HUMOR: WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? 
                            Plato: For the greater good. 
                       Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. 
           Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas. 
     Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you. 
  Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross  roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being. 
 Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon   your frame of reference. 
             Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees. 
                   Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death. 
                               Epicurus: For fun. 
               Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it. 
             Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it. 
                        Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. 
Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. 
                          Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road? 
                             The Sphinx: You tell me. 
             Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. 
                             Molly Yard: It was a hen! 
                   Gene Roddenberry: To boldly go where no chicken ... 
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