Let's play "Fact or Crap"

[begin_within]

Post a factoid - either true or made up, then let us guess whether it's

I'll start with this:
The average house contains over 60,000 live spiders.

[darkstar]

1. Um...that seems like alot and/or

they'd have to be way smaller than I'm accustomed to seeing...

Not to call you a liar or anything, but I say....

CRAP

[begin_within]

2. You're right... the average is between 100 and 200 at any given time.

[zanne]

66. Is that counting the basement?

I think I have more than 200. In the winter, when I see a little spider, I let it be.

[begin_within]

69. I don't know.

[CactusJock]

67. eek!

*leaves house, runs into street screaming*

[AllegroRondo]

148. But it is true that you are never farther than 10 feet from a spider

at any time.

[otherlander]

3. I say...

FACT.

Fact or Crap:

The President of the United States contains the same amount of Vitamin C as an orange.

[begin_within]

4. Crap.

[Orangepeel]

101. well, he does contain the same amount of intelligence as an orange

no offense to the orange

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. I'm drunk...

fact or crap?

[spacelady]

6. Frap.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. ...

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

10. Yeah, FRAP

or Cract?

[Book Lover]

8. The avergae adult has approx. 47 miles of nerves in the body

[SPKrazy]

9. Fact!

I know there are a hell of a lot of nerves

so I'm going with FACT

[Book Lover]

11. Ding! Ding! Ding!

The things you learn editing an anatomy textbook...

[treestar]

91. Fact

:shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

104. Fact. I know that because of Heywood Banks.

he has a song about nerves . . . something that says that the human body has 2,977,920 inches of nerves . . .

and you are gettin' on every inch of my
you are gettin' on every inch of my
you are gettin' on every inch of my nerves!

[Book Lover]

12. The average person breathes about 84,000 times per day

[SPKrazy]

13. Crap

20 respirations per min average

[Book Lover]

14. You win again

The daily aggregate is 24,000.

[Book Lover]

15. Last one from me

On average, it appears that people can produce about one ounce of absolute or pure alcohol each day.

[SPKrazy]

16. Fact!

[Book Lover]

17. You win tonight's prize. Tell him what he won, Alex!

[SPKrazy]

19. The Holy Grail?

or a pewter chalice?

either way, it's a nice prize!

yeah me!!!!!!!!


This is HUGH11!!!1111

[Book Lover]

22. Um, the nicest image that came up

on my google search! And it's all yours, baby!

[SPKrazy]

23. Too Cool!

Thanks

I'm a Wiener, I mean Winner!

:o

[TommyO]

105. Holy Grail?

Fiction!

[SPKrazy]

117. You Just Saw It!

how can it be fiction when you just saw it

I won it!


mineminemineminemine!

;-)

[Kajsa]

73. Say what?

OK, now you've got me worried.

Where is this alcohol produced and
where does it go?

One ounce?

:o

[SPKrazy]

128. Produced by the

still in my liver

and drank by the little people in there

and metabolized by their little livers who in turn produce a small amount of alcohol in even smaller stills and is drank by even smaller people and so on.

Look it up!

:shrug:

[Kajsa]

149. Ha-Ha- Ha!

I know the liver breaks down and metabolizes alcohol,
but I've never heard of it producing it. WTH?

btw: I did look it up, and can't find anything to that effect.

:P

[SPKrazy]

175. I Couldn't Find It Either

but I swear I've read that before


:shrug:

maybe that was just what I told the cops when they pulled me over?

:rofl:

[Kajsa]

176. LOL ! I hear you.

We do what we can when faced with adversity.

:7 :hi:

[SPKrazy]

181. Shorthand For

I'm full of shit probably!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Kajsa]

184. ROFL !

You have a great sense of humor!

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

185. Why Thanks!

you too!

