one of the most asked questions...but...why did the chicken cross the road??

Question

i mean its like a mith or something coz its so old every one changes it, i bet the true aim to cross the road was something pointless...

why the hell would he cross the road i mean ok so to get to the other side but whats there...why the effort.

Answer 1

It wanted to get to the Abbey National to make a deposit I think - that's MYTH enough ! ! !

Answer 2

Why did the chicken cross the road is one of the oldest and most famous riddles that people tell in America The most common answer is "To get to the other side." When asked at the end of a series of other riddles, whose answers are clever, obscure, and tricky, this answer's obviousness and straight-forwardness becomes part of the humor.This riddle's origins are obscure. Its first known appearance in print occurred in 1847 in The Knickerbocker, a New York monthly magazine:[1]
An 1847 version of the joke was possibly its first appearance in print
...There are 'quips and quillets' which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: 'Why does a chicken cross the street?['] Are you 'out of town?' Do you 'give it up?' Well, then: 'Because it wants to get on the other side!' This riddle's humor comes from the fact that its answer is expected to be funny, but is not.[2] A variation on the joke, using archaic-sounding English, appeared in the Harvard Lampoon in 1876. Here the riddle is asked by a comedian, with the retort assigned to "a burly knave in doublet and hose":
For why does the chicken cross the road?
Why must yon fowl deflect across the common way?
Another form of the joke appeared an 1892 edition of Potter's American Monthly:[3]
Why should not a chicken cross the road?
It would be a fowl proceeding.
This riddle inverts the question, asking why a chicken should not cross the road. The answer ("It would be a foul proceeding") confounds the noun fowl with the homophonic adjective foul and plays on two different senses of proceeding. Since a chicken in the act of crossing might be called "a fowl, proceeding," the joke makes a pun by calling the action "a foul proceeding," hence something that should not be done.
There are many riddles that assume a familiarity with this well-known riddle and its answer. One class of variations enlist a creature other than the chicken to cross the road. For example, a turkey or duck crosses "because it was the chicken's day off." Another variant: "Why did the dinosaur cross the road?" "Because chickens weren't invented yet."

Answer 3

This is a myth from long ago. It involves an illness striking chickens in the 1300's. It makes the animal have involuntary movements including jerking and swearing. So, in true fact, the chicken crossed the road because it was compelled to. The illness affected it's brain, which made the involuntary movement of crossing the road.

Answer 4

L.A. Police Department : Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Grandpa : In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

Answer 5

My favorite answer has been:
He wanted to see his friend Gregory, Peck

Here are more . . .

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.

Hippocrates:
Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.

Thomas de Torquemada:
Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

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 to 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 Sarte:
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 mind.

Aristotle:
To actualize its potential.

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

Howard Cosell:
It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such a herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.

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 Friedrich 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 mving very fast.

David Hume:
Out of custom and habit.

Saddam Hussein:
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Jack Nicholson:
'Cause it [censored] wanted to. That's the [censored] reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic:
What road?

Ronald Reagan:
I forget... I think.

John Sununu:
The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.

The Sphinx:
You tell me.

Henry David Thoreau:
To live deliberately... and such all the marrow out of life.

Mark Twain:
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

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Answer 6

Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the "other side." That's what they call it -- the other side. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like "the other side.".

Answer 7

the chicken crossed the road to get on the other side

Answer 8

I'm thinking it had something to do with the guy on the other side or the road with a hand full of corn saying "Here Chickie, Chickie, Chickie".

Answer 9

Because he was an uber EMO..

Either that or he crossed simply to get to the other side

Answer 10

Because it spotted me on the other side and fancied a bit of heavy Bird-Brain action.

Answer 11

I think the secound most asked question on here is "Does he like me?" I have seen soooooooo many of those i answerd a couple of them.