Mr. Owl, why are you a jerk?

You know the old commercials about the tootsie pops and how many lick does it take to get to the center of one? Well, the owl says its three, but it's not! I had an experiment many years ago with 3 of my friends. We all had the same size and flavor tootsie pop (red), and we all licked it until we got to the center. The results were: I had 237 licks, Friend A had 319 licks, Friend B had 276 licks, and Friend C had 453 licks. So, as my experiment has proven, it most definitively does not take just 3 licks to get to the center of the lollipop, just 4 or 5... hundred.