# 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:** 66
**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:** [July 7, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1301 "2014-07-07T22:13:36Z")
Chamogelophrenia is the deranged belief that you have nearly vanished completely away, with nothing left but your smile. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1302 "2014-07-07T23:38:07Z")
Dr. Wallace Smile, also known as Smiley the Clown, founded the Physical Risible Action Technicians, a group dedicated to promoting serious clowning as performance art. The group is best known for developing a series of amusing spills, tumbles and trippings that captivated audiences at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for two decades. Indeed the term “PRATfall” was coined by these clowns. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1303 "2014-07-08T02:39:01Z")
Krusty the Klown (from “The Simpsons”) is actually based on Spiro Agnew, except Agnew’s hair was bright orange. Matt Groening saw Agnew on TV as a kid and was so horrified he invented Krusty as a cathartic tool. Comic Book Guy is based on ex-long-time-Baltimore City Mayor William Donald Schaefer. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1304 "2014-07-08T03:38:43Z")
Matt Groening and Stephen King are identical twins. However, one of the two was conceived and carried to term naturally, and the other is the product of a modern laboratory’s in vitro technology. This secret is known only to a group known as The Council of Three, which has four members, and not even Matt and Stephen are aware of the truth. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1305 "2014-07-08T06:22:53Z")
Anyone who reads the post to learn the secret of The Council of Three above will die an untimely death by a Memetic Kill Agent secretly encoded into the words of Prof. Pepperwinkles sentences. You’ve been warned. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1306 "2014-07-08T12:46:44Z")
The words of Prof. Pepperwinkle do not vanish after their utterance, but are sucked into a holding chamber by Barrimore Jeeves, his personal vocabulary valet. Each evening Mr. Jeeves washes and irons the Professor’s daily load of remarks, vociferations, orations and _mutterances_, returning them to the Professor for repurposing the following morning. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1307 "2014-07-08T14:17:56Z")
Professor Pepperwinkle holds an honorary Degree in Scientistics from the University of Miami in Buffalo NY (Albuquerque campus). ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1308 "2014-07-08T14:58:39Z")
Professor Pepperwinkle can write the Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1309 "2014-07-08T14:59:22Z")
Professor Pepperwinkle has served on the faculty of the Harvard University, the Sorbonne, and the Louvre. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1310 "2014-07-08T15:12:10Z")
As a five-year-old, Professor Pepperwinkle taught his own kindergarten class, the two first grade classes and four music classes. He also won every bridge game in the Teacher’s Lounge. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1311 "2014-07-08T15:49:49Z")
To be fair, they weren’t very good bridge players. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1312 "2014-07-08T16:12:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > To be fair, they weren’t very good bridge players. _Yes, but you allowed for that by playing blindfolded and using one hand to paint an impressionistic “The Last Supper” with your box of 128 crayons._😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1313 "2014-07-08T16:41:01Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > _Yes, but you allowed for that by playing blindfolded and using one hand to paint an impressionistic “The Last Supper” with your box of 128 crayons._😉 The Binney and Smith Company specifically created the box of 128 crayons for Professor Pepperwinkle when he complained that the coloring of his recreation of Picasso’s “Guernica” in crayon wasn’t subtle enough. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1314 "2014-07-08T16:52:28Z")
Out of modesty I prevented them from renaming “periwinkle” to “pepperwinkle”. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1315 "2014-07-08T19:06:13Z")
Professor Pepperwinkle has a line of delicious cookies and crackers under the brand name Pepperwinkle Farms. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1316 "2014-07-08T19:20:49Z")
Pepperidge Farm remembers. Pepperwinkle Farms, however, forgets. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1317 "2014-07-08T20:04:33Z")
I’m sorry, what was that? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1318 "2014-07-08T20:24:19Z")
**Prof. Pepperwinkle** can at least remember that Spiro Agnew is related to 17 other Vice Presidents of the United States, including the incumbent, Joe Biden of Idaho, who is his grand-nephew twice removed. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1319 "2014-07-08T20:57:21Z")
**Prof. Pepperwinkle** won the heart of his beloved by playing the violin as he serenaded her with a free-style rap explaining the theory of relativity. At the end he shot off a small Civil War cannon unearthed during his recent archeological dig in Virginia. He had calibrated the cannon to shower rose petals in a perfect trajectory, and he proposed as they wafted down upon her shoulders. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1320 "2014-07-08T23:47:41Z")
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