# 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:** 431
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8602 "2017-08-29T05:46:21Z")
\*Mary Worth \*is the only comic strip to have employed death panels (always the third) to kill off its characters when necessary. These original panel sketches are highly collectible and magnetically depressing when read together. ---
**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 29, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8603 "2017-08-29T13:23:05Z")
Gary Larson’s original comic strip was called “The Cow Side.” He found cows very funny, and still cracks up every time he hears or says the word “COW.” His original cow death panels are highly collectible and very delicious when read together. ---
**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 30, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8604 "2017-08-30T13:49:01Z")
Cows were originally mistaken for the dominant species of Earth by the Grays in the early 1970s. The reason why there was such a wave of cattle mutilations back then is because the Grays hastily had to retrieve their anal probes. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8605 "2017-08-30T15:51:24Z")
If you shoot an evil space alien, experts suggest you aim to kill. Otherwise the slightly injured creature will stare you down with its glassy big eyes, hypnotize you, and take you aboard the flying saucer for unspeakable alien probing. Beware the grazed Gray’s glazed gaze. ---
**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 30, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8606 "2017-08-30T18:30:56Z")
Alliteration has been found to produce cervical cancer in augmented gray lab rats. But not very often. ---
**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 30, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8607 "2017-08-30T20:55:58Z")
Ally Albertson asserts that Albert Allman and his articulate alliteration is an awful ally but will always be allowed at a luncheon anyways. ---
**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 30, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8608 "2017-08-30T21:16:53Z")
Nostradamus predicted the reign of Trump in the following poem he didn’t write: > [@](#): > > FROM the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, > Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float, > Are the looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine, > These that we feel in the blood of our blushes that thicken and threaten with throbs through the throat? > Thicken and thrill as a theatre thronged at appeal of an actor’s appalled agitation, > Fainter with fear of the fires of the future than pale with the promise of pride in the past; > Flushed with the famishing fullness of fever that reddens with radiance and rathe\* recreation, [speedy] > Gaunt as the ghastliest of glimpses that gleam through the gloom of the gloaming when ghosts go aghast? > Nay, for the nick of the tick of the time is a tremulous touch on the temples of terror, > Strained as the sinews yet strenuous with strife of the dead who is dumb as the dust-heaps of death; > Surely no soul is it, sweet as the spasm of erotic emotional exquisite error, > Bathed in the balms of beatified bliss, beatific itself by beatitude’s breath. > Surely no spirit or sense of a soul that was soft to the spirit and soul of our senses > Sweetens the stress of suspiring suspicion that sobs in the semblance and sound of a sigh; > Only this oracle opens Olympian, in mystical moods and triangular tenses– > “Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day when we die.” > Mild is the mirk and monotonous music of memory, melodiously mute as it may be, > While the hope in the heart of a hero is bruised by the breach of men’s rapiers, resigned to the rod; > Made meek as a mother whose bosom-beats bound with the bliss-bringing bulk of a balm-breathing baby, > As they grope through the graveyard of creeds, under skies growing green at a groan for the grimness of God. > Blank is the book of his bounty beholden of old, and its binding is blacker than bluer; > Out of blue into black is the scheme of the skies, and their dews are the wine of the bloodshed of things; > Till the darkling desire of delight shall be free as a fawn that is freed from the fangs that pursue her, > Till the heartbeats of hell shall be hushed by a hymn from that hunt that has harried the kennel of kings. ---
**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 31, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8609 "2017-08-31T00:20:43Z")
SDMB apps include alliteration generators, haiku syllable counters, paraprosdakian interpreters, and Blawnox PA wikis. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8610 "2017-08-31T07:41:38Z")
Haiku counters con- trol us like fate dictates the Angst of our boy Trump. ---
**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 31, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8611 "2017-08-31T11:08:15Z")
J.R.R.R. Tolkein invented the haiku. He derived the name from the Finnish word “haikunnen”, which means “the embarrassing prospect of having too few syllables”. In the original notebooks for _The Hobbit_ there are some 37 haiku, none of which are particularly good and only three that fit the 5-7-5 syllable pattern. ---
**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 31, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8612 "2017-08-31T13:12:41Z")
Harvey Horatio Hornblower Hostradamus Honald Hump wrote and illustrated The Hobbit Haiku, the top best selling book of Finnish haiku for the last four centuries (of course, it was the _only_ book of Finnish haiku for the last four centuries). ---
**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 31, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8613 "2017-08-31T20:53:24Z")
The Finns successfully beat back the Russians in WWII because their ski team gassed them with lutefisk bombs. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8614 "2017-09-01T05:57:49Z")
The belief that fish could improve brain function in humans actually started in the 1960s with preadolescents in the town of Saarijarvi, Finland who playfully fed the Smarties, the American candy, to farmed Lutefisk and upon eating the fish, felt they had actually gotten smarter. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8615 "2017-09-01T07:03:12Z")
N/m ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8616 "2017-09-01T07:16:17Z")
Flying fish have got it wrong, according to several expert ichthyologists. They (the fish) are instead supposed to swim. Birds, these same scholars argue, should fly. “The dumb fish are just muddled,” says Professor Chester N. Arthur of the Conservative Aquatic Institute. “Next thing you know they’ll try to dance.” ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8617 "2017-09-01T12:38:56Z")
Dr. Wombo T. Phartucchio’s Amazing Dancing Fish open next Thursday at the Conservative Aquatic Institute’s _Be Careful What You Fish For_ gala event, honoring the lifetime piscatorial achievements of Orson Bean. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8618 "2017-09-01T13:24:09Z")
Fish gods are rare compared to the cosmology of other gods. Only small island nations had any sort of major observance of aquatic-acoutred deities. However Dagon, originally a Mesopotamian grain god, found major exposure when he expanded his reach to the Mediterranean, so he arranged to have his long hair replaced with a trout to reflect his new demesne. Since then, he has enjoyed popularity in Lovecraftian horror stories and video games and is frequently seen gambling in Ibiza. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8619 "2017-09-01T15:02:55Z")
Please open your New Lutefisk Hymnal to hymn number 209 and sing with me. \*Fish gods, fish gods Holy, holy fish gods Fish gods, fish gods Eat them up, yum Amen \* ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8620 "2017-09-01T15:26:06Z")
_The New Lutefisk Hymnal_ differs from its predecessor, _Hymns for the Lutefisk_ in having reduced the number of stanzas per hymn (generally down to two), and increased the number of choruses and responsive readings so as to comprise of 40% of the volume. Most of the old 19th Century hymns have been dropped, except for a few standards such as _Amazing Grouper_, _Rock of Haddock_ and _The Church’s One Flounderation_. _The Old Rugged Crawfish_ also remains somehow. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/8621 "2017-09-01T15:38:56Z")
Sweden had no hesitation in signing the Nuclear Anti-Proliferation Treaty in part because, according to a June 1977 University of West Blawnox study, it already had weaponized lutefisk-tipped warheads on its intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The principal missile-silo fields of the Royal Swedish Air Force are just outside the isolated town of Møøsebitten. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=430) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=432)