2006-08-01 07:45:53 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
to lay eggs
2006-08-01 07:52:42 · answer #1 · answered by jeki_dslo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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 02:04:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Phil: 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. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his "current" problems before adding "new" problems.
Oprah: Well,
I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
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. There is no middle ground here.
Donald Rumsfeld: Now, to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
Anderson Cooper, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
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.
Pat Buchanan: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
Martha Stewart: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level.
Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told.
Ernest Hemingway: To die in the rain. Alone.
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.
Barbara Walters: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.
John Lennon: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
Bill Gates: I have just released eChicken2006, which will not only cross
roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. The platform is much more stable and will never ever, ever reboot.
Albert Einstein: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?
Al Gore: I invented the chicken!
Colonel Sanders: Did I miss one?
2006-08-01 07:49:09 · answer #3 · answered by mury902 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wanted the chicken on the otheri of the road!
2006-08-01 07:48:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get to the other side.
Why did the chicken cross the boardwalk?
To get to the other tide.
2006-08-01 07:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by Caroline B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chicken didn't make it to the other side. I ran that f ucker over.
2006-08-01 08:50:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why must the chicken's intentions be questioned?
2006-08-01 07:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by Richard R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Late for an important date at KFC?
2006-08-01 07:49:40 · answer #8 · answered by Harris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So people can keep telling the same damn joke and not get the humor in it.
Thanks for the pts tho:)
2006-08-01 07:59:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he was to chicken to stay on that side alone
2006-08-01 08:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To show he wasn't a whimp or to get hit by a car.
2006-08-01 07:49:44 · answer #11 · answered by ♥Loving*Steph♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