> If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long does it take a coackroach with a wooden leg to drill a hole in a bar of soap?


> If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long does it take a coackroach with a wooden leg to drill a hole in a bar of soap?

I see several answers.

THE PARADOX THEORY
-It will take close to an infinitely small amount of time. Read and learn, grasshopper[s].

OK, beginning to time as soon as the grasshopper begins to drill, there will be a hole, if only a tiny scratch on the surface of the soap. So, if the timing was perfect, then as soon as it started, a hole would _simultaneously_ appear.

OR

THE NEVERENDING THEORY
-It will take an infinite amount of time, as the coackroach would use a leg that is so fragile that the soap, if it about as hard as a rock, will never even scratch. The coackroach is too feeble to build up enough heat by friction to make a difference, and if it could, it would die before reaching the required temp. A dead coackroach cannot drill a hole, nor can one whose every extremity is pulvurized to dust. Of course, it one of the non-wooden legs is stone, dimond, or some similarly hard substance, or the soap is soft, maliable, or scratchable, this theory is voided.

OR

THE NEGATIVE THEORY

-It will take a negative amount of time.

Here we go: If timing starts as soon as the coackroach begins to drill specifically, there will already be a hole made, before the timer started, by the walking of the coakroach up the soap into a starting position.

OR

THE TIME/NEVER THEORIES

-The coackroach will never drill a hole.

A: In the process of drilling, the coackroach will realize to drill ALL THE WAY THROUGH, it must start partially from the bottom of the bar, as it can't fit into its own hole. The only way to finish is to begin from the bottom, but it can't very well drill up from the table and so it attempts so roll the soap over. In the process it is smooshed and cannot finish the hole.
B: The coackroach doesn't attempt to roll over the soap, but rather tunnels in from the side to tunnel down and up and connect. In the process, he dies of old age.
C: he does not die of old age, but rather gets soap stuck in his mouth and suffocates.
D: He does not suffocate from saop in his mouth, but in his excavation clears the soap into his tunnel and blocks passage of air and suffocates.
E: He does not block passage of air, but only himself. He dies from starvation feeling lonely and dejected.
F: He does not die from starvation, the tunnel is free and clear. However, in the process of tunneling, he realized that he has nothing to live for and commits suicide.
G: He does not commit suicide, but exits never to finish.
H: He is then smooshed.
I: he does not exit, but dies when the soap is used in the shower and he is discovered and flushed.
J: He does not die in the shower, but the soap is thrown away, he is discovered and smooshed.
K: he is not discovered, but rather discoveres a wonderful world at the dump where the soap carried him and leaves his task to live happily ever after.
L: He tries to leave and enter the dump but his body, which is now really buff and busting at the exoskeleton, can't exit. He dies wedged in a tunnel of his own making with glorious food just out of his reach like a scenario in a Greek myth.
M: He dies some other way
N: It is a female coackroach and she's too smart to even start.
O: Or, if she does, she soon realizes it's stupid and goes on to be a very smart little coackroach
P: And is smooshed.

Now, go take on the day.
[And be glad you're not a coackroach]

Chris"theoretically speaking"tine