Irrevocable proof

A few days ago, I wrote about my smidgen of soupcon that Richie Rich might just be infiltrating my healthy-pizza territory. What? Accuse a boss of filching your cheeseless veggie pizza?

So Macklaine took it upon himself to corroborate my suspicious with some sleuthing of his own, and came up with the following incontrovertible evidence. "I've proof that Richie Rich was nabbin' the odd slice of pizza on the sly," he pronounced.

And pointed me to a terribly scientific study of office food, politics and diplomacy: an experiment was performed where-in muffins were left lying around the office, next to money-collection boxes. The system was based on the honour system, employees were supposed to drop a dollar in the box each time they helped themselves to a muffin. A Private Eye then recorded happenings, to report a strong reverse correlation between employee seniority and infringement of the honour code of ethics. Basically, the study said, senior executives were most likely to steal muffins, while the baser minions tended to pay up the honest dollar.

Irrevocable, incontrovertible, undeniable proof