:rofl: :pals:

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Oysters grow on trees in mulege

[SPKrazy]

20. Cract/Frap!

[BrotherBuzz]

27. WRONG!

The cove itself (in Mulege) is very shallow, with a sand bottom. The narrow opening to the Sea of Cortez is at the south end. The east side of the cove is formed by a two-mile-long gravel bank with a few mangroves growing along its bayward side. These mangroves have small oysters growing on their roots.

http://www.mexfish.com/apgs/tbc3/tbc3.htm

[SPKrazy]

31. Does This Mean I Win?

LOL

[BrotherBuzz]

38. Absolutely, you win a Hangtown fry!

Hangtown Fry History

Hangtown fry could possibly be the first California cuisine. It consists of fried breaded oysters, eggs, and fried bacon, cooked together like an omelet. In the gold-mining camps of the late 1800s, Hangtown Fry was a one-skillet meal for hungry miners who struck it rich and had plenty of gold to spend. Live oysters would be brought to the gold fields in barrels of sea water after being gathered in and around San Francisco Bay. Such a meal cost approximately $6.00, a fortune in those days.

Hangtown Fry

1 egg, beaten with 1 tablespoon milk

Breading mixture of cracker crumbs and bread crumbs

Oil

3 oysters (or about 1650 oysters from Mulege)

2 slices bacon

2 eggs

Dip the oysters in egg-wash and then breading. Pan-fry until three-fourths cooked. While doing this, fry the bacon in another skillet until just before it becomes crisp.

Beat the eggs lightly. Place the bacon like railroad tracks off-center in a frying pan, pour a bit of the egg over the bacon. Place the oysters on bacon and pour the remaining eggs over. Cook and then fold the omelets over.

Makes 1 serving.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

21. I have both decks

Can I look?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

24. There are approximately 1000

caves in Tennessee?

[SPKrazy]

25. Fact!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

26. CRAP!

4000+

[SPKrazy]

29. Frap or Cract!

[Elidor]

103. Still crap

When I was (marginally) involved with the Tennessee Cave Survey several years ago, there were already 10,000 known - and named - caves. With the addition of several hundred new caves each year, we're probably not far from 11,000 right now, with an estimated 15,000 more waiting to be discovered.

[Broken_Hero]

28. Fact, or crap...

I baked/rolled out over 150 sugar cookies tonight....

[SPKrazy]

30. Fact!

[Broken_Hero]

33. Damn it...you are...

right....:D

[SPKrazy]

35. I'm Good!

:o

[HCE SuiGeneris]

32. Can you define or elaborate...

on baked?

[Broken_Hero]

34. yeah, cooked...baked,

you know what I mean, and its fact...SPP, got it right...:D

[HCE SuiGeneris]

36. The Grand Canyon is the deepest gorge in N. A ?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

41. Not really a good idea to phrase my

question with a not applicable...

[Broken_Hero]

37. Fact, or crap...

I once got hit in the face, with a baseball bat...

[SPKrazy]

39. I'm Thinking FACT!

[Broken_Hero]

42. fact....damn...

I need to think of a lie now...

Wait, thats not what I meant!...:D

[BrotherBuzz]

40. Wood or aluminum?

:hide:

[Broken_Hero]

43. it was aluminum...

6th grade...

[Broken_Hero]

44. I'm 6'4, and well over 300lbs...

and I was in state honor band...true/or crap...?

[Book Lover]

45. Crap

But mostly because I'm not sure exactly what a state honor band is - is that a high school marching band sponsored by the state government (hey, it's late, which makes me both tired and dumb...)

[Broken_Hero]

46. state honor band,

is for the best band players, across the state...its like making an allstar team in a sense....and you are wrong...its true, 12th best clarinet player, in the state of Alaska, 1994....

[HCE SuiGeneris]

47. Howdy Doody had 47 freckles! F or C?

[Broken_Hero]

49. I say false...nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

50. T'was 48 :-)

[Broken_Hero]

53. I figured it was a lot more than 47...

its been a long time since I watched it...

[Q3JR4]

163. Wow,

It surprises me that somebody took the time to count them.

[Book Lover]

48. Well, I am glad to be wrong

for that sounds very cool. I do love the clarinet best of all the woodwinds ...

[Broken_Hero]

51. yeah, clarinets all right...

I started in the 6th grade...its a funny story...cause I got stuck with the clarinet because I didn't know any other instruments at the time. The band instructor asked me what instrument I wanted to play...and the only instrument I knew at the time was clarinet...so I blurted out clarinet...and I got stuck with it. But, it wasn't so bad...got into pep band, jazz band, and honor band my senior year...and I thought I didn't have a shot...cause in our own high school band, I wasn't even first chair...

