(Answers to the question of why the chicken crossed the road.) M.L. King: It had a dream. Pauli: There already was a chicken on the other side of the road. Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast. Ronald Reagan: I forget. Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road. Bob Dylan: How many roads must one chicken cross? Alfred E. Neumann: What? Me worry? Molly Yard: It was a *hen*. Henny Youngman: Take this chicken - please. Erdos: It was forced to do so by the chicken-hole principle. Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity. Riemann: The answer appears in Dirichlet's lectures. Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it. (Contributors: gilbert@msri.org, robby@msri.org, madden@marais.math.lsu.edu)
(From the "Rest" of RHF)