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Koohii stories:

1) [mspertus] 4-8-2010(235): University departments study things like wheat (agriculture) and the big dipper (physics/astronomy), and exact measuring cups (engineering).

2) [cornrow] 9-12-2008(160): The national DEPARTMENT of WHEATS and MEASURES. Get it? This one was hard until I came up with this.

3) [ezmoreldo] 3-4-2008(22): The science departments at universities are trying to grow one wheat plant that can fill a whole measuring cup. (genetic engineering).

4) [tharvey] 11-7-2009(15): An alphabetical list of the university's departments reads "Agriculture (wheat), Astronomy (Big Dipper)…." and so on.

5) [dihutenosa] 12-9-2007(9): The Department of Wheat Measurement has heard some strange things about Cap 'n Crunch Cereal recently - namely, that the amount of wheat in Cap 'n Crunch Cereal may not be as high as is claimed on the box. So here they are at the factory with a huge garbage pail-sized measuring cup, putting the appropriate amount of wheat into each box.