cm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 22 hours agoJust so there's no confusionlemmy.mlimagemessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down118
arrow-up1638arrow-down1imageJust so there's no confusionlemmy.mlcm0002@toast.ooo to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 22 hours agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareJojoWakaki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·13 hours agoOh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: “1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn’t a chicken.”
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoThat depends on semantics. Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken? The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoWho introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 minutes agoI get that that’s the premise of the joke. But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg. The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”
Oh wow, this is much simpler explanation than the obtuse one I use: “1st chicken ever definitely came from an egg but the creature that laid that egg wasn’t a chicken.”
That depends on semantics.
Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken?
The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question
Who introduced “chicken egg”? The original question just says egg.
I get that that’s the premise of the joke.
But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg.
The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”