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From: jao@valid.UUCP (John Oswalt)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Roosters laying eggs
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 15:00:56 EST
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> If you had a house that faced East and a rooster laid an egg on
> the peak of the roof, which way would the egg fall?

Seems to me that the widely held to be incorrect answer

> 	Why, downward, of course.

is better than the "roosters don't lay eggs" one.  The question is
hypothetical: we are given that a rooster has laid an egg.  The fact
that roosters don't ordinarily do this is irrelevant.  If asked
"What would you do if you had a million dollars?", the answer
"But I don't have a million dollars", misses the point.


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John Oswalt (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!jao)