WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
Give me ten minutes with that chicken and we'll find out.
--Tomas de Torquemada
I'm sorry, Ollie. I left the hen-house door open.
--Stan Laurel
A chicken at rest remains at rest; a chicken in motion remains in
motion.
--Sir Isaac Newton
To boldly go where no hen has gone before.
-- Capt. James Tiberius Kirk
The ideal chicken must ideally cross the ideal road. Therefore,
imperfect chickens in this world
cross imperfect roads, imperfectly.
--Plato
Driven by the lash of economic necessity.
--Karl Marx
It is the essense of chickens to cross the road.
--Aristotle
Those who cluck do not know.
Those who know do not cluck.
--Lao Tse
To see what's out there.
-- Capt. Jean Luc Picard
It was a national security matter.
-- Col. Oliver North
Oh, never mind that chicken. She's from Barcelona.
-- Basil Fawlty
Because it's there.
--Sir Edmund Hilary
The lions still roam the barranca
And a hen there is always alone.
--The Kingston Trio
The telephone pole suggested a phallic symbol
and like all female creatures she wanted to be dominated.
-- Sigmund Freud
The question admits of limitless answers, since
there is no one logocentric strategy of discourse that takes primacy
over all others.
-- Jacques Derrida
This chicken problem has many depths, but all of them are equally
shallow.
-- Oscar Wilde
She was a victim of the Jewish conspiracy.
-- Adolph Hitler
She was a victim of the English Gnostic Drug Cartel conspiracy.
--Lyndon LaRouche
She was a victim of the Illuminati One World conspiracy.
-- Pat Robertson
She was a victim of the male conspiracy.
-- Gloria Steinem
She was dazed and disoriented after the extra-terrestrials abducted
and genetically altered her.
--Budd Hopkins
Forty-two.
-- Douglas Adams
It was her True Will to cross just that road on just that day.
--Aleister Crowley
We made her an offer she couldn't refuse.
--Vito Corleone
To kiss your skin, to lie with you in moonlight...
--Sappho
To impose a meaning upon her accidental existence.
--Jean Paul Sartre
Uncle Ike saw her first: just an ordinary chicken, he thought
for a moment, a chicken picking here and pecking there, gradually
working her way across the road toward the lawn; but then he
felt the fingers tighten on his arm and looked up, astounded, to see
him, the Colonel, eyes lit with a new fire, face
aglow like a saint seeing a vision: and then it was destiny, a thing
pre-ordained, a fatality, for the Colonel did not
reveal even to him, Uncle Ike, the secret ingredients, not the names
of the herbs and not even the number of
them, and so the secret of the crust remained, a hermetic mystery,
locked in the private places of the Colonel's soul: and yet
the vision was real, a true moment of Fate; for the franchises sold
almost as fast as they could slaughter and gut the
stock, and they spread across the country, across the civilized
world, making the Colonel not just a millionaire but a billionaire,
and Uncle Ike saw it all, knew it all, from the beginning to the day
when the initials KFC were to be seen in every city, every town, every
hamlet large enough to own two mules and an Assembly of God church:
until now, standing in the shop in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County,
where Flem Snopes, the bank president, hawked and coughed and spat on
the floor, then hoisted his britches, country styFrom: d said to the
waitress, "Extra crispy, please."
--William Faulkner
To leave the place she knew for another place And to stay there for a
while
And then to visit both places.
--T.S.Eliot
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken
depends upon the inertial system of the observer.
--Albert Einstein
To ask this question denies your own chicken nature.
--Buddha
It was the next step after coming down from the trees.
--Charles Darwin
All hens are endowed by Nature and Nature's God
with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of the other side.
--Thomas Jefferson
I sent a hen through the astral plane To learn our future, and man's
luck, And by a by the bird returned
But all she'd say was "Cluck, cluck, cluck!"
--Omar Khayyam
It was not merely that the chicken crossed the road, Watson, but that
the three Russian midgets and the Italian oboe player did not also
cross.
--Sherlock Holmes
When the emperor performs the rites with full reverence,
and the court officers behave as true scholars and gentlemen, a hen
may cross any road in the kingdom safely.
--Confucius
The fuckin chicken crossed the fuckin road, okay? No problem, okay?
--Jack Nicholson
To die. In the rain.
--Ernest Hemingway
To escape the crawling horror lurking on this side of the road, a
nameless and foetid monstrosity that cannot be conceived save in the
dreams of madness
-- H.P. Lovecraft
There was no chicken, no road, no crossing. There was only an
interpretation.
--Friederich Nietzsche
This Department recalls the distasteful incident
of the Chainsaw Subliminals -- World falling -- Photo falling --
Breakthrough in hen yard -- Towers open fire --
A few may get through to the Gate in Time --
--William S. Burroughs
She was seduced by the dark side of the road.
-- Darth Vader
She had beady inhuman eyes like strange black jewels and the kind of
feathers a bird of paradise
might envy. I knew that if they made her a free-range chicken she'd
take off and never look back.
--Raymond Chandler