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Archive through April 02, 2006

The TVClubHouse: General Discussion ARCHIVES: 2006 Mar. ~ 2006 May: Free Expressions: Fact or Crap?? (ARCHIVES): Archive through April 02, 2006 users admin

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Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 5:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Crap The ancients had a form of postage stamp long before there was a Great Britian.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 7:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Crap - I bet the Romans did, too.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Crap

Heyltslori
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09-15-2001

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
Fact.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Crap ... I'm sticking with the Egyptians!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I like the Romans also. They built roads everywhere and probably had cheriot express and needed stamps.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
"Cheriot Express" .. that's great OG!!

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I think this might be one of those "definition" ones. But I'm going with a penny black fact.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Factage!

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 3:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
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'

Jagger
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08-07-2002

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jagger a private message Print Post    
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.

Tess
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04-13-2001

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
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.

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
Oh that is just crap. Everyone knows it was the Chinese.

Lancecrossfire
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07-13-2000

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crapholio

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 8:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Fact?

Max
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08-12-2000

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
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."
rowland

BTW, here's my favorite stamp, available here:
stamp :-)

Okay, on to the qustion for today:

Blueberries fight cancer.

FACT or CRAP? You decide!


Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 7:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Sure, why not. Fact

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
FACT

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
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.

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
Oh no, I don't like blueberries. Time to give them another chance.
FACT

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
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'

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 8:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Fact

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
fact

Lancecrossfire
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07-13-2000

Sunday, April 02, 2006 - 10:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lancecrossfire a private message Print Post    
I'll say crap because it was apricot pits (layatyril) that was or is an actual treatment.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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Fact