On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:36:46 -0800 (PST), Mark Chauvin wrote: >... > My wife and a friend tried this. They threw the cat > out the back door with buttered bread strapped on its > back. The cat tried to land on its feet, but ended up > hitting the ground kind of sideways, let out a wierd > noise, the bread fell off and the cat ran away. I > think it couldn't twist very good in the air with that > thing on him, and he wasn't too happy about it either. A friend of mine (coincidentally he's an electonics engineer...) reckons that if you want to throw a cat such that it can't land on its feet, you have to put backspin on it! :-) Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist