If cats land paws down .....

[Diggin It]

.... why do boards land nails up?

 

[Jstpssng]

It has something to do with that guy Murphy...

 

[CalG]

Peanut butter is attracted to dirty floors when spread on bread for all the same reasons.

 

[/pine]

It has something to do with that guy Murphy...

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 *******...

 

[Threepoint]

.... why do boards land nails up?

For the same reason that insects die on their backs with their legs in the air.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Peanut butter is attracted to dirty floors when spread on bread for all the same reasons.

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?

 

[Diggin It]

^^ Murph would put on my leg and I'd either be cleaning up PB or blood.

 

[sandman2234]

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?

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.
David from jax

 

[CobyRupert]

.... why do boards land nails up?

...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.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
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.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

^^^^
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.

Perhaps my earliest childhood memory is stepping on a nail in a board when I was maybe 3. Had to go to the hospital and get a tetanus shot. Back then there was something in the dye used in clothes that wasn't good for you so I had to wear only white socks for a long time after that. White socks were not common then, even at that tender age I remember noticing I was the only one I knew who wore white socks.

Ever since I haven't been a fan of leaving nails sticking out of wood.

 

[Industrial Toys]

We had icy conditions the last few days. So grabbed a bunch of workshop stove ashes, knowing there were nails in there. Despite, my best efforts and figuring that they "should" be at the bottom, I still broadcast a healthy dose of rusty, crooked nails onto the ice. Carefully picked them up, but everytime I looked, I would find more. Even certain I drove over one, without incident.

 

[bcp]

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?

Please make a video when you do this.

It reminds me of another cat contest.

Bruce

 

[Diggin It]

...because somebody didn稚 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.

You're on a roof/scaffold/ladder. You're using a recip saw to cut 50 year old red oak purlins and a pry bar to remove the sections from 50 year old rafters. You're airmailing the pieces off the roof onto a pile to be dealt with later. You ain't none too perticaler about gettin' the nails out at the moment.

 

[CobyRupert]

You're on a roof/scaffold/ladder. You're using a recip saw to cut 50 year old red oak purlins and a pry bar to remove the sections from 50 year old rafters. You're airmailing the pieces off the roof onto a pile to be dealt with later. You ain't none too perticaler about gettin' the nails out at the moment.

Why nail side up? The bounce or Mr. Murphy I’d guess..
Yep, if I found a rattlesnake up on the roof, I’d airmail it off the roof and deal with it later too. More likely I’d airmail myself off the roof first.

 

[Dftodd]

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 *******...

Close second is "Bill". That a...hole shows up every month demanding money

 

[CalG]

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?

Nothing spoils peanut butter bread like cat hairs!

 

[turnkey4099]

You're on a roof/scaffold/ladder. You're using a recip saw to cut 50 year old red oak purlins and a pry bar to remove the sections from 50 year old rafters. You're airmailing the pieces off the roof onto a pile to be dealt with later. You ain't none too perticaler about gettin' the nails out at the moment.

And it seems "later" never is convenient.

 

[dstig1]

I have to say i am amazed nobody has posted this in this thread yet...

 

[CobyRupert]

I have to say i am amazed nobody has posted this in this thread yet...

That's horrible!

"...that human beings have sunk so low that they could do that to another of God's creatures..."

Please, please, send me a check today so we can help these poor cats.