In a report out of local Sunnyside Farms this week, sources indicated that this whole egg shortage thing was really not helping their chicken with performance anxiety.
“We’ve taken to spelling s-h-o-r-t-a-g-e in front of her,” whispered head poultryman Ernest McBride, covertly pointing at a hen cowered in a corner.
Sources from MIT’s School of Engineering recently confirmed that their lousily-constructed Rube Goldberg machine accomplishes its intended task with reasonable efficiency.
“Ideally, an over-designed machine like this would take several minutes to accomplish a mundane task,” said lead engineer Gregory Lyons as the Rube Goldberg machine cracked an egg into a frying pan through an intricate but exasperatingly efficient set of chain reactions.