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Science.com

January 25, 2003



Why did the chicken cross the road?


Think how a branded chicken would cross the road:

Assembler chicken: First it builds the road ...

C chicken: It crosses the road without looking both ways.

C++ chicken: The chicken wouldn’t have to cross the road, you’d simply refer to him on the other side.

COBOL chicken: 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING.

IF NO-MORE-VEHICLES

THEN PERFORM 0010-CROSS-THE-ROAD

VARYING STEPS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL

ON-THE-OTHER-SIDE

ELSE

GO TO 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING

G3 300MHz chicken: It crosses twice as fast as any Pentium chicken.

Gopher chicken: Tried to run, but got flattened by the Web chicken.

Pentium chicken: The chicken crossed 4.9999978 times.

Java chicken: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets.)

Mac chicken: No reasonable chicken owner would want a chicken to cross the road, so there’s no way that you would tell it to.

Microsoft chicken: It’s already on both sides of the road.

And it just bought the road.

PalmPilot chicken: Can’t cluck, can’t fly, and can’t lay eggs, but you can carry it across the road in your pocket!

NT chicken: Will cross the road in June... No, August... September for sure.

OOP chicken: It doesn’t need to cross the road, it just sends a message.

OS/2 chicken: It crossed the road in style years ago, but it was so quiet that nobody noticed.

Quantum Logic chicken: The chicken is distributed probabalistically on all sides of the road until you observe it on the side of your choice.

Web chicken: Jumps out onto the road, turns right, and just keeps on running.

Windows 98 chicken: It should have expected to cause a crash while crossing.

Windows XP chicken: You see different coloured feathers while it crosses, but cook it and it still tastes like . . . chicken.



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