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The trio proposes that rather than being “flat as a pancake,” as standard lensing models assume, Abell 3827 is acting as a thicker, more three-dimensional lens with correspondingly stronger aberrations on its projected fuzzy wreath of images.

They’re bucolic bits of Vermont countryside, flat as a pancake and home to about 7,300 people, according to the 2020 Census.

The stock market was, despite gyrations, flat as a pancake and about as sexy as toenail fungus: The Dow Jones industrial average stood at 839 at the end of 1970 and at the end of 1979 it was … 839.

“So maybe Oumuamua was consistent with a cookie when we saw it, but will soon be literally as flat as a pancake,” Desch said in an email.

But, unfortunately and ironically, the multibillionaire scion of the fabulously wealthy Pritzker family finds himself in a state of financial embarrassment thanks to the fact that Illinois is, for all intents and purposes, busted flat as a pancake.