Ready-made pick-up lines (XIII)

Choice quotes from WDJ.  Try these out in your favorite bar!

The author then mentions that the proof actually constructs the Reals out of the Rationals.  This is, of course, the most solid sort of proof of all – not one of those Cantorian diagonalization thingies that has you winding up assenting to the Infinite Woodchuck, without ever quite knowing how you got into such a fix.

Nine out of nine Humble Woodchucks prefer grommet-topped curtains to like, you know, the other kind.

I am not saying that numbers are ideas.  Or if they are that, they are that  in addition, where they keep such scruffy company as the Idea of a Unicorn  and the Idea of a Ham Sandwich.  They are, rather, facts as hard as baseballs, packing quite as much wallop.

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We have seen, throughout history, and perhaps especially of late, the phenomenon of the monomaniac, the homo unius notionis, with his One Big Idea.  He rides it through all the talk shows, he remolds it and reworks it, and sends it out to do battle with the issues of the day, as they crop up; however distant they might be to his central conception.

Sirs, hello.  I am Prince of Nigeria, writing to you from my cold hard prison cell.

Update:  However, don’t try these in France.