Philosophy: Another contest thread

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How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck would chuck wood? Answer this question but really think about it
 
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood that he could, if a woodchuck would chuck wood.
 
MikeH said:
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood that he could, if a woodchuck would chuck wood.
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Are you sure about that? I mean, aren't you assuming a lot about the intrinsic nature of woodchucks by making such a statement. I mean really, would he give up eating or sleeping or shagging just to chuck wood?
(This was supposed to be a philosophy thread after all)
 
Walking Man said:
Are you sure about that? I mean, aren't you assuming a lot about the intrinsic nature of woodchucks by making such a statement. I mean really, would he give up eating or sleeping or shagging just to chuck wood?
(This was supposed to be a philosophy thread after all)
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Woodchucks don't know nothin' about philosophy! They chuck, therefore they
am what they am.
 
MikeH said:
Woodchucks don't know nothin' about philosophy! They chuck, therefore they
am what they am.
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They have to do a little more than chucking, and were not talking about woodchucks philosophizing, we're philosphizing about woodchuck doing what they do, which, by definition cannot be just chucking. You must know that little woodchucks pop up every spring, and when's the last time you saw a starving woodchuck. You don't get a full belly from just chucking wood after all.
 
woodchucks are notorious for their limited vocabulary. For instance, they think of eating as "chucking". They consider their little chirping calls to one another as "chucking." They even think of the procreative act of making little woodchucks as the c word.

As to woodchucking in particular, it fits pretty far down the line in their hiearchy of "chucking" activities. (They do it mostly to keep songwriters occupied.) They are compelled by their nature to perform various "chucking" activities. The time spent woodchucking is, in the woodchuck scheme of things, quite literally all the wood they can chuck, given their other biological imperatives. Their primary impluse, in fact, is to see how many woodchucks a woodchuck can chuck.

It's all there in the Junior Woodchuck handbook. (Bonus points to anyone old enough to name three members of the Junior Woodchucks.)
 
Yeah, but in N.America "chucking" means throwing. I've never seen a Woodchuck throw anything...let alone wood.
 
Just shoot the rotten little bastids and then you won't need to worry about it. There not good for anything but targets anyway. I have found they chuck alot less when dead.
Garth
 
A woodchuck would chuck 42 pieces of wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood. 42 is the meaning of life, so it would stand that 42 would be how much wood a woodchuck could chuck. If it aint 42 then I give em 55. as in the grains in my .223 bushmaster loads that touch them ever so gently at 800 yards.
 
How long does it take a woodchuck to chuck 42 pieces of wood, provided that he actually chuck wood, of course? ..... People, let's TRY to remember this is all hypothetical, shall we? HMMMMM..........
 
The question before us is, How much could they chuck.."IF" they could chuck wood? so, "IF" implies that they cannot chuck wood and therfore we are left with a tree falling in the forest type of question...there is no answer. The woodchucks' just exist and we just exist...apparently to ponder the ability of a woodchucks' inability to chuck wood. and to laugh about an imaginary contest where Bobbet is the doner.
 
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