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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 5:32 am
Crap The ancients had a form of postage stamp long before there was a Great Britian.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 7:31 am
Crap - I bet the Romans did, too.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 10:57 am
Crap
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:01 am
Fact.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:04 am
Crap ... I'm sticking with the Egyptians!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:26 am
I like the Romans also. They built roads everywhere and probably had cheriot express and needed stamps.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:38 am
"Cheriot Express" .. that's great OG!!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 3:32 pm
I think this might be one of those "definition" ones. But I'm going with a penny black fact.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 3:56 pm
Factage!
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 3:59 pm
Fact, then they did tax stamps - you know, the cause of the Boston Tea party was the tax stamps. Then the US made stamps. And kept raising the price of stamps. Even though people buy stamps they never use (which = profit for the USPS). And it cost 39 cents to mail a card, or you can do it for free on the internet. But I digress. Did I mention Fact? Back to work now. 'squeek'
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 6:03 pm
It's a fact. All because the package drivers got pissed off because everyone was stiffing them on the tip. Kind of like pizza delivery drivers now a days.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 6:57 pm
Fact I thought it was the one with Queen Victoria on it which is probably what Kitt is talking about. My brother used to be a stamp collector but he never had anything really valuable. But, we did read a lot about stamps.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 7:10 pm
Oh that is just crap. Everyone knows it was the Chinese.
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 8:05 pm
crapholio
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 8:09 pm
Fact? 
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 7:08 pm
Holy Moly, I skipped ahead an hour and skipped posting your FoC for the day! EEK! Okay, in the better late than never category, here's what's on the table presently: Was Great Britain the first country to issue postage stamps? In what may be an FoC first (I'm not checking archives to be sure), y'all tied! Half said Fact and Half said Crap (and Unit didn't say a thing). The Calendar Couriers say. . . It's FACT! "The first stamp in the world was issued in England in 1840, thanks to the efforts of Rowland Hill, a schoolmaster who invented the adhesive postage stamp three years earlier and was knighted for his contribution to world communications."
BTW, here's my favorite stamp, available here:
Okay, on to the qustion for today:
Blueberries fight cancer. FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 7:37 pm
Sure, why not. Fact
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:04 pm
FACT
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:10 pm
FACT The antioxidants in blueberries not only fight cancer the can help reduce and reverse the effects of alzheimers disease in it's early stages. Miracle food? I think so.
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:19 pm
Oh no, I don't like blueberries. Time to give them another chance. FACT
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:26 pm
Fight cancer? Or help decrease your risk of certain cancers? Semantics is important. Phytonutrients are being discovered all the time (eat the food, not the antioxidant vitamin). So here comes the dietitian in me: Xanthins in blueberries may have some protective effects. Tell the men in your life to eat more tomato sauce also (for risk reduction of prostrate cancer). I'll have to say FACT because that is what I think the calendar will say. But its really just a possible anticancer nutritious food, you can't take blueberries to *fight* active cancer cells. 'squeek'
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:39 pm
Fact
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:10 pm
fact
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:25 pm
I'll say crap because it was apricot pits (layatyril) that was or is an actual treatment.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:58 pm
Fact
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