A software engineer posted on LinkedIn that he was asked in a job interview how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. When he realized it wasn’t a joke, he gave a clever reply based on logic: the season, age of the woodchuck and geographic factors.

That’s a B.E.Y.O.N.D. weird job interview question, although it got me wondering.

According to wildlife expert Richard Thomas, the answer is 700 pounds, an amount equivalent to the 35 cubic feet of dirt a woodchuck would chuck to dig a burrow. So now we know.

Bonus knowledge: woodchuck = groundhog = whistlepig. This raises So. Many. Questions. including these two to which the world anxiously awaits the answers.

• How much ground could a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?

• How many whistles could a whistlepig whistle if a whistlepig could really whistle?

Circling back to the software engineer. He didn’t get the job. In fact, a rejection letter was in his email inbox within five minutes of the conclusion of the interview.

All this nonsense about a woodchuck in a job interview is enough to make Buffy bitchy because job candidates deserve better. But it doesn’t make Buffy bitchy because that software engineer dodged a bullet. We also now know the 700-pound answer. And finally, we’re fully armed with bet-you-did-not-know-this-about-woodchucks cocktail party chatter next February 2nd on Woodchuck-Whistlepig Day.