I hate these fake questions. This is like the chicken and the egg question, which I answered here on my blog, thank you… but this is even worse. It implies that one chicken crossed one road for some very specific reason. Chickens are stupid. They wander all over the place… especially the free range ones. It is debatable whether they even know what a road is, or that they are engaged in crossing it. They certainly don’t have a motive for moving anywhere that involves anything deeper and more meaningful than looking for more food.
You’re welcome.
I am putting a link to this blog: http://gibberjabberin.wordpress.com/ because I might have sort of gotten the idea for this post from a comment I made over there where they were seriously asking us to consider the ‘chicken crossing the road, and what its motives might be’ question… In fact, I just more or less copied the comment I made over there and turned it into this post. I still am not quite sure why gibberjabberin thinks she deserves some sort of credit for my post, considering the fact that (a) the chicken question is not a new question, and (b) she didn’t even ask the question, somebody else did… but hey, she is Canadian, so it is just easier to put the link up than to argue with her…
Pouring My Art Out 
Not all us Canadians are so unreasonable!
Thank goodness.
vhy a chicken? Vhy not a duck? Vhy not a goose?
A bat…
oh wait, that was supposed to be viaduct…
I have some viaduct tape…
That chicken really needs a good choking. that’ll teach it to cross the road!
uh…yeah?
Ahaha! I think that you made him uncomfortable and that’s no easy feat!!
I have no easy feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew you’d go there!
I am so predictable
You are
yup
Here’s one, why did pouringmyartout crossed the road?
Because travelling down the road is for suckers…
especially in the middle….
ha… good point
The chicken never crossed a road. It’s an urban myth.
Somewhere, sometime, a chicken crossed a road.
Might have tried. Doubt if it ever made it.
Every animal on the planet has crossed a road at one time or another
Well, maybe so, maybe not. Birds fly over – is that considered “crossing”? Moles and some other rodents burrow under – is that considered “crossing”?
when you draw an x or a cross on a piece of paper, can you tell which line is on top or on the bottom? No… but they still ‘cross’ each other.
Theoretically, but somehow I don’t think animals are aware of that concept. They just know “I’m here and the food is over there.”
(So, are you any closer to gaining that “most comments on a personal blog” trophy?)
I am closer… and the whole thing that drives me crazy about the chicken and road question is that it implies there is some thought behind a chicken crossing a road… as if it did it with some great plan in mind. It was either just wandering looking for food or saw something that looked like food on the other side of the road. But a chicken can cross a road. It happens in rural places all the time. But asking why is like asking why a fish swam or a lion took a nap.
Or like asking me why I still keep on blogging …
(Oh, sorry, it’s not always about me.)
some times it is just about the chicken…
That’s right! And the reason I also asked is to give Elyse the recognition too!
well… I hope that works out…
I’m sure it will with your popularity
awwwwwwwwwww
😉
Yeah, Art. It’s my stupid fake question that started this whole post. I don’t want recognition, though. I want money. Lots of it. Those lottery tickets I keep buying just aren’t panning out.
I don’t mean to nitpick, but technically speaking this can’t really be considered your question… and if you really want to be technical, it isn’t a real question at all… it is more of a bad riddle… or a nonsense postulation… like: If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, then how many monkeys with a wooden leg does it take to kick the teeth down the throat of a dill pickle?
When it comes down to it, there is nothing new. Except maybe the pickle. Old pickles are yucky.
Don’t talk about my pickle that way… HA!
If the condiment fits …
sigh
Yes Art pay the women for her brilliant idea for your blog post!
I will make you some deviled eggs…
Oh, not a fan of chickens are you? (imagine a chicken clucking.)
wait… how did I miss this comment… it never showed up in my comment drop down menu
Must have slipped by the squirrels…I have written down my idea for the Art for Art cartoon.
Oh yay… I am all aflutter!!!
hahhaaahhuhuhuh
yup
So… the chicken crossed the road to eat…?
Not talking to me anymore? I understand. I’m sad. 😦
wait… who isn’t talking to you? This isn’t my blog… and this is the first comment I saw aimed at me… or is it aimed at you… are you talking to yourself??? I am so confused…
If this isn’t your blog then someone’s stolen your picture and put it at the top of theirs.
Now I’m confused!
Oh… wait… I thought this was back on Gibber’s blog where this whole mess started… my bad… did I really miss a comment from you?
YES!!
I am a computer moron… and I get confused… never has a nonsense question been talked about so much in so many places…
Hahaha!
yup
I don’t know how I missed this one… sorry
It happens. I thought you were just mad at me because I won. 😉
no, I thought the comment was on her blog and not aimed at me… I forgot that everything in the world is aimed at me… HA!
There ya go!
where am I going?
Up!
oh boy
Would you rather go down? It can be arranged, I’m sure. Only with your consent of course.
This is heading into dangerous territory… for my family friendly G-rating…
What are you talking about? I meant downstairs… to hang up my laundry. 🙄
Too many spiders down there for me.
…oh it’s the spiders! Yeah, I’ve been known to say a few four-letter words when a spider jumps out at me too.
I apologize for jumping to such an immature and male-centric conclusion.
Might be love, but this ain’t no elevator, Mr. Tyler. 😉
Ha… I get it…
Phew! I was afraid you didn’t know who Aerosmith was.
dude… I grew up on Aerosmith… and the Who… Bad Company… the Grateful Dead… Zep… AC/DC… and so on…
Me too!! er… dude. I think “Toys in the Attic” was my first album, after “Frampton Comes Alive” When I was, like, 12.
Well I was just a few years ahead of you…
Where’s my link??!!
good question… but you didn’t submit it to the official question asking spot… HA!
pft
oh yeah