Old Bitter Balls: The Buttered Cat Paradox.

Thursday 15 March 2007

The Buttered Cat Paradox.

If a cat always lands on its feet and toast always lands buttered-side-down, what if...?

9 comments:

Foot Eater said...: It spins endlessly, and you have produced the world's first perpetual-motion machine.; 15 Mar 2007, 14:09:00
Old Knudsen said...: If we could harness that power.; 15 Mar 2007, 14:42:00
Eddie Waring said...: A buttered cat would be hard to catch.; 15 Mar 2007, 18:58:00
Old Knudsen said...: I can't believe its not chicken.; 15 Mar 2007, 20:53:00
HKMGB said...: I find the thought of a buttered cat strangely arousing.; 15 Mar 2007, 20:56:00
Anonymous said...: It's worth a try!

(buttering the cat, not lambent's thoughts...); 15 Mar 2007, 23:09:00
Anonymous said...: My brother demonstrated the cat thing to impress his prospective parents-in-law, at their house, with their cat, which lay on the floor groaning until they gathered it up and took it to the vet.

Needless to say, the marriage ended in divorce. Indeed, she decamped to Oz, taking 2 of the 3 nippers.

A salutary tale, observed by a world-weary uncle.

P.S. He also tried to demonstrate that an ordinary hen's egg was a marvel of engineering that could withstand immense pressure, if exerted from pole to pole, as it were. Squeezed it between his finger and thumb and -- yep ...; 16 Mar 2007, 02:19:00
Anonymous said...: Putting tape on the bottom of their feet and watching them try to walk is a harmless yet extremely entertaining experiment.; 16 Mar 2007, 06:45:00
Old Knudsen said...: I knew a guy who would put mustard up a cat's hole to watch it go mad with pain, a strange guy, ginger headed quite mad.; 17 Mar 2007, 01:12:00

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