Why did the squirrel jump the electrical-pole transformer?

Why did the squirrel jump the electrical-pole transformer?

Any Philosphy 101 Professor
Why not?
Aristotle
It is the essence of squirrels to jump the electrical-pole transformer.
To actualize its potential.
Ayn Rand
It was jumping the electrical-pole transformer because of its own rational choice to do so. There cannot be a collective unconscious; desires are unique to each individual.
Baldrick
It had a cunning plan.
Bart Simpson
I will not use a squirrel as a frisbee. I will not use a squirrel as a frisbee. I will not use a squirrel as a frisbee. I will not use...
Basil Fawlty
Oh, don't mind that squirrel. It's from Barcelona.
Alastair Cooke
Good Evening, and welcome to Tonight, we present the epic British drama "How The Squirrel Went," based on the 1843 novel by Herbert T. Rodentia, and adapted for the screen by Joanna Pecan-Smythe. Starring Susan Hampshire as the Squirrel, and Anthony Hopkins as the evil and unrepentant hunter, Borstrom, this elegant period piece explores the mores and morality of a society in which ordinary squirrels had to face their destiny of jumping the electrical-pole transformer to meet their fate at the hands of the monied upper classes, regardless of their own ambitions or desires...

Albert Einstein
Whether the squirrel jumped the electrical-pole transformer or the electrical-pole transformer jumped the squirrel depends upon the inertial system of the observer.
Whether the squirrel jumped the electrical-pole transformer or the electrical-pole transformer jumped the squirrel depends upon your frame of reference.
Aleister Crowley
Because it was its True Will to do so.
Anthony Trollope
Why, to avoid Mrs. Proudy and Mr. Slope, of course.
Ben Bova
To be reunited with beautiful grey-eyed Athena, the woman he has loved for all of time.
Bill Clinton
What?
Bill Gates
For the money.
Bill the Cat
Oop Ack. Thpppbt!
Bob Dylan
How many electrical-pole transformers must one squirrel jump?
Bones
Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a zoologist!
Buddha
To ask this question denies your own squirrel nature.
B.F. Skinner
Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to jump electrical-pole transformers, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
B'Elanna
I'm sure it felt suffocated by all the bleeping regulations of bleeping Starfleet and just couldn't stand it any longer!
Caesar
It came, it saw, it jumped.
Camille Paglia
It was drawn by the subconscious chthonian power of the feminine which men can never understand, to jump the electrical-pole transformer and focus itself on its task. Female squirrels are not capable of doing this-their minds do not work that way. Feminism tries vainly to pretend there is no real difference between them, falsely following Rousseau. But de Sade has proved....
Candide
To cultivate its garden.
Kirk
To boldly go where no squirrel has gone before.
Picard
To see what's out there.
Carl Jung
The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual squirrels jump electrical-pole transformers at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Carl Sagan
To see the billions and billions of stars.
Chakotay
Whatever its reason, whatever its goals, we should respect its right to jump the electrical-pole transformer and seek its own spiritual awareness.
Chris Lohner
Achtung, Gleis 1, Eichhoernchen fährt durch.
Colonel Kilgore
I love the smell of squirrels in the morning.
Saunders
It Ran, Suh! I offered it a coating of 11 herbs and spices and it ran, Suh! So I shot it, Suh, shot it while it was trying to escape, suh!
Chikotay
I'm not sure but I can find out. That squirrel is my animal spirit guide.
Noam Chomsky
To manufacture consent
Commander Data
I do not know. Although I have compared all of my 437 billion data points relating to squirrels and electrical-pole transformers, there is no positive correlation between the two.
Confucius
When the emperor performs the rites with full reverence, and the court officers behave as true scholars and gentlemen, a squirrel may jump any electrical-pole transformer in the kingdom safely.
Darth Vader
Because it could not resist the power of the Dark Side.
Darwin
It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
David Hume
Out of custom and habit.
Dax
To get to the other side. Kurzon might have disagreed with me, Tobin I'm sure wouldn't have had a clue, and then there's...
