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Jenisi
06-20-2007, 11:16 PM
Plato: For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration,
as a chicken which has the daring and courage to
boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom
among them has the strength to contend with such a
paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the
princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its
pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and
each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
intent can never be discerned, because structuralism
is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment
would let it take.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road
gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its
sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a
fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while
believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt
necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at
this historical juncture, and therefore
synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself,
the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the
objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came
into being which caused the actualization of this
potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed
the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-
nature.

Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing
events to grace the annals of history. An historic,
unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt
such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to
homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from
the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken
was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored)
reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Ronald Reagan: I forget.

John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the
transportation, so quite understandably the chicken
availed himself of the opportunity.

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow
out of life.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Molly Yard: It was a hen!

Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.

Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.

Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.

The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.

Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.

Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.

Othello: Jealousy.

Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have,
you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the
Need to resist such a public Display of your own
lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.

Mrs Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.

Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.

Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in
town ought never expose one to such barbarous
inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a
road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the
chicken in question.

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade
insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.

Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome,
filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume
to question the actions of one in all respects his
superior.

Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.

Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of
misplaced concreteness.

Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter)

Hamlet: That is not the question.

Donne: It crosseth for thee.

Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.

Constable: To get a better view.

Sean of the Thread
06-20-2007, 11:26 PM
Nice. I few made me chuckle. :)

Drew
06-21-2007, 01:25 AM
Bill Clinton: What answer does the public support?

Samuel Beckett: The side.

George W. Bush: We use that classic answer where I'm from in Texas: To get to the side ::goofy grin::

George R.R. Martin: I can give you the answer in approximately 1000 pages.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: When will it's feet scorch?
Car to the right of him
Car to the left of him
Onward brave chicken
The world wonder'd
Why he crosst
the road

Hips
06-21-2007, 08:07 AM
George R.R. Martin: I can give you the answer in approximately 1000 pages.


1,000 amazing pages way better than Robert Jordan!

Gan
06-21-2007, 08:28 AM
Robert Jordan: I can give you the answer in 100,000 pages.

WoW: LFG

Tea & Strumpets
06-21-2007, 09:22 AM
Why did the poster "Some Rogue" cross the road?


He was stuck to the back of the chicken!

Drew
06-21-2007, 02:23 PM
I was kind of under the impression that with Robert Jordan after 100,000 pages you still wouldn't have the answer (unless the answer was, buy another book when I finish it).

Necromancer
06-21-2007, 02:39 PM
The Hemingway one always makes me crack up

Hips
06-21-2007, 03:25 PM
At least Robert Jordan is better than Terry Goodkind... the Sword of Truth series is nothing but endless walking and rape attempts on Kahlan.

Danical
06-21-2007, 03:44 PM
I got to book 5 in the Wheel of Time (I even have the d20 RPG of it - bad buy).

Then I read a quote from him saying, "I plan on writing this [WoT] until they hammer in the last nail." I immediately burned all 5 books in the fireplace. Isn't the inability to end a series the hallmark of a terrible author? Come on!

Satira
06-21-2007, 03:48 PM
I loved all the author ones. I got a real kick out of...

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-
nature.

and

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade
insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.

Some Rogue
06-21-2007, 03:54 PM
Why did the poster "Some Rogue" cross the road?


He was stuck to the back of the chicken!

Why you son of a bitch...:club:


What's a seven course meal for T & S? A 6 pack and a boiled potato.

Gan
06-21-2007, 06:05 PM
At least Robert Jordan is better than Terry Goodkind... the Sword of Truth series is nothing but endless walking and rape attempts on Kahlan.

I rate Goodkind a half a notch above Jordan simply because he concludes most of the threads but keeps dragging out the attacks on Kahlan. I stopped reading after the 6th book I think... they all started running together and the rape line got old.

Jordan suckered me into his up through 10 because I loved the detail. I just hated the amount of time between books. Someday I might go back and reread once they are all out and concluded. I wont pick it back up again until they're done though.

Jenisi
06-22-2007, 01:46 AM
Existential Question of the Day




QUESTION: "Where do the characters go when I use my backspace or delete
them on my PC?"

ANSWER: The characters go to different places, depending on whom you ask:



The Catholic Church's approach to characters: " The nice characters go to
Heaven, where they are bathed in the light of happiness. The naughty characters
are punished for their sins. Naughty characters are those involved in the
creation of naughty words, such as "breast", "sex", and
"contraception"."

Some Protestant sects believe that the characters' destinations are
predestined; and that it's therefore not worth worrying about: "They'll go
where they're supposed to go, according to the unknowable plans of the
OEM."

The Buddhist explanation: "If a character has lived rightly, and its karma
is good, then after it has been deleted it will be reincarnated as a different,
higher character. Those funny characters above the numbers on your keyboard
will become numbers, numbers will become letters, and lower-case letters will
become upper-case."

The 20th-century bitter cynical nihilist explanation: "Who cares? It
doesn't really matter if they're on the page, deleted, undeleted, underlined,
etc. It's all the same."

The Mac user's explanation: "All the characters written on a PC and then
deleted go to straight to PC hell. If you're using a PC, you can probably see
the deleted characters, because you're in PC hell also."

Stephen King's explanation: "Every time you hit the (Del) key you unleash a tiny monster inside the cursor, who tears the poor unsuspecting characters to shreds, drinks their blood, then eats them, bones and all. Hah, hah, hah!"

IBM's explanation: "The characters are not real. They exist only on the
screen when they are needed, as concepts, so to delete them is merely to
de-conceptualize them. Get a life."

PETA's (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) explanation: "You've
been DELETING them??? Can't you hear them SCREAMING??? Why don't you go CLUB some BABY SEALS while wearing a MINK, you pig!!!!"

TheEschaton
06-22-2007, 07:10 AM
Stephen King's explanation: "Every time you hit the (Del) key you unleash a tiny monster inside the cursor, who tears the poor unsuspecting characters to shreds, drinks their blood, then eats them, bones and all. Hah, hah, hah!"

The Langoliers....shit, that was a scary story.