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**Posted:** Mon May 21, 2007 8:10 pm

So it is raining again. Rain is the trigger the gets EmmyLou into BBQ mode. It must be her way of telling the weather Gods that rain on weekends is unacceptable.
Gus and his mum showed up early with some beer. He knew Mighty Chest was invited.

Edith of the mighty chest would sometimes wear outlandish outfits as she knew it would grate on Gus's conservative senses. Gus had the hots for Edith but he tried hard not to show it. He figured ignoring her feminine wiles was the quickest way to seduce her.

Other times she let it all hang out in order to titillate his manhood.

Payday was still a week away so tube steaks were on the menu. Hot dogs have been an American BBQ tradition ever since Columbus landed in Chesapeake bay. Emmy's dawgs featured a Vienna Beef frank dragged through hot mustard with pickle relish, chopped onion, fresh tomato, peppers and a dash of jalapeno salt. Cold beers were an accompaniment along with Hank Snow's and Stompin Bill Conner's music.

With the rain pounding down on the hot BBQ lid it was no surprise that the conversation turned to who came first. Gus said "You mean what came first. The chicken or the egg?

"Yes that what I meant" giggled Edith.

"Eggs came first" said Emmy. " We had to have the egg first, not the reverse."
"Just look at the development!"

Then the chick developed and finally we got the chicken."

"Who laid the egg" asked Mighty Chest.

"You mean what laid the egg" corrected Gus."It's all about zygotes"

Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA and by mutations to the DNA. Two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutations that produced the first true chicken.

Before the first true chicken there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new chick, and the zygote cell is in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.

So Emmy got it right because a woman's brain evaluates images differently than men. Also men evaluate the written word differently than women. It is often assumed to be the opposite but there is proof that it is so. " asserted Gus.

"What proof?" said I.

"It all started with iron. Early female primates needed more iron, males did not" continued Gus. "Menses set in. Estrus was out. Hominid females needed males to hunt for iron rich meat while they tended their young and gathered berries and nuts.
Males needed the sex and the females needed the meat. Marriage was born so many many moons ago."

"Care for another hot dawg?" I asked Emmy.

"Hey guys, Can we figure this out and continue later?" asked EmmyLou.

"Surely," they all replied in unison. "Til then!"