The Cooler vs. The Age-Old Riddle

[Idjit]

I hate to sound pedantic, but I thought that the egg color is related to the chicken's lobulus ( Oorlel in dutch, don't know the english word )

If in doubt, you might ask Erin, around the corner in Lansing
http://www.mda.state.mi.us/kids/stories/farmlife/chickens/index.html

Jeez, you mean Martha Stewart was wrong? I knew I shouldn't trust that bitch.

Thanks for the link - that's a cute site. She's just down the road from me.

 

[Keith Nichols]

I guess that settles that argument then?

I once saw a cartoon, in Punch magazine I think, that showed a chicken and an egg in bed. The chicken was looking very satisfied n a post-coital sort of way, and smoking a cigarette, whilst the egg was looking a bit shortchanged. Underneath all this was the tag line:

I guess that settles that argument then?

If any 'surfers' know how to track down things like this, I think a copy would be appreciated.

On a slightly serious note, the question has actually been answered scientifically & definitively. I know because I read the answer in a popular science book on evolution an remember being amused. Unfortunately, I can't recall the answer or the justification thereof. This may smack somewhat of the computer Deep Thought from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy who gave the concise answer '42' to the question '"What is the meaning of life, and all that?".

 

[Keith Nichols]

I hate to sound pedantic, but I thought that the egg color is related to the chicken's lobulus ( Oorlel in dutch, don't know the english word )

If in doubt, you might ask Erin, around the corner in Lansing
http://www.mda.state.mi.us/kids/stories/farmlife/chickens/index.html

Rak,

I don't know (or even really care) what a 'lobulus' is, but many eggs (if not all?) are coloured for camoflage reasons and driven by 'survival of the fittest' style evolution. This had the unfortuante side effect of making some attractive to egg collectors once humans had enough leisure time to pursue none-productive pursuits and thus undermining the fittest part of the equation.

 

[Idjit]

Anyway you seem to have the upper hand in this disscusion so i think we should just settle it, and say your right . By the way the chicken and the rooster came first, they just appeared like adam and eve

Sorry, I didn't mean to browbeat you.

 

[Ron_dK]

I once saw a cartoon, in Punch magazine I think, that showed a chicken and an egg in bed. The chicken was looking very satisfied n a post-coital sort of way, and smoking a cigarette, whilst the egg was looking a bit shortchanged. Underneath all this was the tag line:

I guess that settles that argument then?

If any 'surfers' know how to track down things like this, I think a copy would be appreciated.

Keith,
Would that be this ?

 

[Ron_dK]

Jeez, you mean Martha Stewart was wrong? I knew I shouldn't trust that bitch.

Never heard of Martha Stewart, is she an egg or a chicken and what would she know about lobulus'sss

 

[Ron_dK]

Just something I realized : couldn't eggs come form Mars, I mean it seems that white eggs are predominantly in the Minorca(spain) area, mid brown eggs in Rhode Island and Sussex, dark brown eggs in Barneveld ( Netherlands) and blue eggs mainly in Peru and Chili. Looks like they are scattered over the various terrains and I can only assume that someone from Mars throwed them to these exact spots ?
That, at the same time, would prove that the egg was there before the chicken ( regardless of what Martha Stewart is stating )

 

[Idjit]

Just something I realized : couldn't eggs come form Mars, I mean it seems that white eggs are predominantly in the Minorca(spain) area, mid brown eggs in Rhode Island and Sussex, dark brown eggs in Barneveld ( Netherlands) and blue eggs mainly in Peru and Chili. Looks like they are scattered over the various terrains and I can only assume that someone from Mars throwed them to these exact spots ?
That, at the same time, would prove that the egg was there before the chicken ( regardless of what Martha Stewart is stating )

Wouldn't they break if they were throwed all the way from Marsesesss?

 

[Rich]

Wouldn't they break if they were throwed all the way from Marsesesss?

Not if they landed in the Atlantic

 

[Keith Nichols]

Keith,
Would that be this ?

Thanks rak.

You know, in my memory, it was black and white, but it is certainly the same joke, even if it isn't the same cartoon.

 

[Greyowlsl]

Not if they landed in the Atlantic

Actually they wouldent even make it past the earths atmosphere.

 

[Ron_dK]

Wouldn't they break if they were throwed all the way from Marsesesss?

Actually they wouldent even make it past the earths atmosphere.

Guess that all eggs being thrown from Mars will pass the 1st and 2nd layers of earth' atmosphere. During that pass they will be heated up et voila, boiled eggs are scattered over mother earth. Boiled eggs ( I like mine approx. 10 minutes boiled) wouldn't crack when hitting the ground.

 

[Greyowlsl]

Guess that all eggs being thrown from Mars will pass the 1st and 2nd layers of earth' atmosphere. During that pass they will be heated up et voila, boiled eggs are scattered over mother earth. Boiled eggs ( I like mine approx. 10 minutes boiled) wouldn't crack when hitting the ground.

no way! 6 min all the way. 10 min, the egg will be stone.

 

[carlnewboult]

Ah, so the idophone can also be played by a booby?

There's a little more to work with for "yellow", which comes from the term "yellowbelly". Yellowbelly seems to have originated in the late 1700s as an insult to people from Lincolnshire. Apparently a particular animal native to the Fens of Lincolnshire is a yellow-bellied eel.

We are all very proud of being called yellowbellys now. Infact a while back there was a campaign to get all people who were born in Lincolnshire to revive the term yellow belly as like most things the term was disappearing into the past.