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Ever try to count?

Age 27
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Seen July 9th, 2012
Posted February 8th, 2012
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15 Years
Have you ever tried to count how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a Tootsie Pop? I have. Took me bout.....354.....weird. Just wondering if you have ever tried. WITHOUT BITING!


"How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
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Signomi

Age 32
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Posted October 10th, 2022
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17.8 Years
...I've tried a couple of times with a regular lollipop after hearing that for the first time. I managed to count 56 licks before eventually biting into it. Yes, I was a bored and very curious kid. XD

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Posted November 2nd, 2016
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I've always wondered, what is a Tootsie Pop? It's an American thing, right? Is it a lollipop? What's so special about this lollipop?
Tootsie pops are a chocolate chew inside of a lollipop. Mighty tasty.

And no, I've never tried to count. That would be ridiculous.
Seen January 1st, 2023
Posted April 20th, 2020
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15.4 Years
Someone made a thread asking if anyone ever counted the words in a dictionary. Some people said they counted to a thousand. Others disagreed with them. The majority of the posters said it was pointless and ridiculous, so no, they hadn't nor did they intend to ever count the words in the English dictionary.

My answer was the same as the latter and it somewhat applies to this thread as well. Counting how many times you lick a lollipop is pretty much a waste of time, so no, I have not - nor do I intend to - ever count how many times I can lick one without giving into a temptation to bite.
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Someone made a thread asking if anyone ever counted the words in a dictionary. Some people said they counted to a thousand. Others disagreed with them. The majority of the posters said it was pointless and ridiculous, so no, they hadn't nor did they intend to ever count the words in the English dictionary.

My answer was the same as the latter and it somewhat applies to this thread as well. Counting how many times you lick a lollipop is pretty much a waste of time, so no, I have not - nor do I intend to - ever count how many times I can lick one without giving into a temptation to bite.
hahaha I remember that topic.

and yes, I think I might have.

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Nick

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Posted July 28th, 2021
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18.6 Years
I don't lick lollipops. I just suck on them and even though that sounds really dirty... :3

I don't like the tecture of the lollipop against my tongue, so sucking on them is just so much easier and you get so much more taste from it.

So, if you didn't seem to assume the answer: It's no.

Spinor

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Posted October 4th, 2015
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17.3 Years
Good you brought this up.

I remember I tried to count them about a year ago. It took about 1,132 licks.

I'm not lying. I actually DID do this. But I bit it right when I saw almost everything brown because I had to go with my mom to groceries. Epic Suckage :/

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Posted May 1st, 2014
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19.5 Years
I would never be able to count the licks, I can only take so much licking before I get impatient and just bite it... D:
Then again, I can never stand to lick/suck on any kind of candy, it just bothers me. :[

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Never had them, but I'd liek to try Tootsie Pops.

Aegis

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Posted October 30th, 2012
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17.3 Years
I can't say I have D: I just didn't (and still don't, for that matter) have the patience to sit and count how many licks it took. I wanted to eat it right when I got it, not after counting and all that :[

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Posted January 22nd, 2010
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15.4 Years
I tried when I was six, again when I was seven, and then once more when I was eight. When I was six, I got up to eighty-two and just didn't feel like licking it anymore. I got up to the latter fifty of the three-hundreds at seven, and in the one-hundreds a couple times when I was eight. I never did find the answer, and I've tried several times in the years since I was eight, but gave up at fifty from pure boredom.

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BeachBoy

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Hey, when you're a kid bored in North Carolina like me a lonnnnng time ago, you do... stuff. I indeed tried this. XD I got like 40 or so before I gave up from repetition and confusion of counting. :X Can't recall. Wouldn't try it these days. XD
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Posted August 20th, 2009
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19.6 Years
Didn't some university do a test with a rotating wheel of tongue-like sponges or something? Seems like that would be a lot less trouble than actually numbing your tongue counting your licks.

But no, I haven't.

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Ryoutarou

Seen April 2nd, 2023
Posted December 29th, 2020
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19.3 Years
I actually had to do this when I was a lot younger in school, for what reason I'll never know, it seemed like something totally random given to us by a lazy teacher. I was incredibly obsessive as a kid, so I got further than anyone else before losing count and the day ending, I think I got somewhere a little over 600.

Haven't tried it since and I wouldn't want to, it would get tedious so fast. XD