On Caprice, Chickens and Eggs

''She wouldn't allow you to do anything for her, but it was a real pleasure, if you see what we mean, to refuse.'' ~ Samuel Beckett

Today I am going to talk about caprice - no, wait, I've just had a change of mind.

Which came first - the egg or the chicken? Recently, scientists are increasing of the opinion that really, a chicken is merely an egg's way of making another egg. Id est, the egg grew legs so nobody could step on them. I guess we, too, are the pawns in some universal embryonic conspiracy. So why did the chicken - or should I now call it the two-legged egg - cross the road? Maybe the brainiacs ought to look into that now.