On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, W Ramsay wrote:
> >To Harry Oxley,
> >
> >OK, Harry, I give up!
> >Explain the one about the cat and the buttered toast!
> >Bronwyn
> >
> >
> The toast should be tied to the cat's back butter side up!
>
> Is the world getting dafter? I recollect reading somewhere that some guy
> had spent time researching the "butter side down" phenomenon and had
> concluded that the Universe was just built that way. Included stuff about
> heights of tables and rotational inertia etc., and presumably the
> gravitational constant.
>
> Many years ago Bernard Braden, favourite UK resident and Canadian comedian,
> on his radio show, ran an entire sketch of the "sky is falling" type based
> on the toast falling butter side up. On recourse to the shaman, the
> explanation emerges that the toast must have been buttered on the wrong side!
>
> So, Harry and Bronwyn, the toast must be tied butter side up and buttered on
> the wrong side!
>
> Slainte!
>
> Bill.
> Bill Ramsay,
> Dept. of Educational Studies,
> University of Strathclyde,
> Jordanhill Campus,
> GLASGOW,
> G13 1PP,
> Scotland.
>
> 'phone: +44 (0)141 950 3364
> 'fax: +44 (0)141 950 3367
> e-mail: w.ramsay@strath.ac.uk
>
>
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