Life with clan Wex

[drwex]

Yes, we really do have these conversations. I suppose it helps to have one child with an infinite supply of questions and another with an infinite supply of answers. This one from the car ride home last night:

K: Which came first - the chicken or the egg?
Pygment: That's a good question. No one knows the answer to that.
L: That's not true!
Pygment: Oh? Who knows?
L: The chicken knows.
(much laughing)
Pygment: Our children are existentialists.
K: How did the chicken get there in the first place?
L: He walked!
Pygment: OK except L - he's a phenomenologist.
L: I'm a phenomena! Phenomena!
Pygment & me, in harmony: Ba ba da bah-da!

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

does it matter that there is an answer? It's the egg

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

K would then ask you, who layed the egg?

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Pre-chickens.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

tho the kid has a point if it is rephrased as "What came first,the chicken or the chicken egg?"

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-If we're speaking of "egg" as "something a chicken comes out of", then the answer is the egg. If we're speaking of "egg" as "something laid by a chicken", then the answer is the chicken. If we're speaking of "egg" as "eggs in general, regardless of whether a chicken is involved", then the answer is definitely the egg.

[dpolicar]

And if we acknowledge that, given all these plausible interpretations, the question is in practice ambiguous and can't be definitively answered as stated, then we're back to the question having no answer (though admittedly for not terribly interesting reasons).

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

*groans and puts ice pack on head to kill the paaaiiinnn*

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

CUte. :-) *picturing Clan Wex as muppets*

- Eddie

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

Love it. And to agree with everyone above - there was actually a report done in the UK I think, not all the long ago, (maybe last summer?) Which concluded that the egg came first - the first chicken was hatched from an egg that was laid by a pre-chicken. Although I do totally love the semantic tangle presented by woodwardiocom above.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Yes, last May: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/5019682.stm

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Hee hee...

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I can sooo picture this scene.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

The above answers are correct, from an evolutionary standpoint. However, from a creationist standpoint the chicken came first, since it was created with all the birds and beasts.

I like the extentialist answer best, myself.

Heh...

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

http://www.devilducky.com/media/7452/

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

LOL!! "The Chicken Knows" That's awesome.

I will never cease to be amazed at the minds of children.

[jeze-bellah.livejournal.com]

Existentialism aside, that was totally adorable. It makes one wonder what they will ask next.