[Broken_Hero]

52. Fact, or crap....this is going to be a good one...

Did I, at the age of 4 jump off my parents front porch...pretending I was Superman?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

54. the pretending clause has me flumoxed....

:shrug:

[Broken_Hero]

55. well, thinking I was superman....nt

[blitzen]

56. Thomas Crapper invented the Toilet....Fact or Crap?

[Broken_Hero]

57. I say crap on that one nt

[blitzen]

59. Crapper facts here...

http://www.theplumber.com/crapper.html

[Broken_Hero]

60. I had no idea....nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

61. Flap

:think:

[hfojvt]

85. and how different our language would be

if Thomas Crapper had invented the sandwich and Lord Sandwich had invented the toilet.

[hfojvt]

86. How about this one - Galileo invented the telescope. Fact or crap?

[Jamastiene]

58. Crap.

Maybe over a dozen or so spiders, but definintely not that many. No one would have room to walk without squishing spiders if that was the case.

My Fact or crap:
King Cobras do not actually growl. Their hiss is very low frequency and therefore sounds like a growl. Fact or crap?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

62. I'll take two

Fact

[Broken_Hero]

63. I go fact too...nt

[pokerfan]

64. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created for Montgomery Ward department stores. See, it's always been about the commercialization.

[Deja Q]

70. False

It wouldn't be red. That's commie talk. :P

[treestar]

93. Fact

This is a guess, but that sounds perfectly likely to be true!

[pokerfan]

102. Yep

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/rudolph.asp

[rug]

65. Two Presidents were cremated.

BTW, Fact or Crap is a good name for a new forum.

[SPKrazy]

72. True

but I can't name them

[rug]

78. Sorry, Crap.

But I bet you could start a flamewar in GD over it.

[CactusJock]

68. red haired people...

are harder to anaethetize

[SPKrazy]

71. That Is True!

i have no idea why but it's true!

[ChickMagic]

188. I can certainly vouch for that

It pretty much takes a hammer to the head to knock me out.

[Vanje]

74. My home probably has that many spiders.

Its hard to come up with good names for all of them.

[Ptah]

75. Fact or Crap

I took care of my father's cattle when it was -50F.
Without windchill factor.

[Deja Q]

76. Archie Bunker and George Jefferson were lovers in secret

:7

[SPKrazy]

130. Fact!

[Deja Q]

77. Sally Struthers and Jack Nicholson did it

[rug]

79. Fact, but not with each other.

[Deja Q]

80. or as each other

(it was in a movie, from 1970...)

[begin_within]

81. I seem to remember a scene in "Five Easy Pieces"

[Deja Q]

87. The scene is said to be memorable...

O8)

I wonder if it's out on DVD... Gloria Stivic and Randle Patrick McMurphy together... :scared: :spray:

[BreweryYardRat]

82. Two paleo-biology questions and one crypto-zoology question for you guys.

No carnivorous land mammal has ever been longer than 15 feet (this includes speculation on total size from incomplete fossils.)

Elephants are the closest living relatives of Indricotherium, the largest land mammal to ever live-16-17 feet tall and 26-27 feet long.

There have been anecdotal accounts claiming that Megatherium americanum (Giant ground sloth-South America), Megalania priscea (massive carnivorous lizard-Australia), and Smilodon fatalis (saber-toothed cat-North and South America) have survived into modern times.

[dajoki]

83. Good one...

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

http://www.armenianteens.com/funny_crazy_facts.php

[BarenakedLady]

84. The size of your foot is equal

to the distance between the inside of your elbow and your wrist.

Go on, try it. :)

[Rosemary2205]

88. I must have big feet

elbow/wrist is 8" -- foot is 9".

I think this is crap anyways, because I know a 6'3" woman with sized 6 feet and I know a 4'9" teenager with sized 11 feet. So I can't see a correlation. :)

[BarenakedLady]

96. Has nothing to do with your height

just the distance between your elbow and your wrist. :shrug:

I do know it doesn't work for everyone. But it does for many.

[Rosemary2205]

98. I would guess

a 6' tall person would have longer forearms than a 4' tall person???? But not necessarily bigger feet?????

