"Don't shit where you eat"

[Mark Mandel]

Oh, good!

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On 7/10/07, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
>
> Mark Mandel wrote:
> > I'm still looking for a context (spherical geometry, maybe?) in which to
> > make a pun about 2-dimensional geometrical figures with only two sides
> each:
> > bigons.
> >
> > (gd&ravvf)
>
> As it happens, my research area is classical Euclidean geometry, and
> specifically parametrization of polygons. Three or four years ago, I was
> giving a colloquium talk on the theory, and (on being questioned)
> explained that it did, indeed, apply to the degenerate case of two-sided
> polygons. The obvious pun was made.
>
> Jim Parish
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