Tom,

That about wraps up this thread!

Gene.

On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, Tom Foote wrote:

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> On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Eugene Nunn wrote:
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> Why did the chicken cross the road?... To show the opossum that it
> could be done.
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> Maybe this will start yet another thread!
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> I've been saving this one for the right moment...this seems like it..
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> Tom Foote
> footet at elwha.evergreen.edu
> Lab II
> The Evergreen State College (360) 866-6000 x6118
> Olympia, WA 98505
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> *Why did the chicken cross the road?*
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> Plato: For the greater good.
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> Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
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> 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.
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> Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its
> pancreas.
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> 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!
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> Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find
> out.
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> Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would
> let it take.
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> Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
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> Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes
> also across you.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the
> chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
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> 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.
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> Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed
> the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
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> Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
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> Buddha: If you meet the chicken on the road, kill it.
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> 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.
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> Salvador Dali: The Fish.
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> Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
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> Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
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> Epicurus: For fun.
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> Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
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> Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
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> Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
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> Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was
> on, but it was moving very fast.
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> David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
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> Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored)
> reason.
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> Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
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> The Sphinx: You tell me.
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> Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
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> Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out
> of life.
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> Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
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> Molly Yard: It was a hen!
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> Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
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