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December 22, 2011 by Dave Barbulesco · Comments Off on RV Hall of Fame Makes Strides in Tough Times
The RV/MH Hall of Fame continues to open its doors every day, playing host to the streams of RVers eager to view the industry's past and present depicted in the array of eye-catching and instructive displays.
That in itself is an accomplishment, says Tom McNulty, who took the reins as executive director of the financially strapped museum around eight months ago. "When I first came on board, there were people that were saying we wouldn't last two months," he said. "But we're still here, and our hope is we'll be here for the long run.
"There are some good things happening and actually our cash flow is better than it's been in a couple of years. Attendance during the summer was 100 to 150 people a day and we are seeing greater returns from our convention center."
McNulty is by no means trying to mask the financial quandary that fostered those doomsday predictions. The hall, which officially opened in March of 2007 on the northeast side of Elkhart, Ind., continues to run in the red, exacerbated by the country's economic collapse and a resulting accumulation of debt that came to a head in the past year.
"We are still in the throes of negotiating our debt," McNulty said. "At times we think we see the light at the end of the tunnel, but then someone turns off the switch. It's very frustrating to say the least."
Bill Garpow, executive director of the Recreational Park Trailer Industry Association (RPTIA) and chairman for the Hall of Fame, added, "Because of the economy, it's been very difficult over the past four years to raise the types of funds that we need to meet our obligations."
Three sources in particular are holding the bulk of outstanding bills:
• First Source Bank, which established a $900,000 line of credit for the hall.
• Historian David Woodworth, who sold a portion of his prized RV collection to the hall for $750,000.
• The family of deceased Teton Homes founder Boots Ingram, who made an interest bearing loan of $1.1 million to secure Woodworth's collection and an interest-free, five-year $2 million loan for construction costs to house the vehicles.
"We negotiated those loans in an era when the economy, and the industry, was still strong," Garpow said. "In hindsight, if we had been able to foresee how bad the economy would get, the board probably wouldn't have accepted the funding."
But Garpow says there is movement toward potentially resolving the hall's debt. "I can't be specific, but we are having an involved conversation with the Ingram family," he said. "We sent a proposal and are expecting a response very quickly. Their answer will obviously dictate how we operate moving forward."
There is also an ongoing discussion with the Go RVing Coalition, which has annually paid the hall $200,000 in return for the high-profile marketing services provided by the facility.
"The Go RVing Coalition honored its commitment through 2011," said McNulty. "They made an offer for 2012, but we were disappointed. We are currently working with (RVIA President) Richard Coon, who has been very supportive, and are putting together a proposal as to why the commitment should be higher. I have every reason to believe it will be honored."
Another source for optimism is the heightened marketing efforts for the hall's convention center. Susan Weaver was brought on board in September to spearhead efforts and McNulty reported that there are substantial commitments on the books for the coming year.
"The conference center is much more active," he said. "People are starting to find out just what a great facility we have for all sorts of events. I think having the RV Open House brought a lot of attention and the rest is primarily word of mouth. Looking ahead to 2012, we already have $100,000 in bookings."
But perhaps the biggest boost for the hall would be a growing economy.
"There have been some signs that things are getting better," Garpow noted. "The good news is that it's hard to find anybody that doesn't say we need the hall, that we need to support it, that it's a good endeavor. That tells me that if people start feeling better about their situation, then our situation could also improve."


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Shelby County Commissioners vote Monday, Jan. 28, on disbanding the nearly 10-year-old Needs Assessment Committee that advised the commission on funding school construction and renovation projects across both public school systems.
The commission meets at 1:30 p.m. at the Vasco Smith Administration Building, 160 N. Main St.
The committee was created to give the commission an overview of school construction and renovation projects in both of the county's public school systems. Its members included architects and construction contractors knowledgeable about such projects.
Shelby County government has been the dominant local funder of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools. The money county government has provided for school construction in both school systems has been the major factor in the just more than $1 billion of bond indebtedness the county currently has.
But with the move to a merger of city and county schools in August, the committee has been inactive for the last year-and-a-half.
