# Complete the useless fact, if you can! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 30, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338 "2009-03-30T18:22:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/1 "2009-03-30T18:22:43Z")
It’s the Trivia show that useless facts always wanted to have! Fill in the blanks to posted incomplete useless facts. After doing so, If the fact is not fully explained, add the needed context. As always, feel free to add your own as well. * * * There are 293 ways to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ A US \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ . Of Giraffe, Buffalo, and Gorilla, the only one that does not have an \*\*appreciated \*\* reason to say three times in a row is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ . ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/2 "2009-03-30T19:00:57Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > There are 293 ways to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ A US \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ . There are 293 ways to **bribe** a US **Senator**. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/3 "2009-03-30T19:03:28Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > There are 293 ways to **bribe** a US **Senator**. I would have thought the number would be much higher than that. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/4 "2009-03-30T19:08:56Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Of Giraffe, Buffalo, and Gorilla, the only one that does not have an \*\*appreciated \*\* reason to say three times in a row is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ . The giraffe, since the scientific name of the American buffalo is _Bison bison bison_ and that of the Western lowland gorilla is _Gorilla gorilla gorilla_. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/5 "2009-03-30T20:57:00Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > The giraffe, since the scientific name of the American buffalo is _Bison bison bison_ and that of the Western lowland gorilla is _Gorilla gorilla gorilla_. There’s actually a pretty good reason to say Buffalo more than three times in a row, given that this is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/6 "2009-03-30T21:09:23Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > The giraffe, since the scientific name of the American buffalo is _Bison bison bison_ and that of the Western lowland gorilla is _Gorilla gorilla gorilla_. > [@winterhawk11](#): > > There’s actually a pretty good reason to say Buffalo more than three times in a row, given that this is a grammatically correct sentence: > > Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. 😃 I posted that one, knowing “Gorilla gorilla gorilla” and winterhawk’s buffalo (Ad nauseam.) I Didn’t know that Bison … was the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/7 "2009-03-30T21:11:07Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s actually a pretty good reason to say Buffalo more than three times in a row, given that this is a grammatically correct sentence: > > Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Let me see if I can parse that: “Bison from upstate New York whom other bison from upstate New York confuse, themselves confuse other bison from upstate New York.” And the first one is that there are 293 ways to change a US dollar. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/8 "2009-03-30T21:30:06Z")
Only one in 400 (adjective) (plural noun) is female. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/9 "2009-03-30T21:56:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Let me see if I can parse that: > “Bison from upstate New York whom other bison from upstate New York confuse, themselves confuse other bison from upstate New York.” We have a winner! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/10 "2009-03-30T21:57:46Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Only one in 400 (adjective) (plural noun) is female. Orange cats. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/11 "2009-03-30T23:48:17Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Orange cats. I think that’s one in ten. But it’s funny, that’s the first thing I thought, too. Cause I used to have one, my dear Miss Tigress. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/12 "2009-03-31T00:48:36Z")
Hmm…bearded persons? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/13 "2009-03-31T01:37:12Z")
My guess was either colorblind or hemophiliac people. But it could probably also be “mechanical engineers”. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/14 "2009-03-31T02:48:45Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Orange cats. Ding. But I got that secondhand off the SDMB recently, so YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/15 "2009-03-31T03:17:42Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Only one in 400 (adjective) (plural noun) is female. Only one in 400 people on the internet who claims to be female is female? ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/16 "2009-03-31T11:31:39Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Only one in 400 people on the internet who claims to be female is female? I don’t know if you’re joking or not here, but there’s no way that’s a true fact, even if it’s what the answer is. I’ve known enough claimed women that are confirmed women online relative to the claimed and confirmed men online that I’d be extremely surprised if that were the case. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/17 "2009-03-31T17:30:13Z")
You can play Tetris on (machine). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/18 "2009-03-31T17:41:41Z")
> [@](#): > > You can play Tetris on (machine). Cell phones? Office building lighting panels? Babbage analytical difference engines? I’m not sure there’s ever been any information-processing machine that hasn’t had Tetris ported onto it. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/19 "2009-03-31T17:44:31Z")
There are 293 ways to leave a US lover. (Since Paul Simon wrote the song, inflation has struck!) And a new one: In chess only the queen cannot … … ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338/20 "2009-03-31T17:48:33Z")
> [@glee](#): > > In chess only the queen cannot … … … be attacked by the king. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complete-the-useless-fact-if-you-can/491338.md?page=2)