2006-07-30 09:34:19 · 20 answers · asked by omar 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To get to the other side.
Although perhaps the most famous of all jokes in the English language, this joke is a Non-joke, in that its humor value comes from the fact that it is expected to be funny. Additionally, it is rarely told on its own, but instead is referenced, modified, or parodied in a number of other jokes.
One of the many word-plays on the television series M*A*S*H was spoken by Hawkeye when the power-mad Frank Burns ordered the entire unit to move just a few dozen yards for no reason at all: "Why is this chicken outfit crossing the road?"
Q: Why did the turkey cross the road?
A: Because the chicken was on vacation.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road in Texas?
A: To show the armadillo/opossum how it's done.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
A: To get to the same side.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Because it was too far to go around.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Colonel Sanders [of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame] was chasing it.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To see a man lay bricks.
In the film Stripes (done in march cadence):
Bill Murray: Why did the chicken cross the road?
(Platoon): To get from the left to the right!
Sometimes it is juxtaposed with another category of humor:
2006-08-03 02:07:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several opinions why the chicken crossed the road.
Dr. Phil thinks the problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on "This" side of the road before it goes after the problem on the "other side of the road".
George W. Bush: WE don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us.
John Kerry: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am for it now, and will remain against it.
Judge Judy: That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
Ernest Hemingway: To die in teh rain. Alone.
Jerry Falwell: Because the Chicken was Gay!
Grandpa: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
Bill Clinton: I did not cross the road wiht THAT chichen. What is your definition of chicken?
and last...
Al Gore: I invented the chicken!
2006-07-30 16:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
political aswers
Jean-Paul Sartre : In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Joseph Stalin : I don't care. Catch it. Crack its eggs to make my omlette.
Karl Marx : It was a historical inevitability.
Saddam Hussein : It is the Mother of all Chickens.
Darwin : It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
George Bush : To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights.
Margaret Thatcher : There was no alternative.
Pat Buchanan : To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.
Richard M. Nixon : The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road.
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.
John Locke : Because he was exercising his natural right to liberty.
President Clinton : I did not, and I repeat, I did not have sexual relations with that chicken.
2006-07-30 16:48:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because there was a farmer chasing it try to cut its head off so he saw a truck coming and he figured he could cross the road and the farmer would get squashed by the truck. now the chicken lives happily across the road but the farmer.... RIP
2006-07-30 16:41:02 · answer #4 · answered by jcturtle001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm. Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the dead skunk and the dead raccoon that it can be done.
2006-07-30 17:12:25 · answer #5 · answered by robert_dod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because, after intensive market analysis the colonel concluded that the franchise would benefit from better traffic patterns on the other side of the intersection.
2006-07-30 16:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by ♀♥♂ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 get 2 the other side 2 have bufflo wings
2006-07-30 16:52:06 · answer #7 · answered by dot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To escape being Sunday dinner.
2006-07-30 16:43:35 · answer #8 · answered by Lov'n IT! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Local context- use local college or dumb jock fraternity of your choice
To show the MSU student how to do it.
2006-07-30 16:59:24 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was sick and tired of answering all the stupid questions about whether it came before the egg or not!!!!!
2006-07-30 17:24:25 · answer #10 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