I have scoured the internet and I cannot find the story I mentioned to Bill Potts, the one about how a British University genuinely did have experiments to see why toast landed on the carpet butter-side-up. However, I found a similar one and I give you it here (contain your enthusiasm at the back there, please)!!! BRITAIN Murphy's law toasted Posted Fri, 09 Mar 2001 Children from all over Britain became part of an extensive study of Murphy's law when they began dropping hundreds of slices of buttered toast yesterday to see which way up they would land. "If something can go wrong, it will," is the theory established in the late 1940s by US Air Force officer Edward A. Murphy. Robert Matthews, a British physicist from Aston University in Birmingham is one of the few scientists not to describe the law as "silly nonsense". "Over the years I've been studying lots of urban myths to find the science behind them, such as standing in the slowest supermarket queue and only being able to find odd socks," he said. More than 150 pupils and millions of slices of toast will be involved in the "tumbling toast experiment". "The project is designed to encourage children to get involved in maths, the type of maths you encounter in everyday life," Matthews said. The results of the bizarre experiment will be published on the Internet and the sponsors hope to break the world record for the biggest ever school project undertaken. They could just do it – if nothing goes wrong. Regards, Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
