Posts Tagged ‘19th century’
Chicken joke: Jane Austen
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Jane Austen: Because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single chicken, being possessed of a good fortune and presented with a road, must be desirous of crossing.
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Tags: 19th century, British, English, novelists, wish-I-thoughta-that, writers
Chicken joke: Comte
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Auguste Comte: This effort to explain and justify quasi-intentional actions of an animal (probably a fetish of some kind) indicates that the questioner is still mired in the theological phase of development and is probably incapable of comprehending the positive philosophy, which is the destiny of mankind.
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Tags: 19th century, Comte, French, philosophers, positivism
Chicken joke: Nietzsche
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Friedrich Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
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Tags: 19th century, German, Nietzsche, philosophers, psychologists, wish-I-thoughta-that
Chicken joke: Schopenhauer
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Schopenhauer: It was driven by the incessant striving of the will, only to become dissatisfied upon reaching the other side.
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Tags: 19th century, German, pessimism, philosophers, Schopenhauer
Chicken joke: J. Gordon Coogler
J. Gordon Coogler (1865-1901) was a South Carolina poet-for-hire of notoriously meager talent. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? J. Gordon Coogler: The chicken ran off, out of fear to be cooked. She went crost the highway, but oughter have looked. Alas! for the Chicken — her demise it was graphic. She never [...]
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Tags: 19th century, American, poetasters, poets, rhymes, South, South Carolina
Chicken joke: Marx
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Karl Marx: It was driven by the lash of economic necessity.
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Tags: 19th century, economists, German, Marxism, philosophers, wish-I-thoughta-that
Chicken joke: Maxwell
Today’s chicken joke quizzes a Scottish theoretical physicist born in 1831. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? James Clerk Maxwell: It was moving swiftly enough for the demon to allow it through the gate.
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Tags: 19th century, Maxwell's demon, physicists, scientists, Scottish