Dorothy Parker
Travel, trouble, music, art / A kiss, a frock, a rhyme / The squirrel never said they fed its heart / But still they pass its time.
Doug Hofstadter
To seek explication of the correspondence between appearance and essence through the mapping of the external electrical-pole transformer-object onto the internal electrical-pole transformer-concept.
Douglas Adams
Forty-Two
Crusher
If there's nothing wrong with the squirrel, there must be something wrong with the universe.
Jack Van Impe
Well you see, here's the really exciting part, if we were to look at Revelation 17:3 we will see that the Whore of Babylon rides on a scarlet beast. A scarlet beast! What this means is a Rhode Island Red. And the truly glorious thing is that this beast, this Rhode Island Red, this Squirrel has jumped the electrical-pole transformer EXACTLY as was prophesized in the Bible and this is all a sign, Revelation 17:3, that we're living in the End Time. Hallelujah! And if you would like more information on the significance of this squirrel jumping the electrical-pole transformer as all part of God's great plan then send me $50 and you will recieve this set of video tapes along with a copy of my recent book "Squirrels: rodent or rabid beast?".
John Paul Jones
It has not yet begun to jump!
Soran
His heart just wasn't in it. (Scenes of squirrel torture with nanoprobes have been edited out.)
Strangelove
Because it could not afford to be caught on the wrong side of the electrical-pole transformer-side gap.
Dylan Thomas
To not go (sic) gentle into that good night.
Emily Dickinson
Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus
For fun.
Ernest Hemingway
To die. In the rain.
E.E. (Doc) Smith
Your humble narrator can barely do justice to this climactic event that rent asunder the fundamental ether of space itself, as the squirrel, embodying all that is good and hard and straight and keen in the rodent world, fearlessly approached, bridged, and conquered the electrical-pole transformer for Civilization.
Foghorn Leghorn
To get to that damn Dawg, Boah!
Frank Bunker Gilbereth
To minimize its therbligs
Franz Kafka
Dieter, now in the form of a squirrel, was running from the government's torture machine. The machine, an instrument of death, slowly obliterated the souls of its victims. Dieter was alone. He was running for his life, his insignificant life.
Friederich Nietzsche
There was no squirrel, no electrical-pole transformer, no jumping. There was only an interpretation.
Gandalf
O squirrel, do not meddle in the affairs of electrical-pole transformers, for you are tasty and good with barbecue sauce.
Gary Gygax
Because I rolled a 64 on the "Squirrel Random Behaviors" chart on page 497 of the Dungeon Master's Guide.
General Jack D. Ripper
To maintain the purity of its precious bodily fluids.
Geordi
Well, wherever it's going, I'm sure it'll have more luck with women than I do.
George Bush
If it did it was out of the loop
George Bush
To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights.
George Lucas
Because the Force was with it.
George Orwell
Because Big Brother was watching to make sure that it did jump the electrical-pole transformer, although in its heart, the squirrel never did.
Gerald R. Ford
It probably fell from an airplane and couldn't stop its forward momentum.
Geraldo Rivera
Stay tuned as a panel of squirrels reveals the shocking truth.
Gilligan
The traffic started getting rough; the squirrel had to jump. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail the squirrel would be lost. The squirrel would be lost!
Gloria Steinem
She was a victim of the male conspiracy.
Gottfried Von Leibniz
In this best possible world, the electrical-pole transformer was made for it to jump.
Gregor Mendel
To get various strains of electrical-pole transformers.
Groucho Marx
This morning I shot a squirrel in my pyjamas --and lemme tell ya, that squirrel ran out of my pyjamas in a second!
Groucho Marx
Squirrel? What's all this talk about squirrel? Why, I had an uncle who thought he was a squirrel. My aunt almost divorced him, but we needed the nuts.
Gul Dukat
Well, that's a very interesting question...I'm sure we can work out some kind of arrangement to obtain that information that will be to everyone's satisfaction.
