From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Tue Jan 30 22:00:00 1996
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From: Tritech_Research@lamg.com (Tritech Research)
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Subject: New Science (NOT worm-related)
Date: 31 Jan 1996 08:28:03 -0800
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Someone e-mailed me these, supposedly from some Omni Magazine
contest:

>
>When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and
>when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered
>side facing down.  I propose to strap buttered toast to the
>back of a cat; the two will hover, spinning inches above
>the ground.  With a giant buttered cat array, a high-speed
>monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
>
>If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number
>of pickup trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds
>at an infinite number of highway signs, they will eventually
>produce all the worlds great literary works in Braille.
>
>Why Yawning Is Contagious:  You yawn to equalize the
>pressure on your eardrums.  This pressure change outside
>your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so
>they must yawn to even it out.
>
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On a more serious note, I have protocols that really work to:
1) make a pickle glow in the dark
      (Andrea Willoughby, pers. comm.)
2) make a Pasteur-pipette-bulb get as big as a condom (reversible!)
      (Susan Euling [worm-worker], pers. comm)

Is there some place appropriate to publish these things?
I once heard of something called The Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Does anyone know anything about *that*?

Sorry for the "disruption",

Andy Papp


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