Barry Smith of Buffalo, NY put me on to the following border cartoon:
http://www1.buffnews.com/opinion/tomtoles.asp
use the button below the (more recent) on-screen cartoon to select 11/15/99
(that's 15 Nov for non-Americans).
A more subtle irony for mathematicians is that a curve of that nature is
actually known as a Jordan Curve!
Brendan Whyte
University of Melbourne
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