"I think it did a good job of focusing on real needs and encouraging the school boards to justify their needs," said County Commission chairman Mike Ritz, who is proposing the disbanding of the group. "When you start asking people questions, priorities change."
With the merger, there isn't the need for a body that will look at school construction needs across the boundaries of the two school systems and prioritize the separate requests from two school systems.
"The circumstances now are completely different," Ritz said. "We only have one school system."
He added schools leaders have indicated the first budget proposal for the merged school district this spring will not include any school construction projects. The projects could resume in the second fiscal year of the merger and if the commission feels a need to bring the committee back it could reconstitute it.
Meanwhile, commissioners are awaiting a legal opinion from the county attorney's office on whether a two-thirds, or nine-vote, majority is required to raise the county's recertified tax rate by more than 10 percent to produce the same amount of revenue for county government.
The question has come up because of an expected drop in property values in the current Shelby County property reappraisal.
Ritz questioned whether nine votes is required since it is a recertified tax rate to produce the same amount of revenue.
"I think we are confusing a lot of people unless we know what it is," he said of references to the recertified rate as a tax hike. "We have elected officials saying things that may or may not be true. But we need to know. It's really important."
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell has said there probably will be a county property tax rate hike for the fiscal year that begins July 1 to provide additional funding for the consolidated school system and Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court reforms.
County Chief Administrative Officer Harvey Kennedy said the recertified rate, which the commission must approve, is a "baseline" for producing the same amount of revenue. State revenue officials then certify that tax rate.
The state law was established to prevent a local government from getting a "windfall" in revenue by leaving the tax rate the same when the local government is getting the benefit of a tax hike.
County government faces the reverse of that in the new fiscal year.
"They never envisioned this decline in property values," Kennedy said. "They always set the anti-windfall. They didn't talk about a reverse windfall. We've got a difficult situation."
Commissioner Terry Roland said he considered a rise in the recertified tax rate as a tax hike.
"To me, if a person's property value went down, then their taxes should go down is the way I look at it," he said. "The answer is the government institutions should have to work on less."
Commissioner Heidi Shafer said while the drop in revenue may be unprecedented, past commissions have generated revenue increases by keeping the certified rate the same despite the state law.
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The committee discussion last week on the point came as Shelby County Trustee David Lenoir said his preliminary discussions with Shelby County Property Assessor Cheyenne Johnson indicate property values for assessment purposes could fall back to the values before the 2009 reappraisal.
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It was no surprise to see The Sun Newspaper jump on the violent video-games bandwagon this last week in relation to the awful events at Sandy Hook.
"KILLER'S CALL OF DUTY OBSESSION" read The Sun's frontpage headline. It didn't matter that some of the rag's quoted sources dismissed the game as a trigger; we all knew what The Sun was trying to do: sell their ailing paper with sensationalism rather than sound reporting and facts.
The piece is littered with passive-aggressive statements towards games, labelling them 'Bloodthirsty' and such but a few days later The Sun has chosen the evil and corrupting Call of Duty: Black Ops II as one of its 2012 Games of the Year.
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If you can drag yourself away from the filibuster underway on the Senate floor, let's talk about Hillary Clinton for a minute. I've been asking myself a question lately: What was the significance of the 2008 primary fight between Senators Obama and Clinton? And how did it shape the Administration?
The primary fight strengthened Obama for the general and it is doubtful the two were simply fungible, that it would "make no difference" to what would happen 2009-17, including regarding the acts of the Secretary of State (less important there though how former rivals worked together etc. would likely affect Clinton's campaign and governing somehow).
I also doubt seriously that she would deem it a good idea to put up a challenge to a sitting Democratic President in 2012. The appointment of Clinton is quite significant, especially if she runs and it provides serious claim of foreign policy / executive experience, clearly.
I agree Clinton's force diminishes Obama's authority over his successor, but I'm not sure how much that contributes to his 'lame duck' status. The influence would only matter just so much.
When the voters returned divided government and Obama did not tack right to where the electorate is like Clinton did, Obama took office as a lame duck. Obama's only remaining role is a rear guard defense of his 2009-2010 programs.
