- Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
- Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an Herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapiens pedestrians, is truly a remarkable occurrence.
- Salvador Dali: The Fish.
- Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
- Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
- Epicurus: For fun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
- Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
- Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
- Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
- David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
- Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
- Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
- Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.
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Herewith is a list of exercises for people aged more than 40 - by Baillie McK
I came across this exercise suggested for seniors to build muscle strength in the arms and shoulders.
The article suggested doing it three days a week.
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface where you have plenty of room at each side.
- With a 2-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides, and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, then relax. Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
- After a couple of weeks, move up to 5-lb potato bags.
- Then 25-lb potato bags, and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 50-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.
- Once you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the bags.