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i was sitting at one of my favorite coffee stands this afternoon drinking a coffee. i saw some of my students and they sat and enjoyed a coffee with me. we sat and talked about life and the weather and what we really wanted. it was a nice chat.

one of the students decided he wanted something to eat so he ordered hot vit lon. he ordered semi-hatched duck eggs. i’ve descried it before, it’s an egg with a duck embryo inside. you can easily make out the features of the duck. it has wings, potential life and is dies clinging to it’s boiling yolk. i guess the pro-life vegetarians wouldn’t eat it but maybe the pro-choice vegetarians would.

when does a duck’s life begin? is it at conception?

well, the conversation continued and my friend ate the whole egg. he scooped the insides out from a whole he made at the top. at the end of his feast he smashed the egg shell. i asked him what he was doing. was he only being childish or was there a point to his violence.

he said that if he didn’t smash the egg he would go to hell. in hell he would be forced to fill a very large bucket with water using only the egg as a scooper. he also said that the source of water was very far away and that you would have to walk a long distance and try to be careful not to spill one drop.

i was impressed with his thorough knowledge of hell.

i commented that, since hell was undoubtedly hot, the heat would evaporate a lot of the water and that would make the job so much more difficult. i wondered if you could ask the devil for a lid. if you had a lid the job would be much simpler. maybe you could just put a large rock on the bucket. i also wondered if you could ring out your sweat stained shirt into the bucket and help yourself along. is it possible to fool beelzebub?