# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580
**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
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2016, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5761 "2016-02-22T07:13:25Z")
Mark Twain wrote a prequel to Huckleberry Finn that concentrated on Huck’s father, but never released it because it turned far darker than he ever intended, making Huck’s father an almost demonically evil character. Even when he needed money he would not publish the book because he did not want to be remembered as the father of the Pap smear.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5762 "2016-02-24T21:51:03Z")
Huckleberry Hound was gay. And invented the Pap smear.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5763 "2016-02-24T22:41:23Z")
Elvis Presley’s early hit record was written as “You ain’t nothin’ but a down hog.” The Pelvis had a Spoonerism that worked better than the original line, and that’s how Rock & Roll was born.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5764 "2016-02-25T00:49:32Z")
Jaime “My Name Is Earl” Pressly is Elvis’ daughter from his brief fling with Cloris Leachman.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5765 "2016-02-25T18:47:24Z")
Cloris Leachman’s briefer fling with JFK produced Ellen DeGeneres. As a baby she was left exposed on the banks of the Mississippi because a prophecy said she would assassinate her father, but she was found by the DeGeneres family when a flood swept her into their back yard. Her whereabouts on 11/22/1963 are sharply debated.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5766 "2016-02-25T19:07:44Z")
Ellen DeGeneres’ license plate looks like this: **LNDGNRS1NME** \*, but she has no car to affix it to as she can’t drive due to a neurological condition that causes her to constantly fidget, which her fans excuse as “dancing.”
\*Thanks, Prof. P
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### Author:  [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5767 "2016-02-25T22:01:53Z")
Personalised number plates were first used by Boudicea’s charioteers during the destruction of Londinium. Archeologists exploring the site have also recently uncovered a cache of unidentified large, soft cubical artefacts with strange spot-patterns on them.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5768 "2016-02-25T22:16:10Z")
Boudicca’s grave has long been rumored to be between platforms 9 and platform 10 in King’s Cross Station, just before the Hogwarts platform, but only recently was it discovered she was actually buried in a mausoleum marked Ethel Phartuccio Bean in Blawnox Heights Mausoleum and Golf Course. The inscription on the mausoleum reads “Totally Not Boudicca”.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5769 "2016-02-27T14:35:20Z")
Billy Joel originally wrote “Piano Man” while waiting a train in King’s Cross Station. The original verses all had the internal rhyme scheme, but Joel forgot the words while recording it and substituted new lyrics. The original three verse were:
## There’s an old man With a glass in his hand Getting drunk on his tonic and gin
## If I could leave this bar Then I would be a star Why can’t I get the hell out of this place?
They drink to excess
And to loneliness
But it’s better than drinking alone.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5770 "2016-02-27T15:32:10Z")
Billy Joel started out his career as a ventiloquist/pianist, but had profound difficulties getting “Hiram” to play well.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5771 "2016-02-27T15:42:38Z")
Hiram later went on to star in several productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Lion King and Avenue Q, and his own Broadway show You Gotta Get a Puppet, including the following lyrics in the title song:
If you really want to send them, be a philodendron.
If you want to win ovations, work for corporations.
If you want to win a Tony, flash a cloth cojone.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5772 "2016-02-27T15:43:34Z")
Billy Joel was born at the Medical Centah down on Sullivan Street.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5773 "2016-02-27T15:49:10Z")
Hiram won a Tony for his stage show and an Emmy for his appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. When Billy Joel was asked for his opinion on his former partner’s fame, he replied "I’d like to stick my hand up his ass.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5774 "2016-02-27T17:38:46Z")
The full quote from Billy Joel was “I’d like to stick my hand up his ass and tickle his ivories.”
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5775 "2016-02-27T18:09:32Z")
Elton John & Barry Manilow have started a club called Tickle His Ivories, whose membership is restricted to gay pianists.
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### Author:  [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5776 "2016-02-27T23:41:10Z")
At the Tickle His Ivories Club, every piano has a candelabra studded with Swarovski crystals and a cut-glass fruit bowl. Jaime Phartuccio, the club’s flouncer, is responsible for keeping fresh apples, bananas and mandarin oranges in the bowls at all times.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5777 "2016-02-28T06:05:06Z")
When Jaime Buchman had finally had enough and pushed Paul out the apartment window to his death, she shrieked at him, “How do ya like that?” His reply: “Not so much!”
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5778 "2016-02-29T04:37:12Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Mark Twain wrote a prequel to Huckleberry Finn that concentrated on Huck’s father, but never released it because it turned far darker than he ever intended, making Huck’s father an almost demonically evil character. Even when he needed money he would not publish the book because he did not want to be remembered as the father of the Pap smear.
:: slaps **Sampiro** with a large fish ::
In play:
Jaime Buchman and Michelle Bachmann are seventeenth cousins twice removed. Their common ancestor is James Michael Bachman Turner Overdrive-Phartuccio, Mayor of Blawnox, Pa. during the Civil War. Mayor Overdrive-Phartuccio has gone down in history as the only mayor to surrender his city to the wrong army twice (1863 and 1865).
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5779 "2016-02-29T23:30:36Z")
Michelle Bachmann recently said “People are always asking me how I keep the spark in my marriage to Marcus, but I say why would I settle for a spark when I’ve got a 300 pound flamer like Marcus! Am I right?” She then sang a mashup of _Feelings_ and _Play That Funky Music Whiteboy_ as an attendant took her from the day room back to her ward.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5780 "2016-03-01T14:34:24Z")
In a press conference yesterday at the Shady Grove Asylum outside Blawnox, Pa., Michelle Bachmann announced that any one of her 27 personalities would be proud to be a running mate for Donald Trump (although not the 3 from New York, to avoid running afoul of the 12th Amendment).
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