age old question.
2006-08-02 15:47:13 · 18 answers · asked by jim 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
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 02:06:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the farmer was in the dell, the cow was jumping over the moon, the dish was running away with the spoon, the 3 blind mice were running after the farmer's wife, Henry was fixing the hole in the bucket, a farmer had a dog - B-I-N-G-O, there was a quack quack here and a quack quack there, and the chicken didn't want to miss out on all the action!
2006-08-02 22:56:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anne Teak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Solicitation
2006-08-02 23:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to buy a paper
to check for mail
to greet the chicks as they come off the school bus
he was being chased by a farmer carrying a butcher knife
2006-08-02 22:51:35 · answer #4 · answered by Molly R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cos the chicken heard the grass was GREENER on the other side... stoney wanted to go try some ;)
2006-08-02 22:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by neddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause Colonel Sanders was chasing him.
2006-08-02 22:50:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he was running away from the El Pollo Loco
2006-08-02 22:50:49 · answer #7 · answered by ray of sunshine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the turkey took the day off
2006-08-02 22:51:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he day before there was no road there. he was just strolling along his usual path.
2006-08-02 22:52:06 · answer #9 · answered by cherokeeflyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get to the other slide
2006-08-02 22:51:19 · answer #10 · answered by SweetBrunette 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