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Archive through April 17, 2006

The TVClubHouse: General Discussion ARCHIVES: 2006 Mar. ~ 2006 May: Free Expressions: Fact or Crap?? (ARCHIVES): Archive through April 17, 2006 users admin

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Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Crap
Fact

Seamonkey
Moderator

09-07-2000

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
1. Crap (or fact, depending on where they measure and who is reporting)

2. Fact




Mamapors
Member

07-29-2004

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
1. Fact

2. Crap--Braille was invented by Sidney Leinzt, the father of a blind child in Russia in 1892.

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
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.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
1. fact (just cuz i'm trying to think like max's calendar)

2. crap. louis braile on this one.


Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 1:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
fact and crap.
maybe...

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
fact
cract, or maybe fap.

Dogdoc
Member

09-29-2001

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
(I never realized how many people invented Braille).

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 7:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
1. Fact
2. Crap

Lancecrossfire
Animoderator

07-13-2000

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lancecrossfire a private message Print Post    
1. fact--the hottest temperature on earth was recorded in Death valley.
2. crap

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
The question Doc is who do you believe? Because I feel there is a lot of fabrication going on on this one

Seamonkey
Moderator

09-07-2000

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
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.

Max
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08-12-2000

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
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:

  1. Is Death Valley the hottest place on earth?
  2. Was the Braille alphabet invented by a boy who had been blinded by an awl?


braille

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:

  1. 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."
  2. 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!
dv
ea

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:

  1. Los Angeles is slowly moving south toward Baja, Mexico.
  2. If you lived on Mars, you'd get an extra half-hour each day.

FACT or CRAP! You decide!


Seamonkey
Moderator

09-07-2000

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 11:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
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.




Tanzanite
Member

06-29-2005

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 11:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tanzanite a private message Print Post    
Crap

Fact

Dogdoc
Member

09-29-2001

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 5:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
crap
fact

Hukdonreality
Member

09-29-2003

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 5:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
1. Fact

2. Crap - why would a day be longer than 24 hours, no matter WHERE it is? hmmm...

Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
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'

Cndeariso
Member

06-28-2004

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
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.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
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!

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
1. Crap
2. Technical crap -- it's closer to 40 minutes.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
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.

Mamapors
Member

07-29-2004

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
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

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
1. Crap
2. Fact

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Monday, April 17, 2006 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
1. Crap. Everyone knows it's sliding into the Pacific.

2. Fact. But take out the commercials, and it's really only 22 minutes.