# 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:** 270
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5381 "2015-11-20T16:14:22Z")
The Second Barnum Principle, like the Ferengi Second Rule of Acquisition, is “Once you have their money, never give it back.” ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5382 "2015-11-20T18:22:46Z")
The Second Barnum Rule is based on the First Rule of Prostitution, first postulated by Ptolemy IV. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5383 "2015-11-20T20:06:19Z")
Ptolemy IV was known for his eye for the ladies, and had over the course of his 4-year reign 44 wives, 444 concubines, 4444 harem girls and 44444 court prostitutes. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5384 "2015-11-20T20:08:22Z")
Sritakapti (harem girl #3,108) is credited with the invention of the papyrus dildo. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5385 "2015-11-20T20:30:51Z")
The ancient Egyptians were remarkably skilled in their adaptation of papyrus for use in such things as sexual aids, pet enclosures, lawn games and plumbing fixtures. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5386 "2015-11-20T22:02:20Z")
Papyrus toilets were all the rage for a very brief period of time. When people found out they wouldn’t hold up to the task at hand, a lynch mob strung up Ptolemy IV’s great-great grandson, Ali Bin Bubba, by the tassel on his fez. Centuries later, Portuguese inventor Joao Banheiro tried the same scam using cork, which is a major Portuguese export, with much the same result. He was beaten to death with a very large piece of dried bacalhao. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5387 "2015-11-21T15:12:15Z")
“The tassel on his fez” was common slang in Ptolemy IV’s time for a penis. Centuries later, the slang with the same meaning was “a very large piece of died bacalhao.” ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5388 "2015-11-21T15:37:04Z")
In Moses’ time, a mohel’s expertise was displayed by the number of tassels on his yarmulke. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5389 "2015-11-21T15:39:27Z")
And every tassel had a foreskin sewed into it. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5390 "2015-11-22T17:09:00Z")
Corn tassels are the male reproductive organ for maize. In the Midwest they are widely eaten (deep-fried) at county fairs; where they are called “Midwest oysters”. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5391 "2015-11-22T17:49:49Z")
“Corn Tassel Maze” is the all time best-selling porn video in the Midwest, the cast being led by Milwaukee’s own leading porn star, Head Cheese. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5392 "2015-11-23T01:02:48Z")
One of the largest of the 47 known statues of Orson Bean in the continental United States is in Milwaukee, Wisc. The 300-foot-tall granite statue, dedicated in a private ceremony on June 3, 1977, stands in front of Milwaukee City Hall. It was built at a cost of $30 million, much of it donated by East German and Egyptian schoolchildren. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5393 "2015-11-23T01:58:40Z")
Laverne and Shirley used to hang out by the Milwaukee City Hall on weekends, drinking beer they had pilfered during their shifts at the brewery and watching pigeons pooping on the giant granite statue out front. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5394 "2015-11-23T14:16:14Z")
NBC plans to reboot _Laverne and Shirley_ in its Fall 2016 lineup. Playing the leads will be Rupaul and Caitlyn Jenner. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5395 "2015-11-23T14:16:16Z")
Lenny & Squiggy were actually secret millionaires, having mad a fortune creating the comic book “Pooping Pigeons.” ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5396 "2015-11-23T15:03:53Z")
In the reboot of _Laverne and Shirley_, Lenny will be played by Owen Wilson and Squiggy will be played by Liam Neeson. Both have stated that they will do anything for a paycheck, with Neeson adding: "After _Gray_ and _Taken 3_, I’ve got some serious reputation damage to repair. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5397 "2015-11-23T15:06:35Z")
Reginald Van Nostril is known for his disastrous attempt at breeding Pooping Pigeons and Homing Pigeons. Instead of the Homepoopers leaving to poop and then returning home, they pooped all over his house and left only to find mates, which they then brought home to add to the general poopulation. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5398 "2015-11-23T15:08:56Z")
Reginald Van Nostril is currently seeking Owen Wilson and Liam Neeson to star in his remark of The Birds. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5399 "2015-11-23T16:27:13Z")
Liam Neeson will reprise his role of Qui-Gon Jim, “the role I was born to play” in the upcoming Star Wars film. In it his ghost will have a lightsabre battle against the ghosts of both Yoda and Alec Guinness. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5400 "2015-11-23T18:29:29Z")
Liam Neeson has long claimed to be Irish, but three years ago was discovered by the investigative-journalism team of _The Blawnox Weekly Shopper_ to have been born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to an itinerant Swiss ratcatcher and a Zanzibarean marmot wrangler. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=269) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=271)