Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? Fox Mulder: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it? Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did *not* cross the road. Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was this *chicken* doing walking around all over the place anyway?" Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but it will lay eggs, file your important documents AND balance your checkbook. Unfortunately, when it divides 3 by 2 it gets 1.4999999999. Oliver Stone: The question is not "Why did the chicken cross the road? But is rather "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?" Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically dispositioned to cross roads. Louis Farrakhan: The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the "black man" in order to trample him and keep him down. Martin Luther King,Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Buddha: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The chicken did not cross the road-it transcended it. Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Colonel Sanders: I missed one?