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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 2:14 pm
Fact.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 2:35 pm
Fact
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 7:46 pm
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. 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. 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. . . 
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 8:07 pm
I'll say crap... no reason... just sounds like crap LOL
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 8:22 pm
hahahhaha!! Crap
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 8:40 pm
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.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 9:01 pm
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!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 9:35 pm
Magnets - crap. But I'm going straight to google to find out how well I guess!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 3:52 am
Factnet.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 5:07 am
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 
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 7:37 am
since I slept through Chemistry, I'll have to rely on Coco and say fact.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 8:10 am
Crap for all the obvious reasons.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:34 am
Coco, that sounds almost true, but it could also be bull schlocky..just saying
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 12:39 pm
I say Coco is feeding us a line of crap-----so crap.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 1:53 pm
Fact
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 2:01 pm
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.>
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Laralyn
Member
08-04-2005
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 2:32 pm
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
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 3:37 pm
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!)
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 3:41 pm
Crap.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 5:21 pm
coco crap.... oops i meant crap (just teasing you coco :>)
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 5:58 pm
I am voting my conscience. Crap
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 6:19 pm
I have faith in Coco Fact
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 6:21 pm
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: Before giving you the answer according to the oracle that is the back of the Calendar page, I have one award to bestow:
The 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.
FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 6:33 pm
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
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 6:43 pm
crap
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