz...or any kind of trickery... more a test of memory and how we process memories.
If you could type your answers below first and then google after. And Ill explain a bit more later.
Thanks guys.

[Flonska]

o.k. Nailit . . . . 30 mins after the post, please, as you say . . . "Ill explain a bit more later."

[nailit]

//I can live with one wrong//
I got them all wrong. And would have bet my life that it was ''Sex IN The City'' and not ''Sex AND The City''

[ducksie]

Well, no worries anyone getting it wrong, it wasn't a quiz, once ye get the jist of it I'm sure all will be well, what's in a word? ;)

[Mamyalynne]

It's an interesting thing is memory.

[ducksie]

Sure is, it's an awful thing to look at someone losing it, these instances posted above are nothing to real memory loss

[nailit]

Flonska, its something I came across on the internet called the Mandela Effect (google it) Its a bit of a conspiracy theory type thingy involving parallel universes and how whole masses of people seem to misremember things. Not into it myself but found the thing about memory fascinating and tested more than a few of these questions on people I know. A lot where adamant that they were right (but weren't) and thought it a fun thing to try on here.

[nailit]

And AB is so sloooooow tonight, Taking ages to type and post

[Flonska]

Perhaps one's memory might have been confused trying to remember the name of some "small round choclates"?

[nailit]

LOL Flonska, could be....

[pastafreak]

Maltesers
Colmans
Johnny
Sex and the City

[nailit]

Wrong on the 'johnny' Pasta, see previous answers. Got me as well.

[Flonska]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Walker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!

[pastafreak]

Maybe we "remember " things as we think they "should" be.
I was convinced I'd only got the last one correct...

[Flonska]

Who said that?

[nailit]

Who said what?
;-)

[Prudie]

Is this about memory though, I think it's more about being observant. I didn't forget it was spelled Johnnie I just never noticed in the first place.

[Flonska]

Nailit . . . Pastafreak's post was "maybe we "remember " things as we think they "should" be."

Mine was to convey that I could not remember who said that, never mind remember "things" as they should or should not be.

[nailit]

//Is this about memory though, I think it's more about being observant. I didn't forget it was spelled Johnnie I just never noticed in the first place//
probably a lot in that Prudie. The brain tends to 'fill in'' the gaps.
However the thing that really gets me is the ''sex in/and the city'' thing. I distinctly remember this as ''sex *in* the city''. At the time, I was the only male in an otherwise all female working environment, and all my co-workers were always on about it. (occasionally at my expense...) Its burned into my memory as *in* but apparently its *and*.
Very peculiar.

[Caran]

Maltesers
Colmans
Johnny
Sex in the City