Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?




Do you see the sign in the upper right-hand corner? Photo: lonecellotheory [Flickr]

My brother sent me this little gem, which apparently has been making its round on the web for the past few months:

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth?' That's why 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 white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken.. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra...#@&&^(C% ........reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken! What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one? Where did that sucker go?

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens a colorless white? We need some black chickens.

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28 comments to "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?"

  • Fernando Urrutia
    June 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    Lil’ Jon: The chicken crossed the road cuz the otha chicks were on the otha side, O-K!!!?

  • CheeseDuck
    June 10th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Mr T: I pity the foo’.

  • Eric
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Dick Cheney’s shold have been: So!?

    Mike Gravel: *Stares intensely at chicken for four and a half minutes then throws a rock into a pond*

    George Orwell: All chickens are equal, just this chicken is more equal than the others.

    Homer Simpson: Mmmmm…. Chicken *drools*

  • Steamy Kitchen
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    I’ve got more…from my food blog, SteamyKitchen.com, submitted by readers:

    Anthony Bourdain: “To get away from Rachael Ray.”

    Alton Brown: That’s not a chicken, it’s a domesticated fowl likely descended from the wild Indian and southeast Asian Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) and the related Grey Junglefowl (G. sonneratii).

    Rachel Ray: “To go to KFC cause thats the only way you’re gonna get a cooked bird in 30 minutes or less!

    Paula Deen: “Cause that’s where the buttah and sugah is y’all!”

    Mario Batali: “because that is the tradition of our Italian ancestors.”

    Sandra Lee: “to gather items for this fabulous tablescape.”

    Gordon Ramsay: “Why did the chicken cross the road? I don’t f*^$ing give a s#%^ why the chicken crossed the damn road. Now p*ss off.”

    Jack LaLanne: “It’s how you can tell it’s fresh. Within a chicken is the secret to eternal youth and vitality. With my Power Juicer, all you have to do is juice the whole chicken, using the beak, claws, feathers and all to extract the maximum nutritional value.”

    Ryan Seacrest: We’ll find out why the chicken crossed the road…..after the break.

    Al Roker: The chicken wanted to see what it was like in YOUR neck of the woods.

    Padma Lakshmi: Chicken, please pack your knives and go to the other side of the road.

    Yoda: Always in motion, the chicken is.
    Darth Vader: No, Luke, I am your chicken; cross the road. You do not know the power of the dark… meat

    ***

    ok ok, more here:
    http://steamykitchen.com/blog/2008/06/03/chicken-cross-road/

  • Carl
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Again with the Ron Paul conspiracies by not including him in this list.

    Ron Paul: Frankly it’s none of my business if the chicken crosses the road. The Constitution doesn’t give me any power to interfere with the rights of the chicken so this is all moot! What’s really important is the destabilization of the dollar against the value of chickens!

  • Homer J. Simpson
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Falwell’s been dead for a while. His quote needs to be changed to John Hagee or someone else.

  • Vako
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Benito Mussolini - All for the chicken… The road for all!

    Francisco Franco - This is the chicken’s meat. There are no roads without chicken meat or crosswalks in España.

    Kim Jung Il - The chicken crossed the road to get to South Korea, but was shot. Therefore, chicken dinner for my Japanese sex-slave…

    Adolf Hitler - The chicken crossed the road because there was a white rooster at the other side, it’s magnificent blonde comb swaying in the mighty Germanic winds. According to the will of the Aryan order of poultry, they will lay eggs that are superior to that of the filthy brown chickens, who were not genetically capable of crossing the autostrata in the first place… and I am unshakable in that.

    Hugo Chavez - How much petroleum did the chicken use to get across the road? None. See? The U.S. are just greedy, decadent Capitalists. Excuse me while my cronies and I count our billions…

    The chicken it’s self - “Because it was there…”

  • emily
    June 10th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    All of these jokes and many many more are available at http://www.bored.com/chickenjoke/index.htm it’s a pretty addictive place to be. Like this site.

  • mustamike
    June 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    It’s “To die alone… in the rain.”

  • Archbob
    June 11th, 2008 at 12:52 am

    I’d shoot the chicken, eat it, and ask questions later

  • Vanessa
    June 11th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    Einstein really did say, “Did the chicken cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?”

