# 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:** 92
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1821 "2014-08-08T16:36:43Z")
Upon his death, Iggy Pop’s penis will be removed, stored in a jar, and displayed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It will join an exhibit of other prominent penises. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1822 "2014-08-08T16:50:12Z")
Penis was not originally a word, but an acronym for _prime extendable nodule indicating sex_. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1823 "2014-08-08T18:07:40Z")
Acronym is an acronym for “All the Crap you Read, Only Not Yet so Much”. It was invented by Charles Dickens, and first used in the Pickwick Papers. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1824 "2014-08-08T19:04:05Z")
Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge was an acronyn for, _“‘E been e-zeein’ real spirits, crazy ol’ orn’ry geezer!”_ ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1825 "2014-08-08T19:25:45Z")
Hasbro’s G.I.Joe toys used acronyms for many of their vehicles; the Vehicle Attack Multi-Purpose (VAMP) and the Motorized Battle Tank (MOBAT) were very popular and quickly flew off the shelves of many stores. Nobody seemed to want to buy the Freerolling Attack Recon Tank - Burst Offensive Intensity Laser though. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1826 "2014-08-08T19:33:39Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > West Virginia couple Banjo Bob and Lill Belle Capdirt have successfully avoided the 7 year itch by divorcing at the end of the sixth year of their marriage. They remarry a moth after their divorce is final… Even in West Virginia, I don’t think you can marry a moth, bigamously or otherwise. In play: Pentagon plans for a Freerolling Attack Recon Tank - Burst Offensive Intensity Laser have been shelved until the High Echelon Armaments Defense Acronym Creation Headquarters Executive can come up with a better name. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1827 "2014-08-08T19:42:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Even in West Virginia, I don’t think you can marry a moth, bigamously or otherwise. _😃 I didn’t even notice. Good catch!_ In play: The Burst Offensive is a highly technical maneuver in which a clown adeptly ties off the projecting nodule of a balloon animal nanoseconds before eruption would occur. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1828 "2014-08-08T21:28:26Z")
In the 17 nanoseconds it takes for the Internet to refresh itself, entire digital civilizations rise from mere byte-size entities into giga-structured realms far advanced beyond anything known to us, and then crumble back into the cybervoid. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1829 "2014-08-08T23:30:49Z")
Spiro Agnew’s staff produced one of the earliest position papers on U.S. Government efforts to rebuild the crumbling cybervoid, but it was misfiled by a clerk at the Department of the As-Yet-Uninvented Internet in 1972, and never seen again. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1830 "2014-08-08T23:32:44Z")
There is no Internet, it’s all just one guy sitting OUT THERE (his name is George) manipulating all the data. Explains a lot. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1831 "2014-08-09T04:56:21Z")
Fortunately, _Curious George at the Experimental Lab_ was not published. Margaret and H.A. Rey wrote the final book of the series after being disenchanted by the bitter cut-throat business of children’s literature. In the misery-ridden final tale, the Man with the Yellow Hat is hit and killed by a runaway bus, and orphaned George is shipped off to the local University where the helpless ape is lobotomized and is curious no more. While the book has never been made available to the public, rumors regarding the ghoulishly disturbing illustrations have been whispered about for years. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1832 "2014-08-09T05:16:31Z")
Gahan Wilson submitted several of his lobotomized Curious George illustrations to _Playboy_, _Esquire_ and _Martha Stewart Living_. Only Martha thought they were a good thing, and featured them in the article, “Clever Ways to Cover Skull Scars with Papier-mâché and Pasta”. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1833 "2014-08-09T14:59:37Z")
Pasta is made from papier-mâché, and vice versa. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1834 "2014-08-09T15:24:44Z")
**Vice Versa** was a movie from the early '70s starring Donald Sutherland as a crook who stole from church poor-boxes by day and sang in the choir on Sundays. It made $74 during its release. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1835 "2014-08-09T15:33:09Z")
Donald Sutherland HATES orange juice. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1836 "2014-08-09T15:34:53Z")
Anita Bryant hates Keith Sutherland 24 hours a day. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1837 "2014-08-09T15:38:49Z")
The poor box was originally invented by Poke Salmon Annie, as a place to store her fish. She meant to name it Poke Box, but couldn’t spell. Neither could her mother, a fact discovered when Annie married and found that the name on her birth certificate was supposed to be Anita Bryant. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1838 "2014-08-09T15:42:08Z")
Annie Christmas has won 24 gold medals in the Olympic Internet ninja competitions! ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1839 "2014-08-09T16:25:25Z")
[_Looking back, I see that I was ninja’d by etv78 AND Annie, which I blame on weak coffee and undue attention to my cinnamon bagel. I’m so ashamed…]_ Annie Christmas repurposed her 24 gold medals into a gigantic star tree-topper in an effort to outdo her neighbors. It immediately crushed her Christmas tree and everyone laughed except for the cat, who was trapped under the branches trying to eat a candy cane ornament. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1840 "2014-08-09T17:03:50Z")
The World International Ninja Organization (WINO) acclaimed Annie Christmas’s achievement with their highest possible praise: “Nobody saw THAT coming!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=91) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=93)