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Re: I need a topology expert...
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:07:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Maggie Cambron writes:
> > Someone explain to me how my refrigerator cord has managed to tie itself
> > into a respectable square knot without having been separated from either the
> > wall or the fridge.
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> Topologically speaking... it could happen if somehow during the
> night the refrigerator stretched itself into a form capable of threading
> itself through the cord part of itself
> More likely, the gnomes did it.
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!
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| (...) 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)
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