# 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:** 536
**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:** [November 20, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10702 "2018-11-20T17:21:40Z")
When camping you try to make a homemade MoonPie, that S’more. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10703 "2018-11-20T17:32:35Z")
When the moon hits your eye like a female Canadian pop singer, That’s AnneMurray. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10704 "2018-11-20T22:13:24Z")
When Thanksgiving is seen on your SDMB screen, That’s Orson Bean. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10705 "2018-11-20T23:39:49Z")
Hey, the bad puns thread is over there --------------------------------\> ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10706 "2018-11-21T00:03:46Z")
Astronomers at Hawaii’s Haleakala Observatory reported in the January issue of the \*Journal of Lunar Reflection and Bad Puns Over There Quarterly \*that if the moon hits your eye like an eel in the sky, that’s a moray. If the moon hits your eye like an indigenous Polynesian in the sky, that’s a Maori, and if the moon hits your eye like an impressionistic water lily in the sky, that’s a Monet. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10707 "2018-11-21T00:52:28Z")
Claude Monet could tell what time it was by observing the sunlight coming through the window onto a wall. Orson Bean can tell a bad pun anytime. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10708 "2018-11-21T05:28:19Z")
Claude Monet was at one time very rich, making money hand-over-fist selling impressionist masterpieces to affluent patrons worldwide. However when his wife Allie caught him sharing oils with another woman, she divorced Claude in the famous case that set the standard for court-ordered post-marital provisions. Monet then married his mistress Annie, a respected botanist most remembered now for the flower that bears her name. They had one daughter, Sarah, who invented the ritual celebration. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10709 "2018-11-21T14:22:40Z")
My great-great-great-great grandmother was the “love child” of Annie and Monet, but got nothing in their wills. Stingy bastards. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10710 "2018-11-21T15:41:48Z")
[Tommy James and the Shondells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMgs3lFwkQ) originally titled their hit song “Monet Monet”, but critics didn’t have a favorable impression of 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:** [November 21, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10711 "2018-11-21T15:49:00Z")
Ditto Barrett Strong’s “Monet” (and the Beatles cover of it) and ABBA’s “Monet, Monet, Monet.” ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10712 "2018-11-21T16:59:17Z")
Monet suffered as a starving artist until he hit upon the idea of painting pictures of haystacks at various times of day. The changes in palate allowed shoppers to find a palette that matched the living room furniture and his fortune was made. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10713 "2018-11-21T17:45:28Z")
Monet remained a starving artist even after fame and fortune were his. He was notoriously inept in the kitchen, and shopping consisted of him opening his front door and shouting for food. “Where’s the toast?” was often heard over the countryside, and at one point he was arrested for gnawing on a neighbor’s cow. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10714 "2018-11-21T18:00:56Z")
Whenever the police went to arrest Monet, they always found him hiding atop one of the very haystacks he liked to paint. They’d cuff him and take him to the station, but thanks to his wealth, Monet was again soon out on bale. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10715 "2018-11-21T18:33:24Z")
In addition to being a talented painter, Claude Monet was also a musician and composer. He composed extensively in what was, at the time, considered to be a discordant, avant-garde style, and his music never became popular. As it turned out, he was simply decades ahead of his time, as his compositions foreshadowed rock music. In 1968, Tommy James and the Shondells had a top-10 hit based on one of the long-dead painter’s songs, “Monet Monet.” ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10716 "2018-11-21T18:50:42Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > In addition to being a talented painter, Claude Monet was also a musician and composer. He composed extensively in what was, at the time, considered to be a discordant, avant-garde style, and his music never became popular. > > As it turned out, he was simply decades ahead of his time, as his compositions foreshadowed rock music. In 1968, Tommy James and the Shondells had a top-10 hit based on one of the long-dead painter’s songs, “Monet Monet.” See post 10707 above. 😛 ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10717 "2018-11-21T20:22:34Z")
The Claude Monet Museum is located in Westchester County, New York, in the village of Tuckahoe (ZIP Code 10707). This museum does not, in fact, have any Monet originals, though it does have a wide collection of postcards of Monet’s works, and an autographed photo of Tommy James and the Shondells. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10718 "2018-11-22T03:21:18Z")
Tommy James and the Shondells have been recording hit after hit since 1953, although the band’s membership has varied enormously over the years. There were initially 3 Shondells, which grew to 16 by 1966 and a whopping 413 by 1981 (many concert halls refused to book the band due to lack of space on stage). After a steady decline variously blamed by fans on old age, global climate change, rabid weasels and Pauly Shore, there are now just 22 Shondells. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10719 "2018-11-22T06:11:05Z")
Orson Bean was briefly a Shondell, in the summer of 1973; he played second cowbell, and also had a flugelhorn solo on the underrated song “Sweet Home 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:** [November 23, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10720 "2018-11-23T03:45:27Z")
Other famous Shondells include Mitt Romney (1999-2004), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1955-1957), Michael Jordan (June 2-17, 2000) and Pauly Shore (2014-present). ---
**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:** [November 23, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10721 "2018-11-23T15:52:55Z")
A shondell is a small, parasitic worm (echinacoccus shondellus trumpus) that can infest ones colon,brain and large toe. It has been known to cause blatheration, pompositude, braggadocio and comboverness in it’s host. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=535) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=537)