Why on earth did the chicken cross the road?

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The chicken crossed the road. This fact is rarely disputed. But why did the chicken cross the road? No entirely satisfactory explanation has ever been agreed upon.

However, at the Fourth Chicken Crossing Conference, held in the Poultry World Hall of Fame on May 10-12, 2000, a team of distinguished scholars met once again to consider this poultry matter in depth. Unfortunately once again, no consensus was reached. Here are some points considered and some possibilities based on observations using chicken psychology tests, media reports, forensic evidence, public and private investigations and human intuition, put forward to explain the behavior of the chicken. It is hoped that at the next conference further progress toward a definitive answer will be made.

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1. The chicken wanted to learn about his family hisory (i.e. which came first the chicken or the egg) so he crossed the road to get to the library on the other side.
2. The chicken was feeling confident, it was a nice spring day, traffic was light, visibility was good, all the other chickens crossed the road so naturally this one didn't want to appear anti-social, contrary, and oddly different.
3. It was just a matter of time before it happened because, just as every chicken loves some chicken sometime, every chicken will cross some sort of road sometime.
4. Because it felt like it.
5. Because it needed the exercise.
6. Because it wished to avoid meeting the chicken it saw approaching.
7. Because that's what chickens do.
8. God ordained from the time of Creation that this chicken should come into the world and should cross the road exactly when it did.
9. Having spent days and nights searching its soul the chicken finally decided that it had to cross the road and did so.
10. It all depends on what is meant by "chicken", "road" and "cross".
11. It got bored.
12. It had a death wish.
13. It had already crossed the road 999 times that day and wanted to make it 1000.
14. It had always been intending to and finally decided today was the day.
15. It saw the rooster on the other side and wanted to get laid.
16. It wanted a change of scenery.
17. It wanted to be famous.
18. It wanted to catch the bus into town.
19. It wanted to show it was not a chicken.
20. It wanted to show it was a mean chicken.
21. It was a very confused chicken.
22. It was caught by a freak gust of wind.
23. It was collecting experiences for its next book.
24. It was part of a chicken conga line which happened to be crossing the road.
25. It was trying out its new pair of roller blades on the asphalt.
26. It was trying to find its roots.
27. None of the other chickens crossed the road and this chicken wanted to be different.
28. The chicken crossed the road because it was daydreaming and did not notice it.
29. The chicken had just had its head chopped off.
30. The chicken had prayed fervently all night and at dawn Jehovah had told it to cross the road, and the chicken crossed the road, and Jehovah saw, and saw that it was good, and saith unto the chicken, Verily, thou art a rock of Chickrael.
31. The chicken was looking for love.
32. The chicken was running late and took a short cut.
33. The chicken was trying to make a difference.
34. The light turned green.
35. The Moon became conjunct with the chicken's natal Mars in its fourth house.
36. The other chickens dared it to.
37. The other chickens told it to go away.
38. The Spirit moved it.
39. The time had arrived for this chicken to cross this road.
40. This chicken inherited genes predisposing it to cross roads.
41. This was a Mormon chicken and it was setting out on its mission.
42. It got caught up in a scam offering free grain deliveries in exchange for a nude road streak.
43. Why not?
44. All events in the chicken's entire life are fixed in 4-dimensional space time and the chicken could not have done anything else at that time (as we see things from within ordinary experience) than what it did; the chicken crossed the road because the chicken's crossing the road has been part of the eternally fixed micro structure of the 4-d block universe from the moment of its creation.
45. It was helping to stamp out bugs.
46. It was bearing the white chicken's burden.
47. It was fulfilling its Manifest Destiny.
48. It was doing God's work.
49. It was helping to make the world safe for chickocracy.
50. It was just following orders.
51. It just did.
    
52. It wanted to prove to the squirrel that it could be done.
    
53. It wanted to prove to the opossum that it could be done.
    
54. It wanted to prove to the armadillo that it could be done.
    
55. What chicken?
56. Because it wanted to be hit by a car.
57. Because it saw the chicken crossing sign.
58. It was blackmailed by a bully goose.
59. Because if it didn't, there would be no question "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and many road-crossing-chicken scholars would not be able to answer their calling in life and would be unsatisfied for their entire lives.
60. Define "Chicken" and "Road"
61. It knew something the other chickens didn't.
62. Because of the rupture in the space-time continuum.
63. I think the real question here is why did the road cross the chicken's path?
64. The road crossed the chicken first. Retaliation baby.
    
