# 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:** 630
**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:** [April 23, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12583 "2020-04-23T17:48:41Z")
KICK home-brewed bourbon sales were wildly successful but some people questioned the Goldfarb’s advertising slogan “Bourbon - for the Kids.” When pursued to make a decision on the matter, Kentucky Liquor Commissioner Rex Baron responded “I don’t see what the problem is.” Some people speculate that Goldfarb paid him under the table while others speculate that he was a crazy man who put cheese in his socks. The truth, as it usually is, was somewhere down the middle. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12584 "2020-04-25T06:17:07Z")
Truth can always be found in the middle - between the two big toes. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12585 "2020-04-27T22:31:04Z")
For the sake of inconvenience, the big toe on the left foot is formally known as “the hallux sinister”. The big toe on the right foot is called “Ted”. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12586 "2020-04-27T23:12:30Z")
Years of dancing _en pointe_ led ballerina Cynthia Hallux to give nicknames to each of her pedal digits, leading to some confusion when she complained about Ted to her podiatrist. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12587 "2020-04-28T20:02:46Z")
These complaints so inspired the podiatrist by their concise wit and intriguing presentation, that he sold the idea of continuing them to his brother’s barber’s sister’s boyfriend’s stock broker’s cousin’s college professor, and that’s why we have Ted Talks. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12588 "2020-04-29T12:33:34Z")
Cynthia Hallux’s podiatrist’s brother’s barber’s sister’s boyfriend’s stock broker’s cousin’s college professor was sued by Theodore Talks after Ted Talks achieved some degree of fame. Theodore claimed he never gave permission to use his name. The lawsuit was thrown out when Cynthia Hallux’s podiatrist’s brother’s barber’s sister’s boyfriend’s stock broker’s cousin’s college professor pointed out that Theodore was born in 1992, after the TED conferences were well-established. Cynthia Hallux’s podiatrist’s brother’s barber’s sister’s boyfriend’s stock broker’s cousin’s college professor then counter-sued, forcing Theodore Talks to change his name to Theodore Shuts Up. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12589 "2020-05-01T23:40:24Z")
It is for that reason that the _hallux dexter_ is also known as Silent Ted. Ironically, Cynthia Hallux’s podiatrist has long retired. ---
**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 4, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12590 "2020-05-04T19:34:42Z")
Cynthia Hallux’s podiatrist Benny Foote (and yes he is fully aware of the irony in his last name) spent years and years searching for the cure for the malady known as Extremities Exremitus, aka the restless leg syndrome, aka the “Jimmy legs,” aka boogie shoes, aka the toe tic, aka the Sole Spasm (not to be confused with Soul Spasm), aka the Laramie Leg Whip, aka the one leg bandit, aka femur fever, aka the Arch Nemesis, aka the abductor inductor, aka the legbone pegblown, aka the kneecap nudgeication. Once he developed the cure, he quickly sold it off to Johnson & Johnson for a nice some and retired to the country. “All I wanted to do was take the money and run,” quoted Foote. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12591 "2020-05-05T01:12:54Z")
Annie-Xmas isn’t here today because she’s modeling her new line of Boogie Shoes under the name brand of Annie-Xmas’s Boogie-Woogie Shoo-Shoes. Unfortunately no one has attended any of the sales presentation meetings (one in New York, one in Los Angeles, and one in Boise) for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12592 "2020-05-13T18:39:11Z")
Wearing Boogie-Woogie Shoo-Shoes was in fact a capital offense in some ancient kingdoms, especially those with Klingon executioners. [https://twitter.com/ADACTIVITY/status/1258829329083117571/photo/1](https://twitter.com/ADACTIVITY/status/1258829329083117571/photo/1) ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12593 "2020-05-13T19:21:34Z")
Eventually, they became accepted as a sort of curiosity, inspiring the Benny Goodman song, “Pardon Me, Boy, Are Those Your Boogie-Woogie Shoo-Shoes?” ---
**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:** [May 13, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12594 "2020-05-13T19:29:29Z")
Benny Goodman is still alive and planning his comeback tour right after this pesky Covid thing blows over. ---
**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 14, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12595 "2020-05-14T16:20:35Z")
Goody Benman, Master of the Shofar, is planning a comeback as well and is looking to perform the famous Shofar-Sackbut duets in 112 venues nationwide. Benman only needs a studio to sponsor the tour, commercial backing, 112 venues, a vehicle or a number of vehicles that can get him to the venues, a willing partner to play the sackbut parts, and audience interest. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12596 "2020-05-21T14:42:51Z")
When asked how the tour preparations were proceeding, Goody said “Shofar, sho good.” ---
**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 27, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12597 "2020-05-27T18:39:40Z")
Sho’nuff, the Shogun of Harlem has never played the shofar. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12598 "2020-05-27T19:47:00Z")
Goody Benman approached Sho’nuff to lend his name to a chain of shofar shops. The signs, in fake Hebrew letters, were to proclaim “Shogun Sho’nuffs Sephardic Shofars.” But Benman wanted the store to diversify its stock by also carrying sackbuts, and Sho’nuff wanted to diversify the stock with Boogie-Woogie Shoo-Shoes. And neither was willing to compromise and open a Shofar, Sackbut, and Shoo-shoo shop. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12599 "2020-06-15T02:10:07Z")
Carole King wanted to perform her own songs for people, but had to overcome a severe case of “S-Backing” first. One example: “Sho far away/Doeshn’t anybody shtay in one playsh any more?” Other songs had similar problems. She had to wear a special, custom-made mouthpieshe to bed at night for quite awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12600 "2020-06-15T13:53:05Z")
Carole King originally wanted to perform under the stage name of King Carole and even sold out the first three concerts at which she did, but then rejected the idea after having to refund much of the revenue to irate ticket holders who had thought they were going to see Elvis Presley reprising his role as “King Creole”. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 15, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12601 "2020-06-15T14:18:16Z")
Colonel Tom Parker once told the story about how Elvis Presley briefly got into birdwatching in the early seventies. Parker mentioned how obsessed he was about the various species found on Graceland and how he put our birdfeeders and suet to attract them and once was very upset when a small colorful songbird was hit by a car. Elvis rushed the bird to a local vet to get care for it but was unable to stay because he had to go perform a concert that night. This led to the now famous phrase “Elvis has left the bunting.” ---
**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:** [June 15, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12602 "2020-06-15T14:33:11Z")
Colonel Tom Parker was never a colonel, however in his carnival-worker days he did park cars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=629) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=631)