Thursday, January 3, 2008

ForC: Tar Filled Barrels of Resolute Avocados

ForC
  1. In Scotland, the new year is ushered in by rolling flaming tar-filled barrels down streets (Jan-1)
  2. Studies show that 12.5% of people drop their New Year's resolutions by week three (Jan-2)
  3. Avocados have 60% more potassium than bananas (Jan-3)
** I got a Fact or Crap tear-away-a-day calendar as a Christmas gift and have brought it to work. I will try and post a few of the better ones once a week or so. I am keeping track of how many I get right/wrong by tacking them up in two stacks on my cube wall. If anyone wants to play along, you can leave your votes in the comments and I can post the answers the next time I add more (maybe even with some fancy graph to see who is leading.

If you want to look up the answers on the web, I am sure they are out there but please refrain from posting the real "answers" for at least a few days so that everyone has a chance to think about it. **
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3 comments:

mrLee said...

I'm guessing:
1) Crap
2) Fact
3) Fact

I have a hard time picturing a flaming tar filled barrel. If full, it would be amazingly heavy. If flaming on the outside, it would be hard to roll w/o getting burned. Besides, don't mom's always say not to run in the street and not to play with fire? Seems unlikely, Laddie.

January 5, 2008 at 1:45 AM
Benjamin P Lee said...

The answers were:

FACT - a tradition involving burning the old year to make room for the new

CRAP - there are no formal statistics on this

FACT

January 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Anonymous said...

Yeehah! I got them all right!!!

Although on a different front, it took me seeing the Fact or Crap link just now on your blog to realize that was what the ForC stood for... I've been puzzling over who the "C" was that this puzzle was for. Oh well, quess one can't be smart at everything!
mom

January 9, 2008 at 10:48 PM

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