Tuesday, December 05, 2006

577. Stupid chicken! (Ok. I confess: stupid me.)

Pondering over causality (broadly and in a general sense) with my lunch companion today, I posed what I thought to be a standard rhetorical question.

My friend's puzzled face made me realize what I'd actually said.

"It's the old which-came-first-the-apple-or-the-egg."

Oopsie.


Still another fine question. Indeed.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Apple!

Neel Mehta said...

You're both wrong.

Unknown said...

Are you saying they both arrived at the same time? Hmmm? I never thought of that, always thought it was either-or!

Neel Mehta said...

Let's just say it was a photo finish. Too bad that the camera came after the apple and the egg.

Unknown said...

Too bad, and lucky for you since we'll have to take your word for it. ;)