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1. 3 days ago on Off the Mark

   Guaranteed 100% dentin free!

2. 10 days ago on Off the Mark

   That depends on how one defines a chicken. If you define it genetically, then it still has to be the egg, born of near-chicken but not quite chicken.

   However, if you include domestication as a pre-requisite then yes, it could be defined as a red junglefowl when it was hatched and became a chicken upon domestication.

   I will, however point out that, based on archeological evidence, people were raising the birds for eggs for a LONG TIME before anyone thought about EATING them regularly. So either way, the egg almost certainly came before the chicken dinner.

3. 11 days ago on Off the Mark

   But did not that Rooster ITSELF come from an egg?

4. 11 days ago on Off the Mark

   Yes. It’s almost a creationist versus evolutionary question. If you believe in evolution, the egg has to come first, since the ancestors of chickens also laid eggs. No matter what you think the first thing capable of being called a chicken is (be it the first domesticated bird, the first red junglefowl (the wild bird they think chickens descend from; they still live in Asia. They have some at the Bronx Zoo.) the first bird in the Gallus genus, or whatever, it came from an egg.

   For the chicken to come first, there would have to be some way to create a chicken from nothing, and do it before the first egg ever showed up (so, basically before the evolution of sexual reproduction.) Hence, a creationist answer.

5. 15 days ago on Off the Mark

   Just remember, if you slapjack, he’ll slap you back.

6. 15 days ago on Off the Mark

   Thanks a latke.

7. about 1 month ago on Off the Mark

   I am reminded of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, where the aliens look exactly like out images of demons/devils.

8. about 1 month ago on Off the Mark

   My pet theory is that, by the time alien lifeforms reach a level of tech where they COULD contact other planets, they have evolved ethically to the point where they realize intelligent, environmentally adaptive lifeforms like themselves (and us) cause so much ecological destruction by nature that they are the environmental equivalent of malignant cancer, “do the right thing” and voluntarily disassemble as much of their tech as they can, destroy all of their records and knowledge, and then commit species wild suicide.

9. about 1 month ago on Off the Mark

   Poisonous no, but highly addictive to some Sontarans.

10. about 2 months ago on Off the Mark

    Anymore than Igor Stravinsky and Sikorsky had hunchbacks.