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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
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Subject: Re: O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 14:14:35 EST
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In article <37@randvax.UUCP> guyton@randvax.UUCP (Jim Guyton) writes:
>
>                O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion
>                [Quoted without permission from Jun '80 Esquire]
>
>I.      Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made
>        aware of its situation.
>                Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland.
>                He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he
>                chances to look down.  At this point, the familiar principle
>                of 32 feet per second per second takes over.

Not true.  32 feet per second^2 is unknown in cartoons.  What happens is that
the character's body (but not his head) passes instantaneously from a state
of rest to a state of falling at a constant (but very high) rate of speed.
The head does likewise, but a few seconds later.

>IV.     The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater
>        than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the
>        ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
>                Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to capture
>                it inevitably unsuccessful.

Not always.  He may capture it, only to be run over by a truck.

>VII.    Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble
>        tunnel entrances; others cannot.
>                This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generation, but
>                at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a
>                wall's surface to trick an opponent will be unable to pursue
>                him into this theoretical space.  The painter is flattened
>                against the wall when he attempts to follow into the painting.
>                This is ultimately a problem of art, not of science.

This one is quite simple, really.  Anyone who knows it's only painted on
will be unable to enter.  Others simply won't notice.

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Dave Seaman	  					pur-ee!pucc-h!ags