I'm not sure I follow some of your post, and I'm not sure I agree with some of it.
Do you not think that Hillary would have expended the political capital necessary to pass the ACA? Obama basically adopted the Hillary plan, so I assume this is what you mean?
I'm not sure I agree that there would have been a primary battle in 2012. Clinton was a relatively gracious primary loser in 2008, I see no evidence that she had any desire to undermine Obama (despite the relatively acrimonious primary). And I think the Democratic base was relatively happy with Obama in 2012... according to Gallup, Obama's approval rating among Democrats right now is ~78%, and was in the 80s throughout 2012.
If Hillary had defeated Obama, I doubt there would have been the 2010 Tea Party rebellion that ushered in the current crop of crazy into the House (and, to a lesser degree, the Senate), and ground so much to a halt. Hillary was battle-tested, and 1) knew what might be coming for her, and 2) had noting left for the rabid to chew on, as they had chewed up everything before. And who's to say that she would not have pushed through some kind of health care reform -- let alone immigration reform or any of the other things that became swept up (and away) in the ACA imbroglio. I cannot see that there would have been many, if any, policy differences between Hillary and Obama, and she would have been a tougher president, with a far-more battle-hardened team. She certainly would have handled the messaging around health care reform far better than Obama did (there would have been none of the idiotic negotiating with himself in press interviews before he got to the negotiating table with the GOP, for instance). Look at how much more eloquently Bill Clinton was able to make the case for Obama's re-election at the Democratic National Convention -- far more eloquently than Obama himself.
And this notion that Hillary would have challenged Obama in 2012? Get over it, people. Hillary has proven herself time and again as a team player -- in the Senate, after her primary loss, and at State. Give her some credit, will you?
The Tea Party rebellion grew in part because of the economic problems and how they were handled during the Bush Administration & it is unclear to me that Clinton being elected would have tempered them so much that they would not have remained a serious force, including as in effect the new base of the Republican Party.
There still is a sizable base of haters etc. who would have targeted Clinton. I don't really buy the "it's all racism" argument -- some are motivated by that against Obama, but it is but a means. Different President, something else would be found. Sexism would probably be involved.
Clinton very well might have handled the politics of it all better, but then if she is such a wiz, why did she run such a dubious primary campaign?
@Joe, I agree with the thrust of your post, if not all the details. My main argument, however, was that Hillary would have been better able to handle what was thrown at her, as she had been there. I think Obama was naive about how he could change the dialog in Washington, that there could be a principled policy debate, that the shouting and the crazies were all on the fringe. Hillary would not have suffered those illusions -- she knew the fringe was now inside the Beltway.
As far as her primary campaign -- I don't know whether it was conspicuously inept, or rather suffered from the 20/20 hindsight that we tend to ascribe to all losing campaigns (to philosophize a bit, I think that ties into the general deterministic undercurrent to much American thinking). The larger point, however, is that campaigning involves a skill set far different than that required for governing. Look no further than George W. Bush, a brilliant campaigner, awful at governance.
Hillary and her Hillarycare monstrosity was key in the voters firing the Democrat House for the first time since the 1950s and those voters are today's Tea Party.
"Obama took office as a lame duck. Obama's only remaining role is a rear guard defense of his 2009-2010 programs."
A lame duck, and yet a Caesar? ;)
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Gerard is talking about obama being a lame duck in context with his inability to enact legislation. It is precisely Obama's lack of ability and lack of interest in enacting bipartisan legislation why our caesarist president turned early and often to ruling by decree.
"better able to handle what was thrown at her"
That's quite possible but don't know how much it would have helped as to overall success. Various variables.
I also do think some of the moves made was "inept" though in various cases reasonable on some level. There is as you say a difference from running and governing.
But, it does suggest some lack of insight about the overall lay of the land that probably applies in both cases to some degree.
I don't think we differ on much of the important stuff. Thanks.
