# 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:** 495
**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 17, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9882 "2018-06-17T20:22:07Z")
My friend Buck Naked is already planning to become a florist in Blawnox when he gets too old and flabby to keep doing gay porn. That moment has already, er, come, judging by his latest film, _Buck Bonks Blawnox_, directed by Miles Long. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Zox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Mr\_Zox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Zox)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9883 "2018-06-18T03:46:05Z")
As is well known, the longest word in English is _smiles_, because there’s a mile between the first and last letter. Less well known is that the second longest word is _skilometers_, with a kilometer between the first and last letter. NB: some say _tone-poems_ is the longest word, with one entire poem between the first and last letter. But that’s just silly. ---
**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 18, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9884 "2018-06-18T14:02:18Z")
Tone-Poems Just one poem Between the first and last letters, come Come to my home And enjoy the comforts Of the tone-poems. Beautiful tones Just twos, just ones Of the tone-poems Just one, just homes. Listen to, and enjoy The tone-poems. ---
**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 18, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9885 "2018-06-18T15:16:24Z")
How ‘bout them tome poets, ain’t they neat? Recitin’ their tome poems down on the street. Some do a short poem, some do a long, Some kinda whisper ‘em, some tell it strong. How to be a tome poet? Really nothin’ to it, Get yourself a couple tomes, sit right down and do it! ---
**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 18, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9886 "2018-06-18T20:25:07Z")
Tome poet Parry Otter specializes in writing tomb poems: Here lies Tupak. What a brother. He was one crazy effing mother. Did every thing in his own way. Always ruled, never rued the day. But in the end, it wasn’t enough. First he got shot, and them he got stuffed. ---
**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 19, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9887 "2018-06-19T05:47:00Z")
This is the famous loam poet Spin Erthly (1977-2005, American). Home in my loam no mood to roam Set a little fire to dry out the mire Could be clay but you know, what the hey. ---
**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 19, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9888 "2018-06-19T13:49:01Z")
Spin Erthly lived much of her 28 years in reclusive isolation. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a noted penchant for not wearing clothing and became known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. She never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence. She never had a computer. While she was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800,000 poems were published during her lifetime. ---
**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 19, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9889 "2018-06-19T13:50:55Z")
Spin Erthly died of auto-erotic asphyxiation in a Des Moines hotel room. She was found naked along with a fifth of Jack Daniels, a small trampoline, a dog-eared paperback copy of George R.R. Martin’s _Tuf Voyaging_ and three jars of Miracle Whip. ---
**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 19, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9890 "2018-06-19T13:56:36Z")
In the Law & Order: SVU adaptation of Spin Erthly’s death, the whole scene was staged by crazed starker Benson Hedges (played by Wil Wheaton), annoyed that Erthly would not give into his wishes. Olivia Benson would find over 1,000 letters he wrote to her, eventually tracking him down, getting him off on an insanity plea, only to have him die on their wedding night. ---
**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 19, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9891 "2018-06-19T19:19:25Z")
VPOTUS Hubert Horatio Humphrey’s wife Edith died on their wedding night. There was an elaborate setup involving a locked trunk, two trapezes and a blindfolded chimpanzee, and somehow something went wrong. _The Washington Post_ was instrumental in covering it up, due its close ties to the White House. ---
**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 19, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9892 "2018-06-19T19:58:05Z")
Hubert Horatio Humphrey was the eighth POTUS, succeeding George Gorgeous Griffin, who succeeded Fabio Fabulous Flamethower, who succeeded Edward Ernest Earthbender, who succeeded David Dumbbell Duke, who succeeded Charles Cretin Creamsicle, who succeeded Barry Balloon Barton, who succeeded Alan Anvil Allendale. Humphrey was succeeded by Ivan Ivanitch Ivanov, who was succeeded by our current President Jonald Jackass Jumper. ---
**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 20, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9893 "2018-06-20T05:42:41Z")
To prove to a “flat Earther” friend that the Earth was round Edward Ernest Earthbender took his friend on a boat ride west from Hawaii and they both fell over the edge. ---
**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 20, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9894 "2018-06-20T13:45:47Z")
Before Edward Ernest Earthbender and his friend Franklin Freakout Flatearther both fell off the boat and both fell off the edge, they both fell off the wagon. Which explains a lot. ---
**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 20, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9895 "2018-06-20T13:59:18Z")
Leonardo da Vinci invented alliteration. However, the way he originally designed it, his name was alliterative. So was Michaelangelo Buonarotti’s and Geoffrey Chaucer’s. William Shakespeare, on the other hand, would not have been alliterative. Go figure. ---
**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 20, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9896 "2018-06-20T14:05:53Z")
Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo Buonarotti, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare formed a group that created pornographic musical versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Their most popular were Romeo, Juliet and a lot of other Montagues & Capulets; The Screwing of the Shrew; Ham Lets A Lot of People; Mac Beth, Lizzie, Eliza, and Elizabeth; and A Midsummer’s Night Sex Fantasy. ---
**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 20, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9897 "2018-06-20T18:28:07Z")
Leonardo da Vinci not only invented alliteration, he invented the xylophone, fireplace tongs, trebuchet and the stapler. He also did the first remarkably prescient drawings of the electric dog polisher. ---
**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 20, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9898 "2018-06-20T18:34:29Z")
Leonardo da Vinci’s great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great step grandson owns a nice little cheese shop in Vino Valley, one of the nicest regions in all of Italy. Stop by when you have an afternoon to spare and enjoy quality cheese and a nice glass of bianco. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9899 "2018-06-20T19:05:25Z")
When denounced as gay, Leonardo da Vinci once pointed to his Mona Lisa portrait and said “Look at those tits. Michelangelo is even more gay–not that there’s anything wrong with that–and the tits on women he paints and sculpts look like hammered-on lumps. So I know from tits. \* Va fungul.\*” ---
**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 20, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9900 "2018-06-20T19:32:48Z")
Queen Elizabeth I posed for the Mona Lisa. “Mona” in Italian means “Queen” if you look in the right dictionary. If you know what I mean. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9901 "2018-06-20T19:43:36Z")
While Queen Elizabeth I was posing, she kept the decapitated head of Mary, Queen of Scots next to the artist so she would have something nice to look at while sitting still. The Scots still hate her for it 800 years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=494) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=496)