OT Humor: Why did the chicken cross the road? (Techies only)

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WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

ANSWERS:

ASSEMBLER CHICKEN: First it builds the road ...

C CHICKEN: It crosses the road without looking both ways.

C++ CHICKEN: The chicken wouldn't have to cross the road, you'd simply refer to him on the other side.

COBOL CHICKEN: 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING. IF NO-MORE-VEHICLES THEN PERFORM 0010-CROSS-THE-ROAD

VARYING STEPS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL ON-THE-OTHER-SIDE ELSE GO TO 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSINGc

CRAY CHICKEN: Crosses faster than any other chicken, but if you don't dip it in liquid nitrogen first, it arrives on the other side fully cooked.

DELPHI CHICKEN: The chicken is dragged across the road and dropped on the otherside.

G3 300 mH CHICKEN: It crosses twice as fast as any Pentium chicken

GOPHER CHICKEN: Tried to run, but got flattened by the Web chicken.

INTEL PENTIUM CHICKEN: The chicken crossed 4.9999978 times.

IOMEGA CHICKEN: The chicken should have backed up before crossing.

JAVA CHICKEN: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets.)

LOTUS CHICKEN: Don't you *dare* try to cross the road the same way we do!

MAC CHICKEN: No reasonable chicken owner would want a chicken to cross the road, so there's no way to tell it to.

MICROSOFT CHICKEN: It's already on both sides of the road. And it just bought the road.

NEWTON CHICKEN: Can't cluck, can't fly, and can't lay eggs, but you can carry it across the road in your pocket!

NT CHICKEN: Will cross the road in June. No, August. September for sure.

OOP CHICKEN: It doesn't need to cross the road, it just sends a message.

OS/2 CHICKEN: It crossed the road in style years ago, but it was so quiet that nobody noticed.

OS/ 8.1 HFS+ CHICKEN: It had much more free space to cross.

QUANTUM LOGIC CHICKEN: The chicken is distributed probabalistically on all sides of the road until you observe it on the side of your choice.

VB CHICKEN: USHighways! WEB CHICKEN: Jumps out onto the road, turns right, and just keeps on running.

WINDOWS 95 CHICKEN: You see different colored feathers while it crosses, but cook it and it still tastes like ... chicken.

WINDOWS 98 CHICKEN: It should have expected to cause a crash while crossing.

-- Interested Spector (is@the_ring.side), January 07, 2000

Answers

BASIC CHICKEN:
10 list CHKN
20 int rd=1
25 int cars=0
30 int yr=19100


-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 07, 2000.

Spider, what about :

28 If rd=0 goto 29 else 30 29 Ckn=othsid

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 09, 2000.


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