“Each message is regarded as a ‘hot potato’, and the nodes are not wearing gloves. Rather than hold the ‘hot potato’ the node tosses the message to its neighbor, who will now try to get rid of the message.” The paragraph above is describing aspects of the Hot Potato Algorithm, originally developed by (the late) […]
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The vicar’s fall from grace (onto a potato)
The British edition of The Metro reports (in an article derived from reporting by The Sun: Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum A vicar claims a potato got stuck up his bottom after he fell on to the vegetable while hanging curtains in the nude. The clergyman, in his 50s, told medical staff at […]
The clergyman and the tuber
Vicar went to hospital with potato stuck in bottom That’s the headline in a October 31, 2008 report in The Telegraph, which goes on to explain that “A vicar attended hospital with a potato stuck up his bottom – and claimed it got there after he fell on to the vegetable while naked…. The clergyman, […]