Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Anti-Humour

Man: Doctor, I've broken my leg.
Doctor: I'm afraid it is a very bad break. You will never walk properly again.

*

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
The police. I'm afraid there's been an accident. Your husband has been killed.

*

A man walks into a pub.
He is an alcoholic whose drink problem is destroying his family.

*

How many electricians does it take to change a light bulb?
One.

*

Why do women fake orgasms?
Because they want to give men the impression that they have climaxed.

*

Two cows are in a field. Suddenly, from behind a bush, a rabbit leaps out and runs away. One cow looks round a bit, eats some grass and then wanders off.

*

Why are there no aspirin in the jungle?
Because it would not be financially viable to attempt to sell pharmaceuticals in the largely unpopulated rainforest

*

A Chinese man and his Jewish friend were walking along one day when the Jewish man whirled and slugged the Chinese man and knocked him down.

"What was that for?" the Chinese man asked.

"That was for Pearl Harbor!" the Jewish man said.

"Pearl Harbor? That was the Japanese. I'm Chinese."

"Chinese, Japanese, you are all the same!"

"Oh!"

They continued walking and after a while the Chinese man whirled and knocked the Jewish man to the ground.

"What was that for?" the Jewish man asked.

"That was for the Titanic!"

"The Titanic? That was an iceberg."

"Iceberg, Goldberg, you are all the same."

*

Man 1: Knock, Knock

Man 2: Who's there?

Man 1: It's me Johnny.

Man 2: Oh, hey man! Come on in, and have a beer.

*

A priest, a rabbi, and a buddhist monk walk into a bar, sit at the end and start having some drinks. Two hours later, they come out with a better understanding of each other and a mutual respect, the beginnings of a friendship that last a lifetime.

*

Johnny enters a bar and asks, "Do you know what time it is?"
Barkeeper: Yes.
Johnny: So do I.

*

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because the chicken lacks any reasoning or decision-making capabilities, it seems unlikely the chicken's action was spurred by any particular motivation.

*

Person 1: Who's on first?

Person 3: The first baseman?

Person 1: Who's on second?

Person 3: The Second baseman

*

3 blind mice go into a pub, but they can't see anything, so they walk straight into a table leg and die.

*

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

Doctor: OK

*

A German man, an Italian women and a Schnauser walk into a proctologist office. They all walk out at different times later in the day.

*

A man goes to the doctors and says "doctor doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains" and the doctor replies "well I'm afraid that is irrelevent now, you have approximately 24 hours to live."
BearFanInPackerLandMay 2 2005, 10:38 AM
It's great to be here. I just flew in today and boy are my arms pretty much the same as they were before I flew here.
D_UNITMay 2 2005, 10:41 AM
What is red and looks like a bucket?
A red bucket.
BearFanInPackerLandMay 2 2005, 10:41 AM
Did you hear the one about the parachuting nun?

She jumps out of planes and with the aid of a large piece of specifically shaped fabric lands safely on the ground.
BearFanInPackerLandMay 2 2005, 10:42 AM
Q. Why is a baboons butt red?

A. Red pigmented butt skin.
BearFanInPackerLandMay 2 2005, 10:48 AM
Q. Why don't cannibals eat clowns?

A. Because clowns and cannibals are rarely in close proximity and therefore do no come in contact with one another.
BearFanInPackerLandMay 2 2005, 10:50 AM
Q. What do you get when you cross an alligator and a crocodile?

A. An alligator and a crocodile in an "X" shape.
D_UNITMay 2 2005, 10:50 AM
Q: What is purple and, when thrown against the wall, causes the neighbor's phone to ring?
A: Coincidence.
D_UNITMay 2 2005, 10:52 AM
A man walks into a bar

He drinks 6 Fosters, 4 shots of Jack Daniels, hits on the waitress unsuccessfully, takes his wedding ring off, tried again and fails, drinks 3 more shots, drives home, beats his daughter for coming home late, and cries himself to sleep realizing that he hates his life.

BearFanInPackerLandMay 2 2005, 10:55 AM
Q. If I had a 2 foot tall rooster and you had a donkey but your donkey ate my rooster what would you have?

A. An omnivorous donkey.

Monday, June 06, 2005

Dreams

I.

