Bottle of Klein

[elisem]

Bottle of Klein
Fill it with wine
But is it inside or outside my
Bottle of Klein?
Either is fine
It won't matter after you've tried my

Bottle of Klein
Lovely design
There isn't anywhere I can hide my
Bottle of Klein
Look and you'll find
The whole universe is inside my

Bottle of Klein….


(I blame Brother Guy for mentioning Klein bottles recently. There will probably be more verses.)
(And there are more verses.)

Bottle of Klein
Tricky design
Puddles appear when I've tried my
Bottle of Klein
Drinking the wine
Gravity must have defied my

Bottle of Klein....

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Trying to drink from it is a bit difficult.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Bottle of Klein
Tricky design
Puddles appear when I've tried my
Bottle of Klein
Drinking the wine
Gravity must have defied my

Bottle of Klein....

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Klein Bottles for sale (http://www.kleinbottle.com/), also Chinese spouting bowls.

a Klein bottle shaped bottle opener (http://www.bathsheba.com/math/klein/).

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[uilos.livejournal.com]

My wonderful partner got me one of those for Christmas one year and I love it to death.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

A bottle, or the bottle opener?

I adore the bottle opener, and faunch after it desperately.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

An Erlenmeyer bottle. If I had one of the bottle openers, I would have to figure out how to position it on top of the bottle so that the bottle had a hat.

[finnyb.livejournal.com]

Would you like me to obtain it for you? (I ask, because I would not know where to send it otherwise.)

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Only if you let me send you shinies or something in trade, dearie.

[finnyb.livejournal.com]

You are fully welcome to "send me shinies or something" in trade if you so desire.

[sheistheweather]

Hee hee heeee.

It seems to fit approximately to the tune of the chorus of Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream", but it doesn't quite. What is the tune?

[elisem.livejournal.com]

"Bottle of Wine" is the song. Here's Tom Paxton himself singing it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKk0Nf5n1BM) (He wrote it.) There's probably one of the Kingston Trio singing it somewhere.

[sheistheweather]

Ohhh, I love it! :D

[snippy]

One of my bosses has a Klein bottle on his desk. He also has an assortment of those small round magnets that are sometimes called Buckeyballs. One day while on the phone he got bored...

He now has a new Klein bottle. :)

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Dear, dear. Applied physics is like that sometimes.

[selidor]

This makes me very happy.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

"One hundred bottles of Klein on the wall,
one hundred bottles of Klein..."

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Heh.

One hundred bottles of Klein on the wall which is also somehow inside them,
one hundred bottles of Klein....


Hey, can one perform that figure of speech "the container for the thing contained" with a Klein bottle, and how does that work out then?

[timprov.livejournal.com]

One fell down and wrapped around
100 bottles of Klein on the wall...

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that.