Even if it works most of the time it's certainly an interesting factoid isn't it? :) :)

[BarenakedLady]

99. I certainly thought so.

:)

[billyskank]

89. I nearly pulled a muscle trying to compare

[BarenakedLady]

95. Awww sweetie

I'm sorry. I forget not everyone is as limber as me. *ahem* :evilgrin: But did it work?

It does for a large percentage of the population, but not everyone. So it was sort of a trick question. So it is both yes and no.

[treestar]

92. Fact!

:hippie:

[BarenakedLady]

97. Did you test my theory?

Or are you just guessing. I really want to know how many people put their feet on their forearms. :rofl:

[Rosemary2205]

100. I didn't put my foot on my forearm.

But my 12 yr old neice is wondering why she took out the ruler and measured my foot and is thinking auntie is a little weird....( need help reaching my feet)

[SPKrazy]

118. Fact!

[treestar]

90. crap

it has only 30,000

:rofl:

[Little Wing]

94. Willem DaFoe refuses to fart in anything but a tai chi stance

[underpants]

165. LMFAO

Bookmarking for "funniest post of the year" thread

[Deja Q]

106. I bought a box of Froot Loops to make a cool photoshop but then ate the whole box

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

107. Bush is a kind, loving humanitarian

Fact or CRAP???

[MichiganVote]

108. That's worse than crap, that's such shit

[Zhade]

109. Oh, MAN, am I going to get in trouble...!

...

Um...

There's solid corroborating evidence that Jesus existed - fact or crap?

(MAN, I should just stop posting, lol!)

[Skittles]

110. I vote crap

absolutely

[Zhade]

173. So far, you're right!

(There's always the possibility that some shred of evidence might finally be found in the future...though it's looking less and less likely as society advances.)

[SPKrazy]

121. Frap or Cract!

take your pick

[begin_within]

111. At any given time, there are 1,800 to 2,000 thunderstorms happening.

[SPKrazy]

119. Fact!

at least!

[begin_within]

112. Earthworms are hemaphrodites.

[BrotherBuzz]

125. Crap

All earthworms are hermaphrodites. ;)

[begin_within]

113. A 4-month-old kitten climbed to the top of the Matterhorn in Switzerland in 1950.

[begin_within]

114. An albatross can sleep while it flies.

[begin_within]

115. "A Day In The Life" by the Beatles includes a note audible only by dogs.

[begin_within]

116. Mt. Everest is getting taller at the rate of 4 millimeters per year.

[begin_within]

120. Jayne Mansfield's breast came out of her dress during the telecast of the Academy Awards in 1957.

[SPKrazy]

123. Did It Run Off The Stage on it's own?

:rofl:

[begin_within]

129. She exhaled too quickly and it just, well...

[SPKrazy]

132. Rolled Right Off!

[begin_within]

135. Oh poor Jayne, now I feel bad.

[begin_within]

122. On "Star Trek," Captain Kirk never said, "Beam me up, Scotty."

[Frank Cannon]

187. Fact

The closest he ever came was "Beam US up, Scotty."

[begin_within]

124. In the movie "Casablanca," Rick never says, "Play it again, Sam."

[BrotherBuzz]

126. True

[begin_within]

131. You mean Fact?

[BrotherBuzz]

133. Crap, I meant to say Fact!

:rofl:

[begin_within]

127. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.

[SPKrazy]

134. Crap

lack of sleep never killed anyone

[begin_within]

141. I read this as a true fact somewhere... I'll have to find it.

[Quantess]

138. I think it's true.

But maybe not. You'd probably pass out before dying.

[crispini]

139. Fact!

I can believe it. If you CAN'T sleep, you are DEAD. In fact there is a disease where people are unable to sleep genetically and I believe they die in 3 days.

[Quantess]

143. No! That has to be wrong!

Genetic is for life, so, if you have it at birth, you have it throughout your lifetime.
Your scenario can only mean: it's a baby who can't sleep, genetically, and who dies after 3 days of not sleeping. I sure hope not.

[AllegroRondo]

147. I heard that news article - they die in about 6 months

its a genetic disease that has been traced to one family in Italy. When people with the gene reach about age 50, they are physically unable to sleep, and die about 6 months after first showing symptoms.

The sad part is, its a dominant gene, so people who carry it have a 50% chance of giving it to their children. But because it doesnt manifest until later in life, theres no way to know if you are a carrier until after you have had children.

