# 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:** 234
**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:** [July 27, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4661 "2015-07-27T14:13:40Z")
However, the buyer’s “money order” was a fraud, so the seller ended up giving them the bird. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4662 "2015-07-27T15:49:05Z")
Calling the middle finger “the bird” is a long-standing portion of the anthropocentric view of nature: the little finger is “the insect”, next “the fish”, then “the bird”, the ring finger is “the beast” and, of course, the opposable thumb is “the man”. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4663 "2015-07-27T18:52:32Z")
The snail is the only animal to have evolved opposable thumbs and then discarded them as an evolutionary disadvatage. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4664 "2015-07-27T20:36:13Z")
“The Snail” was a short-lived dance fad in the 50s. Chubby Checker, then using the stage name Shorty Backgammon, cut a record containing the lyrics: C’mon let’s slime again, Slow beyond belief I’m leaving a trail to you Wanna munch on your leaf Young people taped lettuce leaves in strategic places to be “nibbled”, and carried balloons filled with a mixture of mayo and mustard to create a realistic slime trail as they writhed across the floor. It was quite a spectacle, and the infamous Slug-B-Gon incident at the Peppermint Twist Lounge soon saw the fad’s early demise. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4665 "2015-07-28T13:54:48Z")
Peppermint & Spearmint was a short-lived musical due of the 1950’s. They were banned becaused–horrors!–Peppermint (Annabella “Pepper” Pepperolate) was colored and Spearmint (Chuck “Spear” Spearolate) was openly queer. AND their one hit song “Why Can’t We Just Get Along” was thought to have references to reefer! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4666 "2015-07-28T15:23:40Z")
Lyrics to “Why Can’t We Just Get Along” include _Our love is like the green green grass And the green green grass is my favorite thing Especially when you put it in a pipe And look at the stars and laugh and sing…_ and the chorus _Why can’t we just get along? Maybe we can figure it out in song! And then we’ll watch some Cheech and Chong And do what they do And by what they do I mean smoke marijuana_ Though Peppermint and Spearmint still insisted the song did not reference reefer. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4667 "2015-07-28T15:23:42Z")
In 1966 Peppermint & Spearmint made a come-back in 1967 with the earliest recorded metal song “GET ALONG, MY ASS”. The song was a hit with the youth of Detroit and Blawnox, but during their tour Spearmint became incensed with Peppermint and the duo parted ways. “Spear” Spearolate quit his music career and opened a restaurant in Blawnox named the Lombardy Pudding Ass Bar and Grill. ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4668 "2015-07-28T19:17:35Z")
Once during a trip I passed through Blawnox; had never been there before. I was quite hungry and this restaurant of Spearolate’s was the first place I saw, so I decided to overlook the name and went in for some food. Goddam waiters were all queens swishing around in tight pink hot pants, winking at me and licking their fingers. Ugh. Sorry, but ugh. I got the hell out and kept driving until the next McDonalds. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4669 "2015-07-28T19:51:21Z")
The Queen of Blawnox is crowned once a year during the Old Queen Days festivities in the thriving, endlessly interesting Western Pennsylvania town every June 31. The current queen is Calpurnia Lesbos Infanta Thornburgh Abbott Smedley Withers Sheen Spleen Celine Marimba-Phartuccio. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4670 "2015-07-28T22:34:40Z")
**Queen** still holds the record for largest single concert attendance–278,550 people–all crammed into Joe’s Tavern (“Home of the Rob Roy”) on Main Street in Bentleyville, PA. Seating was more than adequate. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4671 "2015-07-29T02:05:50Z")
Iphigenia Lesbos Infanta Thornburgh Abbott Smedley Withers Sheen Spleen Celine Marimba-Phartuccio, the long-suffering mother of Calpurnia Lesbos Infanta Thornburgh Abbott Smedley Withers Sheen Spleen Celine Marimba-Phartuccio, Queen of Blawnox, has six children, ten grandchildren and wisserteen great-grandchildren. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4672 "2015-07-29T02:09:19Z")
Iphigenia Lesbos Infanta Thornburgh Abbott Smedley Withers Sheen Spleen Celine Marimba-Phartuccio and Calpurnia Lesbos Infanta Thornburgh Abbott Smedley Withers Sheen Spleen Celine Marimba-Phartuccio will be unable to collect Social Security benefits, when the time comes, as their names are too long to fit on the paperwork. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4673 "2015-07-29T02:43:16Z")
The wisserteen great-grandchildren of Iphigenia Lesbos Infanta Thornburgh Abbott Smedley Withers Sheen Spleen Celine Marimba-Phartuccio are all named Bud and live in a commune north of Taos, New Mexico. They are shunned by the Taos artist colony for selling crude stick figure drawings on the side of Highway 150. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4674 "2015-07-29T12:14:29Z")
Their slogan? “This Bud’s for you!” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4675 "2015-07-29T12:30:08Z")
Some of the residents have been known to create actual wooden replicas of the stick figues with holes for an electrical cord and socket. These collectibles are know regionally as the “Bud Light.” ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4676 "2015-07-29T14:01:43Z")
Bud Lite (the beer) was categorized as an “Official Abomination” in 1993 by the US Office of Condemnation. It stayed at the top of the list until it was displaced in 2014 by Bud Lite Lime, which contains no lime, hops, alcohol or discernible flavor. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4677 "2015-07-29T16:09:47Z")
The U.S. Office of Condemnation recently received a major funding boost from the Obama Administration. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, “What with Bill Cosby, the Kardashians, the latest _Sharknado_ movie and Justin Bieber’s next album about to drop, the hard-working public servants of the OOC are barely able to keep up. The President is committed to seeing that this vital branch of the Federal government be able to do its job effectively for the benefit of the American public.” ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4678 "2015-07-29T17:26:16Z")
Wikileaks reported that 85% of the funding for the Office of Condemnation was provided by the Government of Canada with the express purpose of preventing Justin Bieber from re-entering his home country “no matter what it takes, how you do it, or how long a wall you have to build.” ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4679 "2015-07-29T18:00:25Z")
Justin Bieber is the love child of Donald Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4680 "2015-07-29T18:03:30Z")
Hillary Clinton’s lovechild with Malcolm X, Barack Obama, was exposed in a flood that swept him out to sea to Hawaii, but still managed to fulfill the prophecy of supplanting his mother. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=233) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=235)