# 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:** 16
**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, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/301 "2021-03-21T16:28:44Z")
There are a few used "No, Norbert, not the umbrella!"s still available on e-bay if you do not mind the price and the less than enthusiastic responses from an already heard joke. And unfortunately the only half-way reasonably affordable second-hand NNNTU for sale currently is missing the exclamation mark entirely. ---
**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 21, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/302 "2021-03-21T20:34:30Z")
E-bay’s original mission statement promised they would not allow trade in punchlines, new or used. Otherwise i would sell my NNNTU - including the ! ---
**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 22, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/303 "2021-03-22T02:00:17Z")
Randolph Mantooth, former teen idol and now an e-Dot marketeer with middlin’ fair success, says the next (or nearly next, maybe nearly nearly next) big run on lines will be on puns on the word “Oahu”. So, how 'bout a nice Hawaiian punch? ---
**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 22, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/304 "2021-03-22T02:19:47Z")
I’m hoping to help delay the onrush of Oahu puns, so let me note that our doom is not yet sealed; the best-planned leis of mice and men gang aft aglay. ---
**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 22, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/305 "2021-03-22T04:44:08Z")
Second-hand “best planned leis” are still available according to the appraisers at Linguistic Roadshow. There is a surprising current run on Oahu puns, probably because they were shorted by investors like Quondam\_Mechanic. There indeed are, alas, those who seemingly want to reap a few bucks when some else’s joke fails. This has irked amateur comedians and thus the backlash, but the savvy investor is looking for the next big thing, not tired literary gaming. Those Oahu puns will be worthless in a few weeks so beware. And the odds of the punchline in your closet having the mint value of an original “take my wife… please” as opposed to a cheap imitation “take my wi-fi… please” are not good, experts warn. ---
**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 28, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/306 "2021-03-28T01:56:32Z")
When Hawaii became a state in 1959, they were looking forward to keeping the apostrophe (actually a glottal stop) in their name, but the head of the U.S. Board On Geographic Names at the time had a summer home on Martha’s Vineyard and nixed it. No one knows why. ---
**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 28, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/307 "2021-03-28T01:59:11Z")
Hawa’i’i never became a state. That was a crafty trick pulled by Slick Dick when he was Ike’s Veep. All of the supposed state taxes and other monetary increments have been silently funneled into an off-shore account where Richard (he never died, you know) supports himself in an embarrassing wealthy manner. Oh, and he’s now a blond woman named Marilyn, for some reason. ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/308 "2021-03-28T02:21:06Z")
**Slick Dick** was the stage name Little Richard was going to use until cooler heads prevailed. ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/309 "2021-03-28T02:56:09Z")
**The Cooler Heads** , an early-60’s rock group, invited Little Richard to sit in with them, but he never did, apparently concluding from their name that they were an ex-con stoner group. He figured he had enough issues with more conservative fans as it was. ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/310 "2021-03-28T03:48:40Z")
Pat Boone joined The Cooler Heads for a week in February, 1964. He decided they were too fly-jive for him. ---
**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 28, 2021, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/311 "2021-03-28T04:33:31Z")
Pat Boone’s enduring popularity in much of rural America led to those areas being nicknamed “the boonies.” ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/312 "2021-03-28T14:52:42Z")
Just as Orson Bean’s enduring popularity in Boston led to that city being nicknamed “the beanies”. ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/313 "2021-03-28T14:55:52Z")
The rock group **Boston** actually came from Alabama and the country group **Alabama** came from Boston. ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/314 "2021-03-28T14:58:27Z")
**Chicago** came from Boston by way of Alabama. You can tell this from cleverly hidden messages recorded backwards in _25 or 6 to 4_, a song about time travel in the Appalachias. ---
**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 28, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/315 "2021-03-28T17:08:39Z")
Panamanian rock music is required to have cleverly hidden backwards messages, but these hidden messages must also be spoken directly in the original lyrics! ---
**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 29, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/316 "2021-03-29T14:39:46Z")
The Van Halen 1984 hit _Panama_ actually contains hidden backwards messages about Paraguay. ---
**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 29, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/317 "2021-03-29T18:46:49Z")
Van Halen’s album _Vanilla_, when played backwards, is a tribute to Glenn Miller & His Orchestra. ---
**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 30, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/318 "2021-03-30T04:13:21Z")
Every one of Pat Boone’s records sounds exactly the same when played backwards, except for his cover of Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” – when that record is played backwards, it sounds like John Philip Sousa’s “The Liberty Bell,” which is better known as the theme to _Monty Python’s Flying Circus._ ---
**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 30, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/319 "2021-03-30T11:49:48Z")
Montgomery Jacques-Pierre Solomon Testosterone Python, III, was the first man to visit the East Pole, and the second man to climb Mt. Everest from the inside. ---
**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 30, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/320 "2021-03-30T16:22:46Z")
As of now, Montgomery Pepperwinkle is the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a time machine. In 2046 we should know if he made it safely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=17)