Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for August 22, 2010
August 21, 2010
August 23, 2010
Transcript:
hamhock: hey, ralston--"which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Ralston: An interesting conundrum, hamhock! first, let's assme the egg in question is a "chicken's egg", which we will define as an egg that is laid by a chicken...then, let's establish that the chicken's direct evolutionary ancestor was not, technically a "chicken." and since that ancestor laid the egg from which the first chicken" hatched, that egg was not, by definition, a "chicken's egg." ralston: Therefore it is not the egg in question, which means it was the chicken that came first! Woman: here's the egg...the chicken will be another minute, sweetheart... hamhock: don't you ever get tired of being wrong?
zero about 14 years ago
Which reminds me - which came first: wrong or right?
Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago
Wrong is wrong. Right is right.
emjaycee about 14 years ago
If I am convinced I am wrong but I am actually right, then am I technically still wrong?
ksoskins about 14 years ago
I don’t know what you guys are smoking, but why don’t you pass it around?
lewisbower about 14 years ago
Bite your political tongue, Lew.
Most would agree with Ralston. An egg is dertemined by past, not future. Therefor a chicken lays a chicken egg.
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
A chicken is just an egg’s way of making more eggs.
peachyanddanny about 14 years ago
Chicken and egg in bed. Egg takes disgusted drag off cigarette and says: “Guess that answers THAT question.”
DonVanni about 14 years ago
Insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and dinosaurs were all laying eggs LOOOONNNGG before there were chickens, so the question is moot. (By the way, Tigger, who is Genisseus? Any relation to Odysseus?)
Kaywest about 14 years ago
Which came first, reason or logic?… Both of which try most people’s patience.