A Matter Of Fact

When the wise one speaks ...no one would deny

and this is what they think of why the chicken crossed the road...

Buddha:

If you ask this question,

you deny your own chicken-nature.

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Albert Einstein:

Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed

the chicken depends upon

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Thomas de Torquemada:

Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

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Oliver North:

National Security was at stake.

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Emily Dickinson:

Because it could not stop for death.

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Epicurus:

For fun.

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The Godfather:

I didn't want its mother to see it like that.

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Macbeth:

To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.

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"Why did the chicken cross the road?"

is one of the oldest and most famous 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.