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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

Now where did I hear about this first.

Fact, cats always land on their feet.
Fact, if you drop a peice of buttered bread, it always lands with the butter side down.

So, if you duct tape a peice of buttered bread to the back of a cat, butter side up, and drop the two out of a 3 story window, the falling cat/bread sandwich will spin as both sides try to reach the ground first. Unable to break the facts previously listed, it will stop falling three feet over the gound and just spin over and over again.

This spinning can be harnessed to provide energy via a cat/butter'd bread dynamo.

This energy can be sold to the electrical companies.

The money created from that sale will almost pay for the bandages and plasma you will need from attempting to tape a butter'd piece of bread to the back of a cat.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REMOVE THE TAPE FROM THE CAT!

Posted by suminonA (Member # 8757) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Dan_raven:
Fact, cats always land on their feet.
Fact, if you drop a peice of buttered bread, it always lands with the butter side down.
[…]
Unable to break the facts previously listed, it will stop falling three feet over the gound and just spin over and over again.
[…]

Actually, what the two facts are telling you is that there is no tape strong enough to hold them together, so they WILL hit the ground according to the unbreakable rules.

Sorry.

A.

Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :

Ahh.... but what if you buttered the back of the cat?

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Then the cat would be toast.

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

*groan*

--j_k

Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :

quote:
Fact, cats always land on their feet.
Fact, if you drop a peice of buttered bread, it always lands with the butter side down.

I think we may have a problem with the use of the word "fact".

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by James Tiberius Kirk:
*groan*

--j_k

Don't encourage him!

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

Dag wins the thread

Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :

The Usenet Oracle gives the definitive answer.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~reich/DATA/oracle.html

Posted by Shmuel (Member # 7586) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Dan_raven:
Now where did I hear about this first.

I believe it was in the Journal of Irreproducable Results.

Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Dagonee:
Then the cat would be toast.