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Archive through February 10, 2006

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Dec. ~ 2006 Feb.: Free Expression: Fact or Crap?? (ARCHIVES): Archive through February 10, 2006 users admin

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Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Crap, he is a high school drop out

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 6:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
crap, he doesn't even know who pamy is!! and that'd take an ignoramus :-)

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 6:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
fact; right,Coco?

Chaplin
Member

01-08-2006

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Fact

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Fact

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
fact

Lancecrossfire
Animoderator

07-13-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lancecrossfire a private message Print Post    
fact--a drop out from Yale with an SAT score just below perfect.

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Fact. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, intentionally, and Microsoft was born soon thereafter. Mid 1970's.

Laralyn
Member

08-04-2005

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Laralyn a private message Print Post    
factorino, agreeing with weinermr...cause you used the word i was gonna use, until i saw your word and then i thought the nice thing to do would be to give you credit and then everybody would think that i was being nice and giving you all the credit for coming up with it first...but it ain't true, i thought of factorino first, you just typed it first... whew, that just plum wore me out, doin all that splainin, that notbody cares about anyways.
..okay, okay..going to sit in my corner now....and what is up with me tonight, just cannot quit typing....gawd, where is my therapist when i need him

Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 8:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
Fact

'squeek'

Coco
Member

07-13-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Coco a private message Print Post    
Hmmm....I'm a Steve Job/Apple nerd and really don't know much about Bill Gates. Haha, I tell you this while typing on a Microsoft Windows XP laptop! I'm biting at the bit for the cute new little Apple laptops with a gazillion mega-mooga-wooga's-whatever.

I'll say Fact just because it feels true.


Max
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08-12-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Um, Laralyn? Put the chocolate and the coffee cup down!

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 4:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Pamy, it looks like you and I are the only ones that know he was a high school drop out.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 4:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Dang, I forget to actually vote. Crap

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 5:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
MS-FACT

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 5:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Fact.

Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 5:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
Laralyn, uhhhhhh..... thanks. lol

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 5:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Did anybody check on Laralyn today?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Now that Coco has weighed in, I will say:

Fact.

Coco
Member

07-13-2000

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Coco a private message Print Post    
...as you should Juju...as you should.

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Fact

Laralyn
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08-04-2005

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 2:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Laralyn a private message Print Post    
fact, i think i said fact, and i think i'm having a nervous breakdown, or meltdown, something

Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 2:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
Laralyn, are you okay?

Max
Moderator

08-12-2000

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 5:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Fabulous Friday, you FoCers! It's another beautiful, sunny day in the Pac Northwest, but the winds are a bit high. Still, great to see blue sky instead of gray!

Yesterday's question was:

Is Bill Gates a college dropout?

First, I'm very surprised that no one commented on Billy's mug shot. I expected all kinds of snarky comments, but not a single one appeared!

In answer to the question, you said:
Fact 22
Crap 4
Some of you thought he dropped out of Harvard, Lance said Yale. A few posited that he dropped out of high school and a couple of you seem to think he can't count in anything but binary code. :-) Meanwhile, Laralyn has obviously been drinking WAY too much coffee! (At least we hope that's the worst that's going on with her.)

So, what do the Calendar Computers have to say?

It's FACT! In 1973, Gates attended Harvard University (where he met Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO) but left in his junior year. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer, the MITS Altair. Gates then went on to establish Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen."

Here they are in the early days:
gates
Bit of trivia. Steve Ballmer's sister-in-law and her family attend my church. That's about as close as I get to Microsoft millions (aside from the donations I've made over the years by purchasing products from them). :-)

Okay, so what's next? What could be bigger than Microsoft? To what depths will the Calendar Corps sink for our amusement and trivia education? Well, let's see by exploring the question for today, Friday, February 10, 2006.

The Grand Canyon is the biggest canyon on earth.

FACT or CRAP? You decide!


Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Friday, February 10, 2006 - 5:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Crap..I think there are larger canyons deep under the ocean.