Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Question - 476

What is being illustrated?

Answer: The buttered cat paradox - a humorous (?) combination of two adages about cats always landing on their feet and toast always landing on the buttered side. So, what happens if a cat is dropped with a buttered toast tied to it like shown above? Karthik, Matti Tapaninen, Raghu, anon, Mainak, Ramji, nice try, Riskit, anon, Arvind, hotmanoj and Nemani got it. Well done.

13 comments:

Unknown said...

Buttered cat paradox

matti tapaninen said...

Buttered cat paradox:

Cats always land on their feet,buttered toast always lands buttered side down.

Raghu said...

Buttered cat paradox

Anonymous said...

Buttered Cat Paradox

Mainak said...

Buttered Cat Paradox.

A cat always lands on its feet. A buttered toast always lands with its buttered side down. So how will a buttered cat land?

nice try said...

the buttered cat paradox

Unknown said...

The buttered cat paradox - The contradiction in 1) Cats always land on their feet and 2) toast always lands buttered side down.

Riskit said...

"The buttered bread on Cat problem"

Anonymous said...

Schrödinger's cat?

Anonymous said...

Buttered Cat Paradox

Arvind said...

buttered cat paradox

Unknown said...

IG-nobel prize winning idea for a perpetual motion machine using the two principles: (a) a cat always lands on its feet, (b) bread always lands on the buttered side. So put them back to back and toss them and they'll keep spinning ad-infinitum ...

Nemani said...

Buttered cat paradox