Re: Getting WAY OT now Re: PHP Brain Teasers

Hi, Tedd Wrote :- > At 11:00 PM -0400 7/5/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:44 -0400, tedd wrote: > >> At 4:48 PM -0400 7/5/07, Daniel Brown wrote: > >> >On 7/5/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > >> >>On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:04 -0500, Kaleb Pomeroy wrote: > >> >>> Which came first, the chicken or the egg? > >> >> > >> >>The egg, fish were laying them long before chickens walked the earth :) > > > > > > > > > > But actually, it was dinosaurs. > > > >Ummmmm... fish predate all land creatures according to evolution.... > >that's not to say something with eggs didn't predate fish, but I'm too > >lazy to go look. > > > Yes, but I was talking about predecessors to the chicken, like > Archeopteryx (one of the first feathered dinosaurs), which is/was (my > education is dated) believed to be the predecessor of birds. > > As far as eggs are concerned, they predate fish considerably. As far as I'm aware, eggs don't predate anything. How could they - they don't have legs or mouths so couldn't eat anything if they could run to catch it :-) TTFN D php/general-2007-07-06.tx php-general robert@interjinn.com tedd@sperling.com parasane@gmail.com kpomeroy@pocket.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Restall, Computer Nerd, Cyclist, Radio Amateur G4FCU, Bodger | | Mob +44 (0) 7973 831245 Skype: dave.restall Radio: G4FCU | | email : dave@restall.net Web : Not Ready Yet :-( | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Mind if I smoke?" | | "I don't care if you burst into flames and die!" | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+