ODDS AND SODS
By David Gardiner
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 s****l 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
