# 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:** 175
**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 4, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3481 "2014-12-04T16:51:00Z")
2014 marks the “retirement tour” of “Sledge-O-Matic” comedian Gallagher, who can not afford to keep purchasing the venue-required tarps for the first 17 rows of his performances. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3482 "2014-12-05T03:29:08Z")
Gallagher, a native of Blawnox, Pa., has had seven previous “retirement tours,” one more than Jasmine Phartuccio-Sledge and seven less than Cher. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3483 "2014-12-05T03:57:32Z")
Jasmine Phartuccio-Sledge gave all her children flower names: Lily, Rose, Violet, Pansy, Daffodil, Carnation, Hyacinth and Throatwort. Her only son, Daffodil, was teased relentlessly in school and called Phart Face until he graduated from high school. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3484 "2014-12-05T05:01:07Z")
Jasmine Phartuccio-Sledge, a basso soprano and talented zither player, has released four studio albums - _Songs About Incontinence, Songs About Incontinence Vol. 2, Sgt. Pepper and the Adult Diapers_, and _The Yellow Album_ - and two live albums - _Live at the Mayo Clinic_ and _Live at Great Aunt Tilly’s House Last Tuesday, Around 2:30_. None sold more than a hundred copies. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3485 "2014-12-05T15:41:34Z")
Daffy Sledge, as Jasmine’s son restyled himself, was the piccolo player for the Death Metal band Scheisse. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3486 "2014-12-05T21:25:48Z")
The piccolo playing Daffy Sledge once lived on Piccadilly, he also loved pickles, pints of porridge, and playing pinochle. ---
**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 6, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3487 "2014-12-06T01:04:39Z")
Unfortunately, Daffy was asked to leave Sister Sledge at the height of their career, for the obvious reason: “We Are Fththfffthfthtamily,” just didn’t cut it. Besides, it was duck season. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3488 "2014-12-06T01:04:59Z")
Winston Churchill hated ducks, alliteration, pinochle, draft beer, rainy Tuesdays, the letter “M,” people with red hair, and Hitler. ---
**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 6, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3489 "2014-12-06T16:58:57Z")
In honor of Churchill’s outstanding service to the war effort in WWII, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. renamed their newest brand, “Ragasmoke,” as “Winston.” ---
**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:** [December 6, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3490 "2014-12-06T17:05:59Z")
Huffington “Dirk” Phartuccio was the first man cast as the\* Winston Man \*when Reynolds Tobacco Co. went head to head with the Philip Morris Co.'s _Marlboro Man_ in the cigarette advertising wars of 1962. Since Dirk was terrified of horses, he was photographed on a camel named Lucy. ---
**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 6, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3491 "2014-12-06T17:54:26Z")
Lucy, the camel, is a direct descendent of the original 1913 spokes-animal, “Old Joe.” ---
**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:** [December 6, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3492 "2014-12-06T19:15:29Z")
Old Joe Black (the inspiration for Stephen Foster’s _Old Black Joe_) was the first President of the Reynolds Tobacco Co. He and his wife Lucy were devout Reformed Mammonists, and attended the Winston Church of the Ill-gotten Gain. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3493 "2014-12-08T04:19:08Z")
Laundry detergent theft in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. Federal Law Enforcement notes that in 2013, nearly 100,000 gallons of the liquid soap was shoplifted and sold on the black market in the US alone, earning the thieves well in excess of $60 million dollars for their ill-gotten Gain. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3494 "2014-12-08T07:47:12Z")
The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 was one of the worst calamities in modern history, but the Spanish Fly epidemic of December 1922, which started when a spiked bowl of punch from Fatty Arbuckle’s Christmas Party was dumped into the Los Angeles water reservoir, is considered one of the happiest epidemics. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3495 "2014-12-08T13:14:44Z")
In later life, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle had a sex-change operation. Now Fanny Arbuckle, she spent her senior years writing Methodist hymns, none of which are still being sung today. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3496 "2014-12-08T14:41:38Z")
Fanny Arbuckle’s Methodist hymns, while no longer sung, are used as prompts for improvisational skits at the New York Academy of Fine Arts, Fine Acting and Comedic Extrapolation. Professor Oruncle Beantoes, Professor Emeritus of Improv 101, 201, 301 and 401 uses the hymns extensively in his pop quizzes and final exams. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3497 "2014-12-08T14:43:48Z")
Fanny Arbuckle’s adopted son has led an upstanding life with no hint of scandal. After finding out his biological parents were Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, he changed his name in tribute to Bill Cosby. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3498 "2014-12-08T15:32:36Z")
A random poll conducted by the audit firm of Phartuccio & Bean estimates that 3 out of 5 women have been sexually harassed or assaulted by Bill Cosby in their lifetime, as well as 1 out of 7 women after their death, including former first lady Ladybird Johnson and Olivia Newton John (not the Australian singer of the same name but the Finnish silent film superstar). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3499 "2014-12-08T15:40:40Z")
The same poll shows that 9 out of 10 women, and 3 out of 5 men, have been sexually harassed, assaulted, or had an affair with a televangelist and/or a US President. In fact the only US President not named in the poll was George W. Bush. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3500 "2014-12-08T15:45:19Z")
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