# Finish the joke: Why did the chicken cross the road? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 4, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750 "2007-05-04T15:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/41 "2007-05-06T03:32:45Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] To avoid Colonel Saunders. [/QUOTE] Because Col. Sanders was chasing it with a hatchet. Much more violent, hence funny imagery. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/42 "2007-05-06T03:54:38Z")
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, not even a chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/43 "2007-05-06T05:36:54Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] I always laugh at these Soviet inferences, and now I can’t even remember why :mad: [/QUOTE] You don’t need a reason why! (psst, I think the word you are looking for is “references” rather than “inferences”) ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/44 "2007-05-06T22:31:50Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] this is not funny, but I have heard it told as “becasue the road crossed him”- I guess cross meaning “did something bad to” is the intent. [/QUOTE] He he, see post #13. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/45 "2007-05-07T09:00:33Z")
Why did the chicken half-cross the road? Because it wanted to get to a Rhode Island! ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/46 "2007-05-07T14:02:25Z")
I don’t know about the chicken, but I do know why the dinosaur crossed the road: Because the chicken had not evolved yet. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/47 "2007-05-07T15:58:35Z")
I could tell you, but then the Chicken Mafia would kill me. Who said it crossed the road at all? To get to the other side (duh). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/48 "2007-05-07T16:19:41Z")
Because shut the hell up, that’s why. Now go get me a beer, bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/49 "2007-05-07T16:23:45Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Because shut the hell up, that’s why. Now go get me a beer, bitch. [/QUOTE] Your momma’! 🙂 * * * True Blue Jack ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/50 "2007-05-07T20:16:18Z")
…The Aristocrats! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/51 "2007-05-07T20:33:07Z")
“Blue,” replied Salvador Dali. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/52 "2007-05-07T22:19:03Z")
The chicken crossed the road…to escape [THIS CHICKEN-EATING SPIDER!! (National Geographic Link)](http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deepjungle/episode2_nicholas.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/53 "2007-05-08T14:07:15Z")
[Animaniacs] \*Chicken Boo, what’s the matter with you? You don’t act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys. But you’re not a man, you’re a chicken, Boo. \* [/Animanics] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/54 "2007-05-09T00:08:23Z")
Give me ten minutes with that chicken and we’ll find out. – Torquemada ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/55 "2007-05-09T00:25:20Z")
Well, if the chicken is an engineer, I’d say that she checked the files and this was what we did last time. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/56 "2007-05-09T00:42:58Z")
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-joke-why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/402750/57 "2007-05-09T08:43:57Z")
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