This is based on the e-mail forward "why did the chicken cross the road?" that features different answers made up, as they would be said by different famous people. For example Martin Luther King Jr. ("I have a dream that chickens can cross the road with out their motives being called into question...") or Colonel Sanders ( "I missed one?")

Diclaimer: No chickens were hurt in the making of these jokes

For Alanna the First Adventure:

Why did the Chicken cross the road?

Alanna: " Shhhh, don't tell anyone that it's a chicken! She's disguised as a rooster so that she can fufill her chidhood dreams and cross the road! Once she's on the other side, she planning to tell everyone that she's not really a rooster but a chicken in disguise!"

Maude: Looks around nervously "You mean that the chicken is REALLY crossing the road, and without seeking the approval of the gods first?" gasps and runs to get vervain

Coram: "I can't believe it, that boy Thom is hopeless! I sent him out to get one measely chicken for supper, and he let it get away!"

Lord Alan of Trebond: "Hmmm, you say that there is a chicken crossing the road? This is very serious... I will be with you as soon as I'm done researching for my latest study."

Three years later—

"Now, what's this about a chicken? What? The chicken has crossed the road? What? I ATE that chicken for dinner several years ago? Ah well, if that's all, I have some important scrolls to attend to..."

King Roald: "Chicken? There was no chicken in the peace treaty with Tusaine. I hope that this doesn't affect the deal." grimaces worriedly

Queen Lianne: "I can't see a chicken crossing the road. But alas, ever since the fever, my eyes have been weak."

Duke Baird: " Ah yes, that chicken. That chicken came from Galla to have me heal it. You see, it had a rare case of "chicken pox". Due to my superb healing powers, I was able to restore the chicken to full health, and it is crossing the road on it's journey back to Galla."

Jon: "Why is everything about the chicken? As if I couldn't cross the road with five times more accuracy!"

George: "Though I can't see th' chicken, due to the hundred percent accuracy of your humble servant's spies, I know that at this very second, th' chicken is crossin' th' main street in corus. As to why th' chicken is crossin' the road, I gave my spies directions to bring th' chicken directly to me for questionin'."

Ralon: "The snivelling little chicken is the farmer's son Alan of Trebond who is crossing the road as fast as he can. He can't take the hard work and lifestyle of a TRUE noble!"

Raoul: "That CHICKEN, is Ralon. He's crossing the great road which will take him straight out of Corus!"

Gareth the elder: "I regret to inform you that this Chicken that you hold in so high an esteem has been fighting in the stables with several of the other chickens. I have therfore suspended all priviliges of the chicken, such as corn it it's grain, and have sent the chicken in question across the road, on a border patrol."

Lord Prevost: " The chicken is escaping again? That chicken's crossing the road interferes directly with law 289. It clearly states that Chicken's of royal decent in Corus shall not leave the allocated chicken coop area. This chicken shall be tried for treason in May."

Gary: " The chicken was leaving Corus to find a place where free time exists."

Sir Myles: "The chicken was going to seek re-enforcements for the battle. You see fellows, this chicken felt that the demands of the code of chivallry were to great and that chickens were meant to fight in groups, despite the code defining chickens as solitary beings."

Alex: "The chicken in the math question? Well you see, if the chicken has an initial speed of one meter per second and accelerates constantly to two meters per second.."

Thom: "Brother dear, I fear that the chicken crossing the road is our smiling friend's latest trick. Beware of strange chickens crossing the road!"

Roger: " Yes, Egg-cellent. The chicken is under the spell of my jewel and I dared him to cross the road. Kind of like my dear cousing Jon and the Ysandir. I mean uh .. Errr."

The Ysandir: "It's but a mere chicken, what harm can it do to us?"

Reformatted April 14, 2005 by yours truly, Fenella, who was appalled by the hyper-teenybopperness of it all.