page_title: Buttered cat paradox
hierarchical_section_title: Buttered cat paradox
caption_attribution_description: English: Buttered cat figures extracted from Greg Williams' WikiWorld.
context_page_description: The buttered cat paradox is a common joke based on the tongue-in-cheek combination of two adages:
  Cats always land on their feet.
  Buttered toast always lands buttered side down.
  The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast 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 about paradoxes. The basic premise, stating the conditions of the cat and bread and posed as a question, was presented in a routine by comic and juggler Michael Davis, appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, July 22, 1988.
context_section_description: The buttered cat paradox is a common joke based on the tongue-in-cheek combination of two adages:
  Cats always land on their feet.
  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 about paradoxes. The basic premise, stating the conditions of the cat and bread and posed as a question, was presented in a routine by comic and juggler Michael Davis, appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, July 22, 1988.
caption: A cartoon illustration of the thought experiment
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