“Why did the chicken cross the road?"/"To get to the other side” is a classic riddle from the 19th century. A snail version is:
Q: Why did the snail cross the road?
A: I don’t know. It hasn’t gotten there yet.
“Why did the snail cross the road?....I don’t know it hasn’t got there yet?” was posted on Twitter on June 4, 2009.
Twitter
Anita Searle
@AnitaSearle
JFTD Why did the snail cross the road?....I don’t know it hasn’t got there yet?....It’s the way I tell ‘em you know…
6:57 AM - 4 Jun 2009
18 August 2011, The Guardian (London, UK), “G@: Kids,” pg. 13:
YOUR JOKE
Why did the snail cross the road?
I don’t know - it hasn’t got there yet!
Beren Breeze, 5
Twitter
Hazel Boomkamp-Lee
@lula_rocket
#Comedy #Kids
- Why did the snail cross the road?
- I don’t know, he hasn’t got there yet… 
3:26 PM - 14 Oct 2013
Twitter
Aimée STANS Get A Grip 👊🏻 🖤
@aimeeelogan
@leahlogan2004 why did the snail cross the road?
don’t know it hadn’t gotten there yet.
2:29 PM - 8 Nov 2014
Reddit—Jokes
Why did the snail cross the road ?
submitted December 18, 2016 by y2k2r2d2
It is not clear yet , let it cross the road first.
Update : It has been confirmed that it was to meet the Chicken who crossed the road earlier.
Twitter
Bob Swanston
@SwanstonRobert
#BadJokeFriday
Why did the snail cross the road?
I don’t know.... it hasn’t got there yet.
6:23 AM - 6 Oct 2017
Twitter
Bob Swanston
@SwanstonRobert
#badjokethursday
Why did the snail cross the road?
Feck knows, he hasn’t got there yet.
8:50 PM - 28 Feb 2018
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.
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.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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