ANOTHER TIMELESS QUESTION ANSWERED .

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:56:32 -0700 (PDT), Bullshit Remover <...@edconrad.com

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First, some background music, Maestro
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< ANOTHER GREAT MYSTERY SOLVED
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Making the rounds of controversial and heated debate once again these
days is honest, sensible discussion to answer the time-honored
question:
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Let's analyze the situation using some good ol' common sense.

UNDENIABLE FACT NO. 1: The chicken *couldn't* have come first because,
adhering to the ground rules, there had to be an egg from which to
hatch the chicken.
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Obviously, if there hadn't been an egg, there could *never* have been
a chicken.
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(Since we all know chickens hatch from eggs. If you have any doubts,
ask any farmer.)
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UNDENIABLE FACT No. 2: The egg couldn't have come first -- before the
chicken -- in this particular scenario because, according to the
ground rules, there had not been a previous chicken to have laid the
egg from which a chicken arrived via the conventional route of having
been hatched from an egg.
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If a chicken, however, *didn't* lay that egg -- not necessarily the
chicken in question but a different chicken (even though the rules say
there was *no* chicken around to lay an egg to make that chicken),
and without an egg there can be no chicken, since even a numbskull is
aware that chickens come from eggs.
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Ditto for the chicken, since there theoretically was no egg hatched
to eventually become a chick, then a chicken -- and it had to become
a hen because everyone knows hens lay chickens and roosters are only
around to wake up people at 5 a.m..
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However, without an egg, logic dictates that there could not have
been a chicken (or, for that matter, an egg), since the egg in our
theoretical question was *still* an egg and had not yet become a
chicken).)
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But let's look at it from *another* less-complicated angle.
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Say there was a chicken that *had* laid an egg that had become a
chicken after hatching from the egg but, the evidence later clearly
indicates that there had been no chicken around to lay any eggs from
which the chiicken had hatched to lay more eggs to hatch many more
eggs to create many more chickens.
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The problem is compounded by the undeniable fact that the chicken in
question, which under normal circumstances would lay some eggs, *did
not* lay the egg that is subject of debate in "Which Came First?
The Chicken or the Egg," since the egg -- at least theoretically --
couldn't have been laid by that chicken (the chicken in question),
unless of course the chicken had been around longer than the egg.
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However -- and here it begins to get a bit complicated -- in this
particular situation, this particular chicken could not have come
first -- *before* the egg -- since chickens come from eggs and the egg
could not have come first, since chickens have to be around to lay
eggs that eventually wind up as chickens who, in turn, lay more eggs
to create more chickens.
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It stands to reason that the chicken could not have become a chicken
if there was no (chicken) egg, and no egg could ever become a chicken
if there hadn't been a chicken around to lay the egg that in turn
would result in a chicken -- whether or not this particular chicken --
would eventually lay more eggs to hatch more chickens.
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The only obvious answer -- other than creation or evolution --- is
that the chicken must've been carrying the egg when it crossed the
road -- the subject of that other brain-twister, "Why Did the Chicken
Cross the Road?" -- meaning that the only reasonable answer to "Which
Came First: The Chicken or the Egg" is that it's a dead heat.
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Both obviously arrived at the first time, either the chicken carrying
the egg or the egg containing the chicken or vice-versa, or versa-VISA
(that is, if either was carrying THAT credit card (NOT Mastercharge).
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The only remaining question, then, is where both the chicken and/or
the egg had come from, which is a bit more complicated than "Which
Came First: The Chicken or the Egg? -- but that, too, will be easily
solved, same as other great mysteries of life, if I have a day or two
to think about it, and after consulting with my good friends Larry
King, Stephen Hawkins and Howard Stern.
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Ed Conrad, Ph.D., I.D.I.O.T.
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