Why did the chicken cross the road?
Antworten verschiedener Persönlichkeiten auf diese Frage:
| KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: | To get to the other side |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN: | Whether the chicken crosses the road or the road moves beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. |
| PLATO: | For the greater good. |
| TIMOTHY LEARY (American professor who advocated use of leisure drugs): |
Because that’s the only trip the establishment would let it take. |
| ARISTOTLE: | It is in the nature of chickens to cross roads. |
| LOUIS FARRAKHAN: | The road, you see, represents the black man. The chicken “crossed” the black man in order to trample him and keep him down. |
| HIPPOCRATES: | Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING;JR: | I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. |
| KARL MARX: | It was a historical inevitability |
| RICHARD M. NIXON: | The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road. |
| MOSES: | 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 there was much rejoicing. |
| MACHIAVELLI: | The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was. |
| BUDDHA: | Asking this question denies you own chicken nature. |
| SADDAM HUSSEIN: | This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it |
| FOX MULDER (character from the X-Files): |
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it? |
| RONALD REAGAN: | I forgot. |
| JERRY SEINFELD (American sitcom character): |
Why does anyone cross a road? I mean why doesn’t anyone ever think to ask, what the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway? |
| CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK : | To go where no chicken has ever gone before |
| SIGMUND 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 the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. |
| OLIVER STONE (American film director): |
The question is not, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” Rather, it is, ”Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?” |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON (American philosopher): |
The chicken did not cross the road, it transcended it. |
| CHARLES DARWIN: | Chickens, over great periods of times, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads. |
| ERNEST HEMINGWAY: | To die. In the rain. |
| COLONEL SANDERS (founder of Kentucky fried chicken): |
I missed one? |