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Lith-Maethor
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posted January 25, 2002 10:36 PM |
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Murphy's law...
this is something Cirion said and it really got me thinking... (NOT)
ok the well known law with the thousands of applications says that if a loaf of bread with butter on it falls to the floor, it will land with the unbuttered side up...
it is also well nown that if a cat falls, it always lads on its feet...
so, what will happen if we stick a buttered loaf of bread (butter up) on the back of a cat and throw the cat from the sixth floor? will the cat start spinning? ...have we just found the way to unlimited energy? 
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RMS
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posted January 25, 2002 11:20 PM |
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...I'm starting to worry about you. I think you've spent way too much time in front of the computer...
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Conn
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posted January 25, 2002 11:22 PM |
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Maybe a hungry dog will apear, holding a jar of marmelade... just maybe...
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darkspirit
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posted January 25, 2002 11:23 PM |
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in both ways, the cat will have a rough but soft landing... (*let's hope that the bread is thick enough*)
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Lith-Maethor
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posted January 25, 2002 11:41 PM |
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heh... RMS...
in fact, this is what I do, when I'm NOT in front of my computer.. (coffee with friends etc) ..Cirion is not just a NPC in the RP... he is my RL "blood brother" (in a way)
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Legolust
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posted January 25, 2002 11:44 PM |
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murphey stinks
Ps found those drivers yet lith?
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Murphy
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posted January 26, 2002 12:17 AM |
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Grrrrr...
watch it, lego dude...
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Legolust
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posted January 26, 2002 12:34 AM |
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well murpheys laws anyway
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Milena
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posted January 26, 2002 11:53 AM |
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Lith
the butter thing has a physical explaination and it's only about falling from a ceratil height (table-high).
The bigger the height for the cat is, the bigger chance she has to land on her feet.
I think this answers your question.
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Romana
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Thx :D
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posted January 26, 2002 01:52 PM |
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The light at the end of a tunnel...
Is usually the headlight of an oncomming train!
I especially like that law....LOL
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Lord_Woock
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posted January 26, 2002 05:32 PM |
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If there's a chance something fails, it will fail.
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Slava14
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I am 16 now....
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posted January 27, 2002 06:32 AM |
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Mrphy's law
If something bad can happen, it'll happen.
Concequences:
1. Things are not as easy as they look.
2. Any job needs more time than you think it needs.
3. From all the bad things,the one that makes the most damage will happen.
4. If four sources of possible accidents were illiminated, there will always be the fifth.
5. When things aren't controlled, they have a tendence to evolve from the bad to the worse.
6. When you start doing a job, there will always be ahother one, which you need to finish earlier.
7. With every solution there will be new problems.
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TheJester
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posted January 27, 2002 06:59 AM |
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I own the book Murphy's Law (I got it for a quarter!!). It's pretty funny, I haven't read the whole book yet though.
Sorry Lith, I believe I beat you to the Cat-Butter theory about two years ago. It was on this site called Brain of Brian, I forgot the address though.
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Lith-Maethor
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posted January 27, 2002 02:55 PM |
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TheJester...
as I said... it was something my best friend (known as Cirion) thought during a coffee session about a month ago... and I know he has never seen that site...
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Lord_Woock
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posted January 27, 2002 05:00 PM |
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Murphy's law is great. But so are Darwin's Awards!
Here's one of the winners:
Two toll collectors stsated a snowball fight. One of them streched his arm out to get some snow off of a passing truck. He got pulled out of his booth and was dragged a long way and it killed him.
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LichKing
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posted January 27, 2002 05:47 PM |
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Wookie!!!!!
I LOVE reading the Darwin Awards!!!!
I'm glad to see someone other than myself appreciates the hilarity of the stupidity of others.
I used to keep several pages of them on my desk at work and share them with the people there. They never failed to bring fits of uncontrolled laughter from my co-workers
One of my favorites is the guy who tried throwing the dynamite out of the car while the window was still up.
Another was the guy who tried to hold up the gun shop
Thanks for reminding me of them. I think I'll go look at all the new ones now!
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Tristan
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posted January 27, 2002 06:07 PM |
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Well, I figured the easiest way to find out what would happen would be to scientifically test it out...
First step was buttering a piece of bread, no problem
next, find a cat....
since I don't own a cat, this was a little harder, but finally success with a can of tuna
NOTE: make sure cat is not black with white stripe down back...
after much work cleaning up and destenchifying, find cute little YELLOW cat.
go get bread to find my dog ate it hours ago...
go to butter another piece of bread and find I am out...
go to store to get more bread and meet nieghbor who is missing his cat (also built like a pro wrestler)...
buy bread, decide in interest of science must continue experiment against all odds...
after several failed attempts, finally get bread tied to back of cat (the bleeding scratches should heal soon, but left thumb is severely bitten)
climb out 2nd story window to garage roof with cat in hand and notice nieghbor walking up to garage...
drop cat from roof, back down...
nieghbor catches his cat and yells at me, making me lose my balance and fall off roof...
not being a cat, I fall on my left arm instead of my feet, breaking it in two places. Neighbor is kind enough to break other arm in thanks for returning cat...
Well, science will have to wait for me to heal up. Also with the hospital bills it may be a while before I can afford any more bread and butter.
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Lith-Maethor
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posted January 27, 2002 07:00 PM |
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errr... sacrificies must be made...
I think I broke my ribs laughing... 
someone give the man a QP...
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TheJester
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posted January 28, 2002 04:50 AM |
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>Not to rain on anyone's parade, but if you drop the buttered toast from about 9 feet (I think),then it will land butter side up.
>Also, if you drop your buttered toast, from a normal counter height, buttered side down then it will land butter-side up.
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Nimrod_The_D...
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posted January 28, 2002 02:19 PM |
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Hei§!!
i am just wonder.......... i mean you have to be kinda sick and pervers to Glue a piece of BREAD to the back of a poor little inicent cat?
if take some mustard in the ass of the cat,,,,
it will rub until it dies!
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