Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan
- September 01, 2008
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About Pooch Cafe
Pooch Café is the story of a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, kibble-desiring, break-dancing, toilet-drinking mutt named Poncho. Dogs, like certain barflies, want to go where everybody knows their name (other than the vet’s office.) So they gather at the Pooch Café to compare notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, toilet breath, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats into the sun. Don’t look for it out on the main street -- its actual location is a canine top secret that was only compromised that one time they got a pizza delivered.
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BetterThanYou
said,
about 1 year ago
20 points to anyone who can figure out the fallacy of Poncho’s argument.
lilybdcsa said, about 1 year ago
I’m just glad we don’t have a basement.
RangerFish said, about 1 year ago
@BTY: Easy. If true, it could be used to prove the existence of anything at all, even things that are physically impossible, without other supporting evidence.
Poncho doesn’t give any evidence that boogeymen can exist anywhere, regardless of whether or not we assume an infinite number of basements.
It’s like saying “sentient rubber balloons that like to listen to Marilyn Manson must exist because space is infinite.”
BetterThanYou
said,
about 1 year ago
We have a winner!!!
Enjoy your twenty points. I have no idea what I would do with them, but I’m sure you’ll think of something.
EDIT: I should probably point out that the actual fallacious step is “any number multiplied by infinity equals infinity”. 0*infinity is indeterminate; therefore, if there is a 0% chance of a boogeyman being in a given basement, the actual probability of a boogeyman existing at all is uncertain.
(END EDIT)
Anyway, if you’re into fanfic:
I’m guessing the upcoming week will feature some scary unidentified form that they take to be the boogeyman. It’ll turn out to be someone perfectly harmless. Boomer, perhaps? He hasn’t been shown in the last couple strips. Poncho will forget all about Fish, because he’s a dog. We can’t have a repeat of what happened last time, when Poncho rescued the fish, now can we?
Macushlalondra
said,
about 1 year ago
Are they ever gonna remember that poor fish?
RangerFish said, about 1 year ago
@BTY: Ok didn’t spot that one… Thanks for the points anyway.
eemostad said, about 1 year ago
The Drake equation (also sometimes called the “Green Bank equation”, the “Green Bank Formula,” or often erroneously labeled the “Sagan equation”) is a famous result in the speculative fields of exobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Equation