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   Newton's Cat vs. Sir Isaac   
   30 Jan 14 18:36:57   
   
   Several scenarios:   
      
   1. The cat kept a watchful eye on Isaac doing his dispersion experiments. The   
   cat noticed a mouse hiding under the desk, via a multitude of olfactory and   
   hearing signals. Isaac did not, until the mouse ran out into the open. Isaac   
   immediately set to work    
   on a complicated mouse trap, but the cat stalked and killed the mouse.   
      
      
   2. The cat, having killed the mouse, ate the mouses liver to get vitamin D and   
   A, etc. Meanwhile Newton was vitamin deficient and began to have   
   hallucinations. The cat was concerned that Newton was spending so much time on   
   Biblical prophecy, because this    
   knight was, after all, the cat's meal ticket.   
      
      
   3. Finally the cat pretended not to notice all this, since he knew Newton was   
   not in his right mind. He had free room and board. Newton had taken to   
   torturing counterfeiters, and the cat was dismayed to see someone injuring   
   another without even eating    
   them.   
      
   This recorded in the Royal Society Letters, 1702.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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