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Past. Present. Future

Friday, November 11, 2005

Why did chicken cross the road?

Yes, pple have pondered over this very pervasive question, and came 2 the conlusion: Is it really just to get to the other side? Here r some of the ans the great thinkers gave. got from some website. haha du u even believe that some of the pple actually said that?!!

Scientific explanations:
The fittest chickens cross roads. [Darwin]
The road moved beneath the chicken. [Einstein]
Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest, chickens in motion cross roads. [Newton]
We're not sure which side of the road the chicken was on. [Heisenberg]
There was already a chicken on this side of the road. [Pauli]

Unscientific ones:
For fun. [Epicurus]
It had a dream. [Martin Luther King Jr.]
Because the road was there. [Sir Edmund Hilary]
If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too! [Mr. T.]
Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out. [Torquemada]
None of your business: We own the chicken and we own the road. [Bill Gates]
The chicken did not --I repeat: did not-- cross the road. [Richard Nixon]
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. [Mark Twain]
That's the way it is. [Walter Cronkite]
I missed one? [Colonel Sanders]
Define "road". [Bill Clinton]

Philosophical perspectives:
It was a historical inevitability. [Karl Marx]
It is in the nature of chickens to cross roads. [Aristotle]
He was exercising his natural right to liberty. [John Locke]
Gaze too long across the Road and the Road gazes across you. [Nietzsche]
The possibility was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road". [Wittgenstein]
If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature. [Buddha]