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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:39 am
Guten Tag, you FoCers! I got home from work around 1:00 a.m. and just couldn't bring myself to think enough to post, so you'll have to settle for a morning update. (The party where I dealt blackjack was a blast, BTW. I had everyone at my table doing "the wave" and the YMCA dance! ) Anyway, the question at hand is: Did the first American to enter Germany after the signing of the Armistice of World War I ride in on a white horse?
To which you replied: Now I have to say that I love some of the creative answers y'all come up with. Every now and then, there's some factual stuff in there, too, but as Heyitslori pointed out, sometimes the factual stuff is just a happy coincidence or a good guess. Proving that being right isn't always the point, but giving it your best shot might just pay off! Anyway, the Calendar Corporals have this to say about the white horse thing: It's CRAP! On November 12, 1918, the day after the signing of the Armistice that heralded the end of World War I, Corporal Roy Holtz of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, a dispatch messenger, rode from Belgium into Germany on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle."
Gotta love a HOG!!!! Okay, onward we go!
You can see stars during the day from the bottom of a well. FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:50 am
Only if you fall in and hit your head on the way in! Crap
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:52 am
Well, heck... if you fell down a well, you'd sure as HECK see stars. And little birdies tweeting all around your head, too! <snicker> This is such a bizarre question, I'm inclined to say Fact. But... the sky has to be dark so I'm gonna say Crap!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:57 am
I'm gonna say Fact just because I've been saying Crap so often..
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:11 am
Fact ...especially if you're hanging over the well a bit too long and get that blood rush to the brain.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:13 am
That is just about the silliest thing I have ever read!!! So I will say FACT.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:26 am
crapola
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Tera
Member
08-10-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:34 am
Hmmmm... you can certainly see the moon during the day so I bet if you look hard enough you might be able to see a star or 2 too. But from a bottom of a well? Although it does sound silly, I will say FACT.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:41 am
I suppose you could if you either had a telescope; an astronomy book; if the star (like Tom Hanks) was standing at the top of the well; or, if there were stars painted on the walls of the well Well,well (that's a deep subject, let's get into it sometime) since all I am able to come up with is CRAP, then my answer is CRAP and I'm sticking to it. Sticking to crap, gross
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 12:19 pm
LOL it really was a Harley??? I thought Craven was joking!!!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 1:58 pm
Only if it was during a solar eclipse . The sunny daytime sky would always be brighter than the stars. If anything the contrast between the black well walls and the circle of light would make it less easy to distinguish bodies in the sky, not more easy. I say crap.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 2:02 pm
fact, you get away from the ambient light. light travels in a straight line. the angle and depth of the well has a lot to do with how much you can see though.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 3:00 pm
Fact. It has to do with visual purple being built up in the retina due to the darkness which allows for a more defined visual field.
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Craven
Member
05-23-2004
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 3:36 pm
Having been at the bottom of a well before, I can honestly say FACT!! Craven (Pamy, me? joking? Nahh....... )
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 3:56 pm
Well, it sounds like crap to me.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 5:22 pm
What kind of stars? I think CRAP
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:21 pm
Fact, question is too bizarre to be crap, lol.
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:53 pm
crap
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 10:31 pm
Well, I am torn between going with Kitt or Dogdoc. I will go with the Kitt explanation. Crap
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:05 pm
Ah, Sunday. A day when FoCers everywhere should be relaxing and enjoying such robust activities as watching 6+ hours of Olympic coverage or the Daytona 500, or both. But alas, for this FoCer, I just finished a day of transcription. Never fear! My DVR has faithfully captured the important stuff -- that being the Olympics and Desperate Housewives/Gray's Anatomy! Okay, the question of the moment. . . Can you see stars during the day from the bottom of a well?
And if you did, would it look like this? You said: First, here's what the Calendar Conjurers have to say: It's CRAP! "Even from the bottom of a dark well, the daytime sky is too bright for a person to see even the brightest stars in the galaxy. Aristotle first proposed this mistaken idea, and it was widely assumed to be correct into the 19th century. Astronomers eventually tested the hypothesis and concluded it was impossible." Hmmm, wonder how they decided who got to go to the bottom of the well?! In honor of the Olympics, we have some medals to award today! These go to the best bluffers (or biggest BS artists, your pick).
The gold medal goes to Dogdoc for a thoroughly convincing (non-)scientific answer, "It has to do with visual purple being built up in the retina due to the darkness which allows for a more defined visual field." Excellent attempt to persuade others to join your camp!
A silver medal is awarded to Cndeariso for another seemingly scientifically sound scenario, "You get away from the ambient light. light travels in a straight line. the angle and depth of the well has a lot to do with how much you can see though."
And the bronze goes to Seamonkey who decided to forget all attempts at a logical explanation and simply said, "I'm gonna say Fact just because I've been saying Crap so often." Excellent efforts all! Okay, so here we go with the question for Monday, February 20, 2006:
Dalai Lama is a Mongolian title meaning "Keeper of the Faith." FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 5:56 am
Crap."keeper of the Faith" is right but it is not Mongloian. Thank you for my gold medal. The visual purple was scientific but the "more defined visual field" deserves another term.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 6:15 am
OH, I thought you said Daily Llama...that's very different CRAP
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 6:22 am
crap
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 6:36 am
Daily Llama ... LOL!!!
Crap!!
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 6:49 am
And for my first answer El Crappo
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