<P> 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!' </P> <P> The joke had become widespread by the 1890s, when a pun variant version appeared in the magazine Potter's American Monthly: </P> <P> Why should not a chicken cross the road? It would be a fowl proceeding . </P> <P> There are many riddles that assume a familiarity with this well - known riddle and its answer, for example by supplying a different answer, such as "it was too far to walk around". One class of variations enlists a creature other than the chicken to cross the road, in order to refer back to the original riddle . For example, a turkey or duck crosses "because it was the chicken's day off," and a dinosaur "because chickens didn't exist yet ." Some variants are both puns and references to the original, such as "Why did the duck cross the road?" "To prove he's no chicken". </P>

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