The Case Of the Curious Chicken-Part V
After a long break subsequent to Part IV a few months ago,I have now caught up with the chicken saga.Here is some thing more funny and ridiculous :
Why Did the Chicken Really Cross the Road?
A non-serious look at the question “Why did the chicken cross the road?”. Why has it become one of the most well known jokes and one that has so many anwsers it has become ridiculous.
Seriously though there is not one definite answer to the question ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’. In fact, there are so many different answers that to recite them all would take a very long time indeed. Within this article you will see ten drawings of a chicken with ten of the answers to the question ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’
1. Why did the chicken cross the road?
Some people class this question as a joke and others see it more as a riddle but one thing that is sure is that the name of the person who first came up with it has been lost in the midst of time. Although, it is known where it first appeared in print, the New York monthly magazine, ‘The Knickerbocker’ mentioned it in 1847. The reason they gave for the chicken to cross the road was ‘to get to the other side.’
2. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A joke that was started in the 19th century still seems to be going strong, even though it is not in the slightest bit funny. Not that that has put anyone off as over the years the number of answers to the question has grown exponential from the mildly humorous (the first time you hear it) to the downright bizarre and everything in between.
3. Why did the chicken cross the road?
It would appear that as the joke grew more widespread, more and more elaborate answers came about and the joke became twisted round. Instead of asking about a chicken other animals were involved, such as;
Why did the duck cross the road?
It was the chicken’s day off.
One version of the joke was about language;
Why did the turkey traverse the road?
It had a better vocabulary than the chicken.
4. Why did the chicken cross the road?
Once other animals got involved in the joke it was only a matter of time before other objects got involved. These jokes range from the simple to the almost unbelievable or shocking.
Why did the chewing gum cross the road?
It was stuck to the chicken’s leg.
Why did the baby cross the road?
It was stapled to the chicken’s back.
Really that is just bizarre.
The sad sad thing is that this whole joke (if you can call it a joke) still remains popular and new and new answers seem to come about on a daily basis and yet no one has come up with a definitive answer to why the chicken did cross the road.
5. Why did the chicken cross the road?
I bet most people do not care at all why the chicken crossed the road and many of those people couldn’t care less if the chicken actually managed to do it. Yet there are still many people who ponder what the answer could be, even famous people, even philosophers.
Ok that is a bit of a lie although if it was true it would be interesting to find out what some of their answers to the question would be. Here is a link to a page of answers that famous people may have given had they been asked the question.
6. Why did the chicken cross the road?
So what answer would you give to the question? If someone came up and asked you ‘why did the chicken cross the road?’ would you say I don’t know, knowing full well that the person asking is going to come out with a punchline that you have no doubt heard a million times before. Or would you come out with your own punchline. Well one of my favourite ones is illustrated in the image below. But hey that is just me, I appreciate the absurdness of things.
7. Why did the chicken cross the road?
How worrying is it really that such an old ‘joke’, whose original punchline is useless, has now been transformed into something that has a semblance of humor about it. The varying answers that can be given to the question show more about the human personality than anything else.
8. Why did the chicken cross the road?
How worrying is it really that such an old ‘joke’, whose original punchline is useless, has now been transformed into something that has a semblance of humor about it. The varying answers that can be given to the question show more about the human personality than anything else.
9. Why did the chicken cross the road?
I hope by now that you have all realized that this whole article has been pretty much pointless and that nothing has been learned at all. In fact I bet the only reason you even got this far was because you were amazed at the artwork in the sketches. Either that or you really do appreciate the humor of the chicken jokes. Let us presume it is the simplicity of the artwork that has kept your attention. If so I hope you enjoy the last one.
10. Why did the chicken cross the road?
OK, relish this piece,till I enjoy my chicken sandwich with my favourite sauce !
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