Why did the chicken cross the road?

To answer this question, I spent many hours in deep prayer and meditation. Then I consulted the many volumes of my library in search of enlightened responses from our Sages.

I finally laid my hand on a very ancient work of wisdom, the "Pecke Avot" ("Feathers of the Fathers"), or, as it is sometime called, the Dead Chicken Scroll. There I found some truly amazing answers which do not, of course, agree with each other, thereby strengthening the tradition...