Question: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Answers:

KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

To get to the other side.

PLATO

For the greater good.

ARISTOTLE

It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.

KARL MARX

It was a historical inevitability.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Because that's the only trip the establishment would let it take.

SADDAM HUSSEIN

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

RONALD REAGAN

I forget.

CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK

To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

HIPPOCRATES

Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.

ANDERSEN CONSULTING

Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills,methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear,and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision,and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.

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.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

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.

FOX MULDER

You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?

RICHARD M. NIXON

The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.

BILL CLINTON

It depened on what the meaning of "did" is.

MACHIAVELLI

The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.

JERRY SEINFELD

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?"

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

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?"

DARWIN

Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.

EINSTEIN

Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

BUDDHA

Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The chicken did not cross the road .. it transcended it.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

To die. In the rain.

COLONEL SANDERS

I missed one?

As it happens, the above reminds me of an old Czech joke:

A motorist having run over a chicken crossing the proverbial road asks a little boy playing by the road: "Was this chicken one of yours?" The boy gives it some thought and then shakes his head: "Nah... Ours aren't as flat as that."

Which may or may not have any relevance to all or some of the above. You decide!  :-)