# Made-up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes II **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399 "2020-06-23T14:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/281 "2021-03-05T02:12:18Z")
Wombatman has been searching for his archenemy the Palindrome throughout all the streets of Utica. Ineffectually. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/282 "2021-03-05T03:24:15Z")
Utica Ineffectually is a sister city to Blawnox, Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/283 "2021-03-05T22:30:23Z")
“Utica Ineffectually” is the opening song in the brand new musical _Bleeker Street_. This backstage musical is about the efforts of a director to mount a successful stage production all about the greatest city in New York – Utica. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/284 "2021-03-07T20:40:08Z")
Sebastian Bleeker invented the Somerset Bleeker in 1926 as a local equivalent to the Cornish Pasty. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/285 "2021-03-09T00:11:48Z")
Cornish pasties were invented by chef and burlesque club owner John Penrose in Penzance, Cornwall, in 1826. The Cornish pasty was designed to be both a filling workingman’s lunch, and as a costume piece, allowing Penrose’s exotic dancers to bypass Cornwall’s restrictive rules regarding topless dancers. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/286 "2021-03-09T00:32:54Z")
Oh, ah, Penzance, ah! Oh, yeah, aw, Penzance. Pen. zance. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/287 "2021-03-09T03:58:04Z")
It appears that by having eaten too many Cornish pasties, **Prof. Pepperwinkle** is now sadly exhibiting signs of Gilbert-Sullivan disease. The traditional cure is to drink enough stout “to forget all the lyrics to _Pirates of Penzance_.” It probably works; at least, there have been few complaints by those who have tried it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/288 "2021-03-09T17:11:26Z")
During the latter 1880s, Irish miners frequently took pasties to work, as they fit into one’s pocket quite conveniently. Unfortunately, the miners were exposed to so much zinc that their lunches were contaminated just by handling the pasties and many died from zinc poisoning. The Irish government, trying to stem the concurrent exodus of potato-starved Irish to America, claimed that massive amounts of zinc, taken internally, would help to reduce the instances of sunburn amongst the populace, quite common in the fair-skinned, red-haired, sallow, freckled citizens of the Auld Sod. This was, of course, pure blarney, like every piece of information exported from Éire. **U2** even wrote a song about it; nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/289 "2021-03-09T21:43:06Z")
Perhaps one of the most beloved characters in Irish history is Guy Smiley. He was a poet, author, statesman, outdoorsman, and master distiller of whiskey. He is so beloved, in fact, that people often sing about him when with the song The Irish Eyes of Guy Smiley. ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/290 "2021-03-10T15:37:37Z")
Guy Smiley was so beloved in his native Ireland, that American television executives were convinced that he would draw an audience in America as an entertainer. He was flown to Los Angeles and was appointed the host of a new television game show called “Street Smarts”. Unfortunately, his Irish brogue proved too strong for American ears, and he went back to Ireland dejected. He does however maintain a cult following among fans of Sesame Street. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/291 "2021-03-10T20:09:28Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > He was a poet, author, statesman, outdoorsman, and master distiller of whiskey. You forgot pencil sharpener. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/292 "2021-03-10T22:55:08Z")
Guy Smiley worked as a sharpener in his sister Saoirse Smiley’s artisanal pencil sharpening shop and café, _The Pointy End_. Artisanal sharpeners only use fine hand-forged knives in their work. But somehow, unlike pour-over coffee, artisanally-sharpened pencils never really caught on. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/293 "2021-03-19T18:31:21Z")
Guy Smiley is also a master carpenter. His techniques with tongue in groove is something to behold. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/294 "2021-03-19T20:35:41Z")
Henry Gribblet, the Carpenter’s bass player, is 24,127th in line to the British throne. (as of 1 May 2016) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/295 "2021-03-19T20:40:03Z")
Applebee’s introduced their signature Riblets in 1994, after a previous menu offering, Gribblets, was linked to numerous cases of nausea, dropsy, and uncontrollable belching. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/296 "2021-03-19T21:13:36Z")
Uncontrollable belching has been discovered to be a remediation for rheumatic depression. There’s simply something about letting fly with a thunderous neighborhood-flattening eructation that lifts one’s spirits. The study was conducted by the Uruguayan Low Council for Anything Besides Coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/297 "2021-03-19T23:08:50Z")
Ironically, Uruguayan coffee has been found to cause uncontrollable belching in sensitive individuals. Whether there are more or fewer cases of rheumatic depression in Uruguay than in other countries is still unknown. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/298 "2021-03-20T00:04:29Z")
Rheumatic depression cannot be blamed on the Chinese, at least, because it existed long before there was China. Though not before there were peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/299 "2021-03-21T05:59:51Z")
According to immunologists and philologers, the following punchlines are still available ( but going fast!): A rheum with a View, No rheum at the Inn, The Panic Rheum, Rheummates, Always rheum for more, Make rheum for granddaddy, elbow rheum, Rheumania, elephant in the rheum, powder rheum, standing rheum only, rheum service, rheum temperature, wiggle rheum, romper rheum, the Game Rheum, one Rheum Schoolhouse, redrheum, Get a Rheum!, Where the Buffalo Rheum, All roads lead to rheum, mushrheum, secret hidden rheum, Mitt Rheumney. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/300 "2021-03-21T15:58:09Z")
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