this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
-13 points (32.4% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26903 readers
1557 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Little known fact: he went by "Hot Rod".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We have a winner!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I’m gonna say Rod Serling? Not sure if the spelling is correct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Rod Serling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which series? The original or the 2019 one?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit! I was thinking Rod Serling, but then you drop this bombshell. Jordan Peele. But Serling was the original narrator and creator. Fun fact: "Serling's good friend, Private Melvin Levy, ventured out to watch an aircraft drop off food crates to the beleaguered paratroopers. Levy was joking about where the food would fall when one of the crates landed on his head and decapitated him as Serling looked on in horror."

Supposedly, that's the inspiration for the Twilight Zone.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/rod-serling-twilight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I myself make the mistake of confusing Rod Serling with Gene Roddenberry. So I have a whole different Mandela Effect going on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

i have no idea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Rod sterling. (For transparency, I clicked on this thread to reply with this answer and in doing so I did see that everyone has answered ‘Serling’ and thus suspect that I’m just remembering a more common, well-known word. But I being 36 on know his name in the retrospective and apparently misread it.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nelson Mandela