Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00660)

Chicken Philosophy 
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD???
Plato: For the greater good.
Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side.
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 contendwith 
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 
itspancreas.
Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be 
discoveredwithin the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each
interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be 
discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!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 
Establishmentwould let it take.
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road 
gazes also across you.
Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded 
itssensorium 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 Sartre: 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 
whichcaused 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 reference.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, 
unprecedentedavian biped with the temerity to attempt such an 
herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians 
is truly a remarkable 
occurence.
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 moving very fast.
David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we 
werequite 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: Well,...................
John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the
transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed 
himselfof 
the opportunity.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the 
marrowout of life.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Mishima: For the beauty of it. The chicken's extension of its 
sinuous legs sent shivers of a dark despair into the souls not only 
of the silently watching hens but also the roosters, who felt a 
suddensexual desire for their exquisite comrade. The dark courage 
of 
thechicken was as beautiful as drops of dew upon jade at midnight, 
struck by a partial moon, its light filtered through clouds. One of 
the deeply aroused roosters could stand the intensity of the moment 
no more and bit off the head of the beautiful, courageous chicken-
hero, whose wine blood was deliciously drunken by the road, and he 
died.
Johnny Cochran: The chicken didn't cross the road. Some chicken-
hating, genocidal, lying public official moved the road right under 
the chicken's feet while he was practicing his golf swing and 
thinking about his family.
Camus: The chicken's mother had just died. But this did not 
reallyupset him, as any number of witnesses can attest. In fact, 
hecrossed just because the sun got in his eyes.
John Sununu (again): I would argue that the chicken never crossed 
the
road at all. That it is a story concocted by the Clinton 
Administration to distract attention from their failed 
agriculturepolicy. Where is the evidence that the chicken crossed 
the 
road? Where, Michael?
Michael Kinsley: Oh, John, come on! Everybody knows the chicken 
crossed the road. What evidence do you need? It's obvious that the 
chicken crossed the road. Your whole argument is just a smoke and 
mirror tactic to distract us from the fact that most chickens polled 
now back the Democratic Party. You ought to be ashamed of 
yourself,John.
Siskel: I don't know why it crossed the road, but I loved it. 
Thumbsup!
Ebert: I disagree. The whole thing left the audience wondering; the
chicken's crossing the road was never clearly explained and the 
chicken didn't emote very well. It couldn't even speak English!
Thumbs down.
Michael Kinsley: But you both agree it did cross the road, right? 
See, John. I'm right as usual.

Thanks to a fwd from fc@rust.net (Karen Reedstrom)
http://www.infiltec.com/j-chick2.htm