Why did the chicken cross the road?

[Shaun das Schaf]

To get to the other sheep.

[deer of the dawn]

...whom the chicken crossed the road to avoid.

[sgt.null]

It's a mystery to me
we have a street
with which we have agreed

You think you have to want
more than you need
until you have it all you won't be free

chicken, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me

When you want more than you have
you think you need
and when you think more than you want
your thoughts begin to bleed

I think I need to find a bigger place
'cos when you have more than you think
you need more space

chicken, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
chicken, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

There's those thinking more or less less is more
but if less is more how you're keeping score?
Means for every point you make
your level drops
kinda like it's starting from the top
you can't do that...

chicken, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
chicken, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

chicken, have mercy on me
I hope you're not angry if I disagree
chicken, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

[deer of the dawn]

[wayfriend]

STEVEN ERIKSON: Peck surveyed the road. It was black, like a river of blood through a land of night.

It always comes to this, he thought. We are doomed to repeat our failures, and only our ignorance makes each time feel new. And the gods? They beckon us to cross, and then revel in our misery. The sad thing is, they know as little of fate as we do. Less. Because power blinds those who weild it, and the fagots of innocence burn and burn, but no light is shed for those who will not see. We will all be cooked in that fire, and the only question is, regular or extra crispy? And when we have been devoured, and the world is left to those who follow us, will they wonder why we had so much power, only to squander it crossing roads that come from nowhere and lead to no place? Or will they have the answers to the great, unanswered questions? Will I envy them if they do?

Peck stepped into the road. He never saw the bus that crushed his skull and strewed his innards where he had been about tread.

[sgt.null]

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...

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