On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Bob Schlosser wrote:
> GRAND PRIZE WINNER (Subject: Perpetual Motion)
> When a cat is dropped, it
> always lands on its feet, and when toast is
> dropped, it always lands
> buttered side down.
These are well-known false sentences. People believe so because they
remember _mostly_ _the_ _worse_ _outcome_ of such experiments from
_emotional_ reasons.

1) If you hate the somebody's cat then you are angry if that
damned animal has survived an accident (having seven lives).
If the hated cat dies or at least breaks its legs then you are happy to
get rid of.

2) If you are late and hungry then you became upset if the toast lands on
the buttered side. This side is sticky,
it is binding the dirt so you have to switch on the toaster.

It never rains but it pours. So you will burn the second toast, run out
from butters, miss the train, meet the boss in the elevator.


                                        Frank Nagy