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Chicken joke: William Blake
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? William Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
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Chicken joke: Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) wrote Tristram Shandy, the greatest ridiculous novel in the English language. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Sterne: I shall be delighted to inform you, Madam, but first I think it necessary to relate some few details concerning the chicken’s conception, incubation, and nativity. I trust you are comfortably seated?
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Today’s chicken joke queries Goethe in his own language. Q: Warum hat der Hahn die Straße überquert? Goethe: Das Ewig-Weibchenliche zog ihn hinüber. Translation: Why did the chicken cross the road? The Eternal Hen lured him across. I think this one works a little better in German than English. It imposes the rustic word Weibchen, […]
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Today the chicken joke queries King Frederick II “the Great” of Prussia (1712-1786). Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Old Fritz: To force the chicken on the other side to fall back.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? 