“Why did the chicken cross the road?”/“To get to the other side” is a classic riddle from the 19th century. A dog version is:
Q: Why did the dog cross the road?
A: To get to the barking lot.
The joke was published in the Los Angeles (CA) Times on April 6, 1999.
“How do you stop a dog from barking in the street?”/“Put him in a barking lot!” is another “barking lot” riddle.
6 April 1999, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “The Kids’ Reading Room; Pint-Sized Punch Lines,” pg. D7, col. 1:
Why did the dog cross the road? To get to the barking lot. (Catherine, 10, Garden Grove, Excelsior School)
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Kids Puns of the Weak 10-26-04
Stan Kegel
10/26/04
(...)
Why did the dog cross the road?
To get to the barking lot (Doodles: Sack & Macintosh)
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Kids Puns of the Weak 12-14-04
Stan Kegel
12/14/04
(...)
Why did the dog cross the road?
To get to the barking lot. (Daily Groaner)
Google Books
Joke & Riddle Ballyhoo
By Jacqueline Horsfall
New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
2005
Pg. 75:
Why did the dog cross the road?
To get to the barking lot.
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of Really Silly Jokes:
Humour for the whole family
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2011
Pg. ?:
Why did the dog cross the road?
To get to the barking lot.
Google Books
Happy Smile:
Jokes for Kids
By Adam Smith
Lulu Press (Lulu.com)
2017
Pg. ?:
Q: Where do you put barking dogs?
A: In a barking lot.
Google Books
Don’t forget to Flush:
A Bathroom Devotional for Kids
By Kevin Alton and Britta Alton
Minneapolis, MN: Sparkhouse Family
2017
Pg. 109:
Q: Why did the dog cross the road?
A: To get to the “barking” lot!
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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