Date: Sat, 22 OCT 1994 20:52:27 -0500 
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle
Subject: Usenet Oracularities Digest #685 

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Selected-By: Mark McCafferty <markm@tenmail.mincom.oz.au>

The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> what came first.  The chicken, or the egg?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} Life Cycle of the Chicken:
}
} Many zoologists wrongly place the chicken in the animal kingdom when
} it, like other birds, is actually a plant.  They start out as bird
} seed that germinates in a loose pile of mulch called a nest.  These
} seeds develop into sprouts known as chickweed which then grow into
} what is called an eggplant.  These plants grow seeds usually refered
} to as eggs though they are called chiclets in some places and used
} to make chewing gum.  In mid-summer, these eggs fall to the ground
} and hatch to produce the mobile form of the species which in turn
} scatter bird seed about.  Please note that this mobile form does
} not lay eggs.  It merely gathers them up and protects them to help
} insure their survival.
}
} You owe the Oracle an omelet.