Thread: Silliness Add/Read a good joke to lighten your day
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Old 09-19-2011, 04:52 PM   #3643
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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes View Post
Not so much a joke, but it made me smile:

"When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the two will hover, spinning, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago."
- John Frazee, in The Journal of Irreproducible Results -
I read a story like that in a comic book. In Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, issue #3 (20 October 1999), Jack B. Quick, child inventor, straps buttered toast on the backs of cats to create an anti-gravity device. When he drops them, they don't fall, but unfortunately their spinning tails carry them away. I wonder if that's where Moore got the idea, or was it stolen from him?
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