Richard Thomas (no, not the actor!) was a wildlife technician, and like so many of us, he devoted a great part of his childhood to asking, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
But, being a man of action, he didn't just SAY it. He got off his fat sofa and did the math. His rough estimate came to around 700 pounds, and who among us can gainsay that?
First off, a woodchuck is also known by the similarly-appealing name "groundhog." Word experts feel that we got "woodchuck" from the Algonquian people, who used the word "wejack" to mean groundhog.
Later, they developed the word "Sajak" to mean game show host.
Back to the story...in 1988, the Associated Press press reported that Thomas had calculated the amount of dirt in a typical 25–30-foot long woodchuck burrow and had determined that if the woodchuck had moved an equivalent volume of wood, it could move "about 700 pounds on a good day, with the wind at his back".
In Cincinnati, Joe Burrow can throw a football with 700 pounds of Ravens hanging off of him.
While in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa. But that's entirely irrelephant.
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