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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Dec. ~ 2006 Feb.: Free Expression: Fact or Crap?? (ARCHIVES): Archive through February 06, 2006 users admin

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Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Fact.

Coco
Member

07-13-2000

Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 2:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Coco a private message Print Post    
Fact

Max
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08-12-2000

Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Happy (or not) Superbowl Sunday you FoCers! (I'm bummed that Seattle lost, but I'll get over it. Wait. . . There, I'm over it! :-)

Okay, yesterday's question was:

Is the Cadillac car named for the founder of the city of Detroit?

Fitting question, don't you think, since the Superbowl was played in Detroit today? :-)

Okay, everyone voted their conscience on this one, although Dogdoc only said fact because it sounded better than crap.
Fact 11
Crap 5
Well, I wouldn't trade old Leroy or my Chevrolet for your Escalade . . . oh, wait, that's Big and Rich talking about saving horses by riding cowboys and we're talking CARS! Sorry, got distracted!

Here's what the Calendar Car-jockeys say:

It's FACT! "Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a French nobleman and a Franciscan, came to America in 1683 to seek his fortune. Seeing the strategic and geographical advantages of the point where Lake Erie connects to Lake St. Clair, Cadillac established a fur-trading post there in 1701 that became Detroit. Nine years later, Cadillac left for France and never returned."

Oh, here's a bronze bust of good old Monsieur Cadillac. caddy There is apparently some question of whether or not this guy really was a French Nobleman. According to this site, he was actually a commoner and a con-artist. Interesting.

All of which leads us, of course, to the question for today, Sunday, February 5, 2006:

Magnets got their name from Magnesia, a province in Greece.

FACT or CRAP? You decide!


Not to be confused with. . .magnesia


Faerygdds
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08-29-2000

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I'll say crap... no reason... just sounds like crap LOL

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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hahahhaha!! Crap

Coco
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07-13-2000

Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Coco a private message Print Post    
Fact.

Those of us who took Chemistry will recall that Mg+ is called Magnesium and this element can be found in Magnesia, a province in Greece. BTW, I clearly should also mention that the element Mg+ is a positive (+) polar metal element which draws towards a negative (-) polar metal element, thus you get a magnetic field....trust me on this.


Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
WEll, crap.. but he didn't name it Detroit. And he certainly didn't get credit for naming it when I was in school in Detroit..

Oh and the magnets..

CRAP!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

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Magnets - crap. But I'm going straight to google to find out how well I guess!

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

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Factnet.

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

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i'm going with crap on this one since that is what milk of magnesia is supposed to make you do anyway. it works like magnet! i mean magic! hehehe

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, February 06, 2006 - 7:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
since I slept through Chemistry, I'll have to rely on Coco and say fact.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Crap for all the obvious reasons.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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Coco, that sounds almost true, but it could also be bull schlocky..just saying

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

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I say Coco is feeding us a line of crap-----so crap.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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Fact

Wargod
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07-16-2001

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Didn't take chemistry and Coco's answering is giving me flashbacks to that semester Lance and Tess tutored me through a science class...ack! I still have nightmares about some practice problem Lance threw at me that took days to solve and the answer was six pages long, lol and now Coco's making me shake!

I'll say crap.

<Lance and Tess worked their butts off that semester with me and every last bit of that A I got was a direct result of the two of them. Left to my own I'd have run out of the class kicking and screaming the first night, lol.>

Laralyn
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08-04-2005

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Coco, you lost me at hello...er I mean i understood "Those of us who took Chemistry will recall", then lost it Don't know if it was the word chemistry or the word recall.

Crap, i say and i further want to point out that max has several tricky things in this statement....imho

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, February 06, 2006 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I'm going to take Max's question literally, and based on that it's CRAP! (It has to do with "it was named for "Magnesia, a province in Greece.")

(If it's a tricky question and not to be taken literally, then it's FACT!)

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

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Crap.

Abby7
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07-17-2002

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coco crap....
oops i meant crap (just teasing you coco :>)

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

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I am voting my conscience. Crap

Pamy
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01-02-2002

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I have faith in Coco

Fact

Max
Moderator

08-12-2000

Monday, February 06, 2006 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Good Monday to you FoCers! Hope you all had a nice day. We had a very sunshiny day here in the Pacific Northwest and I'm not sure many of us truly believed we weren't dreaming! :-)

Now, yesterday's question was. . .

Did magnets get their name from Magnesia, a province in Greece?

For some reason, a couple of you think this is a trick question. I admit that I'm clueless as to where the trick might be, but I admire your ability to see conspiracies! Anyway, you said:
Fact 4
Crap 13
Before giving you the answer according to the oracle that is the back of the Calendar page, I have one award to bestow:

trophyThe Grecian Chemist award goes to Coco who clearly paid more attention in class than the rest of us. :-)

Now then, here is the "official" answer:

It's FACT! "The first magnets found were made from rock called lodestone, which contains magnetite, an iron ore named after Magnesia, the region in Greece where it was discovered. Today, most magnets we use contain a combination of various metals, including nickel, cobalt, lanthanides, as well as resin and even vinyl (as a binder)."

Maybe next time Coco starts talking about chemistry, we should all pay more attention. :-) Personally, I was more interested in information about Greece than anything about magnets!

Okay, so on we go to the question for Monday, Feburary 6, 2006:

Computer animators used the movements and body of rock star Iggy Pop as a basis for the Gollum character in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.
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FACT or CRAP? You decide!


Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

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Oh heck. Let's put a hat and a beard on him and see if he looks like Iggy.
Nope,I can't picture it. I say CRAP!

Coco, I'm sorry..Your answer was just so detailed..LOL

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

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crap