# 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:** 596
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11903 "2019-09-09T17:31:49Z")
Pennywise was also inspired by Chicago’s Bozo the Clown. When kids started going missing after the show… the details are too graphic to go into here, but that’s the reason there’s no more local kids TV shows. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11904 "2019-09-09T18:02:08Z")
The full story can be read in _ **True Tales Of Horror** _, by the same publisher as _ **True Story** _, along with such cutting-edge journalism as “Sorority House Slave Stud” and “I Was A CIA Vampire!” ---
**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 9, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11905 "2019-09-09T18:25:34Z")
The CIA actually did extensive research work on vampires during the Cold War, hoping to turn them into undead assassins in support of U.S. foreign policy goals well beyond Transylvania. However, their usefulness was limited, as they (super)naturally always had to ask permission to enter enemy bases, palaces and laboratories. ---
**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 10, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11906 "2019-09-10T13:06:42Z")
The CIA was behind the whole Satanic Ritual Abuse affair, which is still going strong today. Best Government Cover-up EVER! ---
**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 10, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11907 "2019-09-10T15:30:09Z")
The confusion over Satan and Santa has caused many a merry mix-up in Christian households. ---
**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 10, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11908 "2019-09-10T15:51:23Z")
Johnny Cash once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Red “Satan” Foreman was scheduled to make an appearance as Santa at a children’s Christmas party, but Cash donned the red suit and beard, hid Red’s body in a ravine, and made Red’s Santa appearance. He then took off the suit and appeared as himself, creating the perfect alibi. Since it was a freezing col Nevada day, nobody could tell exactly when Red died, but he was clearly at the party and killed afterwards, when Johnny was still in plain sight at the party. The story was found in Cash’s memoirs, and used as the basis for Joanne Fluke’s story “Candy Cane Murder.” ---
**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:** [September 10, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11909 "2019-09-10T17:05:19Z")
It is illegal in Texas for anyone with the surname Cane (or Caine, Kane, etc.) to name their daughter “Candice”. ---
**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 10, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11910 "2019-09-10T17:44:08Z")
However, it was legal for the children of Candice Unicorn and Nannie Trump to name their daughter after her grandmothers: Candace Unicorn Nannie Trump. Every single baby gift the little girl got was monogrammed with her full initials. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11911 "2019-09-11T16:06:20Z")
Children with only one living female grandparent are said to have a monogramma. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11912 "2019-09-11T16:11:48Z")
People who only know one language are said to be monogrammar ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11913 "2019-09-11T16:30:38Z")
Monophonogrammatticaphobia is the fear of having less than two phonograph record players. This condition has been mostly eliminated, along with phonograph record players. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11914 "2019-09-11T16:42:00Z")
Steven Lightffoot, who holds the world’s record for the wackiest conspiracy record ever, that John Lennon was murdered by author Stephen King on the behest of the US government, recently posted this gem: > [@](#): > > Just a day before 9 -’11 ( And they made such a fuss that a meeting with the Taliban was scheduled then, before it was cancelled.) a day before 9 -’11, America’s REAL enemy, murderer; Stephen King, culture assassin, more precisely, the man most responsible for your youth’s trend of mass shootings, that asshole; Stephen King, showed his rare face on ABC this morning for five minutes. He was the picture of normalcy and niceness dressed in his 1970’s light blue denim shirt and blue jeans. Except for his rattlesnake eyes (Some things you can’t hide.) you’d never know he was truly in a class with Hitler, Mussolini, and other monsters who disgraced our landscape. When asked what is it that scares him he responded; “Elevators. I look down and think “There’s a hole down there.” as if he was worried his interview might be a ruse to kill him in an elevator “accident” so he can’t spill what he knows about the government that arranged for him to murder John Lennon. ---
**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 11, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11915 "2019-09-11T18:56:31Z")
Stephen Lightfoot, is, of course, the 3rd cousin once removed of Gordon Lightfoot. Stephen tried to cash in on Gordon’s fame, penning such songs as “In the Early Evening Snow”, “The Wreck of the Titanic”, and “If You Could Read My Mindless Blather”. ---
**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 11, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11916 "2019-09-11T18:57:57Z")
Steven Lightfoot hired John Hinckley Jr. to take out Reagan. He paid him $110.27 in Confederate currency and two box-tops from Kellogg’s Corn Flakes (which is a sign of the promised Messiah). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11917 "2019-09-11T21:47:19Z")
It’s been discovered that Kellogg’s Corn Flakes actually contain no corn. The flakes are composed of other cereals that have exceeded their expiration dates. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11918 "2019-09-12T12:22:19Z")
Make your own cheese at home, just add salt to milk three weeks past the expiration date. ---
**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 12, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11919 "2019-09-12T13:41:01Z")
The Church of The Divine Dairy Deity uses homemade cheese as its communion food, replacing bread and wine. ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11920 "2019-09-12T14:24:12Z")
Ministers of the Church of The Divine Dairy Deity are known for their mooving sermons. ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11921 "2019-09-12T14:25:59Z")
Being udderly devoted, they pray for bovine intervention. ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11922 "2019-09-12T14:29:32Z")
Their church has no bells, only a horn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=595) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=597)