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Why did the chicken cross the road?

Kindergarten teacher: To get to the other side

Plato: For the greater good

The Pope: God knows

Policeman: Give me 10 minutes with the chicken and I will know

Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road

Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and were justified pouring 50 tons of nerve gas on it

Captain James T Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before

Martin Luther King, Jr; I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives being called to question.

Markiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road, who cares why? The end of crossing justifies whatever the motive there was!

Freud: The fact you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity

George W Bush (2): We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There no middle ground here.

Darwin: Chickens over a great period of time have naturally been selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross the roads

Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken, depends on the frame of reference.

Nelson Mandela: Never again will the chicken be questioned for crossing the road. This is an ideal for which I’m prepared to die

Thabo Mbeki: We need to establish if really there is a connection between the chicken and the road.

Mugabe: For all these years the road has been owned by the white farmers, the poor underprivileged chicken has waited too long for that road be given to him and now he is crossing by force with his fellow war veteran chickens. We intend taking over this road and giving it to the roadless chickens so that they can cross it without fear of retribution from Britain who promised money to institute the road reform. We will not stop until all the roadless chickens have roads to cross and the freedom to cross them. (Mugabe was very nervous)

Isaac Newton: Any chicken in the universe shall always cross the road perpendicularly to the side of the road and infinitely in a long straight line at a uniform speed, unless the chicken stops due to unbalanced reactive force in the opposite direction of the chicken’s motion.

Muneja: Research must be  done; the first respondent should be the voiceless chicken!