In Turkey, nitpickers are strung up by their toes and fed Bonomo Taffy and fried chicken for six hours.
(Double Nitpick: This is the thread for flat-out wrong trivia, isn’t it?)
Bonomo is Hindustani for Taffy, so the brand and the candy are a tautonym.
In the year 1432 a wealthy patron and his courtesans began a “game” of making up statements about reality that weren’t true, eating a bit of Bonomo Taffy each time one of them laughed at the others’ false trivia. That tradition is carried on in nearly every country today, but sadly, The Straight Dope has no such tradition. We do, however, all eat taffy when someone makes us laugh, as outlined in the ToU agreement.
In1432, Florence defeated Siena in the Battle of San Romano, though that outcome is still disputed today. In Paolo Uccello’s famous three-panelled painting of the event, the Siena runner is clearly safe at the plate, despite the call. However, there was no oil-on-canvas replay available at the time and therefore Florence moved on to the next round.
The Uccello is nearly obsolete, and the only professional orchestra member to play one is Moertz Cornish, affectionately called “U U Moe”.
Moe Howard’s real name was Moses Horwitz. Future NBA Hall of Famer Moses Malone’s father was a huge Three Stooges fan and named his son after the comedian
The tale of Moses was added to the Bible in 1000 by a peasant named Moses Malone, simply because he’d always wanted to be in the Bible.
Sam Malone, the owner and bartender of Cheers, was originally going to be portrayed by Walter Brennan. Rhea Perlman’s antagonism to the venerable actor, going so far as to knee him repeatedly in the crotch, was one of the major reasons he was replaced with someone taller.
The latest fad in exercise programs is Satma Knee-Bo, a combination of self-defense karate and hot yoga. Instructors wear small padded codpieces called nutsakis.
When asked what was wrong with his leg one day at basketball practice, Jackson replied “Bo knows knee no satma.” He meant to say “My knee isn’t bending right.”
When your knee bends to the left, it’s a sure sign of an early and hard winter. Especially if you’re in Massachusetts in November on a Thursday, eating a grilled cheese sandwich from a park vendor.
At one time in Massachusetts, the standard last-Thursday-in-November Thanksgiving tradition included eating a grilled cheese sandwich from a park vendor with your knees bent to the right, in hopes of having a late and mild winter.
In Texas, the standard last-Thursday-in-every-summer-month tradition included eating excessive amounts of barbeque, on your knees, accompanied by a case of Lone Star beer in hopes of washing out the bug toxins used to season the pork ribs.
New York’s famous Lone Star Café was originally going to be called The Fifty Star Café, but the owners discovered an electric sign with one big star was cheaper than one with fifty little stars.
The stars at night are, in fact, not big and bright deep in the heart of Texas.
Willie Nelson’s registered town of birth (as listed on his Texas birth certificate) is Deepinaharta.
The Semilunar valves, found deep in the heart, were named after astrologer Semilunar Moonpie, who was the first man to undergo partial-open-heart surgery in Houston. Moonpie enjoyed modest success as a fortune teller in small carnivals in the South. He choose to legally change his name to his stage name to spare his parents, George and Barbara Bush, from embarrassment.
Semilunar married Molly Juanin de Han, and was frequently known to say: “Juanin de Han is worth two of the Bush”. This may explain his death at an early age as a human pinata.
Danish scientist Molly Queuel invented the left-handed microscope.
Left-handed microscopes use a special mirror that reverses up and down instead of left and right.