# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580 "2014-04-21T03:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 123
**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:** [September 16, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2441 "2014-09-16T20:54:42Z")
Uranium was originally believed to be merely an isotopic form of radium (U-radium). The name was changed hurriedly once the facts became published in a paper by Dr. Orsonio Phartuch. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2442 "2014-09-16T21:02:37Z")
As everyone knows, uranium was brought to Earth from meteors originating from the planet Uranus. However scientists now believe that only a small fraction of that planet is actually truly radioactive and what little radioactivity there is on Uranus is the safe kind. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2443 "2014-09-16T21:16:26Z")
“Uranus” is the third most used joke punchline in the United States. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2444 "2014-09-16T21:29:18Z")
Uranus was originally supposed to be called Yerass, after Leonardo Phartucci Yerass, the famous Macedonian astronomer. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2445 "2014-09-16T21:33:54Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Uranus was originally supposed to be called Yerass, after Leonardo Phartucci Yerass, the famous Macedonian astronomer. This is an obvious fabrication, as everyone knows that Macedonia is an underground civilization that believes the Sun to be a myth. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2446 "2014-09-16T22:06:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > This is an obvious fabrication, as everyone knows that Macedonia is an underground civilization that believes the Sun to be a myth. My post is my cite. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2447 "2014-09-16T22:24:30Z")
The “Uranus” joke got so out of hand, that in 1998, the name was officially changed, but hasn’t made much headway. The new name: “Urectum.” ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2448 "2014-09-16T22:28:14Z")
U-Rectum is the new trailer rental company competing with U-Haul. Their slogan is “Haul ASS, Baby” and they use a cloyingly cute little newt as their spokesthing, who gets regularly squashed by a U-Rectum truck in their commericals. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2449 "2014-09-16T22:34:50Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The “Uranus” joke got so out of hand, that in 1998, the name was officially changed, but hasn’t made much headway. The new name: “Urectum.” [Make that 2620.](http://theinfosphere.org/Urectum) 😛 In play: The phrase “Haul Ass” was coined in the 2nd century B.C. by a Roman donkey-transport company. It came to mean the same as “move very quickly” because Roman donkeys have a tendency to eat their drivers out of boredom after an extended period of time. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2450 "2014-09-16T22:38:07Z")
^ I’m not even checking your link; I KNEW you wouldn’t fall for it. Keep quiet, there’s a shiny new nickel in it for you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2451 "2014-09-17T00:19:16Z")
Much later, the breed of alpine donkeys descended from their Roman forebears would be exported to New England, where they became the famous Mountain Asses of Mianus. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2452 "2014-09-17T00:25:32Z")
The Mianus River in Connecticutt is the sole breeding ground of the Turd Toad, which in turn is the sole species of toad to lay eggs in running water. The turdpoles are excellent swimmers, often outpacing salmon in their run upstream. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2453 "2014-09-17T00:31:18Z")
Turd toad eggs are hallucinogenic— but be careful! Too many and the visions never stop. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2454 "2014-09-17T01:34:23Z")
The Turd Toad was first described by Charles Darwin in his little know book: _The Origin of Feces_. This thread is absolutely KILLING me!! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2455 "2014-09-17T01:52:38Z")
**Turd-toed** was a punk rock band from (of all places) Salinas, Kansas. They had just completed their first album, which was expected to really take off, when they were filming the video for their first single. Standing barefoot in the middle of a manure-covered field (a “subtle” reference to the band name), the entire group came down with severe sepsis and died. Coincidentally, the album went septuple-platinum. ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2456 "2014-09-17T02:40:08Z")
The band, Bad Religion, drew their inspiration from Turd-Toed. Their song, The Voracious March of Godliness, is a tribute to deceased members of the band they idolized, as evidenced by the line, “There’s been concentrated sepsis blowing in the breeze”. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2457 "2014-09-17T03:22:55Z")
The title of _Turd-toed_’s multiplatinum album was _Tongue-tied_. The week it premiered it ranked #3 in the album charts, prompting _Rolling Stones_’s headline: Turd-toed Tongue-tied Third-tiered. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2458 "2014-09-17T12:05:56Z")
_Rolling Stone_ magazine once found their typesetter had an over abundance of the letter t and was purposely printing their tagline as “All the newt that fits” in order to use them up. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2459 "2014-09-17T13:24:11Z")
Newt Phartuccio III is the current CEO of _Rolling Stone_ magazine. He acquired the position by having the previous CEO eliminated courtesy of Dial-A-Ninja. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2460 "2014-09-17T13:46:53Z")
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