Chapter 032

Chapter 32: ODDS AND SODS

QUESTION: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Arthur Scargill: It had been so exploited, brainwashed and deceived by the farming class that it no longer understood that its true interests lay on its own side of the road.

Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road, who cares why? Chickens cross roads, producing situations which can provide the alert motorist with a free dinner.

Timothy Leary: Because it was the only kind of trip the Establishment would allow him to take.

Freud: The fact that you even notice a chicken crossing the road is highly revealing with regard to your state of clinical sexual frustration.

Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road.

Darwin: Over many eons of bird evolution a chicken has emerged with a predisposition for crossing roads.

Fox Moulder: That is the question they WANT you to ask. You've got to try to look at the bigger picture.

National Front Spokesman: To