TVCH FORUMS HOME . JOIN . FAN CLUBS . DONATE . CONTACT . CHAT  
 Wikia  Quick Links   TOPICS . TREE-VIEW . SEARCH . HELP! . NEWS . PROFILE
Archive through June 18, 2006

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2006 Jun. ~ 2006 Dec.: Free Expressions (ARCHIVES): Fact or Crap?? (ARCHIVES): Archive through June 18, 2006 users admin

Author Message
Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 2:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
fact, cause most people say it is so
crap, cause I don't know

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Friday, June 09, 2006 - 8:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
fact fact

Dogdoc
Member

09-29-2001

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Hey, I am "mad as a hatter!" What are the answers.It's been a week!!! (lol)

Max
Moderator

08-12-2000

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Holy Canoli, FoCers! Where does the time go?! I account for at least part of my absence with the fact that it is graduation season. Yes, and with graduation season come grad-night parties. And at those grad night parties, one of the pastimes the kids (ahem, young adults) get to do is play casino games. Which means, of course, that I've been dealing blackjack to high school graduates from 11PM to 3AM for several nights this week (with more to come, including tonight). Thus, my days have become something of a bleary-eyed blur. :-)

Nonetheless, here are the questions you've been patiently pondering:

  1. Does the phrase "mad as a hatter" came from the fact that hat makers tended to go insane?
  2. Were The Doors the first rock group to use a Moog synthesizer on an album?


An these are the mysteries of life that make you go, "Hmmmm. . ." Here's how you answered:
1 Fact 12
Crap 1
2 Fact 6
Crap 7

Kudos to Chaplin who wen where no one dared to go and boldly said "Crap!" to the first question when all others chose a different path!

Here's what the Calendar Culturalists have to say:

  1. It's FACT! In the 18th and 19th centuries, hat makers used mercury for curing felt, causing as many as one in ten to go insane at one point. Unfortunately, the thousands of hat workers who handled the chemical did not know it was a deadly poison, whose side effects were anemia, inflammation of the gums, kidney damage. . . and insanity. Lewis Carroll's Mad Hater in Alice in Wonderland was therefore rooted in reality." Now remember, Dogdoc, that's mad as in insane, not angry! :-) madhatter
  2. It's crap They were the second. The first rock group was the Monkees on the 1967 album, "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd." In 1967 they were so big that their records outsold even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Yet, on their TV show, The Monkees (1966-1968), the band members made only $450 a week." Oh, how I loved me some Monkees! Ah, youth! :-) monkees


trophyKonamouse and Lancecrossfire both score this time with their knowledge of poisonous hat-making materials. Hmmm. . .note to self: Don't borrow a cravat from either of these folks! :-)

Okay, here's another round. . .

  1. Tom Leppard, who holds the title "Most Tattooed Man" in the Guinness Book of World Records, was tattooed with a leopard pattern.
  2. The "Star-Spangled Banner" was written to the tune of a drinking song.
  3. Dick Tracy was the first comic strip published in color in a newspaper.


FACT or CRAP? You decide!


Dogdoc
Member

09-29-2001

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 12:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
1. Crap
2. Crap
3. Fact
(lol Max, I knew what kind of mad it was. The straw hat makers went crazy too. That is a little known fact though).

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
1. Fact
2. Fact
3. Crap

Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
1. fact
lady here is the female holder
2. fact (a British drinking song)
3. crap

'squeek'

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
crap
fact
fact

Loved Davey Jones...

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
1. fact
2. fact
3. crap

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
fact
fact
crap

Chaplin
Member

01-09-2006

Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
1. Fact
2. Fact
3. Crap

Lancecrossfire
Animoderator

07-13-2000

Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lancecrossfire a private message Print Post    
fact
crap
crap

Tanzanite
Member

06-29-2005

Monday, June 12, 2006 - 10:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tanzanite a private message Print Post    
Fact
Fact
Crap

Seamonkey
Moderator

09-07-2000

Monday, June 12, 2006 - 10:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Crap
Fact
Crap

Max
Moderator

08-12-2000

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 8:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
Hey, you FoCers. Hope you're doing better than I am. I caught a bug last weekend and haven't had a voice since Monday. I'm coughing to the point of tears today. Hate it! I only hope that the coughing (which until now hasn't been nearly this bad) is a sign that the bug is finally losing its grip on my vocal chords. sick

Anyway, here are the questions currently up for consideration:

  1. Was Tom Leppard, who holds the title "Most Tattooed Man" in the Guinness Book of World Records, tattooed with a leopard pattern?
  2. Was the "Star-Spangled Banner" written to the tune of a drinking song?
  3. Was Dick Tracy the first comic strip published in color in a newspaper?


You, in all your FoCer wisdom, answered thusly:
1 Fact 7
Crap 3
2 Fact 8
Crap 2
3 Fact 3
Crap 7

Here's what the Calendar Crazies have to say:
  1. It's FACT! "Tom Leppard, a retired soldier in his sixties who lives as a recluse on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has leopard spots tattooed over 99.9% of his body. The only skin left unmarked is on the insides of his ears and between his toes. Leppard shares his "Most Tattoed" title with Australian street performer Lucky Rich, who had his existing tattoos blacked over, then added a white tattoo design on top -- covering nearly 100% of his body." Sorry, not my cup of tea, but here you go! Tom Leppard Lucky Rich
  2. It's FACT! "The tune is attributed to John Stafford Smith's 'To Anacreon in Heav'n.' Anacreon was a classical Greek poet who wrote of love and wine. Francis Scott Key set his lyrics to the popular pub tune to commemorate the defense of Fort McHenry during the War of 1912." So, the next time you sing off-key before a ball game, toast with some vino instead of a Budweiser!
  3. It's CRAP! "Hogan's Alley by Richard Outcault was first published in color by the New York World in 1895. It featured the Yellow Kid, whom experts consider to be America's first modern comic character. Chester Gould's Dick Tracy did not appear in the Chicago Tribune until 1931."

hogan's alley

Okay, as I sit here coughing up a lung, here are some more for you. :-)

  1. The United Kingdom tops the list of countries with the greatest number of female 'decision-makers.'
  2. The United States has more murders per capita than any country in the world.
  3. The United States has the world's highest per capita income.


FACT or CRAP? You decide!


Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 9:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Hope you feel better!!


1. True
2. (merders or mergers)?
3. Crap

Max
Moderator

08-12-2000

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
oops! #2 is murders. LOL I fixed it.
Thanks for the get well wishes! <croak, hack!>

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
1. True
2. True
3. Crap

Dogdoc
Member

09-29-2001

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
1. Fact
2. Crap
3. Crap
(I got all 3 wrong in the last set of questions)

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
1. Crap
2. Crap
3. Crap

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
1. Crap
2. Crap
3. Crap

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Crap. Although really the men only think they're making the decisions
Crap.
Crap.

Chaplin
Member

01-09-2006

Friday, June 16, 2006 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
1. Fact
2. Fact
3. Crap

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Saturday, June 17, 2006 - 11:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
1. CRAP but it really depends on what constitutes a "decision-maker"....politics only or including private industry. Hmmmm Norway passed a law aiming for a certain percentage which covered politics but not the private sector when I was a freshman in college. No clue how they stand today. I'm going to say crap regardless because, if nothing else, the US might have more due to population size alone.
2. FACT
3. CRAP (I think it's really Qatar with their oil but I could be wrong on that.)

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, June 18, 2006 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
All crapsters.