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- Why did the chicken cross the road?
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- Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
- Roseanne Barr: Urrrrrp. What chicken?
- George Bush: To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights.
- Julius Caesar: To come, to see, to conquer.
- Candide: To cultivate its garden.
- Bill the Cat: Oop Ack.
- Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
- Moses: Know ye that it is unclean to eat the chicken that has crossed the road,
- & that the chicken that crosseth the road doth so for its preservation.
- Joseph Conrad: Mistah Chicken, he dead.
- Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to
- grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped
- with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly
- relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
- Salvador Dali: The Fish.
- Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
- Thomas Dequincy: Because it ran out of opium.
- Rene Descartes: It had sufficient reason to believe it was dreaming anyway.
- Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
- Bob Dylan: How many roads must one chicken cross?
- TS Eliot: Weialala leia / Wallala leialala.
- TS Eliot (revisited): Do I dare to cross the road?
- Epicurus: For fun.
- Paul Erdos: It was forced to do so by the chicken-hole principle.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
- Basil Fawlty: Oh, don't mind that chicken. It's from Barcelona.
- Gerald R. Ford: It probably fell from an airplane and couldn't stop.
- Sigmund Freud: The chicken obviously was female and obviously interpreted the
- pole on which the crosswalk sign was mounted as a phallic symbol of
- which she was envious, selbstverstaendlich.
- Robert Frost: To cross the road less traveled by.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor: It probably crossed to get a better look at my legs, which,
- thank goodness, are good, dahling.
- Gilligan: The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not
- for the plumage of its peerless tail the chicken would be lost, the
- chicken would be lost!
- Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
- Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
- Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on,
- but it was moving very fast.
- Adolf Hitler: It needed Lebensraum.
- David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
- Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite
- justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
- Lee Iacocca: It found a better car, which was on the other side of the road.
- John Paul Jones: It has not yet begun to cross!
- Martin Luther King: It had a dream.
- James Tiberius Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
- Stan Laurel: I'm sorry, Ollie. It escaped when I opened the run.
- Leda: Are you sure it wasn't Zeus dressed up as a chicken? He's into that
- kind of thing, you know.
- Gottfried Von Leibniz: In this best possible world, the road was made for
- it to cross.
- Groucho Marx: Chicken? What's all this talk about chicken? Why, I had an
- uncle who thought he was a chicken. My aunt almost divorced him, but
- we needed the eggs.
- Karl Marx: To escape the bourgeois middle-class struggle.
- Gregor Mendel: To get various strains of roads.
- John Milton: To justify the ways of God to men.
- Alfred E. Neumann: What? Me worry?
- Sir Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest.
- Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.
- Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
- Thomas Paine: Out of common sense.
- Michael Palin: Nobody expects the banished inky chicken!
- Wolfgang Pauli: There already was a chicken on the other side of the road.
- Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
- Ronald Reagan: I forget.
- Georg Friedrich Riemann: The answer appears in Dirichlet's lectures.
- John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation,
- so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
- Mr. Scott: 'Cos ma wee transporter beam was na functioning properly. Ah canna
- work miracles, Captain!
- William Shakespeare: I don't know why, but methinks I could rattle off a
- hundred-line soliloquy without much ado.
- Sisyphus: Was it pushing a rock, too?
- Socrates: To pick up some hemlock at the corner druggist.
- The Sphinx: You tell me.
- Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
- Brad Templeton: Do you think I have time to answer questions like that?
- I'm not a riddle-answering service. Anyway, I've heard it before.
- (Moderator of Rec.humor.funny)
- Margaret Thatcher: There was no alternative.
- Dylan Thomas: To not go (sic) gentle into that good night.
- Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately...and suck all the marrow out of life.
- Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
- George Washington: Actually it crossed the Delaware with me back in 1776. But
- most history books don't reveal that I bunked with a birdie during
- the duration.
- Mae West: I invited it to come up and see me sometime.
- Walt Whitman: To cluck the song of itself.
- William Wordsworth: To have something to recollect in tranquility.
- Molly Yard: It was a hen!
- Henny Youngman: Take this chicken ... please.
- Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
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