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> 'books on toast'
It might just scrape by, but would have to be well done.
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...and you'd have to jam them together.
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Wow! I've bookmarked it! Just spent twenty mintues having a quick look, thanks for feeding my addiction, oftroy.  I can see another Indulgent Husband look happening when my other half gets home and finds the Great Pyramind and Sphinx on the dining room table.... And Dover is a great publisher for re-issuing old, out of print stuff in affordable format. Yeah, books on toast never did take off - the jam stuck the pages together.
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> books on toast never did take off
On the other hand, there was that fascinating volume with the latest theories about perpetual motion machines a while ago...
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Huh? (couldn't get near that one, let alone catch it)
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Proposition 1: buttered toast, if dropped, ALWAYS lands buttersidedown Proposition 2: A cat, no matter from what height or in what manner airborne, will ALWAYS land on its feet Conclusion: buttered toast when strapped on the back of a cat will end up hovering just above the beige carpet, revolving in a perpetual and self-cancelling spin! I think it had been refined to take additional factors into account but. 
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Conclusion: buttered toast when strapped on the back of a cat will end up hovering just above the beige carpet, revolving in a perpetual and self-cancelling spin!
...Do not try this on Bucky.
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Do not try this on Bucky
Or any other cat, for that matter. It should be noted that the claimed perpetual hovering is only theoretical as no-one has ever been able to strap the toast on the back of any cat sufficiently agile to land on its feet.
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And anyway, we understand that the mere fact of observing said cat makes the outcome very uncertain.
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Only if it lives with Herr Schrödinger.
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