@Bart, you are a funny dude, to wit: "lack of interest in enacting bipartisan legislation". You are so right -- pushing a health care plan designed by the Heritage foundation and implemented by the GOP candidate for Prez when he was governor is totally partisan. And adopting GOP immigration plans (only to have Republicans who introduced the damn thing in the prior Congress vote against it). I could go on -- and many others have detailed the numerous examples of the GOP voting against ideas Obama proposed that were originally GOP ideas. Bipartisan does not equal "I do whatever the other side wants." Bipartisan means you find common ground. Whenever Obama finds that common ground, the GOP rapidly abandons it -- usually calling their former positions "socialist". Makes it kinda hard to get things done -- which is, of course, the whole idea.
Heritage once suggested a requirement to buy free market health insurance similar to the auto insurance requirements and is nothing remotely like Obamacare.
Romneycare was a Democrat plan supported by a RINO governor and massively criticized by the GOP outside of MA. Obamacare did indeed take Romneycare and add several pages of its own. Both are German Zwangwirtschaft socialism, where the government declines to nationalize an industry, but directs it as if it were the owner.
Obama met only once with the GOP minority leadership after his election, summarily rejected their ideas and declared that he had won the election. That was Obama's idea of bipartisanship.
@Bartbuster, don't you realize that today, anyone who does not agree completely with a particular Republican is a RINO. (Of course, that means when a different Republican differs on a point with that first Republican, the first Republican also becomes a RINO, and the second RINO-claiming RINO is a RINO to the first one... it gets confusing.) And anyone who is not a Republican is, naturally, a Socialist, regardless of whether the person is a Democrat, independent, or an actualy Socialist (when that person is not a Fascist -- though sometimes the person is a socialist AND a fascist AND Hitler AND Stalin AND a Muslim plant, somehow) even when the supposed Socialist is espousing ideas that in recent years, or even just months before, were espoused by Republicans, or ideas to the right of Saint Ronnie, who somehow is always invoked and genuflected towards despite his raising taxes on multiple occasions and signing an immigration amnesty bill (that was explicitly amnesty -- he embraced it as such) and other such heresies that today would make him a RINO (or a Democrat), but I guess beatification will do that when politics has become theology.
A RINO is a Republican who supports progressive and socialist programs. Hard to be taken seriously as a genuine member of a free market party when you do that.
Sparky, your "free market party" nominated him for president. Does that mean that you think no one should take Republicans seriously? If so, we finally agree on something.
I doubt there would have been the 2010 Tea Party rebellion that ushered in the current crop of crazy into the House (and, to a lesser degree, the Senate), and ground so much to a halt. Hillary was battle-tested, and 1) knew what might be coming for her
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Severe outbursts grossly out of proportion to the situation, in the form of verbal rages or physical aggression, several times a week -- to parents, these would seem the most common elements of childhood temper tantrums.
They are also the proposed criteria for a new childhood mental disorder called temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria.
The disorder is being recommended for inclusion in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, a massive catalogue of brain dysfunction now undergoing its first major revision in 16 years. It is considered the psychiatrists' bible of mental disorders.
If accepted, TDD could soon become as entrenched in our vernacular as ADD.
The disorder is being proposed as an alternative to the runaway diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder. The number of children being diagnosed with -- and medicated for -- bipolar disorder has shot up dramatically in the past decade, despite concerns that many don't meet the official criteria, but are getting the lifelong label nonetheless because of their explosive temper outbursts.
The idea behind TDD is to create a less-severe diagnostic "home" for these children.
The fear is that TDD could open the door to the diagnosis of any child with a bad temper, that it risks pathologizing a normal part of a child's development and could lead to wider prescribing of antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilizers to children, including preschoolers barely out of training pants.
"It's an extremely significant move, and it's a very alarming one," says Christopher Lane, author of Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness.
Infants and children have meltdowns, regularly and routinely, Mr. Lane says.
"It's a healthy expression of frustration. It's a very serious move to contemplate that as a bona fide mental illness, which is what they're very seriously proposing."
The overdiagnosis of bipolar has been a "colossal embarrassment to the field," says Edward Shorter, a professor of the history of medicine and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto's faculty of medicine.
"So they've tried to come up with another diagnosis that will somehow let you diagnose unruly children. But maybe they're unruly, full stop.... To give them a psychiatric diagnosis and treat them with antipsychotics is insane."