[BrotherBuzz]

136. bob_weaver possesses a 1954 edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Fact or Crap

;)

[begin_within]

142. Crap.

1955.

[Quantess]

137. Rancid butter causes brain damage.

A trusted adult told me that, as a kid. So I've gone through life assuming it's true. You tell me. Is it true?

[begin_within]

140. If a boy eats the "Wilmas" in the Flintstone vitamins, he will grow up to have man-boobs.

[Rosemary2205]

144. Busting out laughing............nt

[Bum Whisperer]

145. Crap...

...I just like eating women.

[meegbear]

146. If you fart, burp and sneeze at the same time, you will die

[izzybeans]

151. This is true. It's what happens when you get Raptured. and we know that's a fact.

;)

[billyskank]

152. Crap. It is impossible to burp and sneeze simultaneously.

The complications of the human epiglottis required to make speech possible mean that you cannot have both your airways and your oesophagus open at the same time. This means you can't breathe while you swallow, and probably also means you can't sneeze while you burp.

[meegbear]

153. You are correct oh great one ...

National Lampoon magazine ran a contest for people to submit entries to start an urban legend. This was the winner.

[EnviroBat]

167. BUT, You CAN sneeze and fart at the same time.

It happened to me in a board-room meeting here at work this morning. Now I need a new job.

[billyskank]

172. Yes. And you can burp and fart simultaneously too. In fact it is my ambition to do just this.

:D

[LynneSin]

150. George W. Bush will go down as one of the best presidents ever

Fact or Crap

[Zavulon]

154. Fact

If you're only talking about drooling presidents with less than a fifth of the average human brain.

[Zavulon]

155. If Wal-Mart were a nation, it'd have the 24th largest economy in the world.

[DainBramaged]

156. Fact, on the backs of the working poor like any good dictatorship

[Zavulon]

157. Actually, according to what I read a while ago, it's crap.

Wal-Mart would be 18th or 19th, not 24th. Disgusting.

[DainBramaged]

158. Shit, that's even worse. How the Walton's can live with this. Shame.

[Zavulon]

160. When you use $100 bills as blinders and pay no attention to

the people you're exploiting, I imagine it's pretty easy to live with. I couldn't do it, but they seem to be managing it without much effort.

[DainBramaged]

162. They probably use $100 bills as toilet paper

[derby378]

159. The first national medical society in America was not the AMA

Fact or Crap?

[Zavulon]

161. I'll guess fact.

[derby378]

174. Correct!

The American Institute of Homeopathy organized a year or two before the AMA came into existence, and it still survives today.

There's even a monument in Washington, DC dedicated to the Institute. If you've seen Team America: World Police, you saw Gary deep in thought at the monument near the end of the montage.

[NewWaveChick1981]

164. Fact or crap: My shoe size is a 9 M.

:hi:

[Zavulon]

168. Crap

[NewWaveChick1981]

169. Correct! It's 8.5 M.

:hi: :D

[Zavulon]

170. I KNEW it!

8.5 was my very first guess, but I thought you might consider it to be a private matter so I left my answer vague. :hi: :)

[NewWaveChick1981]

171. Nah, I don't mind telling! Thanks!

:hi: :)

[SPKrazy]

186. She's Just Hoping Someone Will Give Her Some New Shoes!

or something like that!

Hi NWC

:applause: :patriot: :hug: :loveya:

[EnviroBat]

166. If a lumberjack craps his pants in the forrest.

Does it make a sound?

[ChickMagic]

177. Okay, I've got one

18% of our DNA is identical to that of a pumpkin. Fact or crap?

[Zavulon]

178. Crap.

[ChickMagic]

179. Sorry, but it's a fact

Kinda cool, huh?

[Zavulon]

180. Amazing. Criminals have to be able to use that somehow.

If I have a pumpkin I only need 82% more of someone's DNA to frame then for that string of diamond heists I plan on carrying out. ;)

Weird fact to be sure. Thanks for letting me know.

[ChickMagic]

182. Criminals are kind of dumb

I was on a federal grand jury a long time ago
and criminals, for the most part, are stoopid.
Interesting thought, thought. :rofl:

[skygazer]

183. If you play with your bellybutton, it will come untied and your skin will fall off

My mother told me that so it must be a fact. O8)