You may have seen the responses to the "Silly Chicken Joke" going around the net. (They follow at the end.) As a form of imitative flattery, and in our quest for understanding of our own pathways, our infinite possibilities, and our ways of killing time, Rod, Karen, and Peggy have compiled the following responses from our friends to that eternal question "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?" Feel free to add your own contributions.

Barry: The chicken lived in Open Space and was exercising the Law of Mobility. Obviously the chicken was not contributing or learning on this side of the road so it went to the other side.

Jan: He was chasing a butterfly.

Peggy: The other side of the road was closer to Maine.

Dave: To show the oppossum it could be done...Which reminds me...Did you hear the one about the donkey and the onion?

Kim: The chicken may have crossed the road but it came back temporarily after finding a scarcity of rental units.

Kate: Because it was a hen and she can do what she damn well wants to. Maybe she was going after Benson and Hedges. How the hell should I know?

Colette: The cheeky thing had ego problems. What do you think, Baz?

Hadi: Such an esoteric question can lead only to esoteric answers for which I have appropriate song lyrics. Look beyond the obvious and you will find the obsequious. But you must first blow out night's candle and throw aside your own mask. I just hope it wasn't Charing Cross!

Rod: I don't want to talk about it yet. But I plan on using the feathers. ;)

Kitty: I don't know. Maybe that was what was needed. Perhaps it was practicing yoga. If so, it should keep its middle toes parallel and breathe into them. We could scan the photo in on the August site if you like. Click on my name. ;-)

Chris: The other side was clearer, darker, cooler.

Ghost: The other side was clearer, darker, cooler, and no one would notice.

Carol: To have a cup of tea with me in my paradise. (----smiles-----)

Nancy: Wait a minute. I wrote a poem about that very issue. It's here somewhere...

Jeff: It has to do with intention and release. You know, I really loved that little chicken.

Silvia: I like Einstein's explanation.

Dolores: Chicken? Gallino? No way! Not at my house! I eat only bean sprouts, oats, and Margeritas! But if it were here, it would like this town of eternal spring. Did you know it's 73 degrees here now? And clear blue skies. Muy nice!

Jamie: To keep from becoming fried food.#private

@.@ Don't you people have anything better to do than to spend your time worrying about some stupid chicken? You all should worry more about why YOU cross the road. This just shows how weak you are. And you call yourselves enlightened?

mb: The chicken crossed the road in quest of the beauty of green jellybeans.

Julio: It saw its own reflection over there and crossed to tell that reflection all about its sins and lies.

Cara: It was dysfunctional and in pain. {{{{CHICKEN}}}}

Sandy: y know noone gonna really "push" that chickn' cross th road, but y' no it cudd get help with gettin stuff sorted befor doin sumpen so drastic.

CFP: Go see http://www.flattened.fauna

Beth could not be reached for comment as she is doing a little emotional housecleaning by climbing Mt. Everest.

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Original list:

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

LOUIS FARRAKHAN: The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken `crossed' the black man in order to trample him and keep him down.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

GRANDPA: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the Chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?

RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.

JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?"

FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your chequebook.

OLIVER STONE: The question is not, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Rather, it is, "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"

DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically dispositioned to cross roads.

MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.

EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road; it transcended it.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain.

COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?