OMG! Groundhog Day is a Fraud!

clintl · Feb 2, 2015

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/punxsutawney-phil-makes-groundhog-day-forecast/

Despite the German legend, Phil's handlers don't wait to see if he sees his shadow - as he likely would not have on such an overcast day. Instead, the Inner Circle decide on the forecast ahead of time and announce it on Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in the town for which the groundhog is named, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The whole thing is rigged, like professional wrestling!

Alpha Echo · Feb 2, 2015

I always wondered if that's what they did...

Diana Hignutt · Feb 2, 2015

With the TV lighting...he would always see his shadow...

(and I checked: the calendar also believes we'll have six more weeks of winter).

Xelebes · Feb 2, 2015

Shubenacadie Sam = saw shadow
Beauregard Lee = saw shadow
Wiarton Willie = no shadow
Winnipeg Willow = no shadow
Balzac Bill = no shadow

Vince524 · Feb 2, 2015

OMG! Groundhog Day is a Fraud!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/punxsutawney-phil-makes-groundhog-day-forecast/

Despite the German legend, Phil's handlers don't wait to see if he sees his shadow - as he likely would not have on such an overcast day. Instead, the Inner Circle decide on the forecast ahead of time and announce it on Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in the town for which the groundhog is named, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The whole thing is rigged, like professional wrestling!

LindaJeanne · Feb 2, 2015

The thing that puzzled me the most about groundhog day growing up was the timing of it. Winter ending only six weeks after groundhog day is an EARLY spring.

Diana Hignutt · Feb 2, 2015

you're late, Vince, we already have this thread...same name and everything...

Maggie Maxwell · Feb 2, 2015

Whoa. Deja vu.

Vince524 · Feb 2, 2015

Diana Hignutt said:
you're late, Vince, we already have this thread...same name and everything...

Well....

It is groundhog day.

LindaJeanne · Feb 2, 2015

Ah, THATS why the other posts I saw in the thread had vanished when I responded...

mccardey · Feb 2, 2015

I'm just bumping this to get the whole groundhog day effect happening.

LindaJeanne · Feb 2, 2015

mccardey said:
I'm just bumping this to get the whole groundhog day effect happening.

The thing that always puzzled me about groundhog day as a kid was the timing of it. Winter ending six weeks after Feb 2 is an EARLY spring!

Xelebes · Feb 2, 2015

Shubenacadie Sam = saw shadow
Beauregard Lee = saw shadow
Wiarton Willie = no shadow
Winnipeg Willow = no shadow
Balzac Bill = no shadow

KTC · Feb 2, 2015

They would wait until the cows came home, anyway. I wrung that bastard hog's neck years ago. Right before I kicked his carcass down a sewer grate.

Xelebes · Feb 2, 2015

KTC said:
They would wait until the cows came home, anyway. I wrung that bastard hog's neck years ago. Right before I kicked his carcass down a sewer grate.

To which he exclaimed, "There's a subway in my apartment!"

KTC · Feb 2, 2015

Xelebes said:
To which he exclaimed, "There's a subway in my apartment!"

Apartment for Rent. Has good vibes.

Diana Hignutt · Feb 2, 2015

Vince524 said:
Well....

It is groundhog day.

I see what you did there...

KTC · Feb 2, 2015

Diana Hignutt said:
I see what you did there...

I see what you did there...

robeiae · Feb 2, 2015

OMG! Groundhog Day is a Fraud!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/punxsuta...-day-forecast/

Despite the German legend, Phil's handlers don't wait to see if he sees his shadow - as he likely would not have on such an overcast day. Instead, the Inner Circle decide on the forecast ahead of time and announce it on Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in the town for which the groundhog is named, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The whole thing is rigged, like professional wrestling!

KTC · Feb 2, 2015

DEJA VU all over again

Vince524 · Feb 2, 2015

You can say that again!!

Diana Hignutt · Feb 2, 2015

KTC said:
DEJA VU all over again

I see what you did there.

benbradley · Feb 2, 2015

ONG! Pickens County, GA Considers Perpetuating The Fraud!

Pickens Progress

If Pickens had a weather-predicting groundhog of its own what would you want to name it?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152717607082499

benbradley · Feb 2, 2015

I will not replicate this thread.
I will not replicate this thread.
I will not replicate this thread.
I will not replicate this thread.
I will not replicate this thread.
....

Ben, value-added thread starter.

robeiae · Feb 2, 2015

Al Roker.

OMG! Groundhog Day is a Fraud!

Represent.

I should be writing.

Very Tired

Delerium ex Ennui

Are you gonna finish that bacon?

On a small world west of wonder

Very Tired

Making Einstein cry since 1994

Are you gonna finish that bacon?

On a small world west of wonder

On a small world west of wonder

Delerium ex Ennui

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Delerium ex Ennui

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Very Tired

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Touch and go

Stand in the Place Where You Live

Are you gonna finish that bacon?

Very Tired

It's a doggy dog world

It's a doggy dog world

Touch and go