“Why did the chicken cross the road?”/“To get to the other side” is a classic riddle from the 19th century. A rubber chicken version is:
Q: Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road?
A: Because the road crossed her first.
“‘Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road? .... because the road crossed her first.’ This was a joke my Alexa just told me 👀” was posted on Twitter by Mikey Brown on September 6, 2018.
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Mikey Brown
@mikeyisbrown
“Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road? .... because the road crossed her first.”
This was a joke my Alexa just told me 👀
7:46 PM · Sep 6, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Joel
@joelhamill
Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road?
The road crossed it first.
2:22 AM · Sep 16, 2018·Twitter for Android
Twitter
💘🦋 𝕂𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕪 🦄🏹
@kellyyoureastar
Replying to
@KellyScaletta
I ask Alexa to tell me jokes (because I am a loser) and she gave me this one this morning:
Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road? Because the road crossed him first
10:07 PM · Sep 21, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Aliana Garcia
@alianamgarcia
Alexa just asked my brother “Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road?” someone let them know they need to fix kids mode
@alexa99
9:53 PM · May 25, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Life According to Peaches 🍑
@peaches_bird
Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road? Because the road crossed her first. #BirdHumor #HearMeTweet #WisdomOfBirds
11:16 PM · Jun 7, 2019·Twitter for iPad
Twitter
Daniel the Maniel
@Glorioustrico
#Alexa JOTD:
Why did the vindictive chicken cross the road?
The road crossed her first.
DAMN that chicken gonna kill that ROAD! #Friday
7:17 AM · Jun 21, 2019·Twitter Web Client
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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