Posts Tagged ‘English’
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: Baden-Powell
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Robert Baden-Powell: To earn a road-crossing badge.
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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: 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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Chicken joke: Donne
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? John Donne (1572-1631): If a chicken hath crossed, this side of the road is lessened thereby, as well as if a dog had, as well as if a horse of thy friend’s or of thine own had, and therefore never send to know why, for this fowl […]
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Tags: 16th century, British, Christian, Donne, Elizabethan, English, poets, writers
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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Chicken joke: Drake
You may recall Sir Francis Drake (1540-1595), the English privateer and despiser of Spaniards. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Drake: To pursue and despoil the Asturian hens.
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