chicken and egg (was Re: Augury and ...)

[John Esak]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth
> Brody
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:14 AM
> To: Ron Kracht
> Cc: filePro mailing list
> Subject: OT: chicken and egg (was Re: Augury and ...)
> 
> 
> Ron Kracht wrote:
> [...]
> > 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 . . ."
> 
> Actually, it doesn't eliminate that possibility.  But, given the above
> sequence, does it end in:
> 
>     almost chicken
>     almost egg
>     chicken       (chicken came before egg)
>     egg
>     chicken
>     egg
>     ...
> or
>     almost chicken
>     almost egg
>     almost chicken
>     egg           (egg came before chicken)
>     chicken
>     egg
>     ...
> 
> 
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That was sorta my point exactly... :-)  'Cept you made it better. :-)

John