Others crossing the road

Now let's figure out what happens when it's not the chicken crossing the road, but someone (or something) else:


Why did the cow cross the road?

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To get to the udder side.

Why did the whale cross the ocean?

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To get to the other tide.

Why did the otter cross the road?

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To get to the otter side.

Why did the horse cross the road?

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To visit her neigh-bor.

Why did the rabbit cross the road?

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To get to her hare dresser.

Why did the turtle cross the road?

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To get to the Shell station.

Why did the skeleton cross the road?

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To get to the body shop.

Why did the fox cross the road?

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To get to the chicken.

Why did the turkey cross the road?

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To prove he wasn't chicken.

Why did the dinosaur cross the road?

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Because chickens didn't exist yet.

Why did the chicken...

Yesterday, I wrote a blog post with a bunch of different answers to "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Yes, there are many different answers besides the classic "doh!" answer: "To get to the other side."

In today's post, I have some related riddles about chickens, but now instead of crossing the road, the chicken is doing other things, or it might be a special chicken, like Chicken Little.

Why did the chicken consult a fortune-teller?

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To get to the other side.

Why did the chicken cross the amusement park?

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To get to the other ride.

Why did the chicken cross the ocean?

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To get to the other tide.

Why did the chicken cross the playground?

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To get to the other slide.

Why did the chicken cross the basketball court?

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The referee called a fowl!

Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in the mud, and cross back over again?

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The chicken was a dirty double-crosser.

Why did the chicken only cross halfway over the road?

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She wanted to lay it on the line!

Why did the chicken run across the road?

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To get to the other side faster.

Why did the chicken stop crossing the road?

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It got tired of everyone making so many jokes!

Why did the Chicken Little cross the road?

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To warn everyone on the other side that the sky was falling.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

This is the first in a series of posts exploring the "meta" riddle: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Let's get started with just a few of the many answers to this traditional form of the riddle. Which ones do you like best, and why? Looking at these answers is a way for you to think about the forms of riddling that you like best... because this is definitely a riddle with many different answers! (July 1: I just added two more!)

• To get to the other side.
• The grass was greener on the other side.
• Because she was a free range chicken
• Because the light was green.
• Because the road was too long to walk around it.
• Beak-cause she could.
• To BOCK traffic. Bock! Bock!
• Because she thought it was an EGG-cellent idea.
• Because she saw what you did with her eggs.
• Because she wanted to understand what all the jokes were about.
• To knock-knock on the door, walk into the bar, and change the light bulb.
• Because this is AMERICA! The chicken can go where it wants.
• To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

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