a pun variant of why did the chicken cross the road appeared in potter's american monthly.
a pun variant of why did the chicken cross the road appeared in potter's american monthly.
where did a pun variant of why did the chicken cross the road appear?
potter's american monthly
the riddle appeared in an 1847 edition of "the knickerbocker", a new york city monthly magazine:









































there are 'quips and quillets' which "seem" actual conundrums, but yet are none. of such is this: 'why does a chicken cross the street?['] are you 'out of town?' do you 'give it up?' well, then: 'because it wants to get on the other side!'









































in the 1890s, a pun variant version appeared in the magazine "potter's american monthly":









































why should not a chicken cross the road?









































it would be a fowl proceeding.









































section::::variations.
why did the chicken cross the road?
other variations replace side with another word often to form a pun. some examples are “why did the chicken cross the road? to get to the idiot’s house. which is then followed by a knock knock joke which is knock knock, who’s there? the chicken.” "why did the chicken cross the playground? to get to the other slide" or "why did the whale cross the ocean? to get to the other tide." a mathematical version asks, "why did the chicken cross the möbius strip?" "to get to the same side."
why did the chicken cross the road?