Joey Noventa & His Magnificent Adventure

‘chicken soup & scotch egg’, Joey mused on the words over & over again; ‘I wonder if it is refering to the eternal conundrum of what came first, the chicken or the egg’. As a smart boy he decided to google the subject & found the wiki page. Having read the article the answer was either ‘unknowable’ or ‘evolution has answered it by stating a non bird animal such as a lizard may have laid the egg and a chicken was hatched’. That is quite silly he exclaimed to himself as he reasoned you would then have to ask ‘what came first the first creature that could lay an egg or the egg itself’.

He also wondered if ‘soup and scotch’ were key words or just a red herring (not literally of course). He had now spent two days pondering the puzzle and it didn’t seem as if he had made any progress and now he only had 24 hours left to come up with an answer. What if instead of 72 hours someone had already answered it in 72 minute was joey’s next thought. Had he already blown the opportunity of living a ‘life less ordinary’.

Well he was not about to give up so decided he needed a distraction before revisiting the problem. Ice cream & fruit salad. That he decided was the answer and a chance to play his ‘new favourite’ game called ‘shoot the messenger: ultimate edition’ to amuse himself. He had after all no homework to hand in & everything on the telly was rubbish in his considered and mature opinion. After his game fix he quickly decided that soup and scotch were just a distraction & that he would have to choose one of the wiki solutions or a variant or even more implausibly a novel take on the question. He decided the answer was unknowable but knew this would not be an impressive answer. Of course you don’t need to be a boy genius to answer ‘I don’t know’. So what else could he say that might persuade the decision makers that he was the right boy for the job. Now that was something he could answer and he started to deliberate on how best to express the ideas that were just coming to his attention.

So he logged onto gmail and started typing… I have taken considerable time in studying your puzzle to no avail. I don’t think there is genuine answer to your question and therefore I assume you will agree with me that it was never your goal to seek one from me. If this assumption is correct then I have had to ask myself what I can do to show you that I am willing, able and qualified to be of assistance to you. As you probably already know, my Father enrolled me into the special Knowledge Is Power Program four years ago and I have been a KIPPER ever since. This I beleive has prepared me both mentally & physically and perhaps even spiritually to be of service in this great time of need. I therefore have attached my last report which contains detailed analysis of my accomplishments over the last four years. I am of course your most obedient servent. And with that he pressed the ‘send’ button & hoped for the best.