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Comment author: [deleted] 25 February 2014 09:14:44AM 2 points [-]

“A topologist is someone who can't tell the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground.”

Comment author: satt 26 February 2014 04:26:13AM 3 points [-]

Are those two things really homeomorphic? A topologist's arse has a hole running all the way through it, but a pit in the ground's only open at one end. You might say: go far enough into a bottom and eventually you reach a hole; go far enough into a hole and eventually you reach a bottom.

(Sorry. I'll go to bed now.)