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From: ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: WHat are those holes for?
Message-ID: <4862@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 20 Jul 88 07:10:44 GMT
References: <10790@oberon.USC.EDU> <327@richp1.UUCP> <303@btree.uucp> <1550@tekirl.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
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In article <1550@tekirl.TEK.COM> jackg@tekirl.TEK.COM (Jack Gjovaag) writes:
>In article <303@btree.uucp> rfarris@btree.UCSD.EDU (rick farris) writes:
>>Yes, and why the heck are manholes round?
>
>Aha! I know the answer to this one, even though it has nothing to
>do with electronics.  Round is the only shape for the cover that
>guarantees that the cover can't fall into the hole.  What do I win?

A great big no-prize...a equilateral triangle for a manhole cover wouldn't
fall into the hole either.  And think of the other uses...paint them orange
and point them in the direction of one-way streets.  And they wouldn't roll
away when you pull em off, either.

Lance


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