I have dreams
Of course I do
Much the same
As any of you.

My dreams however
Don't make sense
I often wake up
Feeling tense.

I often wake up
Feeling weird
Scratching my itchy
Day-growth beard.

II.

A woman made of pudding, once
In dreamland I espied
And once atop the Eiffel Tower
I jumped, and coolly died.

The dreams of death are bittersweet
And dreams of life bizarre
My pal once dreamed a tiger fierce
Did jump into his car.

Perhaps we walked a crooked way
Not too off-beat I hope,
Yet under the shower I sometimes say
"Man, gotta lay off the dope!"

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd, to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
What a hog! To swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog ...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat... She swallowed the goat to catch the dog...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse -
She's dead, of course.

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

It Pays to Improve Your... er...?

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

The plan was simple, like my mate Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for while.

He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter".

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a lamp-post.

The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.

He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a dustcart reversing.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E .coli and he was room-temperature British beef.

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

Factoids

* About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
* You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
* Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
* Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
* The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
* A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
* The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
* Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
* Every person has a unique tongue print.
* Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
* The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
* Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
* A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
* It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
* Mosquitoes have teeth.
* Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
* Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
* 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." (big surprise, eh?)

Schoolboy Howlers Part I

H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water.

Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.

Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.

Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.

Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so that’s why they look like umbrellas.

A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.

The First Commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple. (When Adam told Eve to "eat the apple" she slapped him.)

The Fifth Commandment is humouring thy father and mother.

The Seventh Commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery.

The Jews were a proud people and throughout history they had trouble with the unsympathetic Genitals.

Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark. But she only answered to Jean because she could not speak English.

Samson slayed the Philistines with the axe of the apostles. He slayed them by pulling down the pillows of the temple.

The epistles were the wives of the apostles.

St. Paul preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage.

A Christian should have only one wife. This is called monotony.

The natives of Macedonian did not believe in Paul, so he got stoned.

When Mary heard that she was the Mother of Jesus, she sang the Magna Carta.

Jesus was born because Mary had an immaculate contraption. In the Gospel of Luke they named him Enamel.

