Why did the chicken cross the road? Maybe it was to get groceries, or to go to school. Maybe he was visiting a friend, or perhaps the chicken was chasing a butterfly. Or, maybe, he just wanted to get to the other side.
Typical jokes follow the standard of using a question to create a situation of unexpected irony. For example, knock-knock jokes such as; "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Boo!" "Boo who?" "Sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry!" use this method in a laughable way. This joke about a chicken crossing the road defies those standards entirely. You expect some kind of pun as an answer, a situation of irony, a clever play on words. Instead, you are greeted simply with the phrase; "To get to the other side".
So why exactly is this a joke? Maybe it isn't a joke; perhaps it is even an anti-joke. If this overused question and ironic answer are, indeed, a mockery of jokes, then why does it even exist? The chicken isn't a creature of knowledge. This chicken is, indeed, dumb. It knows only the other side of the road, and only to go forward. Thus, it progresses, without thinking of the consequences, without any reason. It simply does. Forward is the only way it knows.
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Random Short Stories/Poems
De TodoWARNING: May be disturbing or graphic This will contain short stories and poems that I write just because! Some will be horror, some sweet, some just plain weird
