# 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:** 549
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10962 "2018-12-25T15:42:31Z")
A bazillionaire is richer than a mere zillionaire but not as rich as a jillionaire. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10963 "2018-12-25T16:59:35Z")
I once googled a jillion and came up with infinity. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10964 "2018-12-25T17:06:45Z")
If you google a Jillian, you better make sure she’s over 18. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10965 "2018-12-25T21:27:47Z")
\*Over 18 \* was a very unsuccessful pornographic magazine, probably because it only featured men and women who were aged 81. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10966 "2018-12-25T22:55:04Z")
Stephen King, Lee Greenwood and Kristen Wiig have formed a suicide pact if they’re all still alive when they turn 81. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10967 "2018-12-26T14:18:17Z")
But before committing suicide, they are going to have a threesome (Now try getting that mental picture out of your head). ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10968 "2018-12-26T16:35:32Z")
To get a physical picture out of your head, first coat the inner side of your left ear with Vaseline using a Q-tip. Next, insert a pair of tweezers carefully into the ear canal. Once you reach the frame of the picture, grasp it tightly with the tweezers and pull with all your might while shaking your head vigorously. Warning: depending on the size of the picture and the design of the frame, this is likely to hurt a bit. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10969 "2018-12-26T16:53:49Z")
Stephen King once nearly died while having a physical picture of Elvis and a liger on black velvet, nearly 14 feet by 23 feet, removed from his head. No one knows how it got in there and, oddly enough, he has never written about the experience. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10970 "2018-12-26T20:18:37Z")
The 14x23’ picture of Elvis and a liger (on black velvet) that was removed from Stephen King’s head is presently on display at the Museum of Magnificent Mainers in Bull Moose Junction, Maine. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10971 "2018-12-26T22:36:29Z")
Bull Moose Junction, Maine, birthplace of Orson Bean, Pamela Anderson and Pope Clement VI, can be found on no map of the country by special arrangement with (that is, a payoff to) the U.S. Topographic Survey. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10972 "2018-12-27T15:22:08Z")
Bull Moose Junction, Maine, was recently the site of a threesome with Orson Bean, Pamela Anderson and Pope Clement VI. During they event, Orson Bean was heard yelling “Get out the Vaseline, Q-tips, and tweezers, folks.” ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10973 "2018-12-27T17:35:52Z")
Vaseline was originally created as a peanut butter substitute. Despite such legendary slogans as “Do you believe in Vaseline?” and “Choosy mothers choose Vaseline,” sales plummeted from base zero. It was only when Orson Bean started rubbing it all over his body on talk shows that people found a real use for it. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10974 "2018-12-27T17:58:07Z")
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was founded in response to Orson Bean’s televised Vaseline latherings. The networks were flooded with calls from angry housewives who were scandalized almost to the point of delirium. After hanging up the phone however, most went straight to the grocery store to purchase a tub of Vaseline. ---
**Author:** ![Darkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Darkon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkon)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10975 "2018-12-27T21:58:05Z")
The Feline Covering Commission (FCC) was formed by executive order in 1905 to determine which of the many ways to skin a cat was best. After three weeks of intense squabbling over the 317 most common ways (none of which involved Vaseline), President Roosevelt dissolved the commission and just stuck with the 121st way, which had always been his favorite anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Catsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@Catsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catsie)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10976 "2018-12-27T23:41:20Z")
President Roosevelt was not the shoo-in for a fourth term that everybody believed he was. Orson Bean was strong that year. However, despite his threat to smear the Supreme Court building with Vaseline if he didn’t win, voters were so skeeved at the thought of four years of “President Bean” that they voted for Roosevelt out of sheer revulsion and sent him back. Bean’s threat against the SCOTUS building never came to pass because Peru, the chief exporter of vaselinium, threw a civil war and shut down all exports. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10977 "2018-12-28T05:47:27Z")
Once Vaseline was scarce, the nation resorted to the secretions of the plentiful geoduck, the world’s grossed burrowing clam, found on the Northwest coastline. A marketer simply used phrase “Increase your luck with gooey geoduck.” It disappeared from the shelves. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10978 "2018-12-28T14:51:51Z")
Gooey Geoduck was rated the most unpopular Muppet in the history of the show. Who thought it was a good thing to add a duck covered with oil who constantly told people to “clam it up?” ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10979 "2018-12-28T15:15:47Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Who thought it was a good thing to add a duck covered with oil who constantly told people to “clam it up?” I’ll tell you who, it was Jim Henson’s ex-wife. As part of their divorce settlement, she got to invent a new Muppets character. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10980 "2018-12-28T16:29:10Z")
Jim Henson’s ex-wife Rhoda Laverne Mary Ted Baxter “Fifi” Phartuccio-Henson’s only accredited Muppets character was Gooey Geoduck, but at the time of her death in June 1977, her personal papers revealed sketches and character descriptions for three others: Salmonella Slim, an unsanitary chef; Chester the Molester, a wacky pedophile; Mrs. Piggy, Miss Piggy’s domineering, alcoholic mother; and Carrie A. Tune, a sex-crazed groupie of Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. ---
**Author:** ![Darkon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Darkon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkon)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10981 "2018-12-29T03:06:24Z")
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