# 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:** 459
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9162 "2018-01-12T17:00:22Z")
The son of a pair of renegade Lombardy Pudding Elk wranglers, Pieter MacGregor has been playing mumblety-peg since he was almost four years old, according to an interview he gave _The Blawnox Babbler_ in June 1977. He still has three of his original fingers. He was frequently a guest at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9163 "2018-01-12T22:50:49Z")
If you take Michael Jackson song _Man In The Mirror_ and play it backwards at very high speed, you can distinctly hear Vincent Price’s voice jarringly above the music, stating “Michael has the heart of a child, and he keeps it in the attic.” ---
**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:** [January 13, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9164 "2018-01-13T14:40:46Z")
Michael Jackson offered to appear on the Simpsons in exchange for Bart Simpson’s heart. The writers could not get him to understand that the Simpsons were not real people. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9165 "2018-01-14T04:30:25Z")
Bart Simpson’s heart, according to a 2010 premortem examination by Dr. Julius Hibbert of Springfield Memorial Hospital, has ten lobes, is connected to four veins and three arteries, and is approximately the size of a very large grapefruit. Homer and Marge Simpsons have already signed documents for the eventual donation of their son’s heart to the Cartoon Museum of Medical Oddities in Lagos, Nigeria. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9166 "2018-01-14T14:33:24Z")
Tracy Ullman has been known to visit the studio where _The Simpsons_ actors record their voice parts, usually while inebriated. She frequently asks if there’s a part for her, or even a bloody executive producer credit, since “you ungrateful wankers wouldn’t even be 4am fillers on bloody Nickelodeon if it weren’t for me.” She once tackled and locked Marge Simpson voice actress Julie Kavner in a broom closet, then used her remarkable makeup skills to make herself into an identical likeness of Kavner and arrived at the recording studio. The former FOX Sunday night empress then yelled at the director to give Marge more lines and a song and dance number and to draw her wearing a dress that would make Liberace look like a bloody Cro-Magnon in skins. Security measures have since been increased at Simpsons Studios, but Ullman still manages to drop like a lizard on the sun bay window and balefully glare at Matt Groening’s picture in the lobby. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9167 "2018-01-15T03:42:41Z")
Tracy Ullman, like all lizards except the Lombardy Pudding Dragon, is reputedly cold-blooded (and not just in a Hollywood sense). ---
**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:** [January 16, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9168 "2018-01-16T13:57:37Z")
The 6th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual VIIII has an entry for “Dragon, Lombardy Pudding”. The Adult version has 28d8+400 HP, and AC of 27, and does a base 12d8+128 dmg for its noxious Pudding Breath (range 120’, useable once every seven rounds). ---
**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:** [January 16, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9169 "2018-01-16T14:27:26Z")
Noxious Pudding Breath is listed in DSMS-6 as “A mental delusion whose symptoms include the belief that one is a dragon and the cure for the noxious breath is eating nothing but pudding.” Celebrities who reported suffered from this mental illness include Elton John, Paul McCartney, Steven Tyler, and Orson Bean who has made millions shilling a drug that supposedly cures it, if it doesn’t give you suicidal thoughts, constipation, inability to type, random pornographic thoughts, a sppech pattern of Yoda, an obsession with the TV show Seinfeld, yada, yada, yada. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9170 "2018-01-16T17:02:18Z")
Orson Bean may not, due to an injunction obtained in the Superior Court of Des Moines, Iowa in 2012 by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, use the phrase “Yada yada yada” in any language except Esperanto, which he does not speak. The court record is sealed, and Seinfeld and David have refused any public comment on why they took legal action against 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:** [January 17, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9171 "2018-01-17T14:33:36Z")
Orson Bean did not actually appear as a panelist on _To Tell The Truth._ It was his lookalike double, Dallas Burrows, who acted as his game show proxy. Burrows is the father of Tony Clifton, Andy Kaufman’s partner, who is rumored to be Kaufman himself, having faked his death from cancer. The Burrows family line includes doubles for King George III, US President Andrew Johnson, and Abraham Hershberger, 1st chancellor of Blawnox University. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9172 "2018-01-17T14:39:58Z")
Dallas Burrows has been the star of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera for its entire run, starring with previews on January 18, 1988. When asked what it’s like to be in a show for 30 years, he replied “30 and counting, Dude.” ---
**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:** [January 17, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9173 "2018-01-17T15:47:18Z")
An attempt to duplicate the magic of the \*Phantom of the Opera \* failed when directors and producers for \*The Zombie of the Ballet \*couldn’t figure out how to choreograph the dancing of living with lumbering of the dead. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9174 "2018-01-17T15:55:08Z")
The inadvertent addition of real zombies into _The Zombie of the Ballet_ ended with the production in shambles. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9175 "2018-01-17T17:01:55Z")
Specifically, a bitter dispute arose over whether zombies counted as dancers or props. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9176 "2018-01-17T19:43:20Z")
_The Zombie of the Ballet_ includes the touchingly poetic song, “Quatrain for Braiiiiiins.” ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9177 "2018-01-18T00:15:26Z")
Earnest Sworroll is credited with inventing the zombie walk in 1932 on the set of _White Zombie._ Actually, he was a night watchman who was seen sleepwalking by the actors who were trying to find their motivations for walking while dead. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9178 "2018-01-18T01:04:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The inadvertent addition of real zombies into _The Zombie of the Ballet_ ended with the production in shambles. Well played. * * * Dancing zombies are not completely panned by critics. AMC’s _The Waltzing Dead_ has received plaudits from both scholars at USC-Berkley and the AARP. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9179 "2018-01-18T14:18:32Z")
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Waltzing Down the Wind, featuring Cajun dancing zombies, failed miserably and never hit Broadway. Praise Be! ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9180 "2018-01-18T16:32:06Z")
_Praise Be!_, the one and only collaboration between Hal Prince, Pia Zadora, Eric Trump and Bernie Madoff, was a feel-good gospel-themed musical extravaganza about an up-and-coming Namibian preacher and his sassy zebra sidekick. The show closed on opening night at the Blawnox Orpheum Theatre, and the four were chased out of town by a pitchfork- and torch-wielding mob of Blawnox High School glee club members. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9181 "2018-01-19T05:54:01Z")
Little known fact: one Joseph Cocker got his start in show business as a dancing zombie in Waltzing Down the Wind. He used the technique of using LSD to stay “unreal” as was his method acting which he kept between takes. Between takes he entertained fellow extras with zombie like growling/singing which had them laughing and dancing hysterically (and historically). And the rest is history. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=458) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=460)