# I don't know why the chicken crossed the road...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 1, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-the-chicken-crossed-the-road/371090 "2006-09-01T17:14:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-the-chicken-crossed-the-road/371090/1 "2006-09-01T17:14:48Z")

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But I just saw one doing it.

It was in West L.A., and I was driving along Idaho Avenue just south of Santa Monica Boulevard and east of the branch Civic Cener, and a real live chicken just scooted out across the road. He (we’ll assume it hereinafter to have been a rooster) was darkish brown with a bright red comb, and he looked leaner and more “birdlike” than I normally expect chickens to look. But then what do I know? It’s so seldom one meets a live chicken. At first I thought it was a crow, but then realized that a crow wouldn’t bother to run, it would fly.

So actually, I think I do know why the chicken crossed the road. It couldn’t fly that far.

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**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-the-chicken-crossed-the-road/371090/2 "2006-09-01T17:25:13Z")

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It may have been a crow in a chicken suit.

Or Woody Woodpecker?

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**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-the-chicken-crossed-the-road/371090/3 "2006-09-01T17:27:30Z")

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A rabbi, a priest, and a Buddhist monk walk into a bar. The bartender says “What is this, a joke?”