Probably the best ever collection of “Why did the chicken cross the road?” answers!
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TEACHER: To get to the other side.
PLATO: For the greater good.
ARISTOTLE: It is in the nature of chickens to cross roads.
KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.
TIMOTHY LEARY: Because that’s the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: I envision a world where chickens are free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
MOSES (Monty Python style): And God came down from the Heavens, and he said unto the chicken, “Thou shalt cross the road.” And the chicken crossed the road…and it was good.
RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.
MACHIAVELLI: The point is the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.
FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES: I have just released Chicken Office 2000 (with integrated Seed Explorer), which not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents and balance your checkbook.
OLIVER STONE: The question is not “Why did the chicken cross the road?”. Rather it is “Who is crossing the road at the same time, and whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?”
DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time have been naturally selected in such a way that they are genetically disposed to cross roads.
EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
BUDDHA: Asking the question denies your own chicken nature.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.
COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?
The above list of is taken from David Madore, 3/27/99
ANONYMOUS: To show deer how it’s done.
Added 6/9/16