Does this remind anyone else of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)?
Specifically, the sofa the movers get stuck in the stairwell, and in an attempt to get it out they prove (via computer simulation) that not only is it impossible to remove, it was impossible to get that way in the first place.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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