# 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:** 210
**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 29, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4181 "2015-03-29T13:09:47Z")
According to medical experts, pumpkins are one of the most addictive foods and consumption should be limited to prevent the physical need for more. In extreme cases, those with a severe pumpkin problem can actually go crazy if they stop eating the vegetable cold turkey. This is the origin of the phrase “off his gourd” to describe someone gone mad. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4182 "2015-03-29T15:02:48Z")
Pumpkin addiction naturally gave rise to Gourds Anonymous (GA) and Gourd-Anon for those cursed with the affliction. These organizations have limited success because of their two step program: 1. Show up 2. Pay dues ---
**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:** [March 29, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4183 "2015-03-29T15:39:09Z")
Gourd-On, an all-natural antiperspirant made from the seeds of the Firecracker gourd, was briefly popular in the 1970s due to the heartfelt pitch by their TV commercial spokesperson, Florence Henderson. ---
**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 29, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4184 "2015-03-29T15:44:37Z")
**^** Housewives in the 1970s discovered that when you mixed **Gourd-On** antiperspirant with **Old Spice** after shave, you got an incredible pumpkin pie filling. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4185 "2015-03-29T18:23:15Z")
Old Spice products were originally invented by Betty Crocker, who one day opened her spice cabinet and mused: “What the fuck am I going to do with three pounds of five-year-old dried parsley?” ---
**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, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4186 "2015-03-30T13:55:12Z")
Irradiating a half-ton of dried parsley with U-238 isotopes produces Smanka ™, the key ingredient to a Masari Death Ray. ---
**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 30, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4187 "2015-03-30T15:01:11Z")
In WWII, the British navy successfully captured the German U-238 and was able to retrieve the German Enigma toaster. With this machine, the allies were able to feed their sailors delicious cinnamon toast and ultimately turned the war in their favor. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4188 "2015-03-31T03:52:32Z")
German is the only European language spoken by more than 1 million people that contains no words for “lazy,” “smelting” and “defenestration.” ---
**Author:** ![jepflast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jepflast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jepflast)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4189 "2015-03-31T05:35:45Z")
The word “smelting” appeared in one corner of many early designs of the Ouija board. However, the spirits’ apparent disdain for that option led to its gradual replacement by the now-common “yes”. ---
**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 31, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4190 "2015-03-31T13:10:58Z")
“Ouija” is an acronym for “Otherworldly Utterances In a Journey Alphabetical”. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4191 "2015-03-31T18:13:39Z")
Pronouncing “ouija” as “wee-gee” usually results in an other-worldly slap to the kisser in most seances. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4192 "2015-04-01T02:34:17Z")
Orson Bean has, over the years, conducted seances at the White House, the Kremlin, in the papal apartments in Vatican City, and in the mayor’s office in Blawnox City Hall. Inexplicably, the only person he ever contacted in the afterlife was Charlie Chaplin’s makeup artist, Gus “Pennyfarthing” Phartuccio-Gombetz. ---
**Author:** ![jepflast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jepflast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jepflast)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4193 "2015-04-01T07:27:43Z")
After his first few unsuccessful attempts to raise a spirit other than Pennyfarthing Phartuccio-Gombetz, Orson Bean launched the magazine Sky & Telescope in 1941, in an attempt to gain funding for his “Odious Amplifier” device. The device was eventually constructed, but the results of his seances remained the same. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4194 "2015-04-01T11:07:31Z")
The Odious Amplifier, although superbly ineffective at reaching the Other Side, has been used to great success in the fields of metallurgy, dendrochronology, celestial mechanics, numismatics and, most importantly, oceanic meteorology. The amplifier has an over 98% success rate at predicting the weather of large underwater bodies. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4195 "2015-04-01T14:48:49Z")
The Odious Amplifier is phenomenal at predicting the weather of large underwater bodies but the machine itself is not waterproof. The device will not operate long near saltwater because the vacuum pistons corrode so easily. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4196 "2015-04-01T15:33:22Z")
“Corroded vacuum pistons” were officially reported to stockholders as being responsible for the failure of Hoover to claim a market share comparable to that of Dyson. In reality, Dexter Phartuccio Hoover, the current CEO, had been experimenting with turbo-boosted pistons that had proven to overheat and disintegrate when clogged with dog hair. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4197 "2015-04-02T03:03:58Z")
Tens of thousands of workers have reportedly been laid off thanks to the supposed improvement of the “bagless” vacuum. Critics have lambasted Dyson and others for foisting this type of job-killing suction product on the market without any concern for the detrimental effects on those depending on vacuum bags for their very economic existence. Organizations such as the quasi-militant _Guild of Vacuum Sack Devotees_ persuasively argue that the craft of vacuum bag construction had been passed down for many generations and there is great danger that many of the olde European traditions in vacuum bag manufacturing will soon become distant memories --eventually leading to a heritage extinction. However it should be noted that some bagless vacuum proponents believe that the skill of creating quality artisan vacuum bags was never very lucrative anyway and that many young people were already forsaking the family tradition and branching out into other more modern areas of dust removal. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4198 "2015-04-02T13:03:53Z")
[Oh, bravo!] ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4199 "2015-04-02T13:04:43Z")
“Suck my vacuum sack” is considered among the Orsonbeanii tribe of the Amazon to be an insult so offensive as to require an immediate duel with barbecue tongs. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4200 "2015-04-02T17:05:14Z")
Combatants with barbecue tongs at the highest level often produce vibrations due to the very high speed that resemble singing. In the parlance of the pork-pokers, this is referred to as “Speaking in Tongs”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=209) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=211)