Where and when did "Why did the chicken cross the road?" jokes originate?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_road\n\nThere are various stories of it's origin...
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The Chicken/hen came first.\n\nGenesis 1:20  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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y did the chicken cross the street
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Etymology\nThe word jaywalker traces back to 1917, though it may have been in use as early as 1900. It is generally considered to have originated in the United States, possibly from the city of Boston. It is a portmanteau of the words jay and walk; in this context, jay is used in the obsolete slang sense, referring to a stupid or dull person, or a rube, i.e. someone from a rural area and not familiar with "city ways". At the time, vehicles and traffic signals were a new concept, gaining popularity in the larger cities, so this term would have been used to describe newcomers who were unfamiliar with these recent developments and by extension, to ridicule people who behaved like newcomers but should have known better.
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"Who chose cake?"\n\nIt's exact etymology is unclear but this much is certain: the British coined the phrase. \n\n"The first documented appearance of the term is in 1943, in an small book of British military slang, although sources claim it was used in the RAF throughout World War Two, and was originally a Yorkshire dialect term in use at least since 1914."
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I don't know if there's much etymology of the phrase, but here's an article about it which puts forth some interesting possibilities of the origin.\n\nQuote from the site:\n\n"Some linguists and historians think the expression must have been well known during the war years, citing a story about General Eisenhower's dog. The story goes that the dog (Felix) urinated on a map and the officers joked that the enemy was "pissed off." (Leonard Mosely, Marshall, 1982)."
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I have seen "which came first, the chicken or the egg", I have seen "why did the chicken cross the road" I have seen "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood", but the one I thought was the dumbest was the one which went "??????????????"
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A.J. Ayer:In the absence of a technique to verify or falsify the assertion that he crossed it, the crossing must be regarded as chickenless.\nAdolf Hitler:Because it was his racial destiny to expand his Chickensraum.\nAl Gore 1:Because I designed the Information Superhighway so that all chickens, especially American ones, can cross under our benevolent supervision.\nAl Gore 2:I invented the chicken. I invented the road. Therefore, the chicken crossing the road represented the application of these two different functions of government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring greater services to the American people.\nAlbert Einstein:Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.\nAleister Crowley:Because it was his Will, and therefore the Whole of His Law.\nAlexander DeLarge:It was fagged of it's domy, me droogies,  and wanted to secure a bit of the ol' ultra-violence.\nAlfred E. Neumann:What? Me worry?\nAndersen Consulting:Deregulation of the chicken’s side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken’s people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken’s mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful\nAristotle:To actualize its potential.\nB.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.\nBarbara Walters:Isn't that interesting? In a few moments we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it overcame a serious case of molting and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.\nBasil Fawlty:Oh, don't mind that chicken. It's from Barcelona.\nBill Clinton 1:I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken please?\nBill Clinton 2:This administration will do everything within its power to provide free access to ALL chickens on ALL our nations roads, at ANY cost.\nBill Clinton 3:The chicken did NOT cross the road. Not a single time. Never. (It was a boulevard.)\nBill Gates:I have just released eChicken 2003, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook--- and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.\nBill the Cat:Oop Ack.\nBlake:To see heaven in a wild fowl.\nBob Dylan:How many roads must one chicken cross?\nBoddhidarma:Bring me that chicken.\nBuddha:If you ask this question, you
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chicken jokes are so lame, why do you waste 5pts on them?
