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HaPPY GroundHOG Day .. (pg. 2)
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| Endlesswave |
Bah, winter sucks a lot of the time.
I just figure I'll watch the movie Groundhog day and laugh my ass off instead... |
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| dallastar |
So do we know yet - if there is a shadow???
I kinda like the snow - b/c i know i can look forward to snowboardin! woohoo
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
seriously tho.
does rusty johnston not ring up any funny thoughts for anyone else other than me?
rusty johnston - rusty johnson.....nothing? really? |
Let it go Marge :p |
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| rabbitjoker |
What? No practical jokes?
It's well past noon and not a single one. I am VERY disappointed.
Worst groundhog day in memory. |
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| dallastar |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
What? No practical jokes?
It's well past noon and not a single one. I am VERY disappointed.
Worst groundhog day in memory. |
i quoted this , and thought i would be able to cum up with a joke - the only thing I can think of 'as' a joke is my roomies boyfriend that is always here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:eek:
is groundhog day like april fools??
my b-day is on april 11th so i think it is double fool day, OR double trouble day..
anyways hope something I wrote here made ya giggle!@
**GIGGLE**;) |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
What? No practical jokes?
It's well past noon and not a single one. I am VERY disappointed.
Worst groundhog day in memory. |
umm, yeah, wrong holiday buddy.
RUSTY JOHNTSON!!! hahahahahahaha. |
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| bARTovsky |
Hate the groundhog.
Love Groundhog Day.
the movie I mean.
:p |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
so he saw his shadow.
i watched the whole thing on BT this morning.
it was one of the funniest things i have ever seen on TV. not only that but one of the officials was rusty johnston. RUSTY JOHNSTON!!!! how funny is that?! |
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Feb. 2, 2005. 02:04 PM
Groundhogs disagree on whether winter’s over
CANADIAN PRESS
The news was mixed for winter-weary Canadians desperate enough to count on a handful of bewildered rodents to predict how much longer winter will drag on.
Cheery predictions by Ontario’s Wiarton Willie and Alberta’s Balzac Billy, who emerged before chanting, pancake-eating crowds and didn’t see their shadows — a sign of early spring — were offset by two other furry forecasters suggesting a long winter.
Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam, a woodchuck that lives in a heated den where’s he pampered with carrots and broccoli, waddled out of his cosy nursery this morning, suggesting another six weeks of wintry weather.
Pennsylvania’s Punxutawney Phil saw his shadow on Gobbler’s Knob after being pulled from his burrow in an oak stump by a top-hatted handler.
“It’s still a gorgeous day, and we have to get out there and enjoy winter,” said a spokeswoman at Shubenacadie Wildlife Park near Halifax. “We’ve had an incredible turnout. This event is getting bigger every year. People need something to celebrate in February.”
Amid chest-high snowdrifts and temperatures around -13 C, the crowd of 200 at the park near Halifax sipped hot chocolate and coffee to keep their spirits up.
At the other end of the meteorological map, several hundred people in Balzac basked in plus-10 degrees when their rodent poked his head above ground.
“It’s going to be an early spring, so everyone’s celebrating,” said Don Grasley from Balzac.
Whether it’s Shubenacadie Sam, Wiarton Willie or Balzac Billy, the bogus weather forecasts from these coddled animals attract international attention every Feb. 2 — Groundhog Day.
Even though everyone knows it’s a crock — groundhogs in the wild actually hibernate until March or April — there seems to be a need for this kind of mid-winter event.
“It’s of particular interest to Canadians, who suffer like prisoners being tortured once a year in the winter,” says Murray Pomerance, who heads the sociology department at Ryerson University in Toronto.
“What Groundhog Day does is give everybody a kind of holiday where they can officially get together and hope for the end of winter, which is a kind of public celebration. So I see it as the true Canadian winter holiday.”
Newspapers are always looking to give their readers a lighthearted break from the usual political news on front pages and Groundhog Day fits the bill.
“It also gives you an opportunity to film or shoot a picture of a cute animal,” says Suanne Kelman, who teaches journalism at Toronto’s Ryerson University. “If you get really lucky, the animal bites someone. What more could you ask?”
The tradition of Groundhog Day began in 1887 in Punxsutawney, Pa.
Early German settlers there believed that if the sun shone on Feb. 2, the Christian feast of Candlemas, then snow would still be swirling in May.
Dozens of communities across North America have since come up with their own weather-predicting woodchucks.
If you don’t believe the groundhogs, there’s always Environment Canada, which boasts an accuracy rate of up to 65 per cent — depending on region — in its long-range forecasts.
Forecaster Dan Kulak says the agency is predicting above-normal temperatures for most of the country this month — except for a strip of Central Canada including Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, where it will be colder than usual.
“If that’s an indication that spring is around the corner, if anyone wants to make that stretch, it’s up to them,” says Kulak.
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source:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...id=968332188492
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| muzzybear |
| Gobbler's Knob! That's right up there with Rusty Johnson! |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by muzzybear
Gobbler's Knob! That's right up there with Rusty Johnson! |
your wasting your fingers. these people don't appreciate true comedy ;). |
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| dallastar |
| I just heard today that the groundhog never saw his/hers shadow:p |
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| lipstick |
lmao
marg,, lol , i thought that rusty johnston was funny,, i thoguht it was funner that no one else was laughing at it,,, ahh well
you and me thats it.
anyway there are 2 groundhogs,, one for the states and one for canada, either way i dont think some stinky rodents gonna tell me if springs comming early or not... |
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