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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:45:11 GMT
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- Why did the chicken cross the road??
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- Walt Whitman: To cluck the song of itself.
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- Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
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- John Paul Jones: It has not yet begun to cross!
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
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- Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
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- Roseanne Barr: Urrrrrp. What chicken?
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- Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
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- William Shakespeare: I don't know why, but methinks I could rattle off
- a hundred-line soliloquy without much ado.
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- Thomas Paine: Out of common sense.
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- TS Eliot: Weialala leia / Wallala leialala.
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- 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.
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- Karl Marx: To escape the bourgeois middle-class struggle.
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- Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
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- Mr. Scott: 'Cos ma wee transporter beam was na functioning properly.
- Ah canna work miracles, Captain.
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- Robert Frost: To cross the road less traveled by.
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- Sigmund Freud: The chicken was obviously female and obviously
- interpreted the pole on which the crosswalk sign was mounted as a
- phallic symbol of which she was envious, selbstverstaendlich.
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- William Wordsworth: To have something to recollect in tranquility.
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- Caesar: To come, to see, to conquer.
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- Bill the Cat: Oop Ack.
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- Rene Descartes: It had sufficient reason to believe it was dreaming anyway.
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- Zsa Zsa Gabor: It probably crossed to get a better look at my legs,
- which thank goodness are good, dahling.
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- George Bush: To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights.
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- Epicurus: For fun.
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- T.S. Eliot revisited: Do I dare to cross the road?
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- 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.
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- Salvador Dali: The Fish.
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- Lee Iacocca: It found a better car, which was on the other side of the road.
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- Mae West: I invited it to come up and see me sometime.
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- James Tiberius Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
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- Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
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- 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!
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- Socrates: To pick up some hemlock at the corner druggist.
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- The Sphinx: You tell me.
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- from the December 1989 issue of the Calvin College Dialogue.
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