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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 8:03 pm
Crap.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 8:05 pm
Fact
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 8:18 pm
Fact. 'squeek'
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:24 pm
fact
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 10:24 pm
Fact.
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 5:45 am
Crap
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 6:30 am
I'll go with the minority and say it's crap, just too many people are thinking it is fact and I always like to be different.
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 6:39 am
Crap, its not the first "printed" book, but the first on a machine. SO I go with CRAP just cause I am being picky in my definition of the question.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 7:08 am
I actually did have a bit of a problem with this one... if you go into the semantics of it, it can be a bit difficult to actually define the word "printed". But since I know Max is using something that probably takes a bit o' liberty with the words -- remember the flag question? -- I too liberty, too! Hehehe! Edited to add: Mama! Thanks but... I may not be smart on this one! We'll see! <grin>
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 7:51 am
I'm going to say crap and you'll be hard pressed to convince me otherwise. How could we ever know for sure? <--can you tell I'm a skeptic?
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 8:10 am
Fact. I agree with Costacat. Max didn't say what type of print, it's the first printed with movable type. Of course, I nit-picked the flag question, why change now? P.S. I remember this being an issue in the movie "Day After Tomorrow" where New York froze over due to global weather change. The people who found shelter in the top floor of a library would not let one of the guys burn the Gutenberg Bible for heat because of its historical value. Yeah, I have a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 8:36 am
jeep, that is what i'm basing my guess off of also! too weird.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 1:13 pm
I think Max is going to be too scared to tell us the answer to this one!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 2:29 pm
LOL She's probably laughing at us!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 3:39 pm
I think it's Fact. But my track record in this thread is piss-poor!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 4:36 pm
Good Thursday afternoon to all you FoCers! Yesterday's question generated some marvelous confusion. Y'all are a highly suspicious/skeptical group! As a refresher, here's the question: [Was] the Gutenberg Bible the world's first printed book?" (Grammar corrected by moi.) There was some discussion amongst you FoCers regarding the context/meaning of the word "printed" here. Regardless, here's how you voted:Now, this is one on which I'm going to confess I have issues with the Calendar Corps. First, the mangled the grammar in forming the question at all. You simply cannot use present and past tense in the same sentence. It's confusing and awkward! Second, I think they've gone a bit far in being vague about the term "printed," just as many of you pointed out. The generic "printed" could mean anything from block letters etched by hand with some sort of writing instrument, to block printing done by carving letters out of something like a potato, to modern printing presses and many things in between. It's just too bloody vague for anyone to guess correctly (other than by chance) what the Calendar Corps really meant. So, I declare you all winners today and the Calendar Corps a bunch of misguided folks who need to go back to English class! So there! However, for the record, here's the correct answer: They say it's CRAP! "It's the first printed book in metal movable type. The very first printed book was actually a Buddhist sutra, done by block printing in 868, by the Chinese. The Chinese predate Gutenberg in movable type as well; they started printing from clay movable type in 1040, but ended up discarding the method." So you see, ALL of you were right in one aspect or another because the Calendar Corps couldn't seem to find a way to phrase the question properly! (Good grief, I'm starting to sound like my brother the attorney!) Okay, so onward we go! Here's the FoC for Thursday, January 26, 2006:
On the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, the muscle car driven by the Dukes was called "General Grant." FACT or CRAP? Discuss! Oh, and bonus points if you can name the year, make and model of the car. After all, the movie came out not long ago and got a lot of press, so y'all should know this! 
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 4:41 pm
I know this one!!!! It is CRAP! Don't know the bonus questions though...
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 4:42 pm
Crap!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 4:45 pm
Um, some editing occurred above for reasons that I shall not mention! 
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 4:49 pm
ROFL! Sorry!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 5:12 pm
crap, 69 dodge charger (pure guessing here)
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 5:21 pm
OK Crap and I don't know the car. I so want to Google this, but I didn't before I answered, but I am going to now!!!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 5:34 pm
Half fact, half crap. General/fact Grant/crap
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 5:36 pm
Wow, Ophiliasgrandma, that's the biggest hedged bet I've seen so far! LOL 
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 5:43 pm
wasn't it <..>? i never watched it, but i think it's 'generally' accepted that was the name... maybe? Are you saying 'fact' or 'crap', Tabby? 
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