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Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire at the centre of the Mandelson-Osborne spat, is universally described as an "aluminium magnate".

But I though aluminium wasn't magnetic...

Date: 2008-10-25 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
That's because Russia doesn't have any Poles anymore.

Date: 2008-10-25 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
Which reminds me of a very bad joke...

Q. What is the value of a contour integral around western Europe?

A. 0, all the Poles are in Eastern Europe

Date: 2008-10-26 10:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com
Very, very good!

Date: 2008-10-26 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittenexploring.livejournal.com
If aluminium was magnetic it would hardly be worth pointing out, no?

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