Today's terrible logic puzzle

[gchpaco]

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may

Comments

[bigangry]

42.

[gchpaco]

Good an answer as any.

[dr_mrow]

Darnit, I was starting to get excited about solving this thing, too.

[rameymj]

I thought it was blue, but 42 sounds good too.

WvF

[layah]

....still waiting for the question..... :-p
How about:
If it takes a hen and a half, a day and a half, to lay an egg and a half - how long does it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a cucumber?