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The buttered cat paradox is a joke paradox based on the tongue-in-cheek combination of two adages:

• Cats always land on their feet.
• Buttered toast always lands buttered side down.

The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height. In 1993, OMNI magazine announced the winner of Competition #54. The paradox, submitted by John Frazee of Kingston, New York, was the grand-prize winner.

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