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SAO PAULO (AP) — These days, Bryson Billapando hears about threats of violence in Brazil and beyond and flashes back to a gruesome night two years ago in Colorado.
He has done his best to move on since the deadly theater shooting he witnessed at a midnight Batman movie in Aurora, and is now cooking up fresh and healthy meals for the U.S. World Cup team in a gig he couldn't have imagined even just a year ago.
"I just happened to be on the left side of the theater," Billapando recalled Wednesday, taking a quick break a few minutes after preparing the Americans' post-practice lunch. "Then all craziness broke loose."
A gunman opened fire in the theater on July 20, 2012, killing 12 people and wounding 70, including Billapando's then-wife. James Holmes pleaded not guilty because of insanity.
Being part of the U.S. support operation has provided Billapando with a support system of his own, and at a perfect time in his life when he needed a new direction.
Billapando, who celebrates his 31st birthday Thursday, can't provide specifics of the chaos. The trial is scheduled for later this year.
Billapando's then-wife Toni was pregnant with their second child at the time, and she was sitting to his left and got struck by fragments. They also have an older daughter.
The two-year anniversary next month will bring mixed feelings, Billapando expects, following such highs of the World Cup experience.
Since the attack, he has jumped into his work, saying the timing of the World Cup "couldn't have been any better."
"It's not as bad as it once was for me," he said. "I know for some people the healing process is a lot different. It was a huge struggle to get through everything on that end and try and find help. After the shooting, everything was so dark, nothing was positive. ... I was just tired of feeling that way."
Billapando underwent counseling to deal with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, which still can be triggered from time to time. A rash of shootings in recent weeks brought back memories of terror.
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Billapando insists he loves the challenge of adapting recipes for all dietary needs, whether that's specific preferences or players who prefer a gluten-free diet.
"We're in a different culture. I embrace it," Billapando said. "I know it's an honor for them to be on a national team, and it's a huge honor for me to represent the United States culinary-wise."
Billapando is mixing in some traditional ingredients from Brazil, eating his own share of mangoes along the way. The team appreciates having someone they know available to cook some of their favorites, even when far from home.
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Tensions in the Middle East, fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington and negotiations on Greece will likely dominate financial market sentiment in the week ahead. Dow Jones's Andrea Tryphonides and Sara Sjolin look at the news and data schedule. Photo: AP
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- He attended a Jesuit school.
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- In 1986, Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, a turning point in his life.
On the path, Paulo Coelho had a spiritual awakening, which he described autobiographically in The Pilgrimage.
- In an interview, Coelho stated "[In 1986], I was very happy in the things I was doing. I was doing something that gave me food and water – to use the metaphor in "The Alchemist", I was working, I had a person whom I loved, I had money, but I was not fulfilling my dream. My dream was, and still is, to be a writer." Coelho would leave his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time.
- In 1982 Coelho published his first book, Hell Archives, which failed to make any significant impact. In 1986 he contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism, although he later tried to take it off the shelves since he considered it "of bad quality."
After making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1986, Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage. The following year, Coelho wrote The Alchemist and published it through a small Brazilian publishing house who made an initial print run of 900 copies and decided not to reprint.
- He subsequently found a bigger publishing house, and with the publication of his next book Brida, The Alchemist became a Brazilian bestseller. The Alchemist has gone on to sell more than 65 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books in history, and has been translated into more than 70 languages, the 71st being Maltese, winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author.
- In total, Paulo Coelho has published 30 books. Three of them – The Pilgrimage,The Valkyries and "Aleph" – are autobiographical, while the majority of the rest are fictional, although rooted in his life experiences.
- Paulo Coelho also writes up to three blog posts a week at his blog.
- Coelho and his wife Christina Oiticica divide their time between Europe and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1996, Coelho founded the Paulo Coelho Institute, which provides aid to children and elderly people with financial problems. In September 2007, Coelho was named a Messenger of Peace to the UN.


