"Out of 1,000 venereal victims admitted to Saint-Lazare for the first time between 1890 and 1900 there were 177 declared prostitutes and 832 clandestine ones."

If I've learned one thing about history so far, it's that historians don't know anything about numbers. I think they make up dates with a ouija board.

Jan: Perhaps nine of them were clandestine prostitutes.

Me: I'm glad I have a friend nerdy enough to care about these mathematical details with me.