Posts Tagged ‘Cartoon’

CARTOON LAW 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.

CARTOON LAW II Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid

matter intervenes suddenly. Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on

foot, cartoon characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a

telephone pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely.

Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge’s

surcease.

CARTOON LAW III Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation

conforming to its perimeter. Also called the silhouette of passage, this

phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of

reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the