Archive for May, 2009
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
Publius Claudius Pulcher (d. ca. 249 BCE), was a Roman general and politician. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? P. Claudius: Who cares? What, you don’t get it? Well, you see, Claudius was disgraced after he tried to appoint a crony to office in Rome. His political enemies swiftboated him with a story […]
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Tags: ancient, generals, Roman, soldiers, swiftboating
Chicken joke: Zell Miller
Writing about jailed Alabama governor Don Siegelman (on another blog) reminded me of Siegelman’s mentor, the notorious party switcher Zell Miller of Georgia. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Zell Miller: Because there’s no longer any place for a conservative chicken on that side of the road.
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Tags: American, conservatism, Georgia, politicians, U.S. politics, Zell Miller
Chicken joke: Yogi Berra
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Yogi Berra: Because it wasn’t chicken.
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Tags: 20th century, American, athletes, baseball, Chicken Crossing Conference, New York Yankees, Yogi Berra
Chicken joke: Robert Fogel
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Robert W. Fogel: Dozens of cliometricians are working on the problem right now, and no doubt a definitive, scientific answer will soon be forthcoming.
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Tags: American, cliometrics, economists, historians, U.S. history
Chicken joke: Daniel Boorstin
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Daniel J. Boorstin: He didn’t need a reason. The chicken didn’t care about politics or ideology. He was one of millions of American domestic fowl heading westward to build new communities, and their inspired efforts would help to make the United States the freest, most prosperous society […]
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Tags: 20th century, American, American exceptionalism, consensus history, historians, U.S. history
Chicken joke: Richard Hofstadter
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Richard Hofstadter: Unable to face the challenges of commercialized agriculture, the chicken was engaged in a futile attempt to return to the avian individualist values of the past.
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Tags: 20th century, American, consensus history, historians, Hofstadter, Populism
Chicken joke: Meinecke
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Friedrich Meinecke: This event should be understood as resulting from an alliance of the free German avian spirit with the machinery of the Pomeranian Goose state. In the long run, due to a series of unforeseeable accidents, this movement toward liberation ended in a disaster of historic […]
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Tags: 20th century, German, German history, historians, Meinecke
Chicken joke: Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) is best known for the History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Begun in the Year 1641. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Clarendon: It is to be observed that the chicken’s necessities had been discontinued, to a degree that cannot be believed, and […]
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Tags: 17th century, British history, Clarendon, English, English Civil Wars, historians
Chicken joke: Herodotus
I’m doing a series of historian jokes, starting with Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the “Father of History” (or “Father of Lies,” depending on whom you ask). He lived in the 5th century B.C.E. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Herodotus: Another story that is told among the Cimmerians is this, that in past times […]
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Tags: ancient, Greek, historians, wish-I-thoughta-that
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