The Perils of Conferencing

Topic: Join my Conference...
Yahoo! Messenger: crazyocool has joined the conference.
Yahoo! Messenger: madhuslost has joined the conference.
crazyocool: come on!
yofactor: whoozis?
madhuslost: whos crazyocool?
crazyocool: yr baap!
crazyocool: choothiyees!
yofactor: Ragu?
crazyocool: X-(
crazyocool: :-*
crazyocool: shit two days with yohan look what has happened!
crazyocool: madhuuuu save me!
madhuslost: ?
crazyocool: ragu man
madhuslost: it is Raghu
yofactor: when did you start calling yourself crazyocool?
madhuslost: Raghu what was the color of the wallet u lost just b4 i left?
yofactor: white
crazyocool: red
yofactor: what's going on
madhuslost: RAGHU!!
crazyocool: brb
madhuslost: Ssup machaa
yofactor: these conferences are always confusing
crazyocool: wassuppppppppppppp
yofactor: I found more chicken jokes
yofactor: refresh the page
crazyocool: tell me
madhuslost: nothing da
madhuslost: i m applying in British Council here
madhuslost: and one editor job in Kuwait times
yofactor: For what?
yofactor: librarian?
crazyocool: have u read yohan's blog?
crazyocool: hahaha
yofactor: oy
madhuslost: well...the job is some administrative types
madhuslost: dunno exactly
crazyocool: they want a new head for the labour party
yofactor: make sure they pay you
yofactor: even if it is the labour party
madhuslost: well i ll borrow from them if they dont pay me
yofactor: brilliant scheme
crazyocool: too much
yofactor: hiccups and then searches for a glass of water
madhuslost: i want my camera
yofactor: so buy one
madhuslost: so i better get my dough
yofactor: screams, "They killed kenny!"
madhuslost: Yohans loosing it
madhuslost: Yohan chill man
madhuslost: hold on to ur panties
yofactor: these optiong are too funny man
madhuslost: so Raghu...
madhuslost: Ssup with u?
yofactor: he's baking cakes for Sunil Kumar
madhuslost: u in Delhi?
yofactor: he told me himself
yofactor: They hired him
madhuslost: haha
yofactor: seriously
madhuslost: hey Yohan send me the blog ad again
yofactor: http://postsoph.blogspot.com
crazyocool: my assignment for the day is to fry some balls
crazyocool: madhu help me get yohans
yofactor: Ragu's laerning canadian cookery
yofactor: from Sunil's mom
madhuslost: goat?
yofactor: yeah
yofactor: those canadians are wierd
madhuslost: well Yohan can teach u Syrian cooking
yofactor: I ate some when I went to canada
madhuslost: u ve never been to Canada
yofactor: I have
yofactor: when I was 5
madhuslost: video game?
yofactor: my aunt lives there
yofactor: In Deep River, Ontario
madhuslost: nice excuse
yofactor: I'm not lying man
madhuslost: i m from Thick Forest Edmunton
yofactor: :))
madhuslost: anyez...this is for Raghu
yofactor: thick forest down under
madhuslost: where is the bastard
crazyocool: the skirt?
yofactor: must be getting the oil hot
yofactor: for the frying
crazyocool: yes ...tell me now ...i was on the phjone
yofactor: ordering the balls fromHolistic?
crazyocool: yohan is quite serious with his linguistics...hmmmmmm
madhuslost: hey Yohan is this blog urs?
crazyocool: mad molly... what is this british council trip man
yofactor: yeah
yofactor: I 'm justputting up junk I found
madhuslost: u ve repeated stuff
madhuslost: anyez
yofactor: not my fault
madhuslost: i dunno man...
yofactor: cut-paste job
yofactor: I'll clean it up
madhuslost: i might or might not get a job
madhuslost: its just for the money
yofactor: Uncertainty eh?
yofactor: But how much does a good cam,era cost?
madhuslost: around 200 kd
madhuslost: one months pay
yofactor: rupees
madhuslost: 200 * 150
madhuslost: 30 000?
yofactor: one moth?
yofactor: then you can easily make enough
madhuslost: yo
yofactor: go for it dude
madhuslost: yeah...
yofactor: Tommy can be the editor
crazyocool: hard core...madhu that means he can send me money..
yofactor: he's a pro
crazyocool: i will be the only wasted guy next year
yofactor: forget that
yofactor: get enthu
madhuslost: haha....Raghu i m playing bball too
madhuslost: i smoke ONE cig a day
yofactor: only?
crazyocool: my ass..
madhuslost: yeah..
crazyocool: u can never play
yofactor: can't smoke your ass
crazyocool: today i was trying to get ciggis
madhuslost: and...
crazyocool: apparently today is a no tobacco day..
crazyocool: no ciggis here
yofactor: so?
madhuslost: India sux
yofactor: I bought cigs
yofactor: today
madhuslost: here we can smoke in malls
madhuslost: around babies
yofactor: Madrasipalayam rocks
madhuslost: wherever we want
yofactor: AROUND BABIES?
crazyocool: kuwaitipalayam too
crazyocool: babies?
yofactor: madhu you'rea sadist
madhuslost: i was exagerating
madhuslost: obviously i dont smoke near babies
yofactor: really?
crazyocool: hahaha...
yofactor: this sounds too funny
yofactor: can I cut and paste this conversation
yofactor: it;s clean
madhuslost: for whom?
yofactor: isn't it?
madhuslost: M4?
yofactor: for the blog

[...Later...]

crazyocool: i am da man
madhuslost: if i m RAM....ur Hanuman...and shes sita
yofactor: Da-Man
yofactor: Superhero form TamilNadu
madhuslost: and Hes the Ravan
crazyocool: hahaha
yofactor: Dae, look up in the sky, it's Da-Man
madhuslost: Yohan is pile on
yofactor: Paaru da, dae!
madhuslost: he ll be making the bridge for me
crazyocool: one of those arbit monkeys
madhuslost: hehe
crazyocool: i am the head monkey
yofactor: Ramayana funda, da?
madhuslost: who talks too much
yofactor: Da-da-da-dum
crazyocool: obviously the king is mr. madhu, like in all stories
yofactor: Mister Madhu
crazyocool: y?!
madhuslost: yess..?
yofactor: no
yofactor: it sounds funny
crazyocool: yohan?!
yofactor: Imagine 2000BC
yofactor: Maharaja Mistermadhu
madhuslost: Yohans feeble attempts at humour
crazyocool: madhu would have been borrowing in ancient currency
yofactor: I'mactually laughing here
madhuslost: hehe
madhuslost: Raghus funny
madhuslost: yeah i would have made East India Company bankrupt...
madhuslost: anywez
yofactor: SO make me also laugh no
yofactor: But that was slightly after Ram
madhuslost: Raghu how hot is Delhi?
crazyocool: accha boys..
yofactor: good boyd
crazyocool: time to say good bye
crazyocool: some one else's
yofactor: Sniff sniff
crazyocool: internet bill
crazyocool: klemme go easy
yofactor: go study macha
madhuslost: ok da
crazyocool: ya
madhuslost: tkc

