Food and Cats

Does anyone know the answer to this Steven Wright quote before I tie some Rye on Fluffy:

“If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”

HMMMM....Interesting question...

Clearly you need to watch the Mythbusters episode where they try to determine if bread really always lands butter-side down.

The answer:

Yes, if you knock it off the table when it's butter side up. It'll do one turn and land butter side down.

No, if you drop it vertically (perpendicular to the ground).

So it all depends on your ability to knock the cat off the table...

From how many stories up ??

That is an interesting question... I sense an experiment tonight...

One of my fave sayings is

If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, why practice??

CrazyC wrote:
If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, why practice??

To get to Carnegie Hall

You can always take the more expedient route and butter your cat. (That link goes to a transcript from an IRC channel I hang out on; it's text-only but is rated R for brief use of a certain word on that George Carlin list, as a warning up front.)

Bob S. wrote:You can always take the more expedient route and butter your cat. (That link goes to a transcript from an IRC channel I hang out on; it's text-only but is rated R for brief use of a certain word on that George Carlin list, as a warning up front.)

Thank you for that -- I haven't laughed so hard that I cried in ages.
I have a hard time believing that's unedited IRC chat though -- it's too smooth, too well-written.

I took out a couple of lines when I submitted it to Bash, side comments that lost some context, but otherwise it matches our conversation in the channel pretty well. (I'm neither Lore nor agent_orange, and after that we'll just let that question slide.) About half of the people there are writers or editors, so that carries over into our conversations. (We used to hang out on EFnet but that network filled up with everyone from spammers to just plain jerks, so a friend runs a private IRC server for us these days.)

Bob S. wrote:(We used to hang out on EFnet but that network filled up with everyone from spammers to just plain jerks ... )

Hey, I resemble that remark!

What would happen if you were in space experiencing zero gravity?