To: CYBERKEN who wrote (389233 ) 4/10/2003 12:23:29 AM From: Sully- Respond to of 769670 Answers to "Why did the chicken cross the road?" GEORGE W. BUSH We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here. The future of chickens crossing the road belongs to the chicken people. The chicken's fate remained unknown. I don't know whether the chicken survived. COLIN POWELL Now at the left of the screen, you clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road. There was no coherent crossing of the road. It was not contiguous, it was not coherent. Washington will send a team to Iraq this week to assess what is needed to set up an interim road crossing authority . HANS BLIX We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Baghdad Bob) The chicken is no where near the road. Not 100 miles I tell you this fact! We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked! There are no chickens there! Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying the chickens to Be assured Baghdad is safe, secure and great. There is no presence of chicken infidels in the city of Baghdad, at all. The film they broadcast to you is a lie! I will take you there and show you in one hour. We have slaughtered the infidel chicken. The chickens are beginning to commit suicide at the walls of Baghdad and I encourage them to increase the rate of suicide. The chickens are being killed in the hundreds at the walls of Baghdad. We have fed them hell and death, I tell you this fact! MOHAMMED ALDOURI (Iraqi ambassador) The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We don't even HAVE a chicken! SADDAM HUSSEIN This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it! French President Jacques Chirac The chicken has been cooperating fully. The chicken is working with the UN on road crossing. The chicken should be given more time to cross the road. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin We will veto any resolution that threatens the use of force to make the chicken cross the road! The UN must play a key role in helping the chicken cross the road. We want the United Nations to play a central role in the search for a settlement to this crisis, in the post- road crossing phase. General Kofi Annan (UN Secretary) The chicken never received approval from the UN to cross the road. We will conviene a Security meeting next week to look into the matter. The United Nations is doing everything it can to rush emergency medical aid to the chicken. BILL CLINTON I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please? AL GORE I invented the chicken. I invented the road. Therefore, the chicken crossing the road represented the application of these two different functions of government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring greater services to the American people. RALPH NADER The chicken's habitat on the original side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas- guzzling SUV. PAT BUCHANAN To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American. RUSH LIMBAUGH I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but I'll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I'll bet someone out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this? How much more of this can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by their tax dollars, and when I say tax dollars, I'm talking about your money, money the government took from you to build roads for chickens to cross. MARTHA STEWART No one called to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the farmer's market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information. JERRY FALWELL Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the other side. That's what they call it -- the other side. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like the other side. DR. SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, Thechicken crossed the road, But why it crossed, I've not been told! ERNEST HEMINGWAY To die. In the rain. Alone. 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 crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. BARBARA WALTERS Isn't that interesting? In a few moments we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting and went on to accomplish its life-long dream of crossing the road. JOHN LENNON Imagine all the chickens crossing roads in peace. ARISTOTLE It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. KARL MARX It was an historical inevitability. VOLTAIRE I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I will defend to the death its right to do it. RONALD REAGAN What chicken? CAPTAIN KIRK To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. FOX MOULDER You saw it cross the road with your own eyes! How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it? SIGMUND 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 e-Chicken 2003, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook - and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of e-Chicken. ALBERT EINSTEIN Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken? COLONEL SANDERS I missed one?