So I read this joke a while back in Reader’s Digest magazine. I didn’t exactly expect the jokes to be top notch, but I’ve got to admit, this completely appealed to my IR humor (if such a thing is possible).
And also, inspired by reading on my friend’s blog something about what world religions were about, I decided to put this joke up that I remembered. Enjoy!
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
But here’s the twist. What if famous historical characters were asked this question?
Here’s how they would respond:
“Moses: And God said to the chicken: “Cross the road.” And the chicken crossed. And we saw that it was good.
Aristotle: It’s in the nature of the chicken to cross roads.
Buddha: To ask those things would be to deny its nature of being a chicken.
Rene Descartes: To get to the other side. Obviously.
Zen Master: The chicken could cross the road in vain, but only the Teacher would recognize the sound of his shadow behind a wall.
Karl Marx: It was historically inevitable. He was pushed to fight by the struggle of aviary classes.
Sigmund Freud: The reason that you’re worrying so much about this reveals a clear feeling of sexual insecurity.
Einstein: The fact that it’s the chicken who crosses the road or that the road moves from under the chicken is relative to the point of reference.
Stalin: We must kill the chicken IMMEDIATELY….and also all the eyewitnesses….and 10 people chosen at random who let this subersive act happen.
George W. Bush: That the chicken crossed the road with such impunity, despite the resolutions of the UN, represents a severe attack to democracy, justice, and freedom. This proves, without a doubt, that we should have bombed the road a long time ago, with the objective of guaranteeing the peace and avoid that our values are once again attacked by the terrorist acts of this chicken.”
