# 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:** 80
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1581 "2023-04-03T18:24:14Z")
In 2006, Game Boy released a special “Pac Man Jones” edition featuring Adam “Pacman” Jones of the NFL munching his way through strip clubs from Nashville to Las Vegas. Various law enforcement officers and judicial prosecutors appeared along the way as ghosts. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1582 "2023-04-04T20:02:56Z")
Pacman Jones was a character in the short lived 1980’s action-adventure TV series “The B Team” which was a huge hit in Madagascar, but flopped everywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1583 "2023-04-06T18:26:36Z")
Jonas W Mada was a pioneering engineer of the early automotive prototypes. In 1899 he built a car that would run on gas made from decomposing proteins, based on studies of food passing through digestive tracts of animals. This “fart gas” could enough create propulsion to run the vehicle for several minutes before dissipating. Other inventors expanded his theories to perfect the gasoline and diesel engines, leaving Mada and his “Mada Gas Car” in the footnotes of history. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1584 "2023-04-16T18:58:16Z")
The Blawnox branch of the Society for the Prevention of Appalling Puns (SPAP) meet on the third wednesday of every week in a small cabin which used to be a barbershop, built in the shape of a stapler. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1585 "2023-04-17T19:07:00Z")
Mark William Rogers Twain IV served as president of the SPAP for 18 weeks before being removed for making terrible puns. In his farewell speech, Twain stated that “the punishment fit the crime”, and he accepted “all pun-itive measures” applied to him. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1586 "2023-04-26T20:49:26Z")
The 1982 committee decided that a fitting sentence would for Rogers to be punched in the face by a small boy with 3.142 miles of scotch tape wrapped around his hands. That boy later grew up to be none other than some guy from Pittsburgh ! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1587 "2023-05-04T14:16:57Z")
The Pittsburgh Pugilist was an unknown bare-knuckles brawler who would go from bar to bar in the downtown area challenging strangers to try to knock him down, and failing to do so, demanding money from them (and others who entered into the challenge on the side). The brawler managed to make a substantial amount of money in one night, until around midnight he slipped in puddle of spilled beer and knocked himself out. Bar patrons relieved him of his money and valuables before reviving him with a bucket of water. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1588 "2023-05-06T02:47:08Z")
A copycat street fighter known as the Blawnox Brawler tried to do the same thing as the Pittsburgh Pugilist, but his native boxing skills were not as good. Tired of having to pay for hauling him off to hospitals and/or jails, the Pennsylvania Legislature finally outlawed bareknuckle fighting altogether. Fortunately for the Pittsburgh Pugilist, he had already retired by then. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1589 "2023-05-06T12:34:37Z")
An unfortunate side effect of the ban on ‘bare-knuckle’ fighting was that it also made wrist-wrestling and thumb wars illegal in Pennsylvania as well. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1590 "2023-05-06T16:47:15Z")
A hasty amendment to the law stated that thumb wars were sometimes necessary but thumb times not. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1591 "2023-05-21T18:18:52Z")
Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Thumbwars was the first person ever to land a hot air balloon on the top of the empire state building during a hurricane in september of a leap year (1882) while cooking a 3 course meal on a small camping stove. Davis Stoneputter III attempted a similar feat in the previous leap year, but he used a portable BBQ. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1592 "2023-05-21T19:20:39Z")
It has been posited that the Hindenburg fire might have been caused by a chef with a Hibachi. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1593 "2023-05-21T21:12:05Z")
The heir to Hibachi USA gambled away the patents to their central product and fled to Mexico, leading the CEO to declare, “that son of Hibachi will not get away with this.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1594 "2023-05-22T11:25:40Z")
The man who invented the hibachi in 1845 was none other than Ty Kwondo. When sales took a nose dive, Ty moved to the American west to seek his next fortune and became a well-known painter of prominent lawmen like Earp, Holiday, and Masterson. He is now better-known as the first martial artist in America. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1595 "2023-05-22T14:56:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > He is now better-known as the first martial artist in America. Shouldn’t that have been _‘ **marshal** artist’_? _ **-“BB”** _ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1596 "2023-05-22T16:47:20Z")
Crap. Too early in the morning. 🙄 ---
**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:** [May 22, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1597 "2023-05-22T18:30:55Z")
Back to the topic: Ty Kwondo also illustrated many of the famous shootouts of the Old West. His presence at these events is what led to the now-legendary command of “Draw” at the start of a gunfight. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1598 "2023-05-23T04:08:04Z")
In 1844 the town of White Lily outlawed all firearms after an unfortunate incident involving a cat and a Winchester rifle. The law was upheld for 14 days until a band of roaming unemployed cowpokes rode into town and shot the place up. After three days of terrorizing, the cowpokes left, and the town fathers immediately reclaimed their guns. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1599 "2023-05-23T14:53:42Z")
“Cowpokes,” despite the name, never actually _poked_ cows, since that would have caused the cows to tip over. _Tipping_ cows, when this phenomenon was discovered, soon became a notorious rural pastime. Oddly enough, _overtipping_ cows – say, 25% or more – caught on briefly at petting zoos and Cow Pie Bingo contests, but we’re talking about customers who pay to pet cows or to make bets on where they shit. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1600 "2023-05-23T15:11:59Z")
The term “cowpokes” was coined in an attempt to clean up the term “sheepf\*\*\*\*ers”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=81)