Augury and reading chicken bones for profit... (was Pun-ditry...)

[Ron Kracht]

Fairlight wrote:

>Well with the chicken and the egg, what's the faulty premise?  I know what
>my faith dictates, but there's no tangible proof of it.  Assuming faith is
>disallowed in achieving a solution, what's the actual faulty premise behind
>the question?
>
>  
>
The question assumes that there could not have been a
far from chicken
  and
far from egg
that over time became
closer to chicken
  and
closer to egg
and then
almost chicken
  and
almost egg
and finally
chicken
  and
egg

In other words - there did not have to be a first between them they 
could developed together. To paraphrase an old vaudeville routine 
developed by Joey Faye and later separately redone by Abbot and 
Costello, the Three Stooges, and Lucille Ball -  "Slowly they changed . 
. . step by step . . . inch by inch . . ."