Rejoice! No more sleep lost
over that landing on your feet business!

( epsylon, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:21, archived)

buttered toast..
hehehe :)
( kitty meow meow, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:23, archived)

did anyone ever solve the buttered cat question?
with or without the rspca involvement - height notwithstanding ;)
( rosey i'm on ur {noun}, {verb}ing ur {noun}, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:24, archived)

I didn't know
buttered cats were in question.
( kitty meow meow, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:25, archived)

Yep - buttered toast (nearly)
always lands butter side down, cats (supposedly) always land feet side down, so what would happen if you put butter on a cat's back? :)
( witchy :: Best before:, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:27, archived)

i think
it would remain spinning just off the ground
( The Incredible... accident free since, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:25, archived)

that
is a new angle (no pun intended) i had not considered
( rosey i'm on ur {noun}, {verb}ing ur {noun}, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:26, archived)

i think i saw somewhere
that the reason toast falls butter side down is if it falls off a table it starts to spin but only has long enuff to spin 180 degrees before landing, if it falls from a standard height table
( The Incredible... accident free since, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:28, archived)

if you see toast falling
pull the plate away fast. it may be fast enough to make it spin 360 degrees.

or make it spin so fast it flicks marmalade across your walls.
( RobRobRobRobRob, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:33, archived)

what question was that?
I did read on a web site something like, if you drop a cat from anything higher than 6 stories it will die, at 3 stories up it will only break a couple of it's legs...these were facts that worried me more than a little bit
wish i could remember where I saw them then i could do some fact checking
( Roxy_Hart, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:26, archived)

Probably somewhere
based in Felling or Scotswood or Blakelaw :)
( witchy :: Best before:, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:27, archived)

I would have said Pennywell
but there's not that many high rises and those people don't like to travel :)
( Roxy_Hart, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:33, archived)

Aye, all the hi-rises
were nicked in the 70s and burnt out doon the coast.

I'd completely forgotten you used to be Tabula Rasa; curse these late night sessions!
( witchy :: Best before:, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:39, archived)

fortunately is is nothing that sick
if you drop toast, it will land butter side down, if you drop a cat it will land on its feet. so butter the back of a cat....?
( rosey i'm on ur {noun}, {verb}ing ur {noun}, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:28, archived)

It will be caught
in a continual loop and spin in mid air, I'm sure someone animated that :)
( Roxy_Hart, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:34, archived)

My kitten fell out of an up-stairs window
once. It was the most gut-wrenching thing in the world.. One second- Arrgh! Kitten on windowsill! The next, Arrgh! Kitten on wrong side of window! Then, Argh!!! Kitten gone!!

He bounced. Wandered up the garden, was the first time he'd been outside...
( epsylon, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:34, archived)

aww bless
kittens are resiliant, he took it as an oportunity.
the most gut wrenching thing that ever happened with my old cat was he was sitting outside on the windowsill waiting to be let in and as I got up to open the door a grey hound and a terrier dragged him off the windowsill, when I got outside the greyhound has my cats head in it's mouth and the terrier had hold of the cats hind legs and they were pulling...i screamed at them, Kicked the terrier and my cat bolted, he was gone for a few days to recover and the bloke who owed the dogs shouted at me for kicking his bloody dog! My dad went round and had words, next thing I know this bloke had turned up and apologised for his and his dogs behaviour
( Roxy_Hart, Fri 13 Jun 2003, 22:37, archived)