Hamlet
Because 'tis better to suffer in the mind the slings and arrows of outrageous electrical-pole transformer maintenance than to take arms against a sea of oncoming vehicles.
Hannibal Lecter, M.D.
I ate her liver. With pecans. And a brandied walnut sauce.
Harlan Ellison
Because he had no beak and must scream.
Harry
I don't know, it's my first mission.
Harvey Mudd
Squirrel? I don't remember any squirrel. No no no, there's been a terrible misunderstanding.
Henny Youngman
Take this squirrel ... please.
Hippocrates
Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
Hitler
ein Eichhoernchen braucht Raum
HoloDoc
How should I know? No one tells me anything around here. I didn't even know we added squirrels to the crew. All I know is that it would have been nice, BEFORE the squirrel went off to the jump the electrical-pole transformer, if it had remembered to turn me off!
Hunter S. Thompson
Why the &*%$#@ not?
H.P. Lovecraft
To escape the crawling horror lurking on this side of the electrical-pole transformer, a nameless and foetid monstrosity that cannot be conceived save in the dreams of madness
H.P. Lovecraft
To futilely attempt escape from the dark powers which even then pursued it, hungering after the stuff of its soul!
Immanuel Kant
Because it was a duty.
Jack Kerouac
The squirrel hipster, high on tea and the soul groves of Charlie (the bird) Parker, strolled aimlessly on the electrical-pole transformer looking for his dharma.
Jack Nicholson
'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
Jackie Mason
Whaddaya want, it should just stand there?
Jacques Derrida
Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the squirrel jumping the electrical-pole transformer, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Jacques Derrida
The question admits of limitless answers, since there is no one logocentric strategy of discourse that takes primacy over all others.
Jacques Derrida
What is the differance? The squirrel was merely deferring from one side of the electrical-pole transformer to other. And how do we get the idea of the squirrel in the first place? Does it exist outside of language?
James Joyce
Once upon a time a nicens little squirrel named baby tuckoo jumped the electrical-pole transformer and met a moocow coming down...
James Joyce
To forge in the smithy of its soul the uncreated conscience of its race.
Jane Austen
Because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single squirrel, being posessed of a good fortune and presented with a good electrical-pole transformer, must be desirous of jumping.
Janeway
Its primary goal was no doubt to get back to the Alpha Quadrant...and it probably misses its dog.
Jazz Gitti
Kraeeeeeeenkkkkk diii neeeeeeeeeeett ........
Wos? A Absprung kummt ueber d' Strossn? A Wundaa! Hatzts in Griller on! Put, put, puut, puut...
Dr. Suess
Across the pole I will not scram Even though a rodent I am.
Please dear squirrel give it a try For across the pole you can not fly.
Alright! Alright! I'll give it a try For it is true, squirrels can't fly. Hey! It's not bad, infact it's droll! I truly love to jump the pole. Across the pole I LOVE to scram. I jump the pole, a rodent I am.
Sartre
To impose a meaning upon her accidental existence.
Sartre
In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the squirrel found it necessary to jump the electrical-pole transformer.
JFK
The squirrel chose to jump the electrical-pole transformer in this decade not because it was easy, but because it was hard.
Jim Gillis
The squirrel jumped the electrical-pole transformer to show the gophers it could be done.
Johann Friedrich von Goethe
The eternal squirrel-principle made it do it.
John Cleese
Because it was very silly.
John Constantine
Because it'd made a bollocks of things over on this side of the electrical-pole transformer and figured it'd better get out right quick.
John Le Carre
Because it knew, at the core of its being where none could ever reach, that its only course of action now that its cover was blown wide open was to try and slip away into the grey, foggy, bleak evening before Smiley came, accompanied by his silent shadow Peter Guillam, asking questions for which there could never be answers.
John Milton
To justify the ways of God to men.
John Paul Jones
It has not yet begun to jump!
