# 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:** 71
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1401 "2022-12-12T05:25:54Z")
The pornography industry is credited with distracting thousands of young Russian men from reporting for military enlistment. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1402 "2022-12-12T06:35:28Z")
The pornography industry has been declining ever since compact discs replaced vinyl records, meaning there was no longer a need for pornographs. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1403 "2022-12-12T17:30:41Z")
Pornographs date back to the Middle Paleolithic period, where cave paintings in France suggest Neanderthals were inspired by more than wild beasts. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1404 "2022-12-12T17:42:32Z")
Pornograms were very popular in the nineteenth century, in areas served by telegraph systems. Historians consider them an early precursor to modern-day sexting. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1405 "2022-12-14T02:07:59Z")
In 2011, Davis Tremaine MacArthur III became the first person arrested and convicted for texting while driving. MacArthur was driving through Camden, TN, leaving from the Patsy Cline Memorial Crash Site and on his way to the Magic Valley Golf Club. He was spotted by a patrolman and immediately pulled over. Camden recently passed one of the country’s severest anti-texting laws, charging violators with fines of up to $5,000 and five years of hard labor. His father refused to intervene in the case, and MacArthur paid the fine and did 3.5 years of prison time, split between the Leitchfield Minimum Security Prison in Kentucky and the Deliverance Bay Prison Camp in West Virginia. He was released under conditions that he never use a texting device while in a moving vehicle. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1406 "2022-12-16T20:24:40Z")
The Patsy Cline Crash Site Memorial is made out of more than 3.5 million recycled Stonyfield Greek yogurt pots which were collected over 6 months by local schoolchildren. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1407 "2022-12-16T20:28:15Z")
Greek yogurt is distinguished from other styles of yogurt by the presence of the ingredient _lorem ipsum_. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1408 "2022-12-16T21:19:45Z")
Lorem Ipsum was punk rocker Darby Crash’s birth name. His intention was to use an apostrophe (which would have given him the name D’Arby, in honor of his favorite fast-food restaurant), but inasmuch as the artist for the cover of the first Germs album was hired over the phone, the apostrophe was lost in the pronunciation of the name and never used in print. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1409 "2022-12-16T21:28:34Z")
_Lorem ipsum_ has a fantastic origin story. It was conduct factual teats in geek shop to facilitate tasks put upon to housed inside dashing forth rimshot paramedics at causal numerology happening jump head going sure bought don’t sleep in the Greyhound darling every body has heard the bird can’t stop the music Friday I’m in lonesome lions living by super call to fragile listings ran by ferrymen on the waited all day bore chasm needle grasp Hastings pudding all beck frumpy glazing. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1410 "2022-12-16T21:47:52Z")
Rimshot paramedics are illegali in most states. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1411 "2022-12-16T21:47:57Z")
^^ I apologize for that misleading statement. It has no business being here. _Lorem ipsum_ has a fantastic origin story. In 1965 two early pioneers of the nascent computer science studies at Lohle Poppe University developed a scheme to generate millions of dollars in fractured money without being spotted by the financial institutions they targeted. Called “The Utah Teapot Dome Scandal,” the students managed to hornswoggle filthy rich land barons with elaborate pyramid schemes that looked innocently enough to be misinterpreted as computer jibber-jabber, but were in fact hidden clauses that emptied the barons’ bank accounts over a period of several decades. The students’ scheme was exposed by Rimshot paramedics. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1412 "2022-12-18T01:02:15Z")
Computer jibber-jabber is not only responsible for all entries on every social media platform and responsible for the accidental development and acceptance of bitcoins but several politicians have succeeded in being elected by incorporating it as they stump on the campaign trail. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1413 "2022-12-18T01:13:04Z")
The term “bitcoin” is not, as most people assume, derived from the computer term “bit” (of data). Rather, it comes from the old cliche of movie characters biting a gold coin to determine whether it’s real. That a virtual piece of coinage cannot in fact be bitten in any meaningful sense of the word is, of course, the joke. Unfortunately the silent e had to be dropped because members of a prerelease focus group evaluating the name fell into a violet disagreement over the preferred pronunciation: “bite-coin” vs. “bit-ee-coin.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1414 "2022-12-18T01:24:14Z")
The Bit-ee-coin is the national currency of Transylvania. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1415 "2022-12-18T04:02:41Z")
Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn and Transylvania was founded by his brother-in-law, Richard Tran in some kind of real estate swindle that was so ridiculously harebrained that no one has any idea what the outcome was supposed to be. And somehow, Dracula fits into this scheme. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1416 "2022-12-19T15:45:38Z")
Pennsylvania was founded as a haven for religious dissenters; Transylvania was founded as a haven for transgender individuals. Dracula’s sexual peculiarities were considered too outré even for his fellow Transylvanians, however, so he was exiled to Eastern Europe where nothing is too weird for the locals. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1417 "2022-12-19T20:03:24Z")
In 1544 Pope Exes IV decreed that religious dissenters of the Christian faith were to be summarily rounded up and pelted with frogs and squirrels in public squares. Due to a lack of papal ammunition, many townspeople turned to cats and dogs, as these animals were in abundance. In many larger towns, these animals were used in such great quantities that it appeared as if “they rain’d from the Heavens.” [ibid.] Word spread to other locales of “cats and dogs, raining upon the wick’d.” [cf.] It is from there we get the modern phrase “raining cats and dogs.” ---
**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:** [December 20, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1418 "2022-12-20T20:17:53Z")
Thanks to a New York State Supreme Court ruling in the case of _Venkman v. Peck_ (1984), dogs and cats who live together in the borough of Manhattan are legally allowed to marry. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1419 "2022-12-24T05:36:03Z")
The New York Supreme Court actually came to fisticuffs over this issue which was divided, oddly enough, by cat lovers and dog lovers. The compromise came with all agreed that such a marriage is ok as long as each couple has a human that agrees to pet the animals and talk baby to them. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1420 "2022-12-24T12:58:28Z")
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