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*The Monty Hall problem is strikingly similar to the {{w|Two envelope problem|Two Envelope Paradox}}, one of [http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/09/09/the-goddamn-airplane-on-the-goddamn-treadmill/ several notoriously provocative thought experiments] (some of which are "banned" on the xkcd forums). Admittedly, the Monty Hall problem has only one clear solution. Because of this, it is much less likely to spark the kinds of arguments like "the goddamn airplane on the goddamn treadmill" or the "Feynman sprinkler" incite.
*The Monty Hall problem is strikingly similar to the {{w|Two envelope problem|Two Envelope Paradox}}, one of [http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/09/09/the-goddamn-airplane-on-the-goddamn-treadmill/ several notoriously provocative thought experiments] (some of which are "banned" on the xkcd forums). Admittedly, the Monty Hall problem has only one clear solution. Because of this, it is much less likely to spark the kinds of arguments like "the goddamn airplane on the goddamn treadmill" or the "Feynman sprinkler" incite.
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|Monty Hall
Title text: A few minutes later, the goat from behind door C drives away in the car.
This comic is a reference to the Monty Hall Problem, a probability puzzle based on the US game show 'Let's Make a Deal' and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The premise of the show was that Hall would offer "deals" to contestants pulled from the audience in which they could win cash and prizes. Some deals involved games/tasks the contestant had to perform, while others simply involved the contestant making choices between a series of doors or boxes. In such games of choice, there were often several prizes and typically at least one "zonk", the show's name for an undesirable "gag" prize, which on the original Monty Hall version of the show were frequently animals such as goats.
In the classic version of the Monty Problem, a contestant is offered a choice of three doors. Behind two of the doors are goats, and behind one of them is a car. First, the contestant chooses a door, which remains closed. The host then opens one of the two remaining doors and reveals a goat. The contestant is then offered a final choice of whether to switch his choice to the remaining closed door, or keep the door they originally chose. The problem involves an analysis of the the probability of the contestant choosing the car given certain circumstances.
The problem assumes that a contestant would want to win a car, and would be disappointed to win a goat (a zonk), which most contestants would have no ability to house, and no use for. The comic shows that Beret Guy, upon the host revealing that door B has a goat behind it, chooses to take the goat to keep as a pet, which makes them both very happy.
The title text references the car and the remaining goat, untouched behind the remaining doors.
The Monty Hall Problem
- for an in-depth analysis of the Monty Hall Problem, see its article at Wikipedia
The apparent "paradox" of the Monty Hall Problem is that many people's initial reaction once the host opens a door to reveal a goat, is that there are two remaining doors, one with a car and one with a goat; and therefore there is an equal probability the car is behind each door. Many people therefore believe that switching makes no difference to the odds of winning a car.
However, assuming that the host has knowledge of which doors contain goats, and that his choice of which door to open is always an unchosen door containing a goat, it is actually twice as likely that the contestant will win the car if they switch than if they keep their original choice. This is because the contestant initially had a one-in-three chance of choosing the car (and a two-in-three chance of choosing a goat). Switching always wins the car in those two-thirds of cases where the contestant initially chose a goat. The probability of winning by switching is therefore the same as the probability that the contestant initially chose a goat.
The switch essentially gives the contestant both remaining doors instead of just the one door originally chosen. Because the host always has at least one goat available, the fact that the host reveals a goat does not provide the contestant any new information about their initially chosen door. The initial door still has a two-in-three chance of being a goat, and switching still has a two-in-three chance of winning. Opening a goat-door simply shifts all of the probability of the remaining two doors being a car to the remaining unchosen door.
There has been great debate about the precise wording of the problem, and what assumptions or rules might apply. Variants of the problem have the host open one of the two remaining doors at random, which could result in the car being revealed, and the game ending. In that scenario, if a goat is revealed, there is in fact an equal probability of winning by switching or keeping the initial door.
- [A game show presenter is standing in front of three doors, the left door labeled "A", the right door labeled "C", and the middle door presumably labeled "B". The "B" door is open. Beret Guy is walking away with a goat.]
- Beret Guy: ...And my yard has so much grass, and I'll teach you tricks, and...
- [There is an affectionate heart coming out of the goat's head, as if it likes this idea.]
