# 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:** 479
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9562 "2018-04-11T13:22:28Z")
Singer Debbie Harry released her second solo album _Rockbird_ in 1986 featuring the single “French Kissin’ in the USA.” She had plans to follow up with another album featuring “Oktoberfest in November” and “Turkish Delight in Greece” but plans on recording those songs fell through. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9563 "2018-04-11T13:38:37Z")
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s next project will be an stage musical adaption of the Dirty Harry movies. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9564 "2018-04-11T13:44:25Z")
Clint Eastwood sings again! Uh uh. I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well to tell you the truth, I’ve been blinking I kinda lost track myself just staying alive. But being this is a .44 Magnum, The most powerful handgun in the world It would blow your head clean off, and then some, So you’ve gotta ask yourself one question unfurled: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk? …and then the dancers come out. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9565 "2018-04-11T13:45:34Z")
That was great! I’m sure there will be a Spanish adaptation! ---
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9566 "2018-04-11T15:31:22Z")
The Spanish adaptation of _Dirty Harry_, to be called _¡Harry Sucio!_, is still under development. Lin-Manuel Miranda has already said he will not play the lead role, due to his large goiter; discussed for the part in Broadway circles these days are Nathan Lane, Tom Cruise, Orson Bean, Pamela Anderson and Carrot Top. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9567 "2018-04-11T15:49:21Z")
The top of the carrot is actually the bottom, and the bottom of the carrot is is the top! The umbellifer root system grows outward, giving this one apiacae family member a unique shape and sending greens to the surface from the rear. This is also why we eat carrots from the tapered end first, where the nutrients and the flavor have risen to the tip. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9568 "2018-04-11T17:26:02Z")
Mel Blanc, the voice of many Warner Brothers cartoon characters, did crunch carrots with his teeth when recording Bugs Bunny doing the same, but spat them out afterward, not liking the taste. When voicing the Tasmanian Devil however, he gobbled hunks of raw meat and chicken and managed to keep it all down. When ordering steaks at restaurants, he preferred a fresh kill brought directly to his table, much to the consternation of fellow diners. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9569 "2018-04-11T22:16:27Z")
Ruth’s Chris has teh Mel Blanc Special, which is raw hunks of various critters. $139. Bread/soup/salad/sides extra. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9570 "2018-04-12T01:36:23Z")
You can get it with a strychnine chaser, too. Th-th-th-that’s all, folks! ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9571 "2018-04-12T02:24:48Z")
Strychnine was named as the poison of choice in a survey of passing cars on Interstate 40 in Tennessee last year. This is the third time in the past five years it has won that honor. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9572 "2018-04-12T13:31:50Z")
The hard rocking group Poison of Choice is set to star in the new Broadway revival of some Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, as soon as the producers can find one that the group can actually sing to theatre standards. Do not hold your breath on this one. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9573 "2018-04-12T16:22:15Z")
Holding your breath for less than 15 minutes is very hard on the cardio-vascular system and is not recommended. Holding for more than 15 mins is very good for your heart, as your BP will drop to 000/000, taking all stress off your heart because you will be dead. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9574 "2018-04-12T18:02:58Z")
Orson Bean has actually been dead since July 3, 1977, when he was squashed by a piano falling from a luxury apartment at 778 Fifth Avenue in New York City, but refuses to admit it. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9575 "2018-04-12T18:34:49Z")
New York City has a union just for workers who move grand pianos, safes and anvils to the high floors of skyscrapers. Half their dues go to funerals. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9576 "2018-04-12T18:36:44Z")
The reason for Orson’s announcement of his death had to with him being the voice of Bilbo Baggins in _The Hobbit_, a Rankin-Bass production that rankled many Tolkien fans. When Ralph Bakshi was unable to finish his adaptation of _Lord of the Rings_, Rankin-Bass took over. The Tolkienites were outraged, mainly because they thought the adaptation looked too Saturday-morning cartoonish with the song “Where There’s a Whip, There’s a Way,” and the use of the voice actor of Skeletor for the Witch King. Even before the advent of Social Media, the enraged Tolkienites wrote letter campaigns passing along an anagram of Orson Bean’s name, “Ban Sooner.” This motto led to Bean’s premature obituary. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9577 "2018-04-12T21:47:28Z")
The doctor says this thing on my neck is _enraged tolkienitis_ and that it is getting worse. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9578 "2018-04-13T11:40:57Z")
Most doctors prescribe Glorfindel ™ for that. If untreated you may be susceptible to attacks of acute Bombadilism (think Tourette’s, but with “Hey, dol, merry dol” in place of the usual four letter words). ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9579 "2018-04-14T06:03:09Z")
A side-effect of Glorfindel is bleaching of the hair. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9580 "2018-04-14T06:13:59Z")
A strange property of Glorfindel is that you SHOULD take it if you are allergic to it. Especially if you are allergic. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9581 "2018-04-14T15:56:10Z")
There is no overdose level of Glorfindel, however, the underdose level can lead to pre-mature death. For a couple hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=478) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=480)