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Re:What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005) by bwanab on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:01PM (#12702226)
=== In typical New Yorker fashion it assumes you have never heard of platonism, formal logic or 20th century physics but assumes you remember the future conjugations of regular latin verbs.===

So true and so well put - And I love the New Yorker. If I use this phrase in the future should I attribute it to you (although "according to gumby" might not fly so well with my other New Yorker aficionados).

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Re:What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005) by gumby on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:18PM (#12702388)
Those callous sophisticates[+] should be more tolerant of names of others from different cultures (even if their name is funny in US English).

[+] The referenced Kliban cartoon seems quintessentially New Yorker Magazine material but as far as I know he never appeared in it.

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