Wednesday, January 26, 2005

The Chicken-Egg Debate

This is quite an old e-conversation I once had. This was during my last week at IIT Kanpur where I had this with Sid, another of those species of "I nearly made it to humanity" or "Homo: Definitely, Sapien: Approximately". So this was predictably a day before my final exams and we had a whale of a time... this being one of several para-intellectual intercourses that we indulged ourselves in. Interestingly, this was the tagline of another guy who was already bugged with us so we decided that the summation fnction works just as well for the bugging variable and went on with it... Read on...

What came first, the chicken-biryani or the egg-fried-rice?

Sangeet:
Definitely, most definitely the egg fried rice...
says S!
S=S->next
What say, S++?

Siddharth:
Neither... the afghani murg -- alphabetically.
S=S++

Sangeet:
Not to forget, considering alphabetix (abeg ya pah-don Monsieurs Goscinny and Uderzo), the Addis-a-baba Da Dhaba Dee Andey dee Biryani...

Siddharth:
Again beaten by the Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa chicken. This is what you get ifyou order chilli chicken at certain railway station refreshment rooms:after some time, there is a long, high-pitched, prolonged scream from thegeneral direction of the kitchen and then the dish is dumped on yourtable (personal experience, I assure you).
Ssuperego

Sangeet:
And then there was the 111 chicken, also called Nelson's chicken... but then, that beat the vagaries of mere alphabet considerations and resurfaced as the first ever...
Mind you, the notion of the 0 chicken has already been discarded.
First ever... alphabetically , if not historically...
Historically, Adam met the Chicken before she laid the egg... but since the chicken lived to lay the egg, he didn't have a chicken biryani... ate the egg fried rice instead...

Siddharth:
Historically, we must not forget El Poio Diablo, the Terrible DemonChicken (anybody played Curse of Monkey Island here?), which ate Adam soonafter, thus creating a recursive cycle.
But anyway, more proof that the egg came later:
"And on the seventh day He rested"
Seventh day = Sabbath = Sunday
And as we all know:
Meri jaan meri jaan sunday ke sunday
Meri jaan meri jaan ande ke ande etc etc...
The egg came a day later.
QED.
S++

Sangeet:
Bamboozled in the spiritual realms... the vicinity of Hades... you talk of the demonic chicken but provide no reference to any demonic chicken Biryani... am sure that Lucifer et al enjoyed a lot of El Poio Diablo's eggs' fried rice...that is, before any chicken biryani came into the picture


And that's how it ended... no, it wasn't us... it was the third party in question who cried murder over the violation of his tagline... that guy was properly bugged out of his wits...


1 Comments:

Blogger Mizohican said...

Update your blog dude :)

February 1, 2005 at 10:09 PM  

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