These answers were collected from different sources, some from forwarded emails, while others were thought of by my friend and me...so without further delay, I present to you the answers to the very enigmatic question - Ladies and Gentlemen, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"... 

Answers as given by(click) :

Basic answer :
KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side.

Philosophers/Knowledgeable intellects :
PLATO:  For the greater good.
 
ARISTOTLE:  It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
 
KARL MARX:  It was a historical inevitability.

 HIPPOCRATES:  Because of an excess of phlegm in its pancreas.
 
 LOUIS FARRAKHAN: The road, you see, represents the black man. The
chicken 'crossed' the black man in order to trample him and keep
him down.
 
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: I envision a world where all chickens
will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into
question.

 MACHIAVELLI: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who
cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there
was.

 MOSES: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the
chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road."  And the chicken crossed the road,
and there was much rejoicing.
 
 FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken
crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

 DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally
selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to
cross roads.
 
EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved
beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
 
BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road .. it
transcended it.
 
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die.  In the rain.

 HK DOCTORS : To avoid chicken flu, duuhhh!

 SIR ISAAC NEWTON : All that goes across must come back.

 GICHIN FUNAKOSHI, Father of int'l Karate : To seek perfection of character.

GANDHI : Ahimsa! Drivers please do not dash into the poor(chicken)soul.

Literature :
ANTONIO, Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" : In sooth, I know not why the chicken  crossed the road.

ANTONIO, Shakespeare's "The Tempest" : A pox o' that! (chicken pox maybe??)

ANTONIO(again)/SEBASTIAN, Shakespeare's "The Tempest" : You bawling, blasphemous, incharitable chicken! How dare thou dost that??

SHYLOCK, Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" : Thou tortur'st me by asking that.

MRS. BENNET(Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice") : You hurt my nerves by asking this question!

MR. COLLINS(Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice") : It is only right for it to do so as the honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, my patroness, takes a fancy in chickens crossing the road. I'm certain that Lady Catherine will be particularly glad that such an event took place.

JANE AUSTEN : It is a truth universally acknowledged that that a single chicken in possession of nothing, must be wanting to cross the road.

MR. DARCY(Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice") : My good opinion (of chickens), once lost, is lost forever.

ACHILLES(Hero of Trojan war) : We wanted a Trojan horse not a Trojan chicken!!

Politicians/Business - related :
TIMOTHY LEARY:  Because that's the only trip the establishment
would let it take.
 
SADDAM HUSSEIN:  This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we
were quite justified in dropping  50 tons of nerve gas on it.
 
RONALD REAGAN:  I forget.
 
ANDERSEN CONSULTING: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the
road was threatening its dominant market position.  The chicken was
faced  with significant challenges to create and develop the
competencies required for the newly competitive market.  Andersen
Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped  the
chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and
implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model  (PIM),
Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies,  knowledge,
capital and experiences to align the chicken's people,  processes and
technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program
Management framework. Andersen  Consulting convened a diverse
cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson
consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to  engage
in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their  personal
knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and
to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve
the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and
implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the
continuum of poultry cross-median processes.  The meeting was held in a
park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which
was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent,
clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's
mission, vision, and core values.  This was conducive towards the
creation of a total business integration solution.  Andersen Consulting
helped the chicken change to become more successful.

RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat,
the chicken did NOT cross the road.

INDONESIAN NATIONALIST : Agar ayam dapat menyanyi "Kita harus nyebrang, kita harus nyebrang!"

MICHAEL CAMDESSUS(IMF guy) : Perhaps, the CBS(Chicken Board System) did not work out on the other end of the road and chickens kept on shooting up. So it started to lookout for a more prospective market at the other end.

BILL CLINTON: I'm telling u guyz, the chicken didn't cross, the road, u
gotta believe me...

KWAI CHANG CAINE: I shall ask that when our paths cross again.

THE MASK : Sommebodddy stop it!!

