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MR: Disc: Rings of Borromeo




Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com

>      I'm a Philadelphia girl, myself (not exactly New Jersy, but close
>      enough).  While I can't argue which beer was the swilliest (It all
>      tastes nasty, as far as I'm concerned

(as far as I'm concerned, too)
                                              ), I remember with fondness the
>      Ballantine commercial:
>
>      Take a ring, then add another ring, and then another ring, and now
>      you've got rings...  How can you argue with something so profound as
>      that, I ask you?

You left out the most important topological point:  No two rings
were interlinked, but the three rings together WERE interlinked.

             +--------------------+
             |....................|
             |..+--------------+..|
             |..|              |..|
+---------------------+        |..|
|/////////////////////|        |..|
|//+---------------+//|        |..|
|//|         |..|  |//|        |..|
|//|   +-----|..|-----------+  |..|
|//|   |#####|..|###########|  |..|
|//|   |##+--|..|--------+##|  |..|
|//|   |##|  |..|  |//|  |##|  |..|
|//|   |##|  |..+--|//|--------+..|
|//|   |##|  |.....|//|...........|
|//|   |##|  +-----|//|-----------+
|//|   |##|        |//|  |##|
|//+---|##|--------+//|  |##|
|//////|##|///////////|  |##|
+------|##|-----------+  |##|
       |##|              |##|
       |##+--------------+##|
       |####################|
       +--------------------+

 
 
Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com
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