2006-08-23 11:54:36 · 16 answers · asked by djr 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:
2006-08-24 01:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coz the road crossed the chicken first. Road was prolly stoned.
2006-08-23 18:58:05 · answer #2 · answered by Paul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause the fox was chasing it but it got run over by an eighten wheeler and never made it to the other side...Life is like that something will get you in the end no matter how hard you try tro avoid the bad things that life throws at you.
2006-08-23 18:59:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So it could get to KFC and get cooked up, and I could eat it up as chicken strips :)
2006-08-23 18:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by stormieserenity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should change your name to Joe Cliche for all the stupid moronic questions you ask that are as old as your grandpas balls!
2006-08-23 18:56:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AtCDPTyu4q4kBnocmYHcXXgezKIX?p=Why+did+the+chicken+cross+the+road
another one added to the list
2006-08-23 18:57:06 · answer #6 · answered by Comfortably Numb™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He went to the lemonade stand!
2006-08-23 20:22:28 · answer #7 · answered by jfmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To chill with the rooster on the other side:)
2006-08-23 18:57:59 · answer #8 · answered by laciarlene89 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
his **** was stuck in a chicken. forgot what movie that was from. hilarious though
2006-08-23 21:18:08 · answer #9 · answered by mikeyclipse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to try to become road kill !
2006-08-23 18:57:06 · answer #10 · answered by Big R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