| Plato | For the greater good. |
| 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 contend with
such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. |
| Hiippocrates | Because of an excess of light pink gooey
stuff in its pancreas. |
| Timothy Leary | Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take. |
| Oliver North | National Security was at stake. |
| 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. |
| Albert Einstein | Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends
upon your frame of reference. |
| 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, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an Herculean achievement
formerly relegated to Homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence. |
| Darwin | It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees. |
| Emily Dickinson | Because it could not stop for death. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | It didn't cross the road; it
transcended it. |
| Ernest Hemingway | To die. In the rain. |
| Saddam Hussein | This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping
50 tons of nerve gas on it. |
| Jack Nicholson | 'Cause it (censored) wanted to.
That's the (censored) reason. |
| Ronald Reagan | I don't recall. |
| Henry David Thoreau | To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life. |
| Mark Twain | The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. |
| Molly Yard | It was a hen! |
| JERRY FALWELL | Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see the
plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the other
side. That's what 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 whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like the other
side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and
simple as that. |
| PAT BUCHANAN | To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American. |
| 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! |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. | I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. |
| GRANDPA | In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us
that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. |
| ARISTOTLE | It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. |
| SADDAM HUSSAIN | This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in
dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. |
| RONALD REAGAN | What chicken? |
| KEN STARR | I intend to prove that the chicken crossed the road at the behest of the
president of the United States of America in an effort to distract law
enforcement officials and the American public from the criminal wrongdoing
our highest elected official has been trying to cover up. As a result,the
chicken is just another pawn in the president's ongoing and elaborate
scheme to obstruct justice and undermine the rule of law. For that reason,
my staff intends to offer the chicken unconditional immunity provided he
co-operates fully with our investigation. Furthermore, the chicken will
not be permitted to reach the other side of the road until our
investigation and any Congressional follow-up investigations have been completed. We also are
investigating whether Sid Blumenthal has leaked information to the Reverend
Jerry Falwell, alleging the chicken to be homosexual in an effort to
discredit any useful testimony the bird may have to offer, or at least to
ruffle his feathers. |
| CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK | To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. |
| FOX MULDER | You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have
to cross before you believe it? |
| 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 eChicken 98, which will not only cross roads, but will
lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook and
Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken. |
| 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 do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken please? |
| THE BIBLE | 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. |
| COLONEL SANDERS | I missed one? |