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    I need a topology expert... —Dave Schuler
   Someone explain to me how the my refrigerator cord has managed to tie itself into a respectable square knot without having been separated from either the wall or the fridge. Dave! (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: I need a topology expert... —Maggie Cambron
   (...) Topologically speaking, if you want to consider the refrigerator, its cord and the wall (and, hence, by extension the house and the earth to which it is attached) to be a single entity, then it could happen if somehow during the night the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: I need a topology expert... —Dave Schuler
   (...) Well, in either case it's a relief. I was afraid someone had been breaking into my house to do it, and in that case I'd have to kill him and stick a bread knife in his hand. Thanks for saving a life! Dave! (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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