# Why did the salmon cross the road? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396 "2006-11-07T05:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/21 "2006-11-07T15:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Someone caught his eye. [/QUOTE] Damn you! I was trying to come up with something with “snag” in it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/22 "2006-11-07T16:00:30Z")
How about: He was looking for some chinookie. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/23 "2006-11-07T16:03:42Z")
He wanted to hook up with his chum. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/24 "2006-11-07T16:09:45Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s a moray. > [@](#): > > Salmon Rushdie > [@](#): > > Someone caught his eye So much talent in the world, yet \*Saturday Night Live \*still sucks. Clearly it’s a conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/25 "2006-11-07T16:17:20Z")
[QUOTE=Tikki] This happens every time there’s heavy rain and the Skokomish River floods its banks. Here’s a picture of some [chum salmon](http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/chum/chum-2c.htm) probably trying to get across Highway 101. [/QUOTE] Hey, you stole my fire. I was going to post “…because the Skoke flooded.” My ex-husband worked out in the Skoke Valley for a while and his family’s best friends lived out there, right on the river. Oh, the number of salmon I ran over during flooding when I lived on the wetside. For you western Washingtonians: Why did the possum cross the road? Punchline: you saw one make it across the road!?! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/26 "2006-11-07T16:37:21Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] I think he was trying to get to a wet trout to hit **SkipMagic** upside the head with. [sub]I HATE people who are good at puns[/sub] [/QUOTE] Yes. _So many_ people in need of a Wet Trout Upside The Head™, _so little_ time! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/27 "2006-11-07T16:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] Or because the fish was under a nighttime singing spell. You’ve heard of it. Salmon Chanting Evening [/QUOTE] Of course! They sing scales, right? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/28 "2006-11-07T22:15:33Z")
Because he wanted to be a moose. Because he’d been deposited on the land by a fennel cloud. Because he was inebriated. According to the arrest sheet by the officer who peppered the fish with questions prior to booking him for a drunk and disorderly, the salmon appeared to be quite sauced (on white wine), although his survival instincts were not entirely reduced, as he was proceeding gingerly – before finally passing out on a bed of rice. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/29 "2006-11-07T22:23:53Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] To get to the other tide. [/QUOTE] That’s it. I’m not even gonna try. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/30 "2006-11-07T22:24:56Z")
He wanted to change the lox. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/31 "2006-11-07T22:33:44Z")
The Scandinavians say: Just for the dill of it. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/32 "2006-11-07T22:39:40Z")
Because he was on a roll. And then someone creamed him ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/33 "2006-11-07T23:34:32Z")
To punch somebody in the face. He was, after all, a sockeye. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/34 "2006-11-08T03:45:49Z")
So he could walking into a bar? Because he hated knock-knock jokes? ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/35 "2006-11-08T03:53:50Z")
He was stapled to the chicken? ---
**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:** [November 8, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/36 "2006-11-08T11:58:49Z")
Because his girlfriend gave him a case of the crabs? ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396/37 "2006-11-08T19:16:33Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] He was stapled to the chicken? [/QUOTE] No. Because the chicken was home with the bird flu. **stretch,** 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-salmon-cross-the-road/379396.md?page=1)