I’ve never
claimed that a certain percentage of my thoughts are what one might call
“normal.” It is (pick one) A) a blessing, or B) a curse to have thoughts that
sometimes fall outside the realm of those shared by a vast majority of people.
Since I
have them on occasion, I go with A.
An
example: Have you ever been sitting up in bed, leaned against the headboard,
pillows at your back, thumbing the heck out of a good novel and all of a sudden
… you realize you have slid down in the bed without realizing it? Instead of
being in a sitting position, you find yourself practically supine! How did that
happen?
I surmise
it’s a little known and totally misunderstood element of physics – horizontal
gravity. As you might surmise, there’s got to be more to it than just the fact
that scientists and philosophers have overlooked this phenomenon for the past
several thousand years, ever since the invention of sheets with thread count
over six. Not 600, but six.
I have
come to the belief that there is a direct correlation between the thread count
of sheets, the square inch-ary of butt surface and the theory of horizontal
gravity. Check that. It is my contention that horizontal gravity is not a
theory, but an existing condition that has not been properly studied.
That’s
about to change.
I am
writing a federal grant to study the phenomenon and, with the
bringing-home-the-bacon money available from my elected officials, I expect to
get started as soon as my grant can be approved, which should be as soon as
this latest, silly Middle East conflict question can be resolved. Knowing
members of congress like I do, I know it's easy to stick this type of
expenditure as a “tail-er” on a bigger bill about nuclear proliferation or some
such.
I have
already done sufficient research to warrant the grant that I value at about
$49,750. (I am convinced if I keep it under $50,000, it is such a fiscal pimple
as to be invisible in any General Account Office audit.)
You want
proof of my initial reasoning and research? How’s this: Sheets vary widely in
thread count, as well as material from which they are constructed; 300-, 600-,
800-thread count sheets are commonplace. It is easy to buy higher thread count
sheets of up to 1,800 threads per square inch (900 vertical and 900
horizontal). A higher thread count than that and you have Sarah Wrap.
A portion
of the study will have to do with the surface area of butts on bed sheets. I am
firmly convinced that the total surface area of a butt will slide horizontally
in direct proportion to thread count; the bigger the butt surface, the faster
the horizontal movement.
Of course,
the study will have to include the movement of bare buttocks vs. clothed; the
type of covering material or lack thereof and its affect on rate of horizontal
movement will have its own section in the final report.
Those of
you who may scoff at my research grant proposal do not know the depth of
federal grant follies. Do you know whether or not it is economically feasible to
create bite-sized bales of hay for cows? It is not economically feasible
according to a 1980s federal grant to the University of Michigan.
What is
the composition of 17th Century violin varnish? We know this
important fact due to a federal grant.
Surely, a
study to research the theory of horizontal gravity is just as important.
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