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The chicken or the egg is a reference to the causality dilemma which arises from the expression "which came first, the chicken or the egg?". When used in reference to difficult problems, a chicken and egg problem is similar to a Catch 22 situation where something cannot happen until a second thing does, and the second thing cannot happen until the first does. For example, a person might have trouble finding a job without work experience, but to get work experience he/she must get a job.\n\nThe earliest reference to the dilemma is found in Plutarch's Moralia, in the books titled "Table Talk," in a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium. Under the section entitled, "Whether the hen or the egg came first," the discussion is introduced in such a way as to suggest that the origin of the dilemma was even older:\n\n"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world..." \nVarious answers have been formulated in response to the question, many of them humourous\nAssuming a chicken egg\nIn this case, the egg is assumed to be a chicken's egg. This is an obvious assumption since the question itself implies a link between the two.\n\nIf one assumes the egg to be a chicken egg then one must define what a chicken egg is:\n\nIf: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken \nThen a bypass is allowed: An animal that was not a chicken laid the chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the egg came first.\n\nIf: A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays \nThen a bypass is allowed: A chicken (that hatched from a non-chicken egg) laid an egg (a chicken egg). In this case the chicken came first.\n\nIf: A chicken egg will hatch a chicken and A chicken egg is the egg that a chicken lays. \nThen there may be an error of definition. If the definition of "chicken" used does not refer to "chicken eggs", then the chicken must come first, because without chickens there cannot be any chicken eggs.\nEvolutionary chicken\nIn this case, the egg is not assumed to be a chicken egg. In effect this changes the question to: "Which came first, a chicken or any egg".\n\nFrom a pseudo science point of view this question can be answered quite easily. The egg came first because any female sex cell is called an egg.\n\nIf the egg is defined structurally as the hard shelled thing, and the chicken a feather covered animal, the answer is still simple. Evolutionary scientists believe the first hard shell egg was the amniotic egg laid around 300 million years ago, and was laid by the animal who was the link between amphibians and reptiles. One of the first dinosaurs that we know had feathers was the Archaeopteryx, and came much later. Modern birds would not arise until 150 million years ago, descending from theropod dinosaurs.\n\nIn this case, the first chicken must have been the mutated offspring of a proto-chicken that laid the egg containing the first true chicken. In any case, this creature hatched from a recognizable egg. After all, the question is purposefully ambiguous -- it is not, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?"\n\nThe crux of the matter is how to biologically define 'a chicken'. What level of genetic similarity or structural similarity determine whether an organism is a chicken? One can only define what was the first chicken after the fact, thus any definition of the first chicken becomes arbitrary. The question 'which came first?' ignores the complicated reality of speciation.\n\nAccording to the principles of speciation, neither the chicken nor the egg came first, because speciation does not occur in simple, obvious units. In fact, evolution is about a slow transi
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It is a Funny Quotes or you can say One-liner thought.\ni think it is by "Fossel"
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what no new ones just old jokes that came out in the 17th century
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Which came first - the chicken or chicken egg? \n\n"The chicken" came first - in the sentence of the question. \n\nIf the question is phrased differently, the answer is different.
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I think it's a euphemism for "jacksh-t"\nSo now the question is, where did THAT phrase come from?
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Plato: For the greater good.\n\nMachiavelli: 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.\n\nOliver North: National security was at stake.\n\nAlbert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.\n\nAristotle: To actualize its potential.\n\nBuddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken nature.\n\nEmily Dickenson: Because it could not stop for death.\n\nPyrrho the Skeptic: What road?\n\nRonald Reagan: I forget.\n\nMr. T: Don't be a fool! If you saw me coming, you'd cross the road too.\n\nMacBeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.\n\nHamlet: That is not the question.\n\nJack Nicholson: 'Cause it f***ing wanted to. That's the d**n reason!\n\nDarwin: It was the logial next step after coming down from the trees.
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PAT BUCHANAN: To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.\nDR. SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told!\nERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.\nMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.\nGRANDPA: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.\nARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.\nKARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.\nSADDAM HUSSEIN: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.\nRONALD REAGAN: What chicken?\nCAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.\nFOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?\nMACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.\nFREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.\nBILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 98, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.\nEINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?\nBILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken please?\nIMMANUEL KANT: The chicken was acting out of a sense of duty to cross the road, as chickens have traditionally crossed roads throughout history.\nTHE BIBLE: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.\nCOLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?\nRICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road. I don't know any chickens. I have never known any chickens...\n\nTHATS WHY...
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I heard this joke earlier today.\nIt's a peridox, the chicken was made from the egg but the egg is needed to make the chicken.\nThe truth is, god made all the little chickens and birdies and all that good stuf and THEN the cycle began. The chicken came first.