KALIMANTAN REPORTER : Kebakaran hutan-kabur dong! Ngapain lagi!?!

Celebrities :
CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK:  To boldly go where no chicken has gone
before.
 
FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many
more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it?
 
JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road?  I mean, why doesn't
anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing
walking around all over the place, anyway?"
 
BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000,
which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important
documents, and balance your chequebook.

OLIVER STONE: The question is not, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
Rather, it is, "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we
overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"
 
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER; it was an instinctive maneuver, the chicken
obviously didn't see the road until he had already started to
cross.

COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?
 
AQUA(band) :coz the chicken wanted to "Be happy..come on lets go get it on"

ACE OF BASE(band) : It saw 'the sign'
 
MICHAEL JACKSON : I told the chicken to 'beat it'!

THE INCREDIBLE HULK : Don't ask me that question...you wouldn't like me when I answer it.

ERICSSON promo : James Bond likes a chicken crossing the road. Shouldn't you?

NOKIA promo :Nokia-Connecting roads. We call it the technology that chickens understand.

LARRY KING CNN(promo) : People say they never know what I'm going to ask    next.To tell u the truth, neither do I...so WHY DID the chicken cross the road?

HANSON(band) : "Mmmbop...duubop...it's a secret no one knows,  yeah                      yeah,It's a secret no one kno-owws...mmmbop!"

   DR.JEKYLL/MR.HYDE :(say this in British accent) It went in search of another personality-it's true personality-the real chicken in it if you will.

JOHN LENNON : "Imagine" all the chickens
              doing something like that,
              y' hooo-o-o...Imagine all chickens could cross at once...
 
CHARLIE CHAPLLIN :  -------gestures, signs---------(he wuz' in dumb movies remember?)

SYLVESTER STALLONE : "the chicken started 'first blood',not me;the chicken crossed the road not me"(lines from Rambo 1)
 
MICHAEL J. FOX : Maybe the future was back there.

MIKE TYSON : Perhaps, it wanted to be the baddest chicken on the planet.

 BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD(MTV) : "Hehe, duhhh, beavisssss, do you like care,
Uhuhhhhuhhh, no, Butthead,"

Wrestlers :

 STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN(WWF) : I dont give a chick's @$$ about it, and if it croses the street to the ring, its messing with stone cold and thats something chickens don't do....

MARVELLOUS MARC MERO(WWF) : all you people care about is the chicken, can a chicken so a merosault, has the chicken evrer been int.cont.champ.

SCOTT HALL(WCW) : Yeah,yeah...but the real question is whether 'the chicken        is either with us or against us!"

DEGENERATION X(WWF) : DX answers to absolutely nooboddy!

BRET "HITMAN" HART(WWF) : To screw me... OR that's just a bunch of crap!

JIM ROSS(commentator WWF) : Ladies and gentleman, what audacity!

RIC FLAIR(WCW) : Whoooooow! To be THE chicken you gotta cross the road.

CHRIS JERICHO(WCW) : My chicken? I promise u it'll never, eeever,eeever cross the road again.

SUNNY(WWF) : Hah, must've been that stinkin', lowly farmer Phineas's chicken. Did he ever think that I wuz' gonna fall for that!?!

Personal :  Sorry, no details on this one, coz' if any of these persons below has the Net, then I'm history! Wait...hope they skip the "About me" part! I'm innocent - Amrit did it, he's the mastermind behind all these lines below!!!
 
MR. VENKAT :That is a pathetic sight, You lousy piece of uncooked poultry,
mustn't you as a diligent bright chicken give respanse.

AMINA, hyena: children, the chicken crossing the road, is the same as the road crossing the chicken (duhhhhh...maybe not...), whats the difference, its crossed, Man!!!!!

JIMMY(Amrit - how could you...sadistic!! JJJ) : Karena di other side ada chokri ayam HAHHAHAHAHA(LOL, jimmy style)

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