  • Dave
    June 11th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    To see a man lay a brick.

  • Andrea
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    The Chicken itself - “What’s a road?”

  • TZ
    June 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    Richard Nixon: I did not have relations with that chicken. I repeat, I did not have relations with that chicken.

  • Mitchbert
    June 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Neo: There is no chicken.

    Hannibal Lecter: There most certainly was a chicken. He came to my chateau in Milan for dinner. Dessert was a splendid pate.

  • katrina
    June 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Chuck Norris: *stares intently at chicken* Then he round house kicks chicken across the road

  • Justin Ed.
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Worf: Klingon chickens do not cross the road.

  • Fernando
    June 11th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    LOL! I like the one by Mitchbert,

    “Neo: There is no chicken.”

  • Gorrilo
    June 12th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    Franz Kafka: Because it is more free as a chicken than it was in its work-afflicted life as a human, and now has the choice to cross the road.

  • heather
    June 13th, 2008 at 2:12 am

    Chicken to itself: “Bakawk” *pecks at the roadside*

    @steamykitchen: spot on chef answers. Bourdain definitely would have said that.

    My favorite variant of this joke comes from Happy Texas:
    [main characters are on a chain gang picking up trash by the roadside]
    “Hey [character's name I forgot], why did the armadillo cross the road?”
    “I dunno. Why?”
    “He didn’t. See?” *Holds up dead armadillo*

  • Ajan
    June 14th, 2008 at 4:51 am

    for the chickens
    to the chickens
    by the chickens

  • rolltideroll
    June 14th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Jeff Foxworthy: You might be a redneck if a chicken crosses your road.

  • Randy Patterson
    June 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Robin: “Holy riddles, Batman! It’s the Riddler!”

  • Randy Patterson
    June 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    M: “We don’t know why. Your mission, 007, is to find out and eliminate those responsible.”

  • Ademyr
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    ajajajajaj GREAAAAAAT !!!

  • Ravi J
    July 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    Lou DObbs: They are obviously coming on this side to take our jobs.

  • Noxus103
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    I was sent this…

  • Tom Jackson
    July 9th, 2008 at 1:09 am

    Too simple to say, to get to the other side


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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?




Do you see the sign in the upper right-hand corner? Photo: lonecellotheory [Flickr]

My brother sent me this little gem, which apparently has been making its round on the web for the past few months:

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth?' That's why 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 white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken.. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra...#@&&^(C% ........reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken! What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one? Where did that sucker go?

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens a colorless white? We need some black chickens.

---

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28 comments to "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?"

  • Fernando Urrutia
    June 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    Lil’ Jon: The chicken crossed the road cuz the otha chicks were on the otha side, O-K!!!?

  • CheeseDuck
    June 10th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Mr T: I pity the foo’.

  • Eric
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Dick Cheney’s shold have been: So!?

    Mike Gravel: *Stares intensely at chicken for four and a half minutes then throws a rock into a pond*

    George Orwell: All chickens are equal, just this chicken is more equal than the others.

    Homer Simpson: Mmmmm…. Chicken *drools*

  • Steamy Kitchen
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    I’ve got more…from my food blog, SteamyKitchen.com, submitted by readers:

    Anthony Bourdain: “To get away from Rachael Ray.”

    Alton Brown: That’s not a chicken, it’s a domesticated fowl likely descended from the wild Indian and southeast Asian Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) and the related Grey Junglefowl (G. sonneratii).

    Rachel Ray: “To go to KFC cause thats the only way you’re gonna get a cooked bird in 30 minutes or less!

    Paula Deen: “Cause that’s where the buttah and sugah is y’all!”

    Mario Batali: “because that is the tradition of our Italian ancestors.”

    Sandra Lee: “to gather items for this fabulous tablescape.”

    Gordon Ramsay: “Why did the chicken cross the road? I don’t f*^$ing give a s#%^ why the chicken crossed the damn road. Now p*ss off.”

    Jack LaLanne: “It’s how you can tell it’s fresh. Within a chicken is the secret to eternal youth and vitality. With my Power Juicer, all you have to do is juice the whole chicken, using the beak, claws, feathers and all to extract the maximum nutritional value.”

    Ryan Seacrest: We’ll find out why the chicken crossed the road…..after the break.

    Al Roker: The chicken wanted to see what it was like in YOUR neck of the woods.

