# wtf is a wood chuck?

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**Created:** [October 23, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wood-chuck/270791 "2004-10-23T18:17:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wood-chuck/270791/21 "2013-02-28T21:38:48Z")

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My mom says when she was a girl the whole thing was different, instead of how much wood, it was what kind of wood.

What kind of wood  
would a woodchuck chuck  
if a woodchuck  
could chuck wood?

A woodchuck  
would chuck  
whatever kind of wood  
a woodchuck could chuck  
if a woodchuck  
could chuck wood

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**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wood-chuck/270791/22 "2013-02-28T23:05:50Z")

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> [@t-keela](#):
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> The marmot is a stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter and is commonly called a Ground Hog.

Also, let’s not forget that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for domestic… you know, within the city – that ain’t legal either.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-a-wood-chuck/270791/23 "2013-02-28T23:18:45Z")

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For Woodchucks, chucking wood is like their morning coffee.

[THIS](http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/9/9/7/3/8/1/zombie-woodchuck-29839041340.jpeg) is what they look like without coffee.

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