rw wrote:

Jeff Miller wrote:

Wolfgang wrote:

"rw" wrote in message
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...How long does it take someone to eat 70 pheasants?





It varies. A big man with a good appetite and a real fondness for
pheasant?.......a couple of weeks, maybe.

Wolfgang


obviously a tyro... i'll wager on 3 days, tops.

jeff


NOBODY can eat 23 pheasants in one day, except for maybe that skinny
Japanese guy who wins all the eating contests.

ok...5 days. g

(and, um, steve, it's a joke... but there is this guy up in
robersonville, nc, mort hurst, who was a guiness-worthy champion eater
of collards and moon pies who might be able to do it in 3 days.

(following lifted from an article in the december 2000 issue of
smithsonian magazine, about the cypress grill, a legendary fried herring
shack restaurant in jamesville, nc) "When Leslie stops by my table, I
ask him about the most herring he's seen one customer eat. There's one
lady, he says, that eats 10 or 12 at a time — "and she's no big girl,
either." For years Mort Hurst, a local county commissioner and noted big
eater, asked Leslie if he might eat all he could for a fixed cost. "But
he's the collard-eatin' king of the world," Leslie tells me. "Set a
world record for eating Moon Pies. We won't let him do it. He'd just
stick us."

(and from some 1996 political reporters notes...)

"COATTAILS: All we are left with is local politics. “In North Carolina
auto racing draws like the church,” observed CBS’ Bill Geist, “and old
#43 is a Supreme Being. But why would a King want to be Secretary of
State?” NASCAR’s Richard Petty replied that he is running for statewide
office to offer his slipstream to the rest of the GOP slate. The state’s
Democrats complain that the logo-emblazoned Petty has an unfair
advantage in air time. “But what is an icon to do?” Geist puzzled.
“Endorsements are Petty’s life.” The Democrats’ answer is Mort Hurst,
the world champion at speed-eating collard greens: “He is the only
candidate with the name recognition to stand up to Petty”