Why did the chicken cross Nysalor?

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:59:21 +0100 (BST)


Pam calls me on my biology bluff:
> > I can help you with _that_, it was the egg. Ask me a hard one. ;-)

> Meaning "an egg laid by something not quite a chicken"?

That's the one.

> Unfortunately, it doesn't work for Nysalor.

> -..or DOES it?

Of course! Nysalor's dad was a neotenic sea squirt, done and dusted! OK, maybe not. But the "real answer", to put it in Adamseque terms, is "What do we mean by 'Nysalor', and "How do we reach an empirical definition of 'Chaos'?"

It's a fair bet that modern Dara Happans know what the Orlanthi (and others) mean when they say "Chaos". Nasty slithery stuff like Broos and Gorp, right? So what in the Fifth Heck does that have to do with Nysalor, or Rufelza, and the like? It's barking, they are.

Slainte,
Alex.


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