One Minute Writer: Chicken

Today's Writing Prompt: Chicken

Why did the chicken cross the road?

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The chicken felt an uncontrollable urge to cross over to a new way of thought. The road, being only the representation of a physical crossroads in the chicken's journey of thought, needed to be chosen and contemplated before it could be traveled. Thus, the chicken had made a thoughtful analysis and decision to go on a different track in life.

=)

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I've often wondered about the above joke and how it came to be perhaps the most popular corny joke of all time. I've often thought that the much more fun contemplation was "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" My favorite response is that there were eggs long before there chickens. And to suppose that the statement implies that the egg is a chicken egg is an unmeritted assumption.

That being said, I love eggs. I always enjoyed those incredible, edible egg commercials. I'm ammused by the American Egg Board. I am also a big fan of breakfast.

Enough about eggs.