Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Intellectual Chicken

“Why did the chicken cross the road?”


Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why?The ends justify whatever motive there was.


Kant: The chicken, being an autonomous being, chose to cross the road of his own free will.


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

Freud: The fact that you thought that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.


Marx: It was a historical inevitability.


Nietzsche: Because if you are going to gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.


Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.


Camus: It doesn’t matter; the chicken’s actions have no meaning except to him.

Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.


Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken nature.

Orwell: Because the government had fooled him into thinking that he was crossing the road of his own free will, when he was really only serving their interests.


Emerson: It didn’t cross the road; it transcended it.


Hemingway: To die. In the rain.


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


Clinton: It wasn’t me. I wasn’t chasing the chicken. There was no inappropriate relationship between me and the chicken.’


Gingrich: Because the Chicken was kicked out of the Coop.


Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross the road? I mean, why doesn’t anyone ever think to ask, “What the heck is this chicken doing walking around all over the place anyway?”


Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken 2000 which will both crossroads, balance your checkbook, and solve your Y2K problems.


Steve Jobs: Here’s to the crazy chickens.


Colonel Sanders: I missed one?

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