Why did the chicken cross the road?

Chicken joke: Baba Yaga

30 October 2009 – 12:13 am
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babayaga Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Baba Yaga: That was no chicken, that was my house. Now stop asking questions!

Chicken joke: George Wallace

25 August 2009 – 12:04 am
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wallaceg George Corley Wallace (born 90 years ago today) was an Alabama governor, independent presidential candidate, and notorious defender of racial segregation — until he allegedly saw the light. (That happened just about the time he ran for another term as governor in a state that suddenly had a large number of African American voters.)

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

George Wallace: I used to be in favor of keepin’ all the chickens on one side of the road, and not ever lettin’ ’em cross — but I’ve seen the error of my ways. I’m a changed man. Some of my good friends are chickens. Like take this chicken crossin’ the road right now. She’s a dear, old friend of mine. I’ve had both her mama and her daddy to dinner, and one o’ these days I plan to have her to dinner too.

Chicken joke: Leo Strauss

27 June 2009 – 12:07 am
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straussl1 Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Leo Strauss: This is just another instance of the chaos wrought by modern man’s permissive egalitarianism. The ancients tell us that the road was made by and for free men, not for collectivized domestic fowl. Today we are faced with a tyranny of ‘technology’ and ‘the conquest of nature,’ in which the relentless tread of crossing chickens slowly and gently wears away the road of human freedom, reducing it to a trackless, value-free wasteland. These processes of gentle nihilism must remain, for all practical purposes, unintelligible to us if we do not have recourse to the political science of the classical philosophers.