Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. Sometimes the best answer is the simplest and most obvious. But the obvious is often overlooked in today's society. We complicate the issues, and look for shades of gray in what should be a black-and-white issue. This chicken crossing the road joke is the age old, classic example of how the obvious is sooo often overlooked it's funny. So, to help you think "outside the box", let's look at why did the chicken cross the road? Not just to get to the other side, but also . . .

• To prove to the armadillo and possum it could be done.
• There was a car coming.

Why did the chicken cross the playground?

• To get to the other slide.

Why did the chicken go half-way across the road?

• She wanted to lay it on the line.

Why did the rubber chicken cross the road?

• She wanted to stretch her legs.

Why did the Roman chicken cross the road?

• She was afraid someone would caesar!

Why did the messy chicken cross the road twice?

• Because she was a dirty double-crosser

Various opinions on why the chicken crossed the road:

• Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
• M.C.Escher: That depends on which plane of reality the chicken was on at the time.
• Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed it, I've not been told!
• Darth Vader: Because it could not resist the power of the Dark Side.
• Gilligan: The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail - the chicken would be lost. The chicken would be lost!
• Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too, Sucka!
• Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your point of view.
• Sir Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.
• A Nun: It was a habit.
• George Washington: Actually it crossed the Delaware with me back in 1776. But most history books don't reveal that I bunked with a birdie during the duration.
• Hamlet: Because 'tis better to suffer in the mind the slings and arrows of outrageous road maintenance than to take arms against a sea of on coming vehicles...
• Martin Luther King: It had a dream.
• Neil Armstrong: One small step for chickenkind, one giant leap for poultry.

Finally, in the ever famous words of Carl Sandburg:
He crossed the road less traveled, and survived. That made all the difference.