John Steinbeck
The electrical-pole transformer baked in the relentless summer sun as the squirrel, looking about, began to jump. It stopped occaisionally to peck at a grass seed that had become lodged in a crevice in the cracked macadam. The squirrel reached the other side, then began making his way to the Salinas, which lay muddy and turgid in the July afternoon, all the while thinking of the cool shade by the river and how good the can of beans in his bedroll would taste tonight.
John Sununu
The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the squirrel availed himself of the opportunity.
Joseph Campbell
In primitive cultures, we can find many such examples of the squirrel motif that cannot be dismissed as mere coincidence. For instance, I am reminded of an old Navajo legend in which a buffalo jumpes a stream to "come" to the other side --an obvious negative language devised to prepare tribesmen for a transcendental experience. Similarly, the Hindus believe in savanaya, or a sacred cow that leaps over a chasm on Thursdays. Through metaphorical interpretation, we are led to realize that all examples suggest an attainable higher state of consciousness like that of Nietzsche's ubermench, or superman, as outlined in his novel "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
Joseph Conrad
Mistah Squirrel, he dead.
Joseph Stalin
It was clearly a conspiracy. Take all the squirrels out and shoot them. At Once!
Julius Caesar
To come, to see, to conquer.
J.R.R. Tolkein
The squirrel, sunlight coruscating off its radiant yellow-white coat of feathers, approached the dark, sullen asphalt electrical-pole transformer and scrutinized it intently with its obsidian-black eyes. Every detail of the thoroughfare leapt into blinding focus
the rough texture of the surface, over which count-less tires had worked their relentless tread through the ages; the innumerable fragments of stone embedded within the lugubrious mass, perhaps quarried from the great pits where the Sons of Man labored not far from here; the dull black asphalt itself, exuding those waves of heat which distort the sight and bring weakness to the body; the other attributes of the great highway too numerous to give name.
Karl Marx
To escape the bourgeois middle-class struggle.
Driven by the lash of economic necessity.
It was a historical inevitability.
To escape the bourgeois middle-class struggle.
To join ranks with its fellow comrads.
Khan
With my last breath I spit at the squirrel...
Kira
It was probably being chased by those cursed Cardassians.
Kurt Waldheim
Gegen das Eichhoernchen war eine Campaign im Gange, weil es im Eichhoernchenerstall Nummer UNO zu laut gegackert hat, und es hat die Elektrischer-mast Stromwandlernseite gewechselt, bevor es dort Aufenthaltsverbot bekommen konnte.
Lao Tse
Those who chitter do not know. Those who know do not chitter.
Leda
Are you sure it wasn't Zeus dressed up as a squirrel? He's into that kind of thing, you know.
Lee Iacocca
It found a better car, which was on the other side of the electrical-pole transformer.
Lucien Bouchard
So that it could be SEPARATE!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The possibility of "jumping" was encoded into the objects "squirrel" and "electrical-pole transformer", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Lyndon LaRouche
She was a victim of the English Gnostic Drug Cartel conspiracy.
Machiavelli
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a squirrel which has the daring and courage to boldly jump the electrical-pole transformer, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of rodent virtue? In such a manner is the princely squirrel's dominion maintained.
Mae West
I invited it to come up and see me sometime.
Margaret Thatcher
There was no alternative.
Mark Knophler
How come Squirrels got Industrial Disease?
Mark Twain
The news of its jumping has been greatly exaggerated.
Marshall McLuhan
The Electrical-pole transformer is the Medium. The squirrel is the Message!
Martin Gardner.
This squirrel story seems merely more gaga New Age silliness at first, but may contain something more sinister. No reputable scientists has ever reported a squirrel jumping a electrical-pole transformer. Alleged "close encounters" with such squirrels are claimed by ignorant and suggestible people only. One recalls similar mass delusions in Nazi Germany before Hitler.
Martin Luther King
It had a dream.
Michael Palin
Nobody expects the banished inky squirrel!
Michel Foucault
It did so because the dicourse of jumping the electrical-pole transformer left it no choice-the police state was oppressing it.
