The other side
We’ve all heard the joke,
“Why did the chicken cross the road?” Usually, what crosses the minds of people
hearing the joke for the first time is that this is a trick question which
requires a clever answer. They are often dumbfounded when their thought processes
are interrupted and they are told that the simple answer is “TO GET TO THE
OTHER SIDE”.
Usually at this point, people
go into overdrive and come up with several variations of the same answer or
invent new ones – from risible to funny to absurd. And of course there will
always be the mischievous individuals with dark, macabre sense of humour who
will insist “the other side” refers to “the afterlife” thus, suggesting that
the chicken crossed the road because it wanted to be crushed by a car!
We’ve all heard the question:
“Why did the Lagos state government deposit 14 vagrants of Anambra origin in the
State’s border, Onitsha?” Usually, what crosses the minds of people hearing the
question for the first time is that this is a trick question which requires a
clever answer. They are often dumbfounded when their thought processes are
interrupted and they are told that the simple answer is “TO GET THE ANAMBRA
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE THEM TO THE OTHER SIDE”.
Usually at this point,
people go into overdrive and………. (FILL IN THE BLANKS or DRAW your own
conclusions.)
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