Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

by Nancy Attwood

How the HCTB characters would answer the age-old question:
Why did the chicken cross the road?


Clancey: To get some booze! Why else, bucko?
Stempel: I don't know, but it's a sure bet Jason Bolt is responsible somehow.
Stempel: Catch it men! It owes me money! ...courtesy of Kira in MA
Helen and Maude: For immoral purposes, no doubt!
Biddie: Was the chicken male, and is he single?
Corky: It must've been fritterin'.
Joshua: I don't know, but if Jeremy cooked it, you can't tell it's a chicken, anyway.
Ben: If anyone is interested in placing a wager on why the chicken crossed the road, see me or Clancey!
Candy: MISTER Bolt...as representative of the New Bedford Brides, I hereby present this petition, signed by each and every Bride, demanding that Seattle be provided with another chicken...or else!
Candy: You crossed the road beautifully. ...courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Molly and Christopher: It ran away, of course! Doesn't everyone?
Molly and Christopher: Hey, maybe Candy will bake it a pie!! ...courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Uncle Duncan: I don't know, but it must be tired after crossing that road! Sit thee doon, chick, and I'll play me pipes to calm ya.
Lottie: Good riddance, I say! I was tired of that chicken treating me as a PAL!
Jeremy: Ch-ch-chicken? Where?
Allyn Wright: I'm a doctor, not an ornithologist!
Old Indian: It was on its way to its Last Winter.
Jason: Gangway, Lord...here comes the chicken!
Mr. Harmon's mute son:
Holly Houston: Aw, shoooooot! Lemme at him! I'll catch that chicken with my bare hands!
Ma Oates: 'Cause there's two sets o' rules...one fer chickens, and one fer trappers!
Telly: That chickens was swindled! It only wanted to get its land back!
Busty: It was hurrying to buy me a drink.
Big Ox: It was depressed because it was a nobody. Plain old chicken nobody!
Wakando: I give you two otter skins for chicken. Fair trade.
Toy Quan: Chicken now belongs to Jeremy!
Lorenzo Bush: It better not be crossin' on to MY LAND!
Emma Peak: (squinting) It's not a chicken! It's Jonathan, come back to me! Oh, Jonathan...
Merlin: I can make it cross the road! I can make it stop crossing the road!
Kid Holliday: C'mere, chicken honey.
Ada Moon: Oh, Mr. Marlowe! Why did the chicken run away? Why does it hate us?
Sheriff Wade: That chicken crossed the road after curfew! Arrest it, Deputy!
Miss Essie: Because it was a boor! Just a boor!
Big Swede: I don't know, but that's one good-lookin' chicken when it's riled up!
Judge Weems: Well, Mr chicken you know what they say about a chicken that represents himself?
courtesy of John in Washington State
Caleb Balter: That weren't no chicken. I just made him that chicken suit to scare people out of my valley!
courtesy of Carol in Washington State
Captain Silas Harmon: I want to give the chicken the chance of a lifetime. A chance to circumnavigate the globe.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Lin Sung: I'll save the chicken, then it will be my chicken.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Bethany Albright: Oooooohhhhhh Lottiiiiieeeeeeee!!!!! Aaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Please help that chicken cross the road.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Astasia (Greek lady): Maybe chicken wanted to be closer to Astasia.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Callie Marsh: I didn't see a chicken cross the road!
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Jacques Benet: Maybe za shicken wanted to see my beautiful secretary, Renee.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Joshua and Jeremy: We can get our guitars and sing a song to it to help it along.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Elizabeth and Marsha: We'll help that little chicken so that nobody hurts it.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Benjamin Pruitt: Maybe it had a dream. Not any dream...A special dream.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Junior Oates: I'll bet a month of my trappings and get that chicken a beautiful old watch. Maybe then I'll be the apple of that pretty chicken's eye.
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois
Eban Oates: I didn't make the chicken cross the road, Junior did it. Junior did it!
courtesy of Barbe in Illinois

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