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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 7:01 am
crap fact crap all random guesses.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 9:39 pm
Hey, you FoCers! Do you realize that it's JUNE??? Well, at least in about a half an hour, it will be. My how time does fly! Okay, questions at hand are:
- Did an early version of the American flag feature an eagle?
- In 1845, were baseball games over after one team scored 21 runs?
- Did Vic Wertz, who hit the eighth-inning blast on which Willie Mays made his miraculous over-the-shoulder catch, go on to hit the winning home run later in the game?
Here's what you postulated: 1 | Fact | 1 | | Crap | 9 | 2 | Fact | 8 | | Crap | 2 | 3 | Fact | 5 | | Crap | 5 | Hmmm. . . Here's what the Calendar Cronies have to say:
- It's CRAP! "Before the first official flag, the Star-Spangled Banner, was approved by Congress on June 14, 1777, several versions of the flag were proposed. The first unofficial national flag, called the Grand Union Flag or the Continental Colours, boasted 13 alternating red and white horizongal stripes. There was also a version featuring a rattlesnake and the motto 'Don't Tread on Me.'"
- It's FACT! "According to the 20 Rules drawn up by Alexander Cartwright for the Knickerbockers ball club in 1845, considered to be the first formal regulations for baseball, runs were called 'aces,' and a team needed to score 21 to win. Though many of Cartwright's rules remain in the modern game in some form, such as three strikes constituting an out, several of his original regulations have changed. For example, according to Cartwright, a ball 'knocked out of the field' was a foul ball."
- It's CRAP! The game, the first of the 1954 World Series, was won by Mays's New York Giants, not Wertz's Cleveland Indians. In the 10th inning, Dusty Rhoades pinch-hit with two men on and homered to the Polo Grounds' base. He cleared the right field porch -- 257 feet away. (Wertz's shot traveled 460 feet, yet stayed in the park.) The Indians, picked by most sportswriters to win the Series, lost it in four straight games."
Oh, and a for Twiggyish for knowing about the snake on one version of the original flag! Onward! Okay, because I found four that are all about animals of one sort or another, you get all of 'em tonight! Don't you feel special???
- Pigs were the first animals to be domesticated.
- The only stuffed dodo bird in existence is at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.
- Michigan's official state mammal is the wolverine.
- The marine crinoid farts from its mouth.
FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 2:23 am
1. fact 2. crap 3. fact 4. crap
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 4:22 am
1. Fact 2. Fact (I know a few dodo birds I'd like to stuff.) 2. Fact 4. Oh my. How could anyone have made this up? So I will say Fact. (Sorta makes you wonder what else it does from its mouth.)
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Shashakaye
Member
05-19-2003
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 5:22 am
1. fact 2. fact 3. crap 4. fact
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 5:22 am
fact X 4
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 5:46 am
1. crap 2. fact 3. fact 4. fact
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 6:39 am
1. Fact, Porky and Petunia 2. Crap, there are no dodo birds, stuffed or otherwise 3. Fact 4. Fact, or why would they mention it?
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 10:36 am
Yippeee.. I guess Em and I have done enough flag projects for her school..LOL 1. Fact 2. Crap 3. Fact 4. Fact
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 5:31 pm
1. Crap - I'll say goats or sheep 2. Crap 3. Fact 4. Crap 'squeek'
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 6:22 pm
Crap! Oink, NO Woof, Si Fact, maybe? Crap Crap (close and the calendar may say Fact)(whatever the heck a crinoid is, and is it really a Marine, or perhaps in the National Guard??)

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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 8:31 pm
1. lard fact 2. dodo crap 3. great lakes fact 4. gas fact
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 2:56 pm
Happy Saturday, you FoCers! It's overcast, but not cold here. Not great, but at least it's not raining. Here are the questions currently in play:
- Were pigs the first animals to be domesticated?
- Is the only stuffed dodo bird in existence at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England?
- Is Michigan's official state mammal the wolverine?
- Does the marine crinoid fart from its mouth?
You said. . . 1 | Fact | 7 | | Crap | 3 | 2 | Fact | 5 | | Crap | 5 | 3 | Fact | 8 | | Crap | 2 | 4 | Fact | 7 | | Crap | 3 | Hmmm... seems like a lot of WAG this week (WAG = wild-ass guessing)! Here's what the Calendar Crazies say:
- It's CRAP! "As is only proper, the honor goes to man's best friends -- dogs. It is generally believed that they were domesticated 10,000 to 14,000 years ago. However, some scientists now think that this may have taken place much earlier -- as far back as 135,000 years ago. The next three animals to be domesticated were the sheep, the goat, and the pig. All four were domesticated in Asia." Then, of course, there is the elusive pig-dog or, if you prefer, dog-pig!
- It's FACT! "The dodo, once native to the island of Mauritius, was first discovered by Europeans in the 1500s. Hunted mercilessly by both humans and the animals they brought to the island (dogs, monkeys, rats), the slow, big (50 pounds on average), flightless bird was extinct by 1681. Only one was ever stuffed and preserved -- but over the centuries, moths have left only the head and one claw." Poor dodo!
- It's CRAP! "It's the white-tailed deer. The wolverine, however, has been the official mascot of the University of Michigan since 1861, despite the fact that a wild wolverine has never been trapped inside the state's borders and no skeletal remains have ever been found in Michigan. A member of the weasel family and renowned for its nasty disposition, the wolverine's natural habitat is Canada and Alaska. In fact, a wolverine had not been spotted in Michigan for 200 years until February 2004, when hunters and a biologist photographed one 90 miles away from Detroit."
- It's CRAP! "But only barely. Sometimes called 'sea lillies,' given their flowery appearance, crinoids are marine creatures that come in a variety of colors and resemble feathery starfish. They have a U-shaped intestinal system, and the anus is next to their mouth. So techically . . ." May I just say that I don't think these are as pretty now as I did before I read that bit of news!
 Okay, to Seamonkey for being the only one who got all four correct! And to Konamouse for knowing sheep and goats are next on the list of animals to be domesticated.
Onward!!
The phrase "mad as a hatter" came from teh fact that hat makers tended to go insane. The Doors were the first rock group to use a Moog synthesizer on an album. FACT or CRAP? You decide!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 3:25 pm
1. Fact (the straw contained arsenic) 2. Fact
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 3:28 pm
fact fact
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 4:29 pm
Fact Crap, I do believe

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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 4:46 pm
1. fact 2. dunno , crap
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 6:00 pm
1. Fact 2. Crap
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 6:46 pm
1. Fact (it was the Mercury used in the felt curing process). 2. Crap 'squeek'
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 7:16 pm
(Both felt and straw hats are dangerous)
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 8:54 pm
1. fact--they suffered the affects of mercury poisoning. 2. crap
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 3:35 am
double fact
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 6:40 am
Fact Fact
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Chaplin
Member
01-09-2006
| Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 6:43 pm
1. Crap 2. Fact
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Tanzanite
Member
06-29-2005
| Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 12:50 pm
Fact Fact
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