Few of you know that for years now Mark has been working weekends in his lab deep beneath the FSB.

For a while it was a method to compress and decompress styrofoam peanuts - but that didn't pan out. (We still have a room we can't get into.) Then there was the holographic wind projector for some new HL tree prototypes, but that project died when BoB did. And the digital amanuensis to allow BY to sign a thousand models at once? Well nevermind.

But after several weeks of being very secretive he's finally emerged and this time he may be on to something...

Everyone knows that a cat always lands on its feet.

And everyone knows that when toast is dropped it always lands buttered side down.

Well - Mark put two and two together and strapped a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat. When dropped the cat appears to hover in mid-air, spinning infinitely a few inches off the ground.

We're bringing in that Randi fellow next week to check it all out. If all goes well Mark was thinking of going to the Democratic Convention for spin control. Hmmmm... a very large array of buttered cats - d'ya think there's any money in this?

Rgds,
Saint Foucault
[This message has been edited by JTimothyA (edited 08-05-2000).]

Tim,

In an effort to increase the profitability of your venture, I suggest you get a task team to perform a study on "butter vs. margarine". Margarine is much less expensive than butter and you should try the dropped toast test with good old oleo.

Also, if you try the experiment at the Democratic convention do not use poor Socks the Cat. That cat comes from such a dysfunctional familty that it just might land on it's head in an effort to commit suicide and end it all. Thus, this tragic event would definitely ruin the results of your theory.

Joanne

My response: Same as Brent.
My wife: Are all those people crazy?

Sorry Tim. She's got no sense of humor.

Rich

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Its a fine line between "genius and insanity".Its fairly easy to see what side of the line that TA falls behind.
* nosy *