Sunday, September 18, 2005

A Cinderella Story

A while ago, I was at a sleep over with some friends of mine. it was about one or two in the morning, and just about everyone had gone to sleep except for me and another girl. We were talking about the most random things, like roosters, ping-pong, soccer, alligators and anything else that didn't make sense to be talking about. However, a rather COPIUS chunck of this crazy conversation actually stuck with me. We were debating whether or not Lucifer, the cat on the Disney's Cinderella, actually died when he fell from the top of a tall tower. So did Lucifer really die?
My friend thought he didn't. It's common knowledge for any cat owner, that when you drop a cat on it's back, it will spin around in the air and land on it's feet. She also insisted that because a cat has nine lives, and because Cinderella is a Disney movie, the cat could not have died.
I, on the other on the other hand, am not so sure that he lived. It was a very tall tower that he fell from, and as it shows him falling through the air on his back, he's screeching loudly and his paws are waving frantically in the air. Furthermore, who wouldn't die after being chased up flights of stairs by a dog like Bruno?

The true solution is blatently obvious. Lucifer died because he fell from approxomately eight stories in the air. Even if he was able to land on his feet, the force from the fall would still crush him. Hence, as usual, I was right, and the person debating me was wrong.

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