Why did the chicken cross the road?

[muragik]

"Why did the chicken cross the road?" is one of the oldest and most famous joke riddles still in use in the English language. The most common answer to this riddle is "To get to the other side." When asked at the end of a series of other riddles, whose answers are clever, obscure, and tricky, this answer's obviousness and straight-forwardness becomes part of the humor. Some psychologists believe the riddle's humor comes from the fact that its answer is expected to be funny, but is not.

So why did the chicken cross the road?

[igmir25]

The chicken cross the road, because he saw that in the other side of the road there is a field of grains. And he decided that crossing the road will be best for him because there is abundance of food there. That is why he crossed the road.

[dodong25]

The chicken crosses the road because there is a chicken restaurant on the other side of the road. He wants to turn himself in because he is desperate. His girlfriend just broke up with him on the night of their chicken high school prom.

[kimax]

Without no rational explanation or whatsoever, the chicken crosses the road because he has the will to do so. They do not think of what the consequences or what might happen in crossing the road. They do not think of the events that might take place once they cross the road. They just crossed the road because they don’t have any clues to what is beyond out there.

[cristan]

We all know that animals and birds survived all through these years because of their instincts. They are born with instincts to defend and to escape from dangers. But in all this they still have one thing that is common to us humans, a trait called curiosity. That is why the chicken crosses the road because he is curious with what the road is all about and why it is there.