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Either Billy Mays or Stephanie Patrick.
That's actually a really good question xD
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
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For the film, see How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (film).
A woodchuck
Sawn logs of wood
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck is an American English-language tongue-twister.[1][2] The woodchuck from the Algonquian word "wejack" is a kind of marmotregionally called a groundhog.[3] The complete beginning of the tongue-twister usually goes: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"[1][2] The tongue-twister relies primarily on alliteration to achieve its effects, with five "w" sounds interspersed among five "ch" sounds.[4]
Contents
[1Answers
- 2Origin
- 3Popular culture
- 4See also
- 5References
Answers[edit]
The traditional "response" to the question is: "A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood".[5] This answer is considered nonsensical for being a tautology.
A 1957 Associated Press piece refers to the question as "a riddle which beats the Sphinx, since it's still unanswered".[6] A more concrete answer was published by the Associated Press in 1988, which reported that a New York fish and wildlife technician named Richard Thomas had calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25–30-foot (7.6–9.1 m) long woodchuck burrow and had determined that if the woodchuck had moved an equivalent volume of wood, it could move "about 700 pounds (320 kg) on a good day, with the wind at his back".[7][8] Another study, which considered "chuck" to be the opposite of upchucking, determined that a woodchuck could ingest 361.9237001 cm3 (22.08593926 cu in)[9] of wood per day.[10]
Another proposed response comes from the parody-filled video game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, where the protagonist asks a carpenter the question and gets the response: "A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can't chuck wood."[11]
Origin[edit]
The origin of the phrase is from a 1902 song "The Woodchuck Song", written by Robert Hobart Davis for Fay Templeton in the musical The Runaways.[12][13] the lyrics became better known in a 1904 version of the song written by Theodore Morse, with a chorus of "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?",[14] which was recorded by Ragtime Roberts, in 1904.[15]
The tongue-twister is documented as "folklore" in 1972 at Farmington, Michigan.[16] It is used in the title of Werner Herzog's 1976 film How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, a documentation of the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in New Holland, Pennsylvania.
How dare you.How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the film, see How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (film).
A woodchuck
Sawn logs of wood
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck is an American English-language tongue-twister.[1][2] The woodchuck from the Algonquian word "wejack" is a kind of marmotregionally called a groundhog.[3] The complete beginning of the tongue-twister usually goes: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"[1][2] The tongue-twister relies primarily on alliteration to achieve its effects, with five "w" sounds interspersed among five "ch" sounds.[4]
Contents
[1Answers
- 2Origin
- 3Popular culture
- 4See also
Answers[edit]
- 5References
The traditional "response" to the question is: "A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood".[5] This answer is considered nonsensical for being a tautology.
A 1957 Associated Press piece refers to the question as "a riddle which beats the Sphinx, since it's still unanswered".[6] A more concrete answer was published by the Associated Press in 1988, which reported that a New York fish and wildlife technician named Richard Thomas had calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25–30-foot (7.6–9.1 m) long woodchuck burrow and had determined that if the woodchuck had moved an equivalent volume of wood, it could move "about 700 pounds (320 kg) on a good day, with the wind at his back".[7][8] Another study, which considered "chuck" to be the opposite of upchucking, determined that a woodchuck could ingest 361.9237001 cm3 (22.08593926 cu in)[9] of wood per day.[10]
Another proposed response comes from the parody-filled video game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, where the protagonist asks a carpenter the question and gets the response: "A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can't chuck wood."[11]
Origin[edit]
The origin of the phrase is from a 1902 song "The Woodchuck Song", written by Robert Hobart Davis for Fay Templeton in the musical The Runaways.[12][13] the lyrics became better known in a 1904 version of the song written by Theodore Morse, with a chorus of "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?",[14] which was recorded by Ragtime Roberts, in 1904.[15]
The tongue-twister is documented as "folklore" in 1972 at Farmington, Michigan.[16] It is used in the title of Werner Herzog's 1976 film How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, a documentation of the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in New Holland, Pennsylvania.
Probably that time when you were the murderer and I was the only one who knew, so you stuck me in a corner of Overgrown Lab and told me not to grab a gun, but I did anyway and shoosted you. I kind of felt bad for doing that, but you did also murder innocent bystanders.
1) Never heard of it.
2) If you don't have an intolerance, I'd just say keep drinking milk because it's good for you, but don't go overboard, because you might get a stomachache or something. Having it with cereal is a good way to control how much you consume because you can't overfill the bowl, right?
3) Cocoa Krispies in milk.
4) Being in a group conversation (irl) and not knowing or understanding what anyone is talking about.
5) Not at all! I'm enjoying this lol
Looks like I havent asked you my questions yet. Well, here you go:
Whats your favorite pokemon?
Whats your favorite shiny?
Do you approve of Aiko Umesawa being the best less-than-2-minutes-of-screentime character?
Whats your favorite pokemon?
Whats your favorite shiny?
Do you approve of Aiko Umesawa being the best less-than-2-minutes-of-screentime character?