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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:31 am
Crap Fact
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:36 am
1. Crap (or fact, depending on where they measure and who is reporting) 2. Fact

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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:38 am
1. Fact 2. Crap--Braille was invented by Sidney Leinzt, the father of a blind child in Russia in 1892.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:45 am
1. it does depend upon whom you ask. i'll go with crap and say it is really the Dallol Depression in Ethiopia. 2. crap also. it was a joint venture between a soldier named Charles Barbier and Louis Braille.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:58 am
1. fact (just cuz i'm trying to think like max's calendar) 2. crap. louis braile on this one.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 1:46 pm
fact and crap. maybe...
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 1:52 pm
fact cract, or maybe fap.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 3:44 pm
(I never realized how many people invented Braille).
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 7:35 pm
1. Fact 2. Crap
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:29 pm
1. fact--the hottest temperature on earth was recorded in Death valley. 2. crap
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:56 pm
The question Doc is who do you believe? Because I feel there is a lot of fabrication going on on this one 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 10:21 pm
Well you have to remember that it really is St Louis Braille and Braille was developed in St Louis. A special St Louis Blue stylus was used to make the bumps before the Braille writer was created.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 10:24 pm
Happy Easter/Passover/Sunday, you FoCers! Hope everyone had a nice day. It's cold and rainy here, but it was a very nice day anyway. There was a lovely breakfast at church after services this morning. Got home and finished some work that needed to be done, then went with friends to see Cirque du Soleil's Varekai, then a nice dinner. Can't ask for much more than that! Okay, the questions on the table are:
- Is Death Valley the hottest place on earth?
- Was the Braille alphabet invented by a boy who had been blinded by an awl?
Well, there were some interesting guesses made on the Braille question! Here's how you voted on both of them:1 | Fact | 9 | | Crap | 5 | 2 | Fact | 5 | | Crap | 8 | | 50/50 | Kitt  | Okay, let's not dilly dally! Here's what the Calendar Cavaliers have to say:
- It's CRAP! "It is the hottest place in North America. El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 degrees Celsius) on September 13, 1922 -- the hottest ever measured. Death Valley's highest temperature, 134 degrees Fahrenheit, was recorded on July 10, 1913."
- It's FACT! At the age of three, Louis Braille accidentally poked his eye with his father's awl. Within a year he was totally blind. While at a school for the blind in Paris, he was inspired by a military code using dots and dashes that could be felt in the dark and came up with the idea of using no more than six dots per letter. In 1824, at the age of 15, Louis unveiled teh Braille alphabet. It was 1852 before his alphabet became widespread, but Braille is now the standard for the blind and can be read almost as quickly as sighted people read letters on a page."
Okay, on the first one, it was REALLY close! Below are the two locations. Hard to tell the difference!
On the second one, some of you who said CRAP were actually meaning FACT since you knew it was Louis Braille - you just didn't know that he had a childhood accident with an awl, that's all! Okay, here are a couple of new ones:
Los Angeles is slowly moving south toward Baja, Mexico. If you lived on Mars, you'd get an extra half-hour each day. FACT or CRAP! You decide!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 11:15 pm
1. Crap. We are heading up your way, Max. see ya next week! 2. Crap. If I lived on Mars I would be dead and I'd have zero hours a day.

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Tanzanite
Member
06-29-2005
| Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 11:27 pm
Crap Fact
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 5:19 am
crap fact
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 5:55 am
1. Fact 2. Crap - why would a day be longer than 24 hours, no matter WHERE it is? hmmm...
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:47 am
1. Crap (I used to live there and every year it seemed to get colder as we were moving towards San Fran). 2. True (and on Bejor the day is 26 hours long - if you remember your Deep Space Nine trivia). 'squeek'
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:58 am
1. Crap, it is moving NW. 2. Fact, a day is defined by the number of hours it takes a planet to fully rotate upon the axis. Therefore, a day on any other celestial body could vary by its axis rotational speed.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:06 am
1. I know for a fact it is moving toward Portland. Why the other day I was on the hill at OHSU and could clearly see the Transamerica building in SF. Any day now LA should be bumping into the Golden Gate Bridge. 2. Crap. A day just seems longer because there is absolutely nothing to do up there. Borrrring!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:12 am
1. Crap 2. Technical crap -- it's closer to 40 minutes.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 9:03 am
1. Crap 2. Fact - 24 hours is the length of time Earth takes to make a revolution of the sun, and it is called a day. Mars is further away from the sun and therefore takes longer to make a revolution, thus making its "day" longer.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:19 am
1. CRAP--I wish it were true then maybe they could get their water and energy from Mexico rather than Northern California---JK all my SoCal friends. Really JK, No really. I would love to have you all closer to me. JK Really. 2. Fact
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:27 am
1. Crap 2. Fact
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:42 am
1. Crap. Everyone knows it's sliding into the Pacific. 2. Fact. But take out the commercials, and it's really only 22 minutes.
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