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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 9:37 pm
While New World natives played a similar game to basketball long before the invention of the modern game, I don't think that it was happening 1500 BC. Crap.

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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:22 pm
fact
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 12:42 am
FAct
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:39 am
fact because the song Basketball Jones, Oh Basketball Jones seems like it is at least that old.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 7:07 am
Kee-rap
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 8:19 am
crap!
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 8:21 am
Fact
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 8:25 am
Crap! I've been wrong every time I've guessed. Let's see if I can keep my streak going.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 12:26 pm
I say crap.
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Laralyn
Member
08-04-2005
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 1:08 pm
fact.. cn, I think I remember that show from survivors, and i think that the mayans did play a form of basketball.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 1:58 pm
Good Saturday afternoon to all the faithful FoCers out there! Hope your day is bright an sunny (as opposed to the totally gray -- yet surprisingly dry -- day we have here). Yesterday's question didn't stump too many of you. You obviously paid attention to some of the Mayan lore during the last Survivor! So, let's get to it. Was a form of basketballed first played 3,500 years ago? Its FACT! "A form of basketball -- with players casting objects through a round 'hoop' -- was played in Mesoamericans for thousands of years before modern basketball was introduced. Players were not allowed to use their hands; instead, they had to bump the balls with their elbows and knees. Unlike today, the agonyof defeat was quite literal -- losers were sometimes sacrificed to the gods." A few kudos to pass out today! For the Most Creative Answer - Ophiliasgrandma who reminded us all that the venerable institution Hogwarts had this game long ago and called it Quidditch! For the Best Typo in an Answer - Wargod for insinuating this was a "fat." And the Keep Hope Alive award goes to . . . Hermoine69 who continues her streak of incorrect answers. On a personal note, I've been fortunate enough to have visited the ruins of Chichen Itza and seen the ball court. It's a fascinating place! There are carvings on the walls of the court depicting the playing of the game and the fate of the losers. Okay, so onward to the FoC for Saturday, January 21, 2006:
Herds of lemmings commit mass suicide each year by throwing themselves over cliffs to keep their species population in check. FACT or CRAP? Discuss!
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:02 pm
That is FACT!! I saw a form of it on South Park!!! 
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:03 pm
FACT - but I don't think they have their population in mind.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:12 pm
fact because no one would come up with a question like that unless it were true, but could someone tell me what a lemmings is.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:12 pm
at first I thought it said lemons I'll say craporama
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Laralyn
Member
08-04-2005
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:27 pm
I say crap, but think it would be a good idea for a few humans that I have met in my lifetime. Kidding, kidding...kinda, sorta
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 2:46 pm
Can it be both? LOL Fact that they follow each other off the cliff..where the phrase 'don't be a lemming' or 'having a lemming' comes from Crap that it's for population control
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 3:13 pm
jagger, a lemming is a rodent. crap.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 4:00 pm
Fact
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 5:20 pm
Hmmm...lemmings see... I say CRAP. 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:01 pm
factfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfact factfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfactfact
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:11 pm
Crap! I think this is a myth.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:17 pm
Crap. 'squeek'
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:18 pm
Fact they do it, crap on the reason.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 6:26 pm
Fact they do it, crap on the reason, too. I thought that is supposed to be one of the great mysteries of the universe - that nobody knows WHY they all barrel off the cliff simultaneously (& minus bungie cords). Bisc
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