be careful though, place the buttered side away from you head and it becomes
a "roll-over" bar.
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Weller <Guy@weller-lakes.freeserve.co.uk>
To: George Procyshyn <geopro@cyberdrive.net>; spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
<spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: 06 November, 1998 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: A serious use for one of our favorite Sprite accessories. . .
Sorry List! ..... NO LBC Content
>Soooo....,
>a cheap ant roll-over bar can be put together by strapping a cat, feet
>downwards to the top of the windscreen frame. Also acts as a sun visor.
>If you cannot obtain a cat, then glue a piece of heavily buttered toast to
>the top of your head. Also prevents sunburn for those of us thinning on
>top.
>
>Guy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Procyshyn <geopro@cyberdrive.net>
>To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
>Date: 06 November 1998 06:56
>Subject: A serious use for one of our favorite Sprite accessories. . .
Sorry
>List! ..... NO LBC Content
>
>
>>If you drop a buttered piece of bread, it will fall on the
>> floor butter-side down. If a cat is dropped from a window
>> or other high and towering place, it will land on it's feet.
>>
>> But what if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter side
>> up to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will
>> the cat land on it's feet? Or will the butter side splat on the
>> ground?
>>
>> Even if you are too lazy to do the experiment yourself you
>> should be able to deduce the obvious result. The laws of
>> butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground,
>> and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics demand
>> that the cat can not smash it's furry back. If the combined
>> construct were to land, nature would have no way to
>> resolve this paradox. Therefore, it simply does not fall.
>>
>> That's right, you have discovered the secret of antigravity!
>> A buttered cat will, when released, quickly move to a height
>> where the forces of cat-twisting and butter repulsion are in
>> equilibrium. This equilibrium point can be modified by
>> scraping off some of the butter, providing lift, or removing
>> some of the cat's limbs, allowing descent.
>>
>> Most of the civilized species of the Universe already use this
>> principle to drive their ships while within a planetary system.
>> The loud humming heard by most sighters of UFO's is,
>> in fact, the purring of several hundred tabbies.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This joke was originally part of an OMNI Magazine during
>> or prior to 1993.
>>
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