Originally published between 2011 and 2014, this post has been updated but preserves its original publish date as content is migrated from the archives of The Flavored Word.
Which becomes instantly clear when you read the mentions of Mapquest and Skype. lol.
What came first, the chicken or the egg …
My mother is in town. According to Mapquest she lives two thousand, two hundred and forty-four point fifty-three miles from me. (That’s 2,244.53 for those who can’t make sense of the numbers.) We Skype. We talk on the phone almost daily. She mails me newspaper articles that she thinks I should read. But as you can imagine, we don’t see each other every other weekend so when she is here, it’s precious time; time that she often uses to bestow her wisdom on me.
So, yesterday, we took my dog out for what she labeled a short version of the Bataan Death March … and after an hour and half of babbling she gives me this:
“Because dogs have four legs, do they get twice as tired as we (humans) do or half as tired?”
My mind was baffled. Physics would have it that they (dogs) are half as tired because they have more to do the same amount of work, yet physics would also argue that they are twice as tired because they have to do twice as much work.
Insert loud sigh. I couldn’t answer the question because any answer my right-side brain wants to give is easily refuted by my left side … my mother, it would seem, had come up with the second installment of what came first the chicken or the egg.
So, tell me what you think? Do dogs get twice as tired or half as tired? And while you’re at it, what about that pioneer chicken? Did he, or she, show up before the egg or does it depend on if that “pioneer” chicken was a he or she? Just something to think about.
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DISCLAIMER: I’m a writer and an editor. And I try my best to make sure every post is articulate and free from errors. However, being that I edit my own work—and it’s next to impossible to properly edit your own work—I admit, occasionally there may be an error or two I miss. But doing so doesn’t make me an idiot so don’t be mean. Just smile, pat yourself on the back for finding an error and be glad you’re not the only one who makes mistakes sometimes … xoxox
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