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Igel

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5. Pun.

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #4)

Wed May 31, 2017, 08:31 PM

May 2017

Black hole is Russian chernaya dyra translated into English.

It's a Russian euphemism for butthole. It was popularized in English in '67.

Made more interesting when a mechanism for black holes to store and not destroy information was termed "hair" and such objects were termed "hairy black holes."

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