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How much ....

Peepelonia
05-12-2006, 14:45
wood can a woodchucker chuck? And what the hell is such a beast? Like a man who's job it is to chuck wood? Some hitherto unknown creature that only comes out at night?

I dunno, post your 'I dunno's' here:
Rambhutan
05-12-2006, 14:46
Metric or Imperial?
Peepelonia
05-12-2006, 14:47
Metric or Imperial?

Heh I'm English so I can work from both!
Ifreann
05-12-2006, 14:48
It's a woodchuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodchuck), and a woodchuck would chuck the amount of wood a woodchuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood, but the name woodchuck has nothing etymologically to do with wood. It stems from an Algonquian name for the animal (possibly Narragansett), wuchak.
Peepelonia
05-12-2006, 14:50
It's a woodchuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodchuck), and a woodchuck would chuck the amount of wood a woodchuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood, but the name woodchuck has nothing etymologically to do with wood. It stems from an Algonquian name for the animal (possibly Narragansett), wuchak.

Heh i like you, you're funny!
Ifreann
05-12-2006, 14:52
Heh i like you, you're funny!

:p
Hamilay
05-12-2006, 14:53
A 'woodchuck' could be a vomiting beaver, could it not? :p
Peepelonia
05-12-2006, 14:55
A 'woodchuck' could be a vomiting beaver, could it not? :p

Ummm *blush* umm err yeah I errr heh giggle guess so.
Rhaomi
05-12-2006, 16:29
"[According to] New York state wildlife expert Richard Thomas, ... a woodchuck could (and does) chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. Thomas reasoned that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck an amount equivalent to the weight of the dirt, or 700 pounds."

From the Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_083a.html).

;)
Boonytopia
06-12-2006, 09:57
83.72kg
Harlesburg
06-12-2006, 10:03
Heh i like you, you're funny!
You mean it is Canadian?:eek: