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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:58 pm
Fact. It's a lonnnngggggggg way from Missouri to California on horseback.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:05 pm
They changed riders, too.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:19 pm
Crap---I also think it took longer.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:25 pm
Fact.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:52 pm
Crap - they were faster. 'squeek'
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 9:57 pm
Crap, I think it was quicker.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:20 pm
Well, clearly there was crap involved.. horses and all..
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 11:00 pm
Crap
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 7:04 am
Fact
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 7:18 am
And that was EXACTLY where I was goin' with that Max! Definitely Rainman. Yeah definitely. Rainman! <wink>
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 8:12 am
Fact... the crap was left on the trail by all those horses.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:06 am
Crap - I think it took longer.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:49 am
Crap - got there faster. Did not take that long.
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Laralyn
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 2:01 pm
Fact. I figure it takes 21 days to change a habit thats 3X7 think I read about 3 and 7 in the Bible somewhere) so therfore I think it took 21 days to change from missouri to California. Perfect logical thinking here.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 2:37 pm
LOL Terolyn!! I think it is fact.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 2:53 pm
Teriffic Tuesday To The FoCers! It's a beautiful sunny day here in the Northwest, without a cloud in the sky. Too bad I'm stuck behind this keyboard! ACK! Anyway, yesterday's question was. . . In 1860, was the average length of time for the Pony Express to deliver a letter from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, 21 days? Here's what you said: Of those who said CRAP...
6 | said it took less than 21 days on average | 3 | said it took more than 21 days on average | Well, with a big YEE HAW for all the hardworking, hard-riding cowboys and cowgirls out there, here's the calendar's answer! It's CRAP! "The average run of 1,966 miles took 10 days at nearly 200 miles per day. The fastest run was pulled off in 7 days, 17 hours by riders carrying Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address. There were approximately 150 stations between the two cities, each about 10 to 15 miles apart. A Pony Express rider would ride from station to station, changing horses in shifts of about 100 miles. The service, which began in April 1860, was short-lived: a year and a half later, the Pony Express was out of business, made obsolete by the telegraph." Now, I have to say that I have a great deal of admiration for anyone who could ride that fast that far for that many days in a row and still walk at the end of it! I'm bettin' the bartenders served up a few shots of whiskey to those riders when they arrived. However, I also must point out that I feel badly for the ponies who made those runs. Going 100 miles at pretty much a full-tilt boogie must have made those poor animals have very short life spans! Sorry, no awards today. I've got too much typing to do already!!! So, onward we go for Tuesday, January 24, 2006.
Mice have ten times as many smell receptor genes as humans.    FACT or CRAP? Discuss!
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 2:55 pm
Mouse crap.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 2:56 pm
Wow! That was fast! Shall we call you QuickDraw? 
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:06 pm
If we stick with the theme of the question, I can be Speedy Gonzales! 
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:13 pm
LOL! I'm gonna say fact because their noses are so twitchy. What? That makes sense to me!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:21 pm
Okay, twitchy noses ... good logic Hermi! I'll go with "fact" as well. 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:28 pm
I'm going with 'crap'. I think it's a heck of a lot more than 10 times what we have.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:28 pm
gotta be a fact, those little mizers find every little crumb of food laying on my floor, they even eat through plastic, wood, plaster, wire and concrete just to get into my food. The least they could do is pay rent if they're going to move in with me.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:42 pm
Eenie meenie minie moe... crap? fact? I'm going with crap. I'm thinking "10 times" is a few times too many! (10 times is an awful lot!)
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 3:43 pm
I'm going with crap, because I'm thinking they can pick up smells, 50-100x better than we can. At least a lot of smells. There are things we can detect at 1 ppb (part per billion). That's pretty sensitive. But there are many things we can't smell even if they are right under our noses.
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