h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

why is it that leather jackets always keep you freezing cold in winter & boiling hot in summer ? surely this does not make sense.

perhaps a reasonable explaination would be that cows are cold blooded, not warm blooded as man first thought.

the flip side to that coin is in making leather jackets for us warm blooded types. we turn the cow's leather jacket over (ie: inside out) and wear it.

key:

animal: cow = moo; man = man.

blooded: cold = c; warm = w.

coat: skin = s; leather = l.

weather: freezing = f; boiling = b.

temp: freezing = f; boiling = b.


findings:

animal blooded coat weather temp (inside coat)
---------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------
moo 'c','s','f','ok'*
man 'w','l','f','f'
man 'w','l','b','b'


summary:

1. cow's stay warm in freezing weather in heated barns ie: temp = ok*
2. cow's never wear leather jackets, only skin
3. erm ...

the man painted green.