I think many people spend their time feeling incompetent and amazed that no one's caught on yet.
Internally, I always parsed it as being "found out". I bet there is a more official term for it.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - May 26, 2006 8:24:41 am PDT #9094 of 10002
Because books.
erikaj - May 26, 2006 8:27:37 am PDT #9095 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
"Impostor syndrome"? But I got that from like...Glamour magazine so there may be a better one.
Jessica - May 26, 2006 8:29:01 am PDT #9096 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It was the egg.
Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.
Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.
Professor John Brookfield, a specialist in evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, told the UK Press Association the pecking order was clear.
The living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into, he said.
"Therefore, the first living thing which we could say unequivocally was a member of the species would be this first egg," he added. "So, I would conclude that the egg came first."
§ ita § - May 26, 2006 8:31:05 am PDT #9097 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't believe they said pecking order.
Nutty - May 26, 2006 8:32:57 am PDT #9098 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Um, doesn't the egg come before the chicken because snakes and other reptiles lay eggs? And chickens are like the freak inbred grandchildren of reptiles.
Problem solved!
Topic!Cindy - May 26, 2006 8:33:15 am PDT #9099 of 10002
What is even happening?
Of course the egg would have gotten its DNA from its parents...
Jessica - May 26, 2006 8:34:56 am PDT #9100 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Of course the egg would have gotten its DNA from its parents...
Yes, but the first chicken's parents were, by definition, not chickens.
Theodosia - May 26, 2006 8:39:32 am PDT #9101 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Actually, there is very good reason to believe that birds (including the noble chicken) are descended from dinosaurs, not reptiles. Otherwise, as you said.
Nutty - May 26, 2006 8:52:11 am PDT #9102 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
(Dinosaurs aren't just really really big reptiles??)
This is why I am not a phylogenist. It looks like a roaring, upright, gigantic chameleon, it walks like a roaring, upright, gigantic chameleon, by gum it probably is one.
sarameg - May 26, 2006 8:55:40 am PDT #9103 of 10002
I hope theyfucking do something about my monitor soon. It's been fairly stable, but now and then, just blurs a smidge. So I barely notice until I look up and am crosseyed.
I was so optimistic last friday....