640 pounds. It was actually measured, by the mean amount of dirt chucked by a significant number of woodchucks, and the assumption that a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as it did dirt.
(Where else would you get a straight answer to that question? I ask you!)
Oh, come now! Can’t you play nice with the other kids? How hard would it be to write: “…purchasing paprika per the peck could prove particularly painful.”?
The Master speaks: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (although he gives the figure as 700 pounds).
Poire William is a potent potable produced from pears. Proficient pear-farmers place pristine bottles peripherally on the pullulating poiriers (pear-trees), pruning to produce “prisoner pears”.
Perhaps Peter Piper places pots, packed with pickling-potion, proximate to his pepper-plants, pickling the peppers prior to picking.
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1 U.S. peck = 2.32729448 U.S. liquid gallons.
By definition, 1 U.S. peck is exactly 2 U.S. dry gallons.
And don’t get me started on Imperial pecks and gallons. (After all, there’s a good chance that Peter Piper was British.)
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Possible.
I’m wondering what kind of dirt woodchucks chuck. Pumice, maybe? The link implies that 35 cubic feet of dirt weighs 700 lbs. At 20 pounds per cu. ft., thats about 1/3 the density of water.
