Re: Getting WAY OT now Re: PHP Brain Teasers

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:19 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > 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 :-) Don't confuse predation with predate :) http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/predate Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'