Conference back40::soapbox

Unwanted goat?  Speciesist!

2/3 chance of winning if switching.

    
    Oh no, not this question again 8^/.

    
      Yes, 2/3 of the time you win by switching.  Your initial odds
     were 1/3.  They still are if you stay.  But you know that the
     rest of the time the prize is behind the other door, so 2/3.
    
      bb

    
    
    No, because there's a bunch of $100 bills shoved up the goats arse....

 
  The train from Chicago left at 8AM?

  i guess edp never gets tired of this one.

    I don't know but Monty is wearing black shoes.

I concur -- Monte Hall _is_ a problem.

eeewwwweee..... the goats are filled with drugs wrapped in condoms. 

 How do you get to Monte Hall?




 Practice, my boy, practice

    Can I pose a logic question here or is this limited to Monty Dull?
    
    -Jack

Monty Hall's problem?  Reports are that he 
suffered from that Wade Boggs disease.

    The way I heard it, Diane Parkinson was suffering from the 'kiss
    n tell for mucho bucks' syndrome. That's the one where you engage in
    consentual sex, but when you get dumped you sue.

Monty and Carol behind door #1?

The Diane Parkinson's Disease??
Dreadful.

Consensual.

Was Diane Parkinson a replacement for Carol?  Carol was the lovely curtain-
opener in my LMaD-watching days.

 We're not confusing Mr. Hall with Bob Barker are we?

Oh, I don't know, those game show hosts all look alike.

     It was Barker that was/is being sued by Parkinson. I'm not aware of
    any lawsuits against Hall; I just assumed Bonnie aliased the two.

Now does Barker wear a collar?

This sounds like a problem for Gene Haag.... except I guess he 
would want the door with the goat!

re .12:

> eeewwwweee..... the goats are filled with drugs wrapped in condoms. 
  ^^^^^^^^^^


That's a sheep, not a goat.

Didn't someone just say Gene Haag and sheep?

    not to be confused with Monty Python or Monte Carlo...

    Yes, it was Bark Bobber not Monty Hall.  

I'll take "Vietnamese Basketball Stars" for one thousand, Alex.

    And the answer is "Hoop Chi Minh."

    >> No, because there's a bunch of $100 bills shoved up the goats arse....
    
    Bwah-hah-hah!... spoken like a true LMaD fan, because of course
    hiding the real prize inside a bogus prize is exactly the kind
    of thing they used to do on that show (though never in that
    exact orifice, of course).
    
    Chris

    
    Monty Hall topic, people.

    \john

3-card Huntz

re: .34

I obviously need a vacation.

I'll take one.
\john

    
    I thought you just HAD a vacation!

So is it Monte or Monty?

    
    Monte, the card game.
    
    Monty, the game show host.
    

    .39
    
    Monte is not a card game, it is a grifters' trick.

    
    .40:
    
    Webster's says:  "a card game in which..."
    
    But beyond that, I ain't gonna argue about words with The Binder.
    

    .41
    
    John, I stand corrected.  I'd never before heard of the kind of monte
    described in Webster.  The monte I know uses only two (or three, in a
    variant) cards and is similar in purpose and effect to the old shell
    game.  I used to be a very proficient operator of three-card monte.

    Well, it's a game played with cards, so technically....

    .43
    
    Get with the program.  The first four words in .42 are "John, I stand
    corrected."

    So?  Just because you don't want to talk about it any more, doesn't
    mean I have to abandon the subject.
    
    And I bet you didn't stand at all.  I bet you sat through the whole
    thing.  So there.

    
    
    	Monty Hall from Lets Make a Deal was the national celebrity
    	chairman for teh Illitis and Colitus Foundation.
    
    		Did lots of good work for this cause but never got
    	the BIG telethons like Jerry Lewis. 
    
    
    
    			DAC
    
    

Illitis a candlestickus for him.

    .45
    
    > And I bet you didn't stand at all.  I bet you sat through the whole
    > thing.  So there.
    
    	stand  v.  8.a. To be in a specified state or condition.
    
    American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition.

    Ileitis

Ha!

Now what was the question?

Mikey

    Binder is still right about one thing.
    
    Three-card monte is *not* a card game.
    It is a scam.  A whole scam.  And nothing but a scam.
    
    								-mr. bill

>        -< Another variation of "I know where you got those shoes".... >-

Let me guess. Is the answer, "You've got them on your feet"?

    
    Okay, pedants.  If you're driving along, and a hubcap comes off your
    front right wheel, will the hubcap fly ahead of the car (at least,
    temporarily) or fall immediately behind?  And why?
    

Like a lot of other things in life, it's all a matter of timing.

In this case, it's all in the ejection. If'n it's comes off prematurely,
the hubcap immediately falls down and is left behind. But if'n it has
enough prowess, it could readily stand up to the conditions and fly
ahead.

TTom

    
    >Okay, pedants.  If you're driving along, and a hubcap comes off your
    >front right wheel, will the hubcap fly ahead of the car (at least,
    >temporarily) or fall immediately behind?  And why?
    
    It all depends on what you were doing at the time it came off.
    
    If you were taking a left corner, it would go straight as you turn.
    
    If you were "smoking" the tires (and no I don't smoke my tires,
    it clogs the pipes) it would fly ahead.
    
    If its still attached to your tire as it falls off the car, then it
    would roll ahead of your (now hard to control) car.
    
    If you were braking, it would also fly ahead (as your car slowed down
    but the hubcap didn't).
    
    If you were just cruising along, then the increased air resistance as
    the thing left the tire would cause it to fall behind.  Also, when it
    hit the ground, it would be rotating at the same rate as the tire. 
    But, it is a smaller diameter, so its linear speed is less, and thus
    the ground would also cause it to slow down.
    
    My personal experience has been that this only happens on a dark night,
    so you could not see the thing even if it did fly ahead of you.  Also,
    it usually lands in a yard with a big dog who is now mad about being
    hit by a hubcap.
    
    	Skip

    Wow.
    At first I was going to say there was no way it could fly ahead, but
    Skip came up with two bonafide ways for it to do just that. 
    Very insightful. 

    
    > If you were taking a left corner, it would go straight as you turn.
    >           .          .          .          .          .          .
    >           .          .          .          .          .          .
    >           .          .          .          .          .          .
    > it usually lands in a yard with a big dog who is now mad about being
    > hit by a hubcap.
    
    It sounds like there are some interesting stories in there someplace !
    
    :-)
    Dan

        Or, if  it  was the Mustang as used in "Bullit" the hubcaps would
        magically regenerate, all by themselves...
        
        &y