Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Okay, I am a bored woman. So sue me.
Actually, I’ve wanted to share this with you for quite a while, having seen this on Arts Central, as a sort of short cut thing before some anime, Godannar, or Diamond Dust Drops, or even still Scrapped Princess. That probably shows how long ago this was.
Anyway, the point is that, the aim of the shortcut was to prove a point.
They said that it was a proven law that any piece of bread spread with jam, when dropped on the floor would automatically fall on its jammed side. They showed this very cute sketch of a person dropping a piece of bread and jam and true enough.
Then they said that it is also a proven law that when you drop a cat, by any angle or direction or whatever (this applies for the piece of bread as well) that it will land on its feet.
Fair enough. They showed a picture again.
Then they said that if you strap a piece of bread, its jammy side facing you, to a back of a cat and dropped it, something miraculous would happen.
Here they drew the cat and the bread, and dropped it.
The narrator then said in a very monotone voice (the whole thing was in monotone, which ignited more laughs from me), that due to the many proven laws, the cat and the bread would be suspended off the ground, rotating madly (cue picture) as both the attractive forces of the cat’s feet and the jammy bread’s jammy side would cancel each other out.
The picture of the cat rotating tickled me so much that I have laughed and laughed and laughed about it ever since. And I never figured out just who the brilliant people who did this animation were.
Pity. Such is life.
Thus, this came to you at 1am, on the 7th of December.
Rejoice, for I have blogged.

Posted by norbert at 12/07/2005 12:53:00 AM