# Have you ever seen a bell-mouth spillway? (aka a “Glory Hole”)

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**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-bell-mouth-spillway-aka-a-glory-hole/1016480 "2025-04-01T23:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-bell-mouth-spillway-aka-a-glory-hole/1016480/6 "2025-04-02T05:04:03Z")

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Not in person; just in the form of memes. Like so:

[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxgoaPefJkDBl31e0db3-L-pusdEJPdTdfQyxnPNqCXfBR-L8hWkAN1W41dtxOlJSATFMGdsYdxrtIEnXoKPlrRYfAzDewjBziHnPfEWercfFt0Ub8rIBQiBscjMC4TimMQnRLJAyLebVO/s1600/divided+by+zero.jpg) ](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxgoaPefJkDBl31e0db3-L-pusdEJPdTdfQyxnPNqCXfBR-L8hWkAN1W41dtxOlJSATFMGdsYdxrtIEnXoKPlrRYfAzDewjBziHnPfEWercfFt0Ub8rIBQiBscjMC4TimMQnRLJAyLebVO/s1600/divided+by+zero.jpg)

In fact until it was explained on another forum years ago I thought the image was some photomanipulation trick, not real. It does look unreal.

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