The Cooler vs. The Age-Old Riddle

[Kraj]

The discussions seemed to have waned a bit, so how about some good-hearted fun discussing a silly question? Since this is in the Watercooler, let's try not to take it too seriously and just have fun. Feel free to post a completely silly response.

 

[Rich]

The embryo came first

 

[lmnop7854]

I voted for McNuggets, because circular reasoning makes my head spin

Lisa

 

[NJudson]

The chicken of course. How can you have an offspring without the parent? Unless, there was some sort of immaculate conception of the egg. Hmmmm....now wait a minute. I may have to revise my statement.

As disturbingly annoying the "chicken or the egg" scenario is it is in no way as insanely ridiculous as the "if a tree falls in a forest with noone around, does it make a noise" bit.

 

[fuzzygeek]

The egg came first obviously, it was needed to "egg" the chicken on into existence!!!

 

[Kraj]

As disturbingly annoying the "chicken or the egg" scenario is it is in no way as insanely ridiculous as the "if a tree falls in a forest with noone around, does it make a noise" bit.

Yeah, that's why I didn't pick that one.

My answer is both pragmatic and yet comical because it circumvents the logical reasoning the question is intended in induce: the egg came first. Why? Because fish and reptiles existed before chickens.

 

[fuzzygeek]

Current speculation is that the fowls descended from the dinosaurs and that the dinosaurs had feathers. Then the egg preceeded the chicken because the dinosaurs laid eggs. The mutation surely occurred in the dinosaur that laid the egg producing the egg that the chicken pecked its way out. Yes the chicken would have had to escape the egg by itself. Experiments have shown that if the chick is assisted in escaping the egg, the chick will probably die since escaping the egg is a test for life.

Surely the dinosaurs died off because they were henpecked!

 

[Kraj]

Surely the dinosaurs died off because they were henpecked!

Ugh. What a fowl pun!

 

[fuzzygeek]

I'm sorry, but you egged me on. What a yolk!

 

[Kraj]

I'm sorry, but you egged me on. What a yolk!

I'm not down with that. I think you need to learn your place in the pecking order!

 

[Ron_dK]

Who came first ?

The idiophone.
(striking together two objects capable of vibration producing a sound from the material of the instrument itself without the assistance of reeds, strings )

Why ?
The concussion idiophone produces a sounds with a 470 Hz frequency and that's exactly what a chicken needs to lay an egg.

 

[Rich]

The concussion idiophone produces a sounds with a 470 Hz frequency and that's exactly what a chicken needs to lay an egg.

Who plays it while they're laying?

 

[Ron_dK]

Idiophone can only be played by giraffes or elephants

 

[BarryMK]

Idiophone can only be played by giraffes or elephants

Incorrect, I'm afraid.
Col's got one and he's brilliant on it. He played an amazing solo with it on Track 3 of his latest cd - you know the one.

 

[Ron_dK]

Incorrect, I'm afraid.
Col's got one and he's brilliant on it. He played an amazing solo with it on Track 3 of his latest cd - you know the one.

Col wasn't there when the first chicken laid an egg , was he ?

 

[ColinEssex]

If the religious manual is correct rolleyes: ) then the god entity thing created all living things, so presumably a (fully grown) chicken was one of them.

Obviously, they'll all have to be killed because of bird flu, which should get to the UK next week.


Col

 

[EmmaJane]

Okay I have a question..... why do we refer to cowards as "chicken" and why the colour (or color for our American friends!) yellow?

Sorry Kraj if this is hijacking your thread but it nice to actually find one that hasn't so far ended up with an argument between US and UK!!!

 

[ColinEssex]

Okay I have a question..... why do we refer to cowards as "chicken" and why the colour (or color for our American friends!) yellow?

is it something to do with the yellow ribbons round the old oak tree? I don't know what that means exactly.

Sorry Kraj if this is hijacking your thread but it nice to actually find one that hasn't so far ended up with an argument between US and UK!!!

be patient Emma

Col

 

[Kraj]

Idiophone can only be played by giraffes or elephants

Incorrect, I'm afraid.
Col's got one and he's brilliant on it. He played an amazing solo with it on Track 3 of his latest cd - you know the one.

Ah, so the idophone can also be played by a booby?

If the religious manual is correct rolleyes: ) then the god entity thing created all living things, so presumably a (fully grown) chicken was one of them.

Well then why didn't you vote for that? Hmmmm.....?

Sorry Kraj if this is hijacking your thread but it nice to actually find one that hasn't so far ended up with an argument between US and UK!!!

Hijack away! I just wanted to have some fun, who cares where the thread goes?

Okay I have a question..... why do we refer to cowards as "chicken" and why the colour (or color for our American friends!) yellow?

I have no idea why "chicken" is used for cowardly behavior. I can't find a thing. Maybe because of they way the run around like they're terrified of everything? There's a little more to work with for "yellow", which comes from the term "yellowbelly". Yellowbelly seems to have originated in the late 1700s as an insult to people from Lincolnshire. Apparently a particular animal native to the Fens of Lincolnshire is a yellow-bellied eel. It caught on in the U.S. as an insult from soldiers and western settlers toward the Mexicans. Why it means cowardly, however, I do not know. I've found references to "lillyliver" which explain how bile was once thought to instill passion and courage, so a pale liver would indicate cowardice. But that refers to pale or white, and not yellow, although it would explain the belly reference. I don't know if they're related or not.

 

[ColinEssex]

Hijack away! I just wanted to have some fun, who cares where the thread goes?

Shouldn't threads stay on topic? or is that a new thread question?

Col