# Can you get your hand to the bottom of a Pringles can? (poll)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-get-your-hand-to-the-bottom-of-a-pringles-can-poll/705979>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 30, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-get-your-hand-to-the-bottom-of-a-pringles-can-poll/705979 "2014-11-30T23:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-get-your-hand-to-the-bottom-of-a-pringles-can-poll/705979/41 "2014-12-02T13:55:26Z")

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> [@48Willys](#):
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> Adds “Arctic Bush Pilot” to my book wish list.
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> James Anderson & Noel Wien were some of the pilots I read about as a youngster. Your uncle would have been one of my heros, had I known about him as a kid. He sounds like many of the bush pilots & crop dusters that I have known. Do you know whatever happened to him?

I just ordered it off Amazon myself. I need to find out the rest of that story! (It will make a good Yule present for my husband, who spent some time working up in Alaska and also worked as a flight medic, although not at the same time.) Sadly, I’m not in contact with that branch of the family tree anymore, so I don’t know anything else about Julie. He’s more of a family legend than a real family member.

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**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-get-your-hand-to-the-bottom-of-a-pringles-can-poll/705979/42 "2014-12-02T17:57:31Z")

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The numbers so far suggest that the Pringles can is big enough for half of the population. 80% of males can’t reach the bottom, and 80% of females can. The march of science continues…

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