YONKERS, N.Y. (Nov. 30, 2002) -- If you were ever baking an extremely large cake and needed to include 18 cups of a particular ingredient, and you did not have a proper measuring device, what could you use instead? If you answered “Chris Crowley’s head,” you’re right.
Chris Crowley dips in.
In a disturbing display of an amusing idea taken too far, Chris “A Big Man” Crowley and Ed “The Head” McDowell gave new meaning to the phrase “Butting Heads” as the two settled a long-standing controversy regarding which man sports the larger noggin. To ensure accuracy, an independent agent devised a scientific method whereby each contestant, while wearing a tight blue swimming cap, would dip his head into a full bucket of tepid water. The spillage would then be measured to determine total cranial volume.
McDowell, long renowned for his abnormally large melon, inserted his head into the bucket first, displacing 17 cups of water in the process. With the gauntlet thrown down, and the tension mounting, Crowley strutted to the bucket and dipped his substantial head into the water.
As he pushed his head further into the abyss, the water gushed out of the bucket like a waterfall. Judging from the sound of the overflowing water most assumed that Crowley would win heads -- um, hands -- down. But with three containers, totaling 16 cups, already measured, little water remained. It would all come down to a measurement of the final spillage. When the final ounce dripped from the displacement container into a measuring device, a total of 18 cups of water had been counted, all of them forced from the bucket by Crowley’s massive cranium.
