Diggin It
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.... why do boards land nails up?
If cats land paws down .....
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IMO...There has never been anyone more deserving of being lynched than that Murphy SOB...!
On second though...lynching would have been too good for that bastard...
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For the same reason that insects die on their backs with their legs in the air.
quicksandfarmer
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So if you strap a piece of toast with peanut butter on the back of a cat, and drop the assembly, which way will it land?
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Diggin It
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^^ Murph would put on my leg and I'd either be cleaning up PB or blood.
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As it fell, the peanut butter would be first and the cat would twist itself in the strap to make it so both hit the ground, feet first and then peanut butter would splat from the underside of the cat's belly.
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CobyRupert
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...because somebody didn’t pull the nails out or at least hammer the point end back into the board when they pulled the board off. Bad practice not to.
Grandfather would always call them rattlesnakes...cause you can’t trust them to have them lying round, they’re eventually going to bite you.
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Good point. I cringe when I see nails sticking out. When I was a wee lad my father and I were looking at the partially finished addition to our camp. He pointed to some boards laying there with nails sticking out and said "Dick Clifford" (the carpenter who did a lot of work for him around the greenhouse) "would never allow that on his jobsite." I"ve never forgotten that, and 50 years later still pound the nails back or take them out when deconstructing.
Good point. I cringe when I see nails sticking out. When I was a wee lad my father and I were looking at the partially finished addition to our camp. He pointed to some boards laying there with nails sticking out and said "Dick Clifford" (the carpenter who did a lot of work for him around the greenhouse) "would never allow that on his jobsite." I"ve never forgotten that, and 50 years later still pound the nails back or take them out when deconstructing.