OT Re: Math-embarrassment results in CS [was: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?]

[Rick Johnson]

On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 9:03:15 PM UTC-5, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Did you hear about the idiot topologist?  He couldn't tell his butt from
> a hole in the ground, but he *could* tell his butt from two holes in the
> ground.

This sounds more like a riddle than a joke. So in other
words: the message passing requires himself in one hole and
a clone of himself in another hole speaking the message
simultaneously?