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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 11:41 am
Just for the heck of it I'll say fact, I know nothing about wine except that drinking 2 bottle of MD 20/20 in one night is no good.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 1:03 pm
i thought it was 'dom' ho who invented champagne, but i'll stick my neck out and say 'fact'
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 1:47 pm
actually, this is CRAP, and konamouse, i'm shocked that you said fact! oh and btw, only sparkling wine created in the Champagne region are the only wines that properly should be refered to as "Champagne". All others are méthode champenoise or soon to be labeled méthode traditionelle
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 1:52 pm
Crap ... following Landi's lead. 
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 5:24 pm
Fact
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 12:50 am
Good evening to all you FoCers. Tonight I shall entertain and delight you with TWO, count 'em, TWO FoC items! Don't you feel special??? But first, we have the current question to deal with. Is Dom Perignon named for the blind monk who invented champagne? First, I want to thank Seamonkey for what is now one of my favorite smiley gifs:
<-- Very cute! Second, I cracked up at Jagger's mention of MD 20/20. Reminded me of an ex-boyfriend's mom who served it with pride the first time she had me over for dinner -- she couldn't figure out why we were in tears from laughing so hard. Poor thing wasn't much of a wine drinker! But I digress. You said: Oh, and one last bow to Cndeariso for posting this appropriate smiley, which I also snagged for later use! Okay, the Calendar Chanteuses have this to say: It's FACT! "In 1693, Dom Pierre Perignon, a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Hautvillers, accidentally bottled a batch of partially fermented wine. The following spring, most of the bottles exploded. Tasting the result, he is said to have remarked, 'I'm drinking stars.' Perignon was 60 years old in 1698 when he finally perfected the process of making champagne -- a balance of grapes, sugar, fermentation, sturdy bottles, and a method to keep the corks from shooting out of the bottle prematurely." So, now we know! And Landi is absolutely correct that only champagne created in the Champagne region of France can, technically, be called Champagne. I've had Dom and it's good. Never tried Cristal, but since I prefer dryer wines, I imagine it's good -- as long as someone else foots the bill! Okay, now for the treat -- two more questions, the first in honor of baseball's opening day and the second so that our Canadian compadres don't feel this whole stinking calendar is geared to Americans.
When a Major League pitcher throws a baseball at 95 mph, it takes only four-tenths of a second for it to travel the 60 feet 6 inches from mound to plate. Wild rice is the official grain of Canada. FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 3:23 am
I think that great champagne glass came from Julip, or maybe Bonzacat.. and I just snagged Cnd's cute one too. 1. Fact? I really have NO idea, but my brother probably would know; he was a pitcher. Would I wake him up at 2am to ask. Noooooo. 2. Fact? Not wheat?

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Tanzanite
Member
06-28-2005
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 3:47 am
Fact and Fact again
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 6:51 am
I'll go with crap and crap.
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 7:09 am
1. Fact, just a guess 2. Fact, also just another guess, but I know that wild rice (not really rice) grows in abundance out west. As for official grain, I don't know but I will pick fact.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 8:14 am
max, i hate to say that your calendar is wrong about it being fact on champagne.
quote:Contrary to legend and popular belief, the French monk Dom Perignon did not invent champagne, although it is almost certainly true that he developed many advances in the production of this beverage.
from wikipedia.
quote:Legend has it that the Benedictine monk, Dom Pérignon, invented champagne. Although Dom Pérignon was an important figure in the development of viticulture (the cultivation of grapes) and wine-making, sparkling wine probably emerged gradually as part of a regional style. It may also have emerged by default as the cold winters in northern France caused table wine to stop fermenting and start up again in the spring, producing bubbles in the bottle.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. i also knew too much from being in this line of work. so i looked up sources to back my "CRAP"!
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 8:23 am
1. Crap (I hate math so this is just a guess) 2. Crap (I am ashamed I don't know that much about Canada but this just doesn't sound right). 'squeek'
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 9:04 am
1. Crap 2. Crap! Everyone knows the official grain is hops, eh?

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:32 am
1. fact 2. fact And thanks a heap Landi. I knew my answer was right. Good grief, I just have to be right once in a while.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:38 am
i'll say fact 'n crap, because it sounds so much like my favorite 'frappincrap' expression.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 4:40 pm
Fact on the baseball (geek that I am, I did the math). Crap on the wheat.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 5:35 pm
fact fact (What wheat Prisoner?)
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 6:58 pm
"Prior to blending he would taste the grapes without knowing the source vineyard to avoid influencing his perceptions. References to his "blind tasting" have led to the common misconception that Dom Pérignon was blind." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Perignon_(person) I found the above quote at the above link. Dom Perignon was not blind. landi covered the rest of it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 6:59 pm
Love is blind, right?
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 8:13 pm
Fact x 2
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 8:44 pm
1. Crap, because BR said it. 2. Fact, because Vacanick said it. I really have no clue!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 10:36 pm
If I knew how many feet in a mile and had a calculator I might be able to do more than guess at number 1 but as I don't I'll say crap. (metric is so much easier!) crap.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 11:11 pm
1. Crap 2. Crap
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Micksma
Member
07-21-2005
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 11:37 pm
Oh no, metric is so hard for me. But there is 5280 ft in a mile
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 11:51 pm
1. fact. 95 mph x 5820 ft / 60 / 60. divide 60.5 feet by that answer. No metric needed, although there are 1.6 Kilometers in a mile. 2 crap
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