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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 5:35 pm
Kiwi CRAP! Let the Kiwi birds tell you the truth.. and you can guess which sex is dominant! Female: Female Kiwi saying Vote for Taylor Male: Male but I like Paris

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 7:04 pm
This is the most interesting fact about a kiwi...
Plus, its nostrils are located at the tip of its bill.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:03 pm
ouch!
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Tanzanite
Member
06-29-2005
| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:18 pm
Crap
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:47 pm
They have a VERY good sense of smell, unlike most birds, but I suppose since they are flightless, they'd better be able to smell that food!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 8:24 am
max, are you with us? i hope everything's o.k.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 10:16 am
ACK! Where does the time go! Sorry, FoCers, I've been distracted with a pesky thing called work. Such a bother!!! Okay, on the table we have one question at the moment: Can the Kiwi bird neither see nor fly? Well, ALL of you said CRAP, although to be fair, a couple of you said half-CRAP.
BTW, that picture of the Kiwi skeleton with an egg in it is truly remarkable -- and scary! All I can say is OUCH! Okay, here's what the Calendar Cuckoos say: It's FACT!!! "The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly and lives in a hole in the fround. The national treasure is almost completely blind and lays only one egg each year. Despite these handicaps, the resilient bird can be seen all over the country and has managed to survive for nearly 70 million years." Okay, they're not completely blind, so the answer to the question as it's phrased isn't entirely fact. Given how hard it must be to carry and deliver one of those eggs, it's not too surprising that they only lay one a year! Okay, here are a couple of new ones. I'll try not to be so tardy with the answers this time, but no guarantees!
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were patterned after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life. The Cobb salad was named after baseball Hall-of-Famer Ty Cobb, but when he tried it for the first time, he refused to finish it. FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 10:41 am
1. Fact 2. Crap
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:17 pm
1. fact 2. fact
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:45 pm
1. crap 2. fact
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 4:49 pm
fact - no doubt crap - maybe
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 6:21 pm
fact and crap i think the cobb salad originated in southern california. did ty cobb originate here? i think it was named for someone who invented it in a midnight raid to the fridge. i know i invented the (in)famous "saltines with kippers and hershey's chocolate syrup". ...only because there was nothing left in my apartment and it was snowing like mad outside!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 9:01 pm
I guess fact. I guess crap. I guess often.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 9:11 pm
Fact to both!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 28, 2006 - 9:19 pm
1. Fact? NO idea. 2. Crap!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 7:50 am
Double crap
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 10:10 am
1. Crap - but it's a big time rumor. 2. Crap - Here is the original recipe: 1/2 head lettuce, about 4 cups 1 bunch watercress 1 small bunch chicory, about 2 1/2 cups 1/2 head romaine, about 2 1/2 cups 2 medium peeled tomatoes 6 strips of crisp bacon 2 breasts of boiled chicken 3 hard cooked eggs 1 avocado 1/2 cup crumbled Roquefort cheese 2 tablespoons chopped chives 1 cup (approximately) Original Cobb Salad Dressing Cut lettuce, half the watercress, chicory and romaine in fine pieces and arrange in a large salad bowl. Cut tomatoes, bacon, chicken, eggs, and avocado in small pieces and arrange, along with the crumbled Roquefort cheese, in strips on the greens. Sprinkle finely cut chives over the Cobb salad and garnish with the remaining watercress. Just before serving mix the salad with the Cobb salad dressing. Original Cobb Salad Dressing Makes 1 1/2 cups 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 1/4 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice 2 teaspoons salt 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 3/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 teaspoon dry English mustard 1 small clove garlic, finely minced 1/4 cup full-flavored olive oil 3/4 cup salad oil Blend all ingredients together, except oils. Add olive and salad oils. Mix well. Blend well again before mixing with salad.

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:22 am
Now, I'm hungry and it's 45 minutes till lunchtime. Thanks a roaring heap!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 7:55 pm
That does look good!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:03 pm
Happy Saturday Night (not live), you FoCers! I'm taking a break from transcribing a very boring fire commission meeting to bring you an FoC update. Nice to type something entertaining for a bit! Okay, you've been considering these questions:
- Were the characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street patterned after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life?
- Was the Cobb salad named afer baseball Hall-of-Famer Ty Cobb, who, when he tried it for the first time, refused to finish it?
You said:1 | Fact | 7 | | Crap | 3 | 2 | Fact | 3 | | Crap | 7 | Interesting! You voted 7-3 and 3-7. Oh, and when Kitt said "Fact I guess. Crap I guess. I often guess." All I could think of was "I guess I crap often." as the next logical step! Okay, here's what the Calendar Cartoonists have to say:
- It's CRAP! Although it is a popular theory that Bert and Ernie were patterned after the Frank Capra characters, their shared names are merely due to coincindence. Unfortunately, no one has explained where they did come from, beyond their creator Jim Henson's imagination. Bert and ernie debuted on the children's TV show 'Sesame Street' in 1969 as part of the show's troupe of adorable Muppets.
- It's CRAP! In 1926, when a Los Angeles restaurant owner with the all-American name of Bob Cobb was looking for a way to use up leftovers, he threw together some avocado, celery, tomato, chives, watercress, hard-boiled eggs, chicken, bacon, and Roquefort cheese and named it after himself.
Kudos to Konamouse for drumming up the right answers AND a good recipe! Okay, here comes a couple of new ones for you:
The American version of the potato chip was invented by a housewife named Laura Scudder. Smallpox is the second biggest killer of people in many parts of Africa. FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Tanzanite
Member
06-29-2005
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:08 pm
Based on the previous question - seems like we have great unity as a group 'cause when we're wrong dang we're all wrong. Or is it that we were all ignorant of information on that bird?
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:25 pm
crap fact
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 5:45 am
1. fact 2. crap (small pox has been "eradicated" in theory due to a mass vaccination program in Africa years ago).
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 9:11 am
Crap. As I recall someone in a restaurant complained that his fried potatoes were too soggy and the owner thought he'd show the fellow and proceeded to fry the bejabbers out of the next batch and, before you could say Idaho, the potato chip was born. Crap...see Dog's above post.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 11:23 am
1. Crap 2. Crap, but it hasn't totally been eradicated.
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