- The Monty Hall problem is strikingly similar to the Two Envelope Paradox, one of several notoriously provocative thought experiments (some of which are "banned" on the xkcd forums). Admittedly, the Monty Hall problem has only one clear solution. Because of this, it is much less likely to spark the kinds of arguments like "the goddamn airplane on the goddamn treadmill" or the "Feynman_sprinkler" incite.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with "The Monty Hall Problem". It's strictly about the TV game show Let's Make a Deal. In the game, contestants are often given a choice of several options (Curtains, boxes, envelopes etc). Generally, one has a valuable prize (such as a car), and the others either have a lesser prize or nothing. The "nothing" prizes are often given a colorful name, such as "A pig in a poke". Colloquially, such losing prizes are known as "winning the goat". The joke here is that the contestant, having lost the car, is happy to get a goat as a pet. (In fact, the fine print of the rules make it clear that contestant do not really get such "losing" prizes) JamesCurran (talk) 15:21, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
- I believe this is correct. The focus of this comic is that he didn't win the prize, but instead got the gag prize. Most contestants on the show are bummed out, but Beret Guy is actually excited for a new pet goat! Sucks though that you can't actually keep the goat like the above commenter said. Uctriton00 (talk) 17:41, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
- You cannot say it has nothing to do with "The Monty Hall Problem" when the title of the comic is "Monty Hall" and the "winner" is leading away a goat. What? Randall sidestepped expectations by not dragging us through the Monty Hall problem again? This sounds like the type of misdirection that you might find in a...joke! Zounds! 18.104.22.168 23:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Monty hall. Is this a Monty Python reference? Or something related to a skit of theirs'? --Commarchinin (talk) 04:18, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
- Not a Monthy Python -- Monty Hall is a game host famous for Let's Make a Deal which gave birth to the Monty Hall Problem Spongebog (talk)
I don't understand "It is known that door 3 has a goat, but nothing else." What do you mean by that? At the beginning in the Monty Hall problem, a contestant knows nothing. --220.127.116.11 04:27, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
It goes like this: Player chooses door A, Monty then opens a door he knows there is a goat behind. Player is then offered a chance to switch.
If you do not switch you get a 1/3rd chance of winning because it was a 1 in 3 guess and nothing changed. But if you take into account that Monty will ALWAYS open a goat door and never a car door you can recalculate the odds. So you have a 1/3rd chance that you initially chose the car which means you will lose if you switch 1/3rd of the time, but you had a 2/3rd chance of not selecting the car initially meaning you have a 2/3rds chance if you switch at winning the car. 22.214.171.124 04:58, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
- Reminds me a bit of 1134: Goats make sense. Goats are fine. --18.104.22.168 08:39, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Goldstein-Izayoi (talk) 14:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC) Umm, I think there's no telling if the Beret Guy chose A or C in the beginning~
- It's either A or C. Then the player should choose again between A or C. Xhfz (talk) 14:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
- Sequence of the events (assuming Beret Guy initially selects door A)
- Monty: Pick a door.
- Beret Guy: I choose A.
- Monty: I will open another door. It is B. (He opens it and they see a goat). Do you want to switch doors? (Meaning if he will switch from A to C.)
- Beret Guy: I choose door B.
- Beret Guy (to the goat): ...And my yard has so much grass, and I'll teach you tricks, and...
- A few minutes later, the goat from behind door C drives away in the car that was behind door A.
"In that scenario, if a goat is revealed, there is in fact an equal probability of winning by switching or keeping the initial door." I'm not sure of this, can anyone explain? It seems to be stating that simply because of the random chance of the host picking the goat door in this situation then the facts about probability change.This seems to be a very large stretch. Surely in this situation since the host is picking randomly then your probabilities of losing are increased but the moment he does randomly pick a goat door then your chances of winning by switching remain the same as they were in the original problem, 2/3. --Lackadaisical (talk) 17:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
- Let's see... for a "random door opened by host", split it as follows: Initial choice is G (2/3rds goat), or C (1/3rd car). If G, then host has even chance of getting a goat, GG (2/3 * 1/2 = 1/3) or a car, GC (2/3 * 1/2 = 1/3), whereas if C then host has 100% chance of a goat, CG (1/3 * 1 = 1/3). A GG happens at a frequency of 1/3rd (best to swap), a CG happens at a relative frequency of 1/3rd (best to stick) and a "game ender" happens for the final 1/3rd (no choice, no win). Thus in any non-ended game (i.e. excluding the car-revealing third of possibilities), you have equal chance regardless of what you do.
