Why did the chicken cross the road? : Othor Games

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:31 am

That's not a road where I'm from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdYF1b69YhE Ok heres a chicken crossing a real road.

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:12 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdYF1b69YhE Ok heres a chicken crossing a real road.

That's one damn brave chicken!

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:44 am

Let me guess, some chicken stole your sweet roll?

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:36 pm

Let me guess, some chicken stole your sweet roll?

yes

:forever alone:
^man do I wish that were a real emoticon^

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:23 am

Why would the date of creation matter?

Roads were far less dangerous. I guess you can argue context - i.e what about in a town like NYC? - but as a whole, crossing a road wasn't perceived to be risky like it is today. Cars are to blame. So, your interpretation requires that 1)this joke's setting is a busy road, 2)this chicken perceives there to be an afterlife and 3)there is an "other side" at all - probably my main gripe with your interpretation. I'd disagree, and go with the idea that this joke was meant to be literal, and, in effect, funny.

» Sun May 13, 2012 12:35 am

I've never seen a dead chicken on the road, and I've lived in a very agricultural area the past eight years. If the joke was about an opossum or deer I'd understand the suicidal slant you're suggesting, but as is I'm pretty sure the "joke" is that there is no actual punch line, just a mundane response.

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:29 pm

Why did the staggering, drunk, depressed deer cross the road? So it could join its deer wife and deer children on the other side.

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:02 pm

You are right OP. I was enlightened a few weeks ago.

It's a message we should all tell impressionable children. First - the joke at face value, then crush their hopes and dreams by telling them the chicken got run over.

» Sat May 12, 2012 5:44 pm

What if said Chicken is lucky enough to not get hit by a car. Interesting perspective, but I reckon you're going a bit deep - searching for meaning that isn't there

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:31 pm

Its actually a form of anti-humour.
The point of the joke is to make people think something funny is going to happen, but when they say the punchline its just the truth and not funny.
The people laugh at the lack of punchline, and not the joke itself.

That's how I interpreted it, it's just that the joke has been overused so has lost all meaning. The theory still works with other jokes though.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:25 am

Haha oh wow. Think you might be looking a bit too deep.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:11 am

WTFisthis...

You know, just for this once I completely agree with you.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:32 am

I like my trolls to be funny and require skill. Im suprised this thread is still open.

» Sat May 12, 2012 9:15 pm

Why did the chicken cross the road?

He was a participant in an auto insurance scam, and was later arrested. He is currently serving a ten year sentence for insurance fraud.

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:38 pm

You know, just for this once I completely agree with you.

You don't otherwise? Give me an example.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:30 am

You don't otherwise? Give me an example.

For example, we seem to disagree on the merits of stalking Australian teenage choir girls

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» Sat May 12, 2012 8:46 pm

What if chickens aren't allowed into heaven, because they think heathenish thoughts? Then your entire punchline premise is ruined! :cryvaultboy:

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:40 am

In my day it was "Why did the pterodactyl cross the road.."

oh well.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:32 am

Why did the staggering, drunk, depressed deer cross the road? So it could join its deer wife and deer children on the other side.

What is the real meaning?!?! :ahhh:

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:37 am

What is the real meaning?!?! :ahhh:

The deer is an anology of working class America who are being sqeezed dry by corporate overture.

or not. :shrug:

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:09 pm

What if the afterlife was an invention devised by humans as a form of hope so people feel they have meaning in their lives by thinking that they will go to a better place when they die... :spotted owl:

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:15 am

I've never seen a dead chicken on the road, and I've lived in a very agricultural area the past eight years. If the joke was about an opossum or deer I'd understand the suicidal slant you're suggesting, but as is I'm pretty sure the "joke" is that there is no actual punch line, just a mundane response.

Add to your places to visit: San Juan Bautista, California.

I've seen several there while visiting. They have chickens all over that city wandering around, and if a cop catches you not yielding to one and flattening it, you get heavily fined. Evidently, the latter part doesn't matter.

» Sun May 13, 2012 8:04 am

In my day it was "Why did the pterodactyl cross the road.."

You're not fooling anyone. In your day, pterodactyls hadn't been invented yet.

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:21 am

Why did the chicken cross the road?
TO GET IN MY BELLY!!!!

» Sun May 13, 2012 1:28 am

It's not about "the other side" as in an afterlife. It means exactly what it says. The chicken crossed the road to get to the other side [of the road.] It's such a popular joke because it uses such a common question-set up for a joke, and you expect the punchline to be something clever, but instead you're just given a normal answer. The whole "chicken dies" thing isn't funny.