# 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:** 517
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10322 "2018-09-21T20:09:24Z")
Pfnaß (here shown in its pre-orthographic-reform spelling) has been linked by some scholars with the “I Ate a Big Wet Horse” peoples of the northern steppes of Austria, and by extension the southern standes of Bavaria, perhaps extending the extension as far as the sittedownes of Munich, spelled “Munching” pre-reform, which neatly in two fell swoops plus a slight doodle to the right explains the horse. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10323 "2018-09-21T20:34:22Z")
Bob Fosse tried to launch a Broadway musical called “All That Pfnasz”. It never made it to the Great White Way, instead languishing in the Less Than Desirable Mauve Alley, until finally being unsuccessfully turned into a porn video. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10324 "2018-09-21T20:54:44Z")
Bob Fosse’s sister Dian, who changed the spelling of her last name to Fossey to avoid comparisons to her famous brother, was a primatologist who studied mountain gorillas, and their remarkable ability to communicate with one another through music. Her book, “Gorillaz in the Mist,” was adapted into an animated film in 1985, with Sigourney Weaver providing the voice of the lead singer. ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10325 "2018-09-21T21:05:05Z")
Sigourney Weaver was first introduced to Dian Fossey on the set of Alien in 1979. Ms. Fossey was working next door on a film called “This Are Alien” in which a group of humans are sent into space to make contact with a recently discovered extraterrestrial race, but become disoriented and are unable to conjugate correctly. The film was a box office flop. ---
**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 22, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10326 "2018-09-22T02:56:33Z")
An even worse box-office flop was _All That Pfnasz_ (Warner Bros. 1977), starring Roy Scheider, Jessica Tandy, Mr. T, Orson Bean, Orson Welles, Ricardo Montalban, the late Randolph Scott, Peter Falk and Charo. Despite a wide release on more than 2,000 screens, it grossed only $4.32 and a broken Pez dispenser. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10327 "2018-09-22T03:49:56Z")
On her last birthday, Julia Louis-Dreyfus received a present from Jerry Seinfeld, delivered to the set of her show, “Veep”: a Tweety Bird Pez dispenser, left on the seat of her make-up chair. Shooting wrapped for the day shortly thereafter as she was rushed to the hospital, unable to catch her breath due to the paroxysms of laughter this triggered. Actress Elizabeth Morehead, visiting a friend at the same hospital, had to be heavily sedated when Louis-Dreyfus was brought in; doctors still aren’t sure of the cause. ---
**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 22, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10328 "2018-09-22T04:40:26Z")
Other actors and actresses to play Vice Presidents of the United States have been Roy Scheider (_Number Two_), Jessica Tandy (_A Heartbeat Away_), Mr. T (_I Pity The Fool What Don’t Vote for Me!_), Orson Bean (_The Vice President and the Chorus Girl_), Orson Welles (_The Lardass VPOTUS_), Ricardo Montalban (_The Corinthian Leather Incident_), the late Randolph Scott (_Cowpoke Veep_), Peter Falk (_Let Me Have Your Trenchcoat Pressed For You, Sir_) and Charo (_The Sexiest Vice President_). None won a single Oscar. ---
**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 22, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10329 "2018-09-22T13:28:39Z")
Charo was nominated for an Oscar four times (under the category of Best Musical Hoochie Koo) for _The Sexiest Vice President_, _Wilson and the Stoat_, _That Darn Pfnasz_, _Broadway Bitches_ and _Why Can’t We Just Hoochie Koo?_. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10330 "2018-09-22T13:37:48Z")
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s next musical will be based on _Broadway Bitches_,done a la CATS, but with real bitches of the dog variety. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10331 "2018-09-22T15:30:35Z")
^ Season tix, third row center. Mind the puddle of drool. ---
**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 23, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10332 "2018-09-23T02:12:24Z")
A recently-leaked copy of the script for _Broadway Bitches_ reveals no references to stoats, Lombardy Pudding Elk, Blawnox, Orson Bean or even a single person named Phartuccio, so of course I’m organizing a boycott. Who’s with me?!? ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10333 "2018-09-23T04:56:24Z")
The first boycott was organized against a multinational clothing conglomerate by a group of American men who all shared the same painful experience - getting it stuck in the zipper. Their campaign was inspired by superficially similar complaints that had been circulating among well-to-do men in England, where the really expensive trousers zip up the back instead of the front. Those inspirational forefathers of the boycott movement originally met at Ascot. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10334 "2018-09-23T05:14:25Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > Ascot. _golf clap_ **burpo the wonder mutt** ’s drool has been scientifically proven to regrow hair loss due to male pattern baldness, cure dropsy, and heal Ascot wounds. Available now at Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid pharmacies, and at all Broadway box offices. ---
**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 23, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10335 "2018-09-23T16:06:23Z")
CVS stands for Cabal of Vampire Sorcerers. Not that’s there’s anything wrong with that, y’know. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10336 "2018-09-23T20:16:27Z")
The Cabal of Vampire Sorcerers recently fended off an intellectual-property challenge from Codependent Vegan Starlets, a little-known front for the Vatican’s Congregation for Vacuous Sententiousness, through which all papal statements are required by cannon law to be filtered, whether they are bull or not. ---
**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 24, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10337 "2018-09-24T00:21:23Z")
Papal bulls originally got their name from the fact that the Vatican printing press in Wome, er, Rome was guarded by a bull trained to charge, trample and gore anyone but the Pope. That way no one could print anything on official Vatican letterhead other than at the Holy Father’s express command. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10338 "2018-09-24T01:32:03Z")
The Vatican City’s primary defenses are a set of large-bore cannons, into which Papal Bulls can be loaded and fired at heathens and heretics, thus enforcing cannon law. The documentary film _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ depicted a French castle which used a primitive version of such a weapon (“Fetchez la vache!”). ---
**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 24, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10339 "2018-09-24T01:39:38Z")
Holy Father’s Express Command, or as it is known to NORAD, HFEC, is situated in cumulus clouds. HFEC surveils each community in the world for sinners in order to exact righteous punishment. HFEC is impatient waiting for Dr. Death. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10340 "2018-09-24T01:46:55Z")
The fact that papal bulls have no apparent female companionship is proof that the Illuminati have been controlling the Pope for years, ever since Bart Simpson enjoined His Holiness to not have a cow, and possibly before. I never saw a papal cow; I never hope to see one. But I can tell you, anyhow, Those cannon ammo rounds are a load of bull. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10341 "2018-09-24T13:55:07Z")
Papal bulls: making priests horny for 2000 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=516) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=518)