# 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:** 494
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9862 "2018-06-14T20:13:23Z")
John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly) and all around nice guy, invented Bikini, the first computer aided design software package. This was before electricity and vector modeling was done through the placement of chopsticks. ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9863 "2018-06-14T20:20:29Z")
John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, and all around nice guy invented Chinese food, but he never used chopsticks to eat it. ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9864 "2018-06-14T20:25:31Z")
John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, all around nice guy and inventor of Chinese food is so popular in Germany that they named their highway system after him. ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9865 "2018-06-14T20:27:32Z")
John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, all around nice guy and inventor of Chinese food had a really close friendship with a man named Clyde Blawnox, whose pet name for Audubon was “Bonnie.” ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9866 "2018-06-14T20:55:49Z")
John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, all around nice guy, inventor of Chinese food, inspiration for the German highway system, and close friend of Clyde Blawnox, is also known for introducing small French candies to the American west. Bonbons became so popular during his travels that he was almost nicknamed Johnny Bonbonseed. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9867 "2018-06-15T04:12:49Z")
John James “Johnny Bonbonseed” Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, all around nice guy, inventor of Chinese food, inspiration for the German highway system, and close friend of Clyde Blawnox, always felt that his greatest accomplishment was as a songsmith, when he convinced fellow barfly Francis Scott Key to set his poem “The Defense of Fort McHenry” to the tune of their favorite drinking song so that they wouldn’t forget the words. ---
**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 15, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9868 "2018-06-15T13:08:27Z")
John James “Johnny Bonbonseed” Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, all around nice guy, inventor of Chinese food, inspiration for the German highway system, and close friend of Clyde Blawnox, who always felt that his greatest accomplishment was as a songsmith, when he convinced fellow barfly Francis Scott Key to set his poem “The Defense of Fort McHenry” to the tune of their favorite drinking song so that they wouldn’t forget the words, and invented a candy bar he named after another close friend, Orenthal James “O” Henry. ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9869 "2018-06-15T14:29:40Z")
Audubon died in a freak traffic accident when four freaks in a Volkswagen Beetle crashed into nine freaks in a Minivan. ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9870 "2018-06-15T14:31:51Z")
The “four freaks in a Volkswagen Beatle” were named John, George, Paul, and Ringo. ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9871 "2018-06-15T14:53:34Z")
John Paul George Ringo Phartuccio served as mayor of Blawnox for only six minutes on June 3, 1977 before being impeached by the City Council and removed from office due to particularly bad breath. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9872 "2018-06-15T15:22:53Z")
Phartuucio would still be the mayor of Blawnox if he would have only used the boars head bristle toothbrushes that had been invented by and given to his great grandfather by John James “Johnny Bonbonseed” Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, all around nice guy, inventor of Chinese food, inspiration for the German highway system, and close friend of Clyde Blawnox, who always felt that his greatest accomplishment was as a songsmith, when he convinced fellow barfly Francis Scott Key to set his poem “The Defense of Fort McHenry” to the tune of their favorite drinking song so that they wouldn’t forget the words, and famous candymaker. ---
**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 15, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9873 "2018-06-15T16:50:31Z")
**cornflakes** is the son of the present mayor of Blawnox. ---
**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 15, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9874 "2018-06-15T18:40:50Z")
Blawnox is one of three small American towns proposed by the Armageddon Siting Committee for the end of the world, based on a close reading of the Book of Revelation. The others are East Liverpool, Ohio; Brattleboro, Vermont; Princeton, New Jersey and Nags Head, N.C. ---
**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 16, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9875 "2018-06-16T03:14:43Z")
Using Hebraic gematria, the name “Blawnox” is converted to the number 665, the next door neighbor of the Beast. ---
**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 16, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9876 "2018-06-16T03:52:08Z")
Merck Pharmaceuticals has come up with an ointment, now in clinical tests with the FDA, to clear up Hebraic gematria within two weeks. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2018, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9877 "2018-06-16T05:40:56Z")
My doctor said I was suffering from Hebraic gematria and suspected I should try soixante-neuf. My minister concurred the recommended that I recite Psalm 69: Vulgata Clementina. True story. ---
**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 16, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9878 "2018-06-16T13:52:49Z")
Soixante Neuf Blawnox tried to become a porn star, but was bot able to find the right part. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9879 "2018-06-16T16:06:57Z")
The Adult Performers Actors Guild announced today that apparently there are now no pornographic stage names (in English) that have not been used at least once already. Concern was voiced that this will hamper the careers of new adult actors. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9880 "2018-06-17T04:31:36Z")
Twin brothers Dick and Rod Long retired from the acting profession because they could not find the right parts. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9881 "2018-06-17T13:43:36Z")
Their cousin Miles still works as a director however. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=493) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=495)