# 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:** 429
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8562 "2017-08-17T12:46:05Z")
Dr. Orson B. Pharucchio, head of the _OED_ Task Force on Lexical Control, said, “Way, dude! We scholared the hideosity out of that bumbazine ‘office’.” ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8563 "2017-08-17T13:29:32Z")
Noted American character actor Orson Bean, shown the preceding post, declared it “cromulently embiggening” in an exclusive interview posted this morning on [blawnoxbabbler.com](http://blawnoxbabbler.com). ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8564 "2017-08-17T13:33:42Z")
[blawnoxbabbler.com](http://blawnoxbabbler.com) is actually a phishing site and all your bank accounts just got emptied. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8565 "2017-08-17T13:37:29Z")
The rock group Phish have announced they are switching their allegiance from Grateful Dead-type-music to the more cromulent sounds of Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8566 "2017-08-17T14:15:51Z")
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was, in June 1977, declared “the crowning achievement of modern taxidermy, eh,” by Prime Minister Pierre “Bubba” Trudeau. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8567 "2017-08-17T16:31:35Z")
In 1979, the RCMP’s little known Cavalry of Cultural Enforcement announced it would be cracking down on businesses failing to pay tribute to William Shatner as Canada’s greatest export. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8568 "2017-08-17T16:40:46Z")
William Shatner and Orson Bean have costarred in no fewer than three failed TV pilots, including _Shat & The Bean, Blawnox Bound, @_#&$ Old Canadian Actors Say\* and _T.J. Hooker, Male Prostitute: The Later Years_. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8569 "2017-08-17T17:05:52Z")
Last year’s _Battle of the Captains_ in Madison Square Garden featured a fight-to-the-finish fist fight between William Shatner and Patrick Stewart. To the dismay of the crowd, both contestants were allowed to choose substitute fighters. Shatner picked Leon Spinks. Stewart picked Kim Kardashian. Kim flipped Leon a flash of tits early in the first round, then smashed him senseless while he was recovering. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8570 "2017-08-17T20:01:28Z")
The Kardashians may not be the same as Star Trek’s Cardassians, but David Icke has evidence they are part of Annunaki scheme to replace Earth’s population with human-reptilian hybrids. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8571 "2017-08-17T21:04:39Z")
When distinguishing between Cardassians and Kardashians, just remember that one is an evil, ugly reptilian race of aliens bent on destroying all that is right and good in human society, and the other is on _Star Trek_. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8572 "2017-08-17T21:44:22Z")
A star trek once bit my sister. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8573 "2017-08-17T22:19:10Z")
At the height of its network primetime popularity, Gene Roddenberry conceived of the episode “Assignment Earth” about the crew of the _Enterprise_ getting involved with a modern day human who was guided by a mysterious alien race in attempt to keep humanity progressing forward in the right direction. Roddenberry intended this episode as a backdoor pilot for a Star Trek spinoff but the NBC executive mistook the pitch as one for “backdoor shenanigans” and politely declined. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8574 "2017-08-18T13:25:34Z")
The three Shenanigans restaurants (you know, the ones “with the fried mozzarella sticks and all the shit on the walls”) in Blawnox, Pa. are among the most profitable in the entire country. Orson Bean is a silent partner in ShenanigansCorp. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8575 "2017-08-18T14:13:46Z")
The Three Shenanigans were a popular vaudeville act consisting of slapstick, farce, and clever wordplay. the trio rotated through several members including Maurice, Shecky, Baldo, Louie, Baldo Joe, and the Other Baldo with Maurice being their nominal “leader” in the skits. The group signed a deal with Columbia Pictures and were on the cusp of hitting it big with their act when they were supplanted in their popularity by another, similar act. That act, Leaping Linday and the Parisian Poodles went on to make 190 short films for Columbia, several movies, and a television show and are now well known as the “innovators” of their comedy style. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8576 "2017-08-18T15:26:41Z")
Leaping Linday and the Parisian Poodles were one of the first entertainers to be protested by PETA. They objected to depriving the poodles of their natural environment, the laps of docents. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8577 "2017-08-18T18:48:30Z")
A “lapse of docents” is defined by _Webster’s New Revised Dictionary of Risible Slang_ as an “unanticipated volunteer-labor shortage at a museum.” ---
**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:** [August 19, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8578 "2017-08-19T14:09:13Z")
Unanticipated volunteer labor shortage at a museum is believed to be the number one factor involved in the downfall of Nazi Germany. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8579 "2017-08-19T15:13:34Z")
Half-noted Baldavian music scholar Orlando P. Phartucchio, Esq., LLC, RSVP, VWPBL, has attributed Hitler’s rise to power to the toe-tapping tunes of Cabaret liedenkranz artiste Otto-Augustus-Hans-Fritz Frankentucchio, best remembered for his song _Ich Ben Ein Berliner, Baby._ ---
**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:** [August 19, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8580 "2017-08-19T17:02:17Z")
Ich Ben Ein Berliner, Baby was the title of Otto-Augustus-Hans-Fritz Frankentucchio’s memoir. When Mel Brooks decided to make a movie based on the tale, he changed the title to “Young Frankentucchio.” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8581 "2017-08-20T03:47:33Z")
“Ich Bin Eine Uhr Fob“ was the first – and last – completed orchestral composition of brothers Otto Augustus Hans Fritz and Jimmy-Jack von Beethoven (relation to Ludwig disputed) before disappearing into the sigmoid flexure of history. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=428) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=430)