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Buttered bread-cat array.
Sadly, the original is lost to time, way back in the dial-up internet era. It was originally on the Darwin awards forum. It went on for pages and pages, all written in properly and formally. It was glorious.
The basic premise was 2 fold. 1. Buttered bread always lands butter side down. 2. Cats always land on their feet. Assume both of these as absolute facts. What would happen if you strapped a piece of buttered bread, butter side up, to the back of a car?
Incidentally, if anyone knows of a copy of the original, I would love to read through it again.
Wait wait wait! This was an internet story before it became a commercial?
I'm talking about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yW5cyXXRc
Correct, by over a decade. That commercial made me quite nostalgic.