Posts Tagged ‘American’
Chicken joke: Bukowski
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Charles Bukowski: To go to the bar, pick a fight, and find a good hen.
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Tags: 20th century, American, Bukowski, Los Angeles, novelists, poets, wish-I-thoughta-that, writers
Chicken joke: Pat Buchanan
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Pat Buchanan: Clearly that road was one of many roads, too many roads, that lead right past the Border Patrol and right into the overburdened heartland of America.
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Tags: 20th century, American, demagogues, politicians, wish-I-thoughta-that
Chicken joke: Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon died on this day in 1994. New documentary material from his turbulent presidency is still being released. So perhaps some day soon we’ll turn up a transcript like the following. HALDEMAN: So, ah, I guess we need to know, ah, why did the [expletive deleted] chicken cross the road? PRESIDENT: Edgar will find […]
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Tags: 20th century, American, Nixon, politicians, U.S. presidents, Watergate, wish-I-thoughta-that
Chicken joke: Woody Allen
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Woody Allen: ‘Why did the —’ . . . You’re asking me? ‘Why did the chicken cross the road,’ how should I know? Maybe it was a very confused chicken. God, I’m so depressed.
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Tags: 20th century, American, Chicken Crossing Conference, comedians, filmmakers, Hollywood, New York, Woody Allen, writers
Chicken joke: Alexander Haig
Today’s chicken joke quizzes perennial government honcho Al Haig — general, Vice Army Chief of Staff, White House Chief of Staff (to presidents Nixon and Ford), Secretary of State, and Supreme High Muckety-Muck of NATO. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Al Haig: Some sinister force may have pushed it across the road. […]
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Tags: 20th century, American, bureaucrats, generals, Nixon, politicians, soldiers, White House
Chicken joke: George Romero
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? George Romero: It was a zombie chicken looking to peck out someone’s brains.
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Tags: American, filmmaker, Hollywood, horror, zombies
Chicken joke: Alan Watts
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Alan Watts: Because nobody met him on the road and killed him.
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Tags: 20th century, American, Buddhist, Zen
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
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