The Age Old Riddle

Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
GEORGE W. BUSH
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL Now at the left of the screen, you clearly see the satellite image
of the chicken crossing the road.

HANS BLIX We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet
been allowed access to the other side of the road.

MOHAMMED ALDOURI (Iraq ambassador)
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication.
We don't even have a chicken.

SADDAM HUSSEIN
This crossing of the road was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on the chicken.

RALPH NADER The chicken's habitat on the original side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.

JERRY FALWELL Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see
the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the "other
side." That's what they call it-the other side. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like
"the other side."

DR. SEUSS
Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, The chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed, I've not been told!

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To die. In the rain. Alone.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

GRANDPA
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone
told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for
us.

JOHN LENNON
Imagine all the chickens, crossing roads in peace.

ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

KARL MARX
It was an historical inevitability.

VOLTAIRE
I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I will defend to the
death its right to do it.

RONALD REAGAN
What chicken?

CAPTAIN KIRK
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

FOX MULDER
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes! How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?

SIGMUND FREUD
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road
reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

BILL GATES
I have just released eChicken 2003, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook -
and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of eChicken.


BILL CLINTON
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please?

COLONEL SANDERS
I missed one?

Heisenberg:
Because the chicken is moving very fast, you can either observe the chicken or you can measure the chicken, but you cannot do both.

Xeno:
The chicken can never reach the other side because there are an infinitessimal number of segments between him and the other side.

Einstein:
It depends on the chicken's frame of reference as to whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken.

Nietzche:
If the chicken gazes too long across the road, the road will also gaze into the chicken.

Newton:
Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

Timothy Leary:
Because it was the only trip the establishment would let it take.

Anonymous:
To show the armadillo it could be done.

Plato:
The ideal chicken must ideally cross the ideal road. Therefore, imperfect chickens in this world cross imperfect roads, imperfectly.

Karl Marx:
She was driven by the lash of economic necessity.

Aristotle:
It is the essense of chickens to cross the road.

Joseph Campbell:
She was following her bliss

Lao Tse:
Those who cluck do not know.
Those who know do not cluck.

Capt. Jean Luc Picard:
To see what's out there.

Col. Oliver North:
It was a national security matter.

Basil Fawlty:
Oh, never mind that chicken. She's from Barcelona.

Sir Edmund Hilary:
Because it's there.

The Kingston Trio:
The lions still roam the barranca
And a hen there is always alone.

Sigmund Freud:
The telephone pole suggested a phallic symbol and like all female creatures she wanted to be dominated.

Jacques Derrida:
The question admits of limitless answers, since there is no one logocentric strategy of discourse that takes primacy over all others.

Oscar Wilde:
This chicken problem has many depths, but all of them are equally shallow.

William Blake:
Little chicken, who set thee free
To wander here on Highway Three?
"Oh, sir, your question's very odd;
He is called the Lamb of God."

Douglas Adams:
Forty-two.

Vito Corleone:
We made her an offer she couldn't refuse.

Sappho:
To kiss your skin, to lie with you in moonlight...

Jean Paul Sartre:
To impose a meaning upon her accidental existence.

T.S.Eliot:
To leave the place she knew for another place
And to stay there for a while
And then to move onward to a third place.

Buddha:
To ask this question denies your own chicken nature.

Charles Darwin:
It was the next step after coming down from the trees.

