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Buttered toast always lands buttered side down. The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height. The buttered cat paradox, submitted by artist John Frazee of Kingston, New York, won a 1993 Omni magazine competition ...
A slice of toast that has landed butter-side down. Previously thought to be just a pessimistic belief, studies on this phenomenon yielded various results. Robert Matthews won the Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 1996 for his work on this topic. The buttered toast phenomenon is an observation that buttered toast tends to land butter-side down after ...
It might seem like the internet loves crazy cats and funny dogs equally, but there actually is a clear preference. Research by the popular site Cheezburger in 2013 found that more folks made memes ...
This week's WikiWorld comic uses text from "Buttered cat paradox". The comic is released under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. ( ← Prev )
Celebrity felines like Lil Bub, Maru, Grumpy Cat, and Monty are perfect examples of cats going viral for all the right reasons and absolutely coining it with their own lines of merchandise.
Many of us proud cat parents already celebrate our feline friends all 365 days of the year, but there's never a bad excuse to give our benevolent kitty overlords a little extra love and attention.
Buttered cat paradox: Humorous example of a paradox from contradicting proverbs. Intentionally blank page: Many documents contain pages on which the text "This page intentionally left blank" is printed, thereby making the page not blank. Metabasis paradox: Conflicting definitions of what is the best kind of tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics.
Credit: Getty Images. We've discovered a whole host of funny cat jokes that really are hiss-terical. Furry, fabulous and funny balls of fluff are the words we'd used to describe cats. But above ...