Hit Me with your Best Shot

I don't like nonsense.  I like practical solutions to life's everyday problems.

My cousin married a nuclear physicist and since my brother and I were presumably a lot stupider than he was, he limited his chatting with us to simple things, mundane things if you will, most notably how to get small amounts of ketchup out of the bottom of the bottle.

Here’s what you do.  You hold the ketchup bottle upside down by the neck and swing your arm around in complete 360° revolutions and centrifugal force will push all of the remaining ketchup down to the neck of the bottle so that when you open it, it will all come gushing out. 

In practical terms what he should have told us to do was make sure the cap was securely on the bottle because otherwise when you swing your arm around in complete 360° revolutions, centrifugal force will push the cap off the bottle and shoot ketchup across the dining room onto the wall, living room clock and brand new curtains. 

Nuclear physicists may investigate motion and gravity, but they know diddly about ketchup stains.