We’ve all heard it with many endings and our kids will hear it and our kids’ kids will hear it. Why the chicken crossed the road may be the most well known and most changed up joke of all time. Here it is answered by the most historical figures throughout history:

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road as Told By the Most Famous Men in History

• 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.
• COLIN POWELL
  Now at the left of the screen, you clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
• SADDAM HUSSEIN
  This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
• DR. SEUSS
  Did the chicken cross the road?
  Did he cross it with a toad?
  Yes, The chicken 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 envisage 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.
• 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.
• CAPTAIN KIRK
  To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
• ALBERT EINSTEIN
  Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?
• BILL CLINTON
  I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please?
• COLONEL SANDERS
  I missed one?

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