World's Greatest Mystery Solved
I've come up with the answer to one of life's greatest mysteries... but first, Idaho cats in the news. A story from MSNBC details a car ride taken by an Idaho pussycat; it wasn't an ordinary ride...
..."Hutchison was driving along Interstate 15 one day recently when a motorist kept trying to get her attention and pointing to the roof of her car.
"She said she was wary of the man, but wondered if perhaps her ski rack might have come loose.
She pulled over to the side, but kept her doors locked and the motor running.
"The man pulled up behind her. Hutchinson rolled down her window to hear the man frantically shouting, "Your cat! Your cat!"
"He reached for the roof of her car and handed the shocked Hutchinson her orange tabby.
She had driven about 10 miles with the cat on top of the car, and didn't even notice the feline when she stopped for gas."
I don't have any photographs of this event, but there are some photos you should check out over at bothenook's place. bo also passes on a link to the complete Calvin and Hobbes cartoon library; check it out before it goes away!
OK, I've checked Google, so I think I'm the first to post this: the answer to one of life's great mysteries. What do you put in your dryer that you don't get back? The answer, obviously, is socks. What do you get out of your dryer that you don't put in? Again, just as obviously, the answer is lint. Therefore, applying Occam's Razor, the reason behind this discrepancy is clear: Dryers contain a "sock to lint converter" that turns your socks into lint. Skeptics who might say that you always get lint, but don't always lose a sock, should consider that this machine most likely distributes it's product little by little over each load, but only takes a new sock when it's running low. Anyone who would like to argue with my irrefutable logic is invited to do so in the comments.
Staying at PD...
posted by Bubblehead at 6:54 PM
2 Comments:
I think that's probably about as close to figuring out what goes on inside a cat's head as anything I've seen. They are quite confusing creatures, as I'm sure we are to them. I was hanging blinds the other day in a window our young cat likes to sleep in, and she watched me the whole time, probably wondering what had gotten into my mind to change my normal behavior and do this...
3/05/2005 9:03 AM
mrtorrance -- welcome! How's life at the old cube farm? Do they miss me yet? I did five days at my new job, and now I'm in the middle of five days off! (Shift work rocks!)
Anyway, both half and mrtorrance are correct that the parallel universe theory is gaining wider acceptance, especially as our knowledge of the 7 extra dimensions that exist around us matures. While I'm also inclined to agree with the "socks become self-aware" theory, I would submit that it's actually men's whitey-tightie underwear that are more likely to develop a consciousness, and yet we don't see them disappearing (they just may have a more finally developed sense of loyalty though, just as men can grow inordinately attached to their underwear, refusing to toss them until they are more hole than skivvie). I digress -- while most of these comments are valuable, I think mrtorrance's thought that "they just get misplaced" is a classical overapplication of Occam's Razor, in the same way that the simplest explanation for the moon landings if that they were faked.
3/07/2005 2:52 PM
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