"Let's think of eggs. They have no legs.
Chicken come from eggs. Well, but they have legs.
Now eggs also come from chicken, here the plot thickens.
But eggs with legs, whence do they come from?
Oh what a conundrum!"
The other day I was sitting around with some kids. I asked the kids some elementary questions, like the one on the origin of the chicken. They went round in circles with their responses. First it was the egg. I asked them what laid the egg? Then they said it was the chicken, and so on. I wasn't trying to pull anyone's chain, but they got all irritated and stirred up. They did not think it was funny. I forbade myself to ever bring up again the chicken egg topic. It's a cultural thing.
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