How do I stir up the Cambridge Philosophy budget scoffers?

300 years ago there lived a king of ill heart and much pride. He had a daughter, whom he had promised to a rich neighbor, but she had a different plan: she fell in love with a plain lad, a blacksmith named Kecho. The lovers tried to run to the mountains but were caught.

Angered, the king decided to execute Kecho. However, to not appear as a cruel tyrant before his daughter and the people, and to show the blacksmith as intellectually unworthy for marriage to royalty, he let Kecho decide his own execution based on his wits. The next day he had Kecho placed in a room with nine doors. Each door led to a single room. One of the rooms contained the princess while the rest of the rooms were either empty or contained a tiger. Above each door was a sign.


Here's a list of the signs:
Room I: The lady is an odd-numbered room.
Room II: This room is empty.
Room III: Either sign on Room V is right or sign on Room VII is wrong.
Room IV: Sign on Room I is wrong.
Room V: Either sign on Room II or sign on Room IV is right.
Room VI: Sign on Room III is wrong.
Room VII: The lady is not in Room I.
Room VIII: This room has a tiger and Room IX is empty.
Room IX: This room has a tiger and sign on Room VI is wrong.



The king told Kecho, "The sign on the door of the room containing the princess is true; the signs on the doors of all the rooms containing the tigers are false; while those on the empty rooms can be either true or false."

The king even gave Kecho a hint and told him whether Room VIII was empty or not. Kecho must now open doors until he finds the princess or a tiger and his death.


Which door should he choose?

What makes you so sure Spendius is a drunkard, Mathos? Is your name Vic?


My name is not Vic, KKL, nor do I see any valid reason for asking such a peculiar question.

I note our 'common' associate Spendius, who claims to be involved with The Construction Industry usually, mostly, all the time, enters the forum between 11 am and 3 pm

He often remarks. 'Off to the pub'

He is never on screen of an evening. I carry out normal work and finish as a rule between 5.30 pm and 6 pm entering the forum of an evening, as most responsible people would. Exceptions can be made if I have a casual weekend or one of these nuisance causing 'Bank Holiday's'

Now, if, Spendius wanders off to the pub at around 3pm and never appears to make the forum of an evening, it would appear a sensible, even logical assumption to consider the oick to be getting paralytic drunk in some part of his wretched county. You will no doubt have noticed also that most, if not all of his encounters leading to one of his immature parables are generated from the bar.

Also, you have borne witness to his downright rude, inconsiderate rantings on the forum. I note they follow a time pattern. Usually around 2 pm this could well be the result of symptoms, systematic with withdrawal.

He could well be an eccentric, lost in the past, who habituates the forum as if in a time warp of his own senile construction. In which case, the scoundrel commits no sin. He is devoid of sin due to the mentality of his mature brain no doubt encompassed in an over ripe body which suffers various malfunctions.

I trust my representation meets with the demands of 'Her Ladyships' inquisitive nature.

He could well be an eccentric, lost in the past, who habituates the forum as if in a time warp of his own senile construction. In which case, the scoundrel commits no sin. He is devoid of sin due to the mentality of his mature brain no doubt encompassed in an over ripe body which suffers various malfunctions.

Lola:-

If your capacity to analyse literature has led you to believe that Mathos and myself are the same person you must have been to an extremely advanced linguistics college possibly on Alpha Centauri.

I have not purchased a computer for my residence for the very obvious reason that threaders are a touch spasmodical and I have a lot of very nice books to read.

Why would I wish to masquerade under another name and ,even if I did which I stress I don't,I would be entirely incapable of writing incomprehensible sentences or of pulling my long-johns down in public both of which are essential features of Mathos's productions.Can't you see that all his pre-occupations are beta-minus.He probably even votes in elections.You can't get more beta-minus than that.It takes one to know one they say and it takes one not to recognise alphas as well.All beta minuses can't imagine anything superior to themselves you see which is why they spend the whole of their lives stuck where they started.

What has led you to this Columbo type stance?
With your good friend spendius what you see is what there is.I am an ascetic and Mathos is a rut grubbing runt.And he's not so hot at it either like I used to be before I realised that my survival was at stake and saw the errors of my ways.

While I readily agree that Mathos is a jerk and Spendius a nice guy, I have come to the conclusion that Lola's impressive insight here just might be correct.

Can we all just get along?

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He could well be an eccentric, lost in the past, who habituates the forum as if in a time warp of his own senile construction. In which case, the scoundrel commits no sin. He is devoid of sin due to the mentality of his mature brain no doubt encompassed in an over ripe body which suffers various malfunctions.

Or you could be his evening persona.........it seems plausible to me. If you would like to prove me wrong, you could post some day at the same time he does, just for fun. Of course that wouldn't prove it for sure, since my friend Spendi could be having some fun with his new computer that I encouraged him to buy.........it's possible.

While I readily agree that Mathos is a jerk and Spendius a nice guy, I have come to the conclusion that Lola's impressive insight here just might be correct.