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Humour

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Fowl humour: “A Cluckwork Orange”

Answer from…

Albert Einstein Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle To actualise its potential.

B.F. Skinner Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

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