Humor Published: 11/09/2000
Updated: 12/18/2000
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
First Grade Teacher: Because it wanted to get to the other side.

Alex Mallet: It crossed the road to get downtown to buy a Salmon suit of Gianni Versace so it could go to the OSCAR Academy Award.

Child: Just because.

Pollyanna: Because it was happy.

Plato: Because it was trying to attain Goodness.

Aristotle: It's part of chicken's nature to cross the road.

Nelson Rodrigues: Because it saw its sister-in-law, a tempting hen, on the other side.

Marx: The present stage of productive forces demanded a new class of chicken, capable of crossing the road.

Moses: A voice cometh from heaven shouted out to the chicken: "Cross the road!" And the chicken crossed the road and everybody rejoiced.

Captain Kirk: To go where no chicken had ever been before.

Martin Luther King: I had a dream. I saw a world where all chicken will be free to cross the road without having their motives questioned.

Machiavel: To whom does it matter why? Having established the aim of crossing the road, it's irrelevant to discuss the means it used to achieve that.

Freud: The preoccopation about the fact that the chicken crossed the road is a symptom of sexual insecurity.

Darwin: Along enormous periods of time, chicken have been naturally selected, so that now they have a genetic tendency to cross roads.

Einstein: If the chicken crossed the road or the road moved under the chicken, that depends on the point of view. Everything is relative.

Hemingway: "To die. Alone. In the rain."

FHC: It doesn't matter why it crossed the road. The important thing is that with the Real Plan, the people is eating more chicken.

George Orwell: To get away from the pigs' dictatorship.

Sartre: It's a mere act of fact. The existence of the chicken lies in its freedom to cross the road.

Pothead: What a trip...

Pinochet: It's gone, but I have a lot of his feathers in my hand!

ACM: It was trying to escape, but I have a report ready, proving that that chicken belongs to Jorge Amado. Anyone who catches it will have to deal with me.

Feminists: To humiliate the hen, in an exhibitionistic, typically chauvinistic gesture, trying, besides that, convince her that, as a hen, she will never have enough ability to cross the road.

PDT: To protest against the internatinal losses promoted by this neoliberal and surrendering government, and to defend the resignation of FHC, now! Out FHC!

Maluf: I've got nothing to do with it. Ask Pitta.

Nietzsche: It wants to overcome its chicken condition, to become a superchicken.

Che Guevara: Hay que cruzar la carretera, pero sin jamás perder la ternura...

Blaise Pascal: Who knows? The heart of a chicken has reasons that reason itself does not understand.

Socrates: All I know is that I know nothing.

Parmenides: The chicken did not cross the road because it could not move. Movement does not exist.

Carla Perez: Because it wanted to join the other mammals.

Surfista: Wow, that's cool, dude... Awesome, pal... Howdy...

NATO's spokesman: Was it a chicken?! Iiiihhh...

  • Translations to spanish and grammar corrections on the translation to portuguese are welcome.