Monty Python
For Something Completely Different
Moses
Know ye that it is unclean to eat the squirrel that has jumped the electrical-pole transformer, and that the squirrel that jumpeth the electrical-pole transformer doth so for its own preservation.
Mr. Spock
It was not logical for the squirrel to do so, but I have frequently observed that the behaviour of squirrels is not logical
Mr. T
If you saw me coming you'd jump the electrical-pole transformer too!
Mr. Worf
I do not know, Klingon squirrels do NOT jump electrical-pole transformers.
Neelix
Actually, Captain, I'm not really familiar with the squirrels in this system. But, if you can catch it, I can cook it.
Newt Gingrich
The squirrel choose to exercize individual initiative and not wait for a government-funded street-light program.
To get to the RIGHT side of the electrical-pole transformer.
Nietzsche
Because if you gaze too long at the Electrical-pole transformer, the Electrical-pole transformer gazes also at you.
Nurse Chapel
Oh, Spock!
Odo
I don't know, but I'm sure it must be Quark's fault.
Oliver North
National Security was at stake. ... And it was ONLY following executive orders.
Omar Khayyam
I sent a squirrel through the astral plane To learn our future, and man's luck, And by a by the bushytail returned But all she'd say was "Chit, chit, chitter!"
Oral Roberts
And I said to the squirrel
"Put your claw on the screen! Put your claw on the screen, upon the hand of Brother Oral, and you shall be healed. Make a love offering of $50 or more, and then touch the screen. And that squirrel did put his claw on the screen. And the power of God, in his infinite wisdom and mercy, flowed through me and out through that television set, and that squirrel was healed PRAISE GOD!. And then that squirrel, stricken for so many months, rose up and pounced upon the electrical-pole transformer. But, since he had forgotten his love offering, God never warned him about the 3 million volts."
Oscar Wilde
This squirrel problem has many depths, but all of them are equally shallow.
Otto von Habsburg
Die Elektrischer-mast Stromwandler als Symbol des Trennenden, wird von dem Eichhoernchen, einem Sympathisanten der Pan-Europa-Bewegung, im Geiste einer europäischen Einheit überwunden.
Pat Robertson
She was a victim of the Illuminati One World conspiracy.
Paul de Man
The squirrel did not really jump the electrical-pole transformer because one side and the other are not really opposites in the first place.
(uncovered after his death) So no one would find out it wrote for a collaborationist Belgian newspaper during the early years of World War II.
Paul Erdos
It was forced to do so by the squirrel-hole principle.
Picard
There are four lights!
Plato
For the greater good.
The ideal squirrel must ideally jump the ideal electrical-pole transformer. Therefore, imperfect squirrels in this world jump imperfect electrical-pole transformers, imperfectly.
Pyrrho the Skeptic
What electrical-pole transformer?
Quark
Who, me?
Quentin Tarantino
Actually, we'll probably change that on rewrite.
Q
Wouldn't you like to know? Too bad your puny human brain wouldn't be able to comprehend the answer.
Ralph Klein
Because I cut $470 million from its budget, that's why.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It didn't jump the electrical-pole transformer; it transcended it.
Raymond Chandler
She had beady inhuman eyes like strange black jewels and the kind of fur a mink might envy. I knew that if they gave her an acorn she'd take off and never look back.
Rene Descartes
It had sufficient reason to believe it was dreaming anyway.
Rev. Pat Robertson
She was a victim of the Illuminati One World conspiracy.
Rhett Butler
Frankly my dear, it didn't give a damn!
Richard Nixon
That part of our conversation was accidentally erased.
Robert Anton Wilson
Because agents of the Ancient Illuminated Rodents of Quercus were controlling it with their Orbital Mind-Control Lasers as part of their master plan to take over the world's acorn production.
Robert Burns
Fair Fa Your Honest Sonsie Face Great Chieftain O' The Squirrel Race The blackened electrical-pole transformer 'ahind ye said Ye best run quick ere ye be deid!
Robert Frost
To jump the electrical-pole transformer less traveled by.
