Uncle Abner said that the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn’t, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
— Mark Twain

I’m betting Damncat can verify this.
A lesson he’ll remember to his dying day. If he lives that long.
Now why am I reminded of a Victor McLaglen line from a John Wayne movie…Ah yes.
Practical experience is almost always more useful than theoretical knowledge.
tell that to the guy that stuck his arm in the wood chipper
Well he will definitely not do it again now will he?
You have to repeat the experiment to verify the results.
Okay Mini-Nye.