# 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:** 581
**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:** [May 29, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11603 "2019-05-29T14:42:07Z")
Roald Dahl’s father was an avid peach poacher and would take his son into Mr. Hazell’s peach plantation to steal peaches. After his father broke his leg after one peach poaching attempt, Roald devised a way to slide peaches down a fishing line. This process of purloining peaches proved to provide positive results until Roald got to one patch on the peach plantation that had a tree with the biggest peach he had ever seen. After exclaiming “By James, that is a giant peach!” he was then inspired to write his novel _The Magic Finger_ . ---
**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:** [May 29, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11604 "2019-05-29T14:58:12Z")
The estate of Roald Dahl has sued Purely Positive Porn Poaches for making and releasing Charlie & The “Chocolate” Factory, James and the Giant “Peach,” Charlie and the Great Glass “Elevator,” My “Uncle” Oswald, Fantastic Mr. “Fox,” The B"F"G, The Magic “Finger” and The “Twits.” They lost big time. ---
**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 3, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11605 "2019-06-03T01:40:41Z")
The Magic Finger won seven awards in the 1998 AVN award ceremony. Including Joe “Fingers” Carl for best stunt double. ---
**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 3, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11606 "2019-06-03T14:05:16Z")
The Who also sued Purely Positive Porn Poaches for re-writing Tommy’s “Uncle Ernie” and using it in “Uncle” Oswald. They dropped the suit when the movie won the 1981 AVN Best Song Award. ---
**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 3, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11607 "2019-06-03T14:33:32Z")
The original founding members of the Who were Gene Autry, Dollie Parton, Porter Wagoner & Orson Bean. It was a C&W band. When Gene died, Dollie & Porter struck off as a duo act and Orson sold the rights to the name to Peter Lawford. Peter Lawford then rented the name to Roger Daltry, and so ended up at the end of his life even richer than Sinatra. ---
**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 3, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11608 "2019-06-03T14:40:23Z")
Peter Lawford boinked every women in the Kennedy family and every women married into the Kennedy family. Once each, for twenty minutes. They used to get together and compare notes every years, and they all agreed he was a “lousy lay.” ---
**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 5, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11609 "2019-06-05T14:08:14Z")
At the Peter Lawford Memorial Branch of the University of Blawnox Library in Blawnox, Pennsylvania, on the third floor, far in the back corner you can see a small dedication plaque with the inscription “Never Forget, William B. January.” Historical experts are still unsure of the significance of this signage. ---
**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 5, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11610 "2019-06-05T14:16:35Z")
Prof. Mellifluous Hornstable-Grodnard of the University of Blawnox’s Obfuscation Department, has proposed a novel theory. He believes the inscription is a mnemonic device for remembering the order of the months of the year according to the ancient Mesophlegmatic Calendar. Prof. Harry Hawkspit of the University of Blawnox’s custodial staff believes this theory to be “sheer horse-spit” as the Mesophlegms only had three months in their calendar: Snargh, Snough and Snimble. ---
**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 5, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11611 "2019-06-05T16:19:38Z")
Snargh, Snough and Snimble Starky are the names of Ringo Starr’s triplet grandchildren by his only daughter, Lee Starky ---
**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 6, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11612 "2019-06-06T15:52:42Z")
As the old saying goes “In the Land of Snargh, Snough is Emperor and Snimble is forgotten” but everyone knows that, right? ---
**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 6, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11613 "2019-06-06T16:24:48Z")
According to language scholars it takes at least 40 years for a truism to become a saying. ---
**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 6, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11614 "2019-06-06T16:53:33Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > According to language scholars it takes at least 40 years for a truism to become a saying. But only twenty minutes for a falsism to become a believism. ---
**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 7, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11615 "2019-06-07T21:48:04Z")
I was in a bathyscaphe at the bottom of the Mariana Trenches once, in 1960, for twenty minutes. ---
**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 8, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11616 "2019-06-08T14:32:12Z")
A very famous spokes person for a Florida food product admits to having a lesbian encounter once, in 1960, for twenty minutes. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11617 "2019-06-11T04:19:33Z")
Anita Bryant and Orson Bean had a torrid jet-skiing weekend on Lake Blawnox once, last week, for twenty hours, but none of the photos the _Blawnox Babbler_ took of the couple turned out. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11618 "2019-06-11T04:50:37Z")
The editor of the Blawnox Babbler was turned out. ---
**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 11, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11619 "2019-06-11T13:26:46Z")
The Blawnox Babbler was a very famous singer whose always performed in a very long, loose cape and was never photographed. To this date, nobody knows who the Babbler was, what nationality, race, gender or anything else about this very fine singer. ---
**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 11, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11620 "2019-06-11T14:16:39Z")
Blawnox Bubbler is Western Pennsylvania’s very first and most famous water fountain. Originally installed in 1948 in Allegheny Square, the Blawnox Bubbler attracts people from miles around who want to come and see water lightly shoot upwards from a nozzle when a small knob is turned. ---
**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 11, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11621 "2019-06-11T14:26:49Z")
The historical inscription at the base of The Blawnox Bubbler was etched in stone using Wingdings, so unfortunately most tourists cannot read the font. ---
**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 11, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11622 "2019-06-11T15:17:20Z")
Tourism font, developed at a print foundry just outside Lagos, Nigeria in June 1977, is remarkable in that it is illegible to 98.3% of all human beings, regardless of their native language. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=580) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=582)