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But which came first, the baby or the bed?

You need a bed to make a baby? I think not!

Gnomon, I was not attacking your entry, I tried to enhance it by adding another way to a logical answer.

And in your last summary you very clever evade the fundamental difference. You only talk about an egg, without specifying whether it is a chicken-egg (because it hatches a chicken) or a protochicken-egg (because it is laid by a protochicken). But by your reasoning it seems to me that the development of a chicken inside a protochicken egg is the most accurate description.

Can you have both possibilities in the entry, or would that spoil it?

did I suddenly change my mind?

on the lighter side of things - have a look at this:

http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i4/chicken_egg.html

(all one can say is - trust the annals of improbable research to come up with something like this! frankly, i'm surprised the woman didn't win an ig)

Priceless!

That's a good article, and I'd like to put a link to it. But I'm wary of putting links to articles on the web, because they often move around and the links become dead ones. Is this particular site a reliable one?

Isn't an argument is only as good as its weakest link?

That's very is true, Old Hairy.

Boom Boom

I think that the AIR site will be around for a good while yet....there's no end to human stupidity, or even the fools who'll fund it.

I've added a link to the Annals of Improbable Research site.

i think they'll be around for a good while, gnomon! seeing as the ignobel awards are still being given out with much zeal every year...

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I thought it was an interesting entry and just in case you're wondering who recommended it, it was me! !

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