    Padma Lakshmi: Chicken, please pack your knives and go to the other side of the road.

    Yoda: Always in motion, the chicken is.
    Darth Vader: No, Luke, I am your chicken; cross the road. You do not know the power of the dark… meat

    ***

    ok ok, more here:
    http://steamykitchen.com/blog/2008/06/03/chicken-cross-road/

  • Carl
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    Again with the Ron Paul conspiracies by not including him in this list.

    Ron Paul: Frankly it’s none of my business if the chicken crosses the road. The Constitution doesn’t give me any power to interfere with the rights of the chicken so this is all moot! What’s really important is the destabilization of the dollar against the value of chickens!

  • Homer J. Simpson
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Falwell’s been dead for a while. His quote needs to be changed to John Hagee or someone else.

  • Vako
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Benito Mussolini - All for the chicken… The road for all!

    Francisco Franco - This is the chicken’s meat. There are no roads without chicken meat or crosswalks in España.

    Kim Jung Il - The chicken crossed the road to get to South Korea, but was shot. Therefore, chicken dinner for my Japanese sex-slave…

    Adolf Hitler - The chicken crossed the road because there was a white rooster at the other side, it’s magnificent blonde comb swaying in the mighty Germanic winds. According to the will of the Aryan order of poultry, they will lay eggs that are superior to that of the filthy brown chickens, who were not genetically capable of crossing the autostrata in the first place… and I am unshakable in that.

    Hugo Chavez - How much petroleum did the chicken use to get across the road? None. See? The U.S. are just greedy, decadent Capitalists. Excuse me while my cronies and I count our billions…

    The chicken it’s self - “Because it was there…”

  • emily
    June 10th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    All of these jokes and many many more are available at http://www.bored.com/chickenjoke/index.htm it’s a pretty addictive place to be. Like this site.

  • mustamike
    June 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    It’s “To die alone… in the rain.”

  • Archbob
    June 11th, 2008 at 12:52 am

    I’d shoot the chicken, eat it, and ask questions later

  • Vanessa
    June 11th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    Einstein really did say, “Did the chicken cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?”

  • Dave
    June 11th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    To see a man lay a brick.

  • Andrea
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    The Chicken itself - “What’s a road?”

  • TZ
    June 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    Richard Nixon: I did not have relations with that chicken. I repeat, I did not have relations with that chicken.

  • Mitchbert
    June 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Neo: There is no chicken.

    Hannibal Lecter: There most certainly was a chicken. He came to my chateau in Milan for dinner. Dessert was a splendid pate.

  • katrina
    June 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Chuck Norris: *stares intently at chicken* Then he round house kicks chicken across the road

  • Justin Ed.
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Worf: Klingon chickens do not cross the road.

  • Fernando
    June 11th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    LOL! I like the one by Mitchbert,

    “Neo: There is no chicken.”

  • Gorrilo
    June 12th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    Franz Kafka: Because it is more free as a chicken than it was in its work-afflicted life as a human, and now has the choice to cross the road.

  • heather
    June 13th, 2008 at 2:12 am

    Chicken to itself: “Bakawk” *pecks at the roadside*

    @steamykitchen: spot on chef answers. Bourdain definitely would have said that.

    My favorite variant of this joke comes from Happy Texas:
    [main characters are on a chain gang picking up trash by the roadside]
    “Hey [character's name I forgot], why did the armadillo cross the road?”
    “I dunno. Why?”
    “He didn’t. See?” *Holds up dead armadillo*

  • Ajan
    June 14th, 2008 at 4:51 am

    for the chickens
    to the chickens
    by the chickens

  • rolltideroll
    June 14th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Jeff Foxworthy: You might be a redneck if a chicken crosses your road.

  • Randy Patterson
    June 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Robin: “Holy riddles, Batman! It’s the Riddler!”

  • Randy Patterson
    June 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    M: “We don’t know why. Your mission, 007, is to find out and eliminate those responsible.”

  • Ademyr
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    ajajajajaj GREAAAAAAT !!!

  • Ravi J
    July 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    Lou DObbs: They are obviously coming on this side to take our jobs.

  • Noxus103
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    I was sent this…

  • Tom Jackson
    July 9th, 2008 at 1:09 am

    Too simple to say, to get to the other side


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