#3210: Eliminating the Impossible

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[White Hat and Cueball are standing together and talking. White Hat has one hand slightly raised.]

White Hat: As Sherlock Holmes said,

White Hat: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

[Close-up of Cueball's head.]

Cueball: What about the possibility that you forgot to eliminate a possibility?

Cueball: Or that you eliminated one incorrectly?

Cueball: Both of those remain, too.

[Zoom back out to show both. Cueball holds his arms out.]

White Hat: You're being pedantic.

White Hat: It's just a general rule for deduction.

Cueball: But it's a bad rule.

[Cueball holds up one finger.]

Cueball: How often have you thought, "I can't find this thing, and I've searched the whole house. The only place I haven't looked is the car, so it must be there."

White Hat: ...and then it's never in the car.

Cueball: It's never in the car!