Robert Heinlein
Because with the freedom the squirrel was given, it was the squirrel's responsibility to do so.
Roland Barthes
The squirrel wanted to expose the myth of the electrical-pole transformer.
Ronald Reagan
I don't recall. What was the question?
I forget.
Roseanne Barr
Urrrrrp. What squirrel?
Rush Limbaugh
Beacuse of those damn bleeding heart liberals, trying to save one stupid bushytail while thousands of jobs are being lost.
She was brainwashed by the liberal feminazi media.
Saddam Hussein
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
Salvador Dali
The Fish.
Sappho
For the touch of your skin, the sweetness of your lips..
To kiss your skin, to lie with you in moonlight...
Sarek
Sometimes logic fails me where squirrels are concerned.
Scotty
Because she couldna take much morrrrrre.
Sherlock Holmes
It was not merely that the squirrel jumped the electrical-pole transformer, Watson, but that the three Russian midgets and the Italian oboe player did not also jump.
Sigmund Freud
The squirrel obviously was female and obviously interpreted the pole as a phallic symbol of which she was envious. telephone pole suggested a phallic symbol and like all female creatures she wanted to be dominated.
Sir Edmund Hilary
Because it's there.
Sir Isaac Newton
A squirrel at rest remains at rest; a squirrel in motion remains in motion.
Squirrels at rest tend to stay at rest. Squirrels in motion tend to jump the electrical-pole transformer.
Sisyphus
Was it pushing a rock, too?
Socrates
To pick up some hemlock at the corner druggist.
Tasha
That depends...was it fully functional?
The Borg
Jumping the electrical-pole transformer is irrelevant. The squirrel will be assimilated.
The Grand Nagus
Stupid squirrel! You don't jump the electrical-pole transformer all at once! You sneak up to it quietly, without anyone noticing!
The Kingston Trio
The lions still roam the barranca And a squirrel there is always alone.
The Sphinx
You tell me.
Thomas de Torquemada
Give me ten minutes with the squirrel and I'll find out.
Thomas Dequincy
Because it ran out of opium.
Thomas Jefferson
All squirrels are endowed by Nature and Nature's God with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of the other side.
Thomas Paine
Out of common sense.
Timothy Leary
Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Tom Clancy
The Mark 84 gargleblaster that the squirrel carried, at the heart of which was an inferior ex-Soviet excimer laser system, had insufficient range to allow the squirrel to carry out its mission from this side of the electrical-pole transformer.
Oral Roberts
He couldn't raise the $100,000 so God called him to the other side.
Tomas de Torquemada
Give me ten minutes with that squirrel and we'll find out.
Troi
I feel the squirrel's pain!
TS Eliot
Do I dare to jump the electrical-pole transformer?
Weialala leia / Wallala leialala.
It's not that they jump, but that they jump like squirrels.
To leave the place she knew for another place And to stay there for a while And then to visit both places.
Tuvok
That's not a question we'd prefer to hear from a senior officer. It makes the junior officers nervous.
Uhura
Shall I open hailing frequencies so you can ask it, sir?
Vito Corleone
We made her an offer she couldn't refuse.
V'Ger
To join with the Creator.
Wallace Stevens
O thin men of Haddam Why seek so eagerly the bronzy bushytail? Do you not see the squirrel On the dirt electrical-pole transformer you walk?
Walt Whitman
To chitter the song of itself.
To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
Weekly World News
Nostradamus predicted squirrel/Bigfoot horror!
Nostradamus predicted squirrel/UFO horror!
Werner Heisenberg
We are not sure which side of the electrical-pole transformer the squirrel was on, but it was moving very fast.
Wesley
I'm not sure, but I can figure it out if I reroute these systems and reconfigure the warp field and run a complete internal whootchacallit on the computers and...
William Shakespeare
I don't know why, but methinks I could rattle off a hundred-line soliloquy without much ado.
William Wordsworth
To have something to recollect in tranquility.
Yoda
Jumping the electrical-pole transformer does not make a squirrel great.