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( Q:      What's the contour integral around Western Europe?   )
( A:      Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe!   )
(                                                              )
( Addendum: Actually, there ARE some Poles in Western Europe,  )
( but they                                                     )
(         are removable!                                       )
(                                                              )
( Q:      An English mathematician (I forgot who) was asked by )
( his                                                          )
(         very religious colleague: Do you believe in one God? )
( A:      Yes, up to isomorphism!                              )
(                                                              )
( Q:      What is a compact city?                              )
( A:      It's a city that can be guarded by finitely many     )
( near-sighted                                                 )
(         policemen!                                           )
(                 -- Peter Lax                                 )
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