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Punxsutawney Phil Sees His Shadow
Yahoonews.com ^ | 2/2/05 | unknown

Posted on 02/02/2005 5:10:05 AM PST by beyond the sea

About 2,000 people gathered in Punxsutawney, Pa., on Wednesday morning for the updated winter forecast from the famous groundhog.

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and that means six more weeks of winter.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: echo; groundhog; groundhogday; punsxutawney; skyisfalling; superstition; touristtrap; winter
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To: Rightly Biased
Flapjacks?


41 posted on 02/02/2005 5:24:00 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Naked Mole Rats have feelings too. Be nice to them.)
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To: Rightly Biased

This morning in Alabama, Conspiracy Guy did not see his shadow and went back into his office searching for whiskey.


42 posted on 02/02/2005 5:25:31 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Naked Mole Rats have feelings too. Be nice to them.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I could sure go for some flapjacks.

Don't drive on the Railroad tracks.


43 posted on 02/02/2005 5:26:10 AM PST by Rightly Biased (I believe If you can't say something good about somebody your probably talking about Hillary Clinton)
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To: beyond the sea; All
comfort food and Bill Murray making changes in his life. Today, at 7 PM, it is 6:00 in the morning and its GROUNDHOG DAY. National Review is finally catching up to my wife and I. This movie comes out of our video library every Feb 2nd. Have a happy day, change something for the better.

Thanks to Jim Robinson for the site.

44 posted on 02/02/2005 5:26:53 AM PST by q_an_a
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To: Conspiracy Guy

6 more hours of a hangover?


45 posted on 02/02/2005 5:27:04 AM PST by Rightly Biased (I believe If you can't say something good about somebody your probably talking about Hillary Clinton)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Punsxutawney Phil being the REAL deal, the prognosticator of pronostigators,wouldn't you know there are pretenders:

****

Wiarton Willie - Wiarton, Ontario General

Beauregard Lee - Atlanta, Georgia

Jimmy Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Tennessee Groundhog - Silver Point, Tennessee

Dunkirk Dave - Dunkirk, NY

But none can carry Phil's bag of nuts.

46 posted on 02/02/2005 5:29:09 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

If you want to know how I feel about it...see post #41 :)


47 posted on 02/02/2005 5:30:11 AM PST by Katy_Katarina (Can someone tell me how to turn my nick into LOWER CASE?)
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To: beyond the sea
Happy Groundhog's Day!

Phillip the Weather Groundhog
Tune = Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
© 1991 by Don Halley


You know Bambi and Lassie and Goofy and Winnie
Smokey and Porky and Mickey and Minnie
But do you recall the most famous mammal of all...

Phillip the weather groundhog has a very chilly task
And if you ever watch him, be sure to wear your ski mask
All of the other groundhogs stay inside their cubbyholes
They never help poor Phillip look for any shadows

On the second of this month, Phillip comes to say
"Winter with your arctic blasts, won't you go away at last"
But if he sees his shadow, then we know that it will be
Six weeks or maybe more, till the winter's history

~ ~ ~ ~ ~


Grandma Got Hung Over With The Groundhog
Tune = Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer Grandma Got Hung Over With The Groundhog
© 2003 by Don Halley

Chorus: Grandma got hung over with the groundhog
Celebrating Eve of Groundhog Day
You can say that you did see your shadow
But as for Phil and Grandma, they can't say


They'd been drinking only root beer
And were having quite a ball
But the trouble all began when
Someone spiked the punch with alcohol


Grandma said "This is quite tasty.
You should really try some, Phil."
Oh but little did they know that
Both of them would soon become quite ill (Chorus)


It was such a disappointment
The next day it has been said
While the crowd was all there waiting
Poor old Phil could not get out of bed (Chorus)


~ ~ ~ ~ ~


The Ballad of Punxsutawney Phil
Tune = The Ballad of Jed Clampett (The Beverly Hillbillies theme)
© 1988 by Don Halley

Come and listen to a story 'bout a groundhog, Phil
He sleeps throughout the winter to escape the bitter chill
And then one day on February Two
He's up from the ground, and here's what he will do
Open his eyes - Look around - Prognosticate

Well the next thing y'know, ol' Phil's a media star
Camera crews and newsmen come from near and far
To Punxsutawney town in the middle of PA
To determine whether winter will go or will it stay
Six more weeks - Maybe longer - In Minnesota


A shadow means a longer nap for Phil and all his kin
They begin to huddle up and start a new sleep-in
But you and me we just can't sleep throughout the winter here
So have a heapin' hopin' the shadow won't appear

© 2003 by Don Halley

48 posted on 02/02/2005 5:32:46 AM PST by bd476 (God Bless those in harm's way and bring peace to those who have lost loved ones today.)
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To: beyond the sea

Easily the stupidest media "non event" in the history of the planet.

Well, the second stupidest.

I momentarily forgot about "Earth Day."


49 posted on 02/02/2005 5:33:09 AM PST by Pete'sWife (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Rightly Biased

How can I drive this train without tracks? It is heck to steer on pavement.


50 posted on 02/02/2005 5:33:35 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Naked Mole Rats have feelings too. Be nice to them.)
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To: Rightly Biased

You have to get sober to get a hangover. Fear of hangovers has kept my BAC at .07 minimum for years.


51 posted on 02/02/2005 5:34:42 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Naked Mole Rats have feelings too. Be nice to them.)
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To: Pete'sWife

Due to this event I am embarrassed for my children that they were born in PA! They look like a bunch of drunks not going to work today.


52 posted on 02/02/2005 5:35:47 AM PST by angcat
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To: beyond the sea

This is Groundhog Day?

Damn...you mean I gotta do this all over again?


53 posted on 02/02/2005 5:35:50 AM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: beyond the sea

Birmingham Bob, Birmingham, Alabama. Shot this morning by a redneck.


54 posted on 02/02/2005 5:36:02 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Naked Mole Rats have feelings too. Be nice to them.)
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To: KATY_KATARINA

LOL : )


55 posted on 02/02/2005 5:36:39 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Naked Mole Rats have feelings too. Be nice to them.)
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To: beyond the sea
>>..knows that on February 2nd, there's a pretty damn good chance of six more weeks of cold weather! ;-)<<

This certainly demonstrates that he has better reasoning skills than you average dimocRAT.

Sign him up as a talking head.

56 posted on 02/02/2005 5:37:11 AM PST by evad
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To: beyond the sea

Another:
Sir Walter Wally, Raleigh, NC


57 posted on 02/02/2005 5:37:40 AM PST by fredhead ("It is a good thing war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." General Robert E. Lee)
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To: beyond the sea

Has he ever not seen his shadow?


58 posted on 02/02/2005 5:38:34 AM PST by the invisib1e hand ("What are you gonna believe, the media, or your own eyes?" -- Marx .............(Groucho))
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To: q_an_a; Jim Robinson
Good movie and nice tradition.

Thank you Jim Robinson from me, too.

59 posted on 02/02/2005 5:40:09 AM PST by bd476 (God Bless those in harm's way and bring peace to those who have lost loved ones today.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Apparently this is predetermined before he 'comes out' to check for his shadow. I have no idea why we still do this stupid thing but here it is.


60 posted on 02/02/2005 5:40:59 AM PST by newzjunkey (Demand Mexico Turnover Fugitive Murderers: http://www.escapingjustice.com)
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