To post #329 by Child of Seventh Age re:
You are probably right.
And, to lift the heavy lid covering the pan of bubbling and boiling emotions, I would present (again, for your enjoyment

) the following:
Question: Why did the chicken cross the street?
Answers:
DESCARTES: to go to the other side.
PLATO: For his own sake. On the other side of the street there is the truth
ARISTOTELES: It's part of the chicken's nature to cross streets
KARL MARX: It was historically inevitable
CAPTAIN KIRK: To get where no other chicken had ever got before
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: I had a dream where all chicken were free to cross streets without having to justify their decisions.
RICHARD M. NIXON: The chicken did not cross the street - I repeat - the chicken never crossed the street.
SIGMUND FREUD: The fact that you worry about why the chicken crossed the street reveals your strong inner feeling of sexual insecurity
BILL GATES: We precisely have just finish to elaborate the new program "Office Chicken 2004" that, on top of crossing streets, will also be able to incubate eggs, archive important documents, etc.
BUDDHA: asking such a thing is to reject your own inner chicken nature
TONY BLAIR: the chicken was going on a humanitarian mission
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY: The reason is in yourself, but you don’t know it yet. Through a small contribution of 1500 Euros, plus the rent of a lie detector, we will run a psychological test that will help us discover the reason
BILL CLINTON: I swear on the Constitution that nothing sexual ever happened between me and that chicken
EINSTEIN: The fact that it is the chicken who crosses the street or the street which moves beneath the chicken is relative.
ZEN: the chicken might be crossing the street in vain, only the Teacher knows the noise of its shadow against the wall
STALIN: the chicken must be shot immediately, as well as all witnesses of the scene plus 10 people chose by hazard as they did not try to prevent this subversive act
GEORGE W. BUSH: the fact that the chicken crossed the street in all impunity despite the UN resolutions, represents a serious attack to democracy, justice and freedom. This proves beyond all doubt that we should have bombed this street a long time ago. With the objective to guarantee peace in the region and to avoid that the values we treasure are once again attacked by such terrorist actions, the government of the US has decided to send 17 warships, 46 destroyers and 154 frigates, with the land support of 243,000 soldiers and 843 bombers, which will have the mission, in the name of freedom and democracy, to destroy all sign of life in poultry in the 5000 KM around the area, and ensure, with some targeted missiles, that anything vaguely resembling poultry will be turned to ashes and will never again be able to defy our nation with his arrogance. We have also decided that afterwards this country will be ruled by our government, which will create new poultry according to safety standards, handing all powers over to a cock democratically elected by the US ambassador. In order to finance such operation, we will take total control of the entire cereal production of the region for the coming 30 years, with local citizens benefiting from a favorable tariff over part of the production, in exchange of their complete cooperation. In this new land of justice, peace and freedom, we can assure you that never again will a chicken attempt to cross a street, for the simple reason that there will be no streets and that chicken will not have paws. God bless America.
Probably, it would be good for myself to remember chicken in question, each time I put my hand on the branch of a tree with the intention of picking up a coconut
cheers