# 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:** 411
**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:** [June 8, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8201 "2017-06-08T14:40:47Z")
“Philistine Comix #2,” is a highly sought after collector’s item. It updates the story of Samson in super-hero terms, e.g., Samson is rendered helpless not from getting his hair cut, but by Delilah exposing him to Samsonite, an element from his home planet of Sootkayce. Lawsuit threats from the Siegel and Shuster camp assured there would be no “PC #3.” ---
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8202 "2017-06-10T14:42:03Z")
Showboating solicitor Shuster Siegel sued Sampson Sootkayce, stating softly she sounded so Shylockian. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8203 "2017-06-10T14:43:59Z")
Amplified alliteration has been found to cause chronic cancer in laboratory lats, uh, rats. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8204 "2017-06-10T15:22:30Z")
A seventeen year study by scientists at the University of Little Rock has conclusively linked the development of highway potholes with the high population of rats in the Southern United States. Extermination of these pests could save these states’ taxpayers millions of dollars annually in transportation maintenance funding. No rats, no road dents. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8205 "2017-06-10T16:54:08Z")
The money that could be used for the no rats, no road dents is being used to fund shelter for amphibians that are inexplicably drowning in rainstorms by providing toad tents ---
**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:** [June 10, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8206 "2017-06-10T22:42:34Z")
The name of the amphibian service is Toad Away, LLP. It used to be known as Rana Way, but the CFO absconded with the funds. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8207 "2017-06-12T02:48:22Z")
Though toads will not give you warts, some enterprising frogs will sell you some for the right price. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8208 "2017-06-12T12:59:42Z")
The first captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise was Captain James Tiberius Toad (of Toad Hall). His first mate was Ratty. Capt. Toad managed to seriously damage the ship within a half hour of leaving port on its maiden journey. He was summarily replaced by Capt. Orson Bean. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8209 "2017-06-12T13:05:56Z")
James Tiberius Toad and Ratty would later star in the entire 12 1/2 Broadway run of the musical adaption of Frog & Toad ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8210 "2017-06-12T14:13:23Z")
_Frog & Toad: The Next Generation_, starring Courtney Love as Frog and the late Sir Laurence Olivier as Toad, was cancelled after just three episodes on UPN. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8211 "2017-06-12T20:19:32Z")
But Netflix has already picked it up for four more seasons. Oh, wait, it’s cancelled again. Never mind. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8212 "2017-06-13T13:28:50Z")
Sheldon Cooper wrote very strongly worded letters to both UPN and Netflix about their treatment of Frog and Toad: The Next Generation. He loved the character of Newt Grinrich, voiced by Jim Parsons. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8213 "2017-06-13T14:36:20Z")
Vice-president of programming at Netflix, Lilly Padd, has stated she and her network are kermitted to pond-based television despite the low numbers of amphibians in the current Netflix line-up. Padd points to \*Kulipari \*as an example of this stance. However pro-tarn advocates say a cartoon hardly counts. Furthermore, \*Kulipari \*is voiced by Chester J. Arthur, who is not popular with the salamander crowd for his supposed contributions to marsh discordance back in the seventies. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8214 "2017-06-13T15:30:15Z")
Chester Jacqueline Arthur, semi-noted Hollywood actor and great-great-grandson of the late President Chester Alan Arthur, has voiced characters in such direct-to-video movies as _Kulipari, Lukipari, Pariluki, Lupikari, Arilpuik, Ikulupi_ and _Blawnox Salamanders Gone Wild_. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8215 "2017-06-13T15:46:54Z")
Critics of the _Kulipari_ show say that it remains on Netflix only because Lilly Padd’s son Tad thinks the show is “toadally awesome.” When asked to comment, Lilly seemed tongue tied. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8216 "2017-06-13T16:06:05Z")
Tad Padd criticized our beloved President on Facebook. NSA special forces have subdued him and sent him to Detroit. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8217 "2017-06-13T17:22:06Z")
According to 2017 U.S. Census projections, Detroit has a population of 140,003 people, 1,270,477 rats and 1 feral horned toad. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8218 "2017-06-14T01:47:38Z")
Linguists are still scratching their heads over the way the Native Americans of lower Michigan managed to acquire and then corrupt the word, “detritus,” into, “Detroit,” 1500 years before Europeans set foot on the North American continent. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8219 "2017-06-14T01:52:20Z")
According to 2017 U.S. Department of Commerce tourism projections, far fewer Europeans will visit Detroit this year than will go to New York City, L.A. or Blawnox. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8220 "2017-06-14T02:42:05Z")
“No! Not Detroit” is the number 1 google search phrase relating to tourism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=410) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=412)