Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

(This so reminded me of The OT)





Plato: For the greater good.


Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.


Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.


Jacques Derrida:
Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!


Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.


Douglas Adams: Forty-two.


Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.


Oliver North: National Security was at stake.


B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.


Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.


Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.


Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.


Albert Einstein:
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.


Aristotle: To actualize its potential.


Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken- nature.


Salvador Dali: The Fish.


Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.


Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.


Epicurus: For fun.


Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.


Johann 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.


David Hume: Out of custom and habit.


Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.


Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?


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.


Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.


Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.


Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.


Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.


Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.


Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.


Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.


Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.


Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter)


Hamlet: That is not the question.


Donne: It crosseth for thee.







In parting...a thought to live by...
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." G.W.F. Hegel


Drink heavily my friends..