- You can also analyse it explicitly by noting down the full six combinations of "Goat 1", "Goat 2" and "Car" in the "First chosen", "Host chosen" and "Swap choice" doors. "Swap choice" is the winning move in two circumstances (having sequentially had "G1 then G2" or "G2 then G1") and "First choice" is the winning move in two others ("C then G1" or "C then G2"), with the two remaining (G1,C or G2,C) being end-games that make the option moot.
- Note, the above frequencies only happen with the 'dumb host'. Re-run it with a 'knowing host' and you get your proof for the "best to swap" scenario. (I found the above explanation by 18.104.22.168 to be the most succinct explanation of this problem that I've seen, BTW. Although maybe I have the advantage of understanding it in the first place.) 184.108.40.206 00:36, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
I agree with the various comments above. While this comic does use a goat, it really isn't making use of "The Monty Hall Problem" at all. That involves offering a player a chance to switch doors, and there's no indication that happened here. In this comic, for all we know, Beret selected door B, won a goat and, unlike most players, was pleased with having won a goat.
Even if one were to assume the Month Hall Problem scenario occurred, Beret isn't following it. That scenario involves the player being offered a choice between keeping their original choice (a door currently closed) or switching to the other still closed door. Choosing the door that was opened is not part of the Problem. So if Beret was being offered the Problem choice, he took neither of the options offered to him. 126.96.36.199 20:38, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
I remember the show, in Monty's day, vaguely. The deals varied but I don't think there were ever two goats. Typically I think there was a big prize such as a car, a moderate prize like a washer/dryer, and a zonk. Player chose a door, Monty revealed another door that had the washer / dryer, to show the player that it was now 50/50, car or nothing. He might ask if he wanted to switch to the unchosen, unopened door, or switch to the open door and go home now with the washer / dryer. OR he might offer him cash. "I'll give you three hundred dollars to walk away now. No? How about five hundred dollars?" The car might have been worth $3000 or something, so if you don't feel lucky, you might take a sure $500 instead of a 50/50 shot. Wrybred (talk) 21:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC) wrybred
Observe that in the comic only one of three doors is open. The second door was never revealed. The reason why this joke is funny is because the contestant (Beret Guy) subverts the playing rules by not choosing a second door and therefore disregarding the possible car and leaving happily with the goat that was revealed in the first phase of the game:
- "There's a goat behing door B! Now you must stick to your door A pick or switch to door C..."
- "Nah... let it go. I take the goat!"
- "But, but, you must choose a second door..."
As for all of you who say it's about Let's Make a Deal and not The Monty Hall Problem, keep in mind that xkcd is a comic about nerdy-ness stuff. Keep in mind also that outside the USA people have rarely heard of Let's Make a Deal but most people who went through undergrad-level Probablity Theory heard about the Monty Hall. 184.108.40.206 02:53, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
In Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame, the main characters are in a conflict over the love of Esmarelda, while the character of Pierre Gringoire falls for her goat (Djali). I think Beret guy here is like the poet and playwrite Pierre Gringoire. 17:03, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
The title says: Monty Hall – so it is of course to do with him… It is in the comments above that The Monty Hall Problem is mentioned. The funny thing is that if the Beret guy fails to comply with the rule of the quiz show, then Monty Hall do have a problem… :) (By the way - the Beret looks a lot like the optimist in the What if explanation - Glass Half Empty - is this interesting enough to be mentioned in the trivia section) Kynde (talk) 09:30, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
This comic reminded me of the lamb scene in The Little Prince. I feel like Randall put it in intentionally. Thoughts?Deyesed (talk) 00:39, 1 November 2013 (UTC)


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