[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Note the second line in Phil's proclamation (highlighted).

[mewzilla]

Darn it, Phil. Grumble, grumble. But ya gotta love a patriotic groundhog. No hard feelings, Phil.

[thesummerwind]

Phil, the Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary has promised us six more weeks of winter. I, for one, believe the furry fellow over at Gobbler's Knob.

How do you know it is really Phil at Gobbler's Knob? For most of the year, Phil lives in a climate-controlled home at the Punxsutawney Library. He is taken to Gobbler's Knob and placed in a heated burrow underneath a simulated tree stump on stage before being pulled out around 7:25 a.m. on each Groundhog Day, February 2, to make his prediction.

The furry guy has sopken.

If you're from around the area, you really must go some time.

******

PHIL: Where's everybody going?

PIANO TEACHER: To Gobbler's Knob. It's Groundhog Day.

PHIL: It's still just once a year, isn't it?

[smith288]

No offense, but the groundhog cant talk. ;)

[thesummerwind]

"I'm glad I live in this luxurious burrow on the Knob and not in a dirty, smelly spider hole like a slob.

Is this disinfo?

The Phil I know is never political. Although he spends alot of time in the Punxsutawney Library, he stays away from the newspapers.

Fess up, is it true? ;)

[kt56]

At least that's one job an American still wants...

[thesummerwind]

"I'm glad I live in this luxurious burrow on the Knob

and not in a dirty, smelly spider hole like a slob.

When I come out I don't want to negotiate;

But to just do my job and prognosticate.

Today because my shadow I see,

six more weeks of winter there will be."

If Phil is up on the news like this indicates, I'm going to go up and see him next year! Last time we went up to see him was in 1981 right after Reagan was inaugurated.

I wonder if he knows anything about Osama getting grabbed later on this year!

[The Great RJ]

Why not use the Ground Hog to pick the Democrat's presidential nominee? Hey, it wouldn't be any worse than using the Iowa caucus.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Phil doesn't live in Tennessee. The 'hogs here came out, got rain on their head and went back to bed without seeing their shadow.

[avg_freeper]

Check out yesterday's Sluggy Freelance:

Sunday, February 1, 2004

[livius]

Anybody see the cartoon strip "Rhymes With Orange" today?

It showed a groundhog calling up another groundhog on his cell phone to complain about Saddam coming to spend the night in his burrow, and there was a little box with an exasperated groundhog saying, "once he nestled in, he was a pain to get rid of."