Posted: 4/14/2010 5:30:35 AM EDT
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But the question still remains...How many licks does it take to get to Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? 1,200 something is the number I remember. http://sites.google.com/site/ressentimentfiles/tootsie-pop.jpg Fail, the owl clearly almost got to three. But it was concluded that..."The world may never know" |
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But the question still remains...How many licks does it take to get to Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? 1,200 something is the number I remember. http://sites.google.com/site/ressentimentfiles/tootsie-pop.jpg Fail, the owl clearly almost got to three. But it was concluded that..."The world may never know" Yet you offer up 1200 as being definitive in your memory? 
I'll stick with the owl. Owls are wise, can turn their heads almost 360 degrees, fly silently and are generally bad ass. You possess none of these qualities. 
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Some woodpeckers wrap their tongue around their skull as a shock absorber while they peck.
http://www.passporttotexas.com/birds/apr00.html ETA: Illustration of this at bottom of the page |
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Some woodpeckers wrap their tongue around their skull as a shock absorber while they peck. http://www.passporttotexas.com/birds/apr00.html ETA: Illustration of this at bottom of the page 
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Some woodpeckers wrap their tongue around their skull as a shock absorber while they peck. http://www.passporttotexas.com/birds/apr00.html ETA: Illustration of this at bottom of the page i can do that too 
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Joshua L. Cowen.
Cowen was your typical turn of the century inventor. Lots of ideas - some that worked, some that didn't. His next creation was the development of little metal tubes that were designed to illuminate flowers in their pots. These illuminated flower pots were difficult to perfect (if he could have gotten them to dance to music, he would have earned a fortune). Cowen became bored with his flower pot lights and in 1898 gave the project away to one of his salesmen - some guy named Conrad Hubert. Hubert could care less about the lighted flower pots. Instead, he liked the device Cowen developed to operate them - a lightbulb and dry cell battery combination that had a 30 day life. Hubert took Cowen's battery operated device and developed it into the flashlight. The company that Cowen gave away was named the American Eveready Company, and it earned Hubert nearly six million dollars in two decades (a large sum of money for the turn of the century). When Hubert died, he left behind a $15,000,000 estate, virtually all earned from Cowen's invention. One would think that Cowen would feel like a real loser for giving an idea like Eveready batteries away for nothing, but he actually came up with a better idea that earned him even more money. the "L" in Joshua L. Cowen's name stood for Lionel - as in Lionel trains. |