Thomas Jefferson:
All hens are endowed by Nature and Nature's God with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of the other side.

Confucius:
When the emperor performs the rites with full reverence, and the court officers behave as true scholars and gentlemen, a hen may cross any road in the kingdom safely.

Ernest Hemingway:
To die. In the rain.

H.P. Lovecraft:
To escape the crawling horror lurking on this side of the road, a nameless and foetid monstrosity that cannot be conceived save in the dreams of madness.

Friederich Nietzsche:
There was no chicken, no road, no crossing. There was only an interpretation.

Sid Vicious:
Cause I had the effin' bird pinned to my right nipple when I started chasin' Nancy across the effin' road wif my effin' switchblade.

Darth Vader:
She was seduced by the dark side of the road.

Raymond Chandler:
She had beady inhuman eyes like strange black jewels and the kind of feathers a bird of paradise might envy. I knew that if they made her a free-range chicken she'd grab the first opportunity and never look back.

James Joyce:
Mrs. Hahn, Cock's wife, flapflopped from an ova eggspressed (one l'ouvre, end sot) and charged that lewd brigade into any tennis sun in this faunanimal whirled.

Robert Anton Wilson:
Carol Christmas never knew if she had actually seen a chicken calmly crossing the street in New York's worst traffic, or if it was another nasty joke by that malign dwarf, Chaney. But now she was seeing chickens at every corner, waiting for the light to change. She saw them most often after coming out of her class on post-modern literature.

Ronald Wilson Reagan:
I don't remember.

Weekly World News:
Nostradamus predicted chicken/Bigfoot horror!

Newt Gingrich:
The chicken choose to exercize individual initiative and not wait for a government-funded traffic light program.

William Faulkner:
Uncle Ike saw her first: just an ordinary chicken, he thought for a moment, a chicken picking here and pecking there, gradually working her way across the road toward the lawn; but then he felt the fingers tighten on his arm and looked up, astounded, to see him, the Colonel, eyes lit with a new fire, face aglow like a saint seeing a vision: and then it was destiny, a thing pre-ordained, a fatality, for the Colonel did not reveal even to him, Uncle Ike, the secret ingredients, not the names of the herbs and not even the number of them (some would say he used as many as twenty, and others insisted there was but Jone magic herb that created that special flavor) and so the secret of the crust remained, a hermetic mystery, an arcanum implacable and inpenetrable, locked in the private places of the Colonel's soul: and yet the vision was real, a true moment of Fate; for the franchises sold almost as fast as they could slaughter and gut the stock, and they spread across the country, across the civilized world, making the Colonel not just a millionaire but a billionaire, and Uncle Ike saw it all, knew it all, from the beginning to the day when the initials KFC were to be seen in every city, every town, every hamlet large enough to own two mules and an Assembly of God church: until now, standing in the franchise in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, where Flem Snopes, the bank president, hawked and coughed and spat on the floor, then hoisted his britches, country style, and said to the waitress, "Make it extra crispy, please."

Hannibal Lecter, M.D.:
I ate her liver. With fava beans. And a brandied cranberry sauce.

Friar Broccoli:
The light was green. With green-ness is truth and reason.

Plato:
Because it is in the nature of chickens, strictly defined in asmuch as they are chickens, to cross roads.

Jacques Prevert:
I put the chicken on my head, and my military cap crossed the road...

Vergil:
Arms and the chicken I sing, who first from the side of the road
To the other side driven by fate, came at last to the foot
Of the "don't walk" sign...

Bill Gates:
To lead the other chickens across the Info Superhighway (NOT road) and into a world where there's a computer in every home. Its just where he wanted to go today.

Lao-tzu:
The chicken both crosses the road and not-crosses the road because that is the way of Tao.

The Great Gonzo:
Carmilla, come back!

Shitty stuff

THE COMPLETE AND UNCENSORED SHIT LIST

AGNOSTICISM What is this shit?

ALTRUISM Want some shit?

AMISH Shit dost occur.

APATHISM I don't give a shit.

ATHEISM I don't believe this shit.

BA'HAI All shit is truly shit.

BUDDHISM Shit happens.

BAPTIST FUNDAMENTALISM Shit happens because the Bible says so.

CAPITALISM How much will this shit cost?

