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The_Prodiigy
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 Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: Which way ? |
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A recently-graduated student approached me during the ten-minute recess in the corridor.
His English name is Knuckle, and as he opened the conversation he pointed towards me, smiled and asked :
"If one piece of buttered toast was strapped to the back of a mongrel cat (ginger or allwhite) and the feline creature was dropped from a first floor balcony, which would land the right side up - Tiddles of the buttered side of the toast ?"
Neither I not Pete, the DOS were able to offer a definitive answer!
Anyone ? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I think in the interest of Science we should do some experiments. There are enough felines in Istanbul for us to try it on a few thousand. |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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It'd land cat side down from the first floor.
If it was from the seventh, it'd land butter side down.
That is a scientific fact. |
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mongrelcat
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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HEY!  
the actual answer is, the cat would eat the toast because he is starving |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| As we speak a dedicated team of researchers is working on a method of strapping the toast to the cat that will make it IMPOSSIBLE for the cat to eat the toast until AFTER the experiment. |
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FGT
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| My cat, Ptolomy, must have anticipated this question and decided to conduct his own experiments. He jumped/fell from my third floor flat on no fewer than three occasions (I think his brother, Samson, may have pushed him) and always landed on his feet. He didn't have toast strapped to his back though, which perhaps may affect the aerodynamics and weight distribution causing a different result. |
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justme
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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Ptolemy is a wonderful name for a cat!
I love other people's cat names... |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| I had a couple of cats: Their names were Microwave and B.ugger. |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| Someone has been taking these experiments a bit too far, I think. This one landed butter side down. Girl falls 100ft and survives |
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