# Regarding cat droppage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-cat-droppage/20647>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 26, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-cat-droppage/20647 "2000-05-26T22:28:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![daveb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@daveb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daveb)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-cat-droppage/20647/1 "2000-05-26T22:28:43Z")

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Having finished your column regarding falling cats, and the efforts of amateur experimentors, I wonder if your time might be better spent less on ridding the world of ignorance and instead coming up with hobbies for people who evidently have a little too much free time.

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**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-cat-droppage/20647/2 "2000-05-26T22:58:05Z")

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And the link is:  
[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_190.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_190.html)

- Jill

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-cat-droppage/20647/3 "2000-05-26T23:00:02Z")

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JillGat, LOL! The foot’s on the other shoe now.

The column ( **including** _three_ Slug Signorino illustrations) can also be found on pages 190-193 of Cecil Adams’ book “[_Triumph of the Straight Dope_](http://www.straightdope.com/otheroutlets/books.html)”.

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**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-cat-droppage/20647/4 "2000-05-27T01:59:49Z")

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[[JillGat, LOL! The foot’s on the other shoe now.]]

Isn’t it the shoe… never mind. I’m fixin’ to earn me some more chocolates.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regarding-cat-droppage/20647/5 "2000-05-27T19:15:16Z")

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Congratulations, Jill! We knew you could do it! (eventually) Now all you’ve got to do is beat him to the page number in the book. Notice how he never did that before being promoted?