it is true, then you will all be set free. If it is false, and somebody has not yet visited the switch room, you will be fed to the alligators." ~ picky consuelo

The warden was talking to all of them when he said that. ~ faldage

Consuelo, mam. That's why we of the south have the human decency to say "you all". I deduce that the hated warden was a cruel northerner lacking in even the most elementary language training.