65. To go home. He had previously crossed the road to get to the other side, and now he was returning to where he originally came from.
    
66. To get his pension. You don't get it? Neither did the chicken, he wasn't old enough!
    
67. Because he thought if a zebra could do it, so could he.
    
68. Because some turkey said he was too chicken to do it.
    
69. Because all members of the Road Chickens Cult have to do it.
    
70. Just because he could!
    
71. To give everybody this silly joke to ask a zillion times...... over and over, for the next 50 years!
    
72. He crossed "the road" because "the road" was a dirty, low down, loud mouth punk, and "the chicken" doesn't take orders from a punk!
    
73. It was a stunt being filmed by Peter Jackson for the movie "To Cross or Not to Cross."
74. Because the chicken was going to McDonald's.
75. The chicken crossed the road because it was a suicidal chicken that wanted to die.
76. This chicken was in college and had to cross the road in order to become apart of the sorority
77. The chicken was tired of the side she was on therefore she crossed over.
78. The chicken was on the reality TV show for poultry called "Cooked Goose" which is a poultry version of "Fear Factor" and the next challenge was to cross the road.
79. If she crossed the road she would win a free car (and driving lessons.)
80. She was running away from the people who wanted to eat her.
81. The chicken is a Rhode Island Red, of course it's going to cross the road.
82. Because it could.
83. Do you know for sure this chicken crossed this road? Did you see it do it yourself?
84. Because it was there
85. It was only doing what the little voices in its head told her to do
86. Why Not, just leave the chicken alone
87. To get away from the Colonel.
88. In his own words: http://animalinternet.com/animatorial/view/2121/
89. Because he wanted to show off his guts
90. Because it needed to. Why else would a chicken cross a road
91. Because philosophically, is a road truly a road if it was not to be crossed? And is a chicken truly a chicken if it were chicken? (No, wait a minute...)
92. Because a sorcerer told the chicken that he can no longer cross roads after an incident when his chicken-wife got ran over. However, he wanted to prove the sorcerer wrong, so he summed up enough courage to do so. And when he was crossing the road, some American saw the chicken cross the road. He asked himself "Why did the chicken cross the road?" The rest they say... was history.
93. Because the referee shouted 'fowl'.
94. To get to the other side!
95. Because it was the pig's day off.
96. Well, I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but, there once was a chicken who stole a crucifix, and, while being chased by the crowds, ran over to a river, rested the crucifix on it, and then rowed it to the other side. That's why the chicken rowed the cross, in any case.
97. Because if the chicken didn't cross the road none of this would have been typed and a so-called "joke" that has been around forever would not exist. But really, what's so funny about a chicken crossing the road? How would you like it if someone made a "joke" about YOU everytime you crossed the road?
98. So it could cause global warming on the other side of the road.
99. So it could spread global warming alarmism on the other side of the road.
100. To pick up her welfare check.
101. To vote. Yes, it is illegal for chickens to vote, and especially for chickens to vote 17 times, like this one did. But she was a Democrat, so it's ok. Just like it's ok for illegal aliens, convicted felons, dead people, and fictional characters to vote. Unless they vote Republican.
102. Because I told it to!!!! AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! So don't mess with me or I will make you cross the road aswell!!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAAHAAHA... (cough cough) ... I realky need to practice my evil laugh ...
103. Because Ben chased it.
104. because a farmer chased it with a knife.
105. Because it's mum was behind him with a list of chores.
106. Because somebody was running towards him with a radio playing Kate Bush. (Wierd al is ace)
107. It's a chicken, why would I know?
108. It wanted a job as a translator.
109. It wanted a job as a suicide assistant.
110. It wanted a job as a poultry-seller, it didn't like itself.
111. Someone had done an eggy fart on the other side.
112. It wished to set up an egg market on the other side.
113. It's psychic had said that, some time that day, he would cross the road?
114. Because he had this really funny joke he wanted to write down but he had to go to the dolla store to buy a pencil.
115. There was a Bureau de Change on the other side he wanted to sue for not being in Russian, Filipino, and Zulu.

Alternatively ...

The great wolf chased the small animal through the deserted, barren, grassy park, it lunged for it, and missed by just a few inches. It ran into a bush, and into the other side, it found itself in a street all of a sudden. Turning around, it backed closer to the road, away from the mighty wolf. Trembling, it made a decision, all or nothing. He turned around, and ran across the tarmac.

And that, is why the chicken crossed the road.

Alternatively ...

To get to the other side ...
Or ...
To get hit by a car ...
Either one of those.

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