CARTESIANISM I shit, therefore I am.

CATHOLICISM If shit happens, you deserved it.

CLASSICAL Marxism The workers take all the shit, but they're gonna dish it back out again.

COMMUNISM It's everybody's shit.

CONFUCIANISM Confucius say, "Shit happens."

CREATION SCIENCE We have proof that God created all the shit that happens.

CONTRACT THEORY If we don't agree to form society, everything will go to shit.

DADISM Your mom knows her shit.

DARWINISM We came up from shit.

DESCARTES I shit therefore I am.

DIANETICS Shit your way to a better life.

DOMINICANS Belive in shit, or we'll boil you in it.

DYSLEXIANISM Hits shapnep.

DISCORDIANISM This MIGHT be shit, but is instead a fuzzy 1955 Mustang.

Logical-Positivism Shit = S+H+I+T

MARINES It's not just shit, it's an adventure.

MCCARTHYISM Are you now, or have you ever been, shit?

MENNONITE None of this modern shit now.

MOMISM You'll eat this shit and like it!

MORMONISM Your shit is shit, but our shit is the ONE TRUE shit.

MURPHISM Shit always happens at the worst possible time and place.

NARCISSISM My shit don't stink.

NIETSCHE If you're not Ubermenschen, you're not shit.

NIHILISM Everything is shit.

NIXONISM Shit didn't happen, and if it did, I don't know anything about it.

Nonsequiturism Route 176 goes south.

Objectivism (Ann Rand) Shit is Shit.

PAGANISM Shit happens. And is a part of nature.

PANGLOSSISM This is the best of all possible shits.

PLATONISM There is an ideal shit, of which all the shit that happens is but an imperfect image.

Protestantism Let shit happen to someone else.

RASTAFARIAN Shit happens, but if it's all right with Jah, it's all right with me.

ROBINISM (tv) Holy shit Batman!

RUSSEAU Only natural shit is worth shit.

Rastafarianism "Let's smoke this shit."

SHINTO Shit is everywhere. So as long as you're stepping in it, show it some respect.

SKINNERISM If eat then shit.

SOLIPSISM All this shit is a creation of my imagination.

SOLIPSISM The only thing I can be sure of is that my shit happens.

SPOONERISM Hit shappens.

STALINISM The state treats you like shit.

SUBGENIUS Bob happens -- SO GIVE ME SOME SLACK!

SURREALISM Shit is shiny and shaped like a buick.

Scientific-Creationism Shit happens all at once

Secular-Humanism Shit happens, but there's a rational explanation.

TAOISM The shit that happens is not the true shit.

THE-FORCE Do not be swayed by the Dark Side of the shit.

TV-Evangelism you need our shit, but it'll cost you.

UNITARIANISM There's only one shit, but you can have it happen any way you want.

Utilitarianism Do that which generates the greatest shit for the greatest number.

VANDALISM I'm gonna wreck this shit!

VOODOOISM Shit doesn't just happen - somebody dumped it on you

Xeno's paradox It's logically impossible for shit to happen.

YUPPIEISM It's my shit! All mine!

ZEN What is the sound of shit happening?

CONFUCIANISM Confucius says, "Shit Happens."

TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.......

HINDUISM This shit has happened before.

ISLAM If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.

FUNDAMENTALISM If shit happens, they deserve it.

PROTESTANTISM Let shit happen to someone else.

EPISCOPALIANISM When shit happens, make it tasteful.

JUDAISM Why does shit always happen to US?

MORMONISM Shit's going to happen. Stockpile.

UNITARIANISM Deal with your own shit happening.

TWELVE STEP PROGRAMS. We're powerless over shit. Turn shit over.

ASTROLOGY Uranus transits.

PERESTROIKA We can't control shit. Let shit happen.

AGNOSTICISM Shit may or may not be happening; we don't know shit.

ATHEISM No shit.

GNOSTICISM Know shit.

Buddhism If shit happens, it isn't really shit.

Zen What is the sound of shit happening?

Hinduism This shit happened before.

Islam If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.

Protestantism Let shit happen to someone else.

Protestantism Shit won't happen if I work harder.

Jehovah's Witness Knock, knock, "Shit happens."

Rastafarianism Let's smoke this shit!