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..'pop' in that cartoon. Had me confused there for a minute.

I have the strangest feeling that I've read this before.....

..a feeling exacerbated by the lack of PH or IT angles!

Up here in the Northeast, 6 more weeks of winter _IS_ an early spring. Then again if they really meant it to apply here they would have called it "Woodchuck Day".

For the uninitiated, they are called woodchuck because because they look like a short rotting log, hence the "wood" and "chuck" is the sound they make when a high velocity .22 LR knobs them in the gobbler.

Old news. Heard this on the radio in my bed and breakfast this morning. They said:

"Yes, 'ya aaall rise and shine campers! Don't forget your booties because it's cold out there. It's COLD out there everyday!"

Wiarton Willie didn't see his shadow

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/02/02/groundhog-060202.html

The mere mention of Punxsutawney Phil made "The Pennsylvania Polka" start playing in my head. If I kill someone, I'm blaming the Register.

... why do people keep on posting this article each day as if it were new?

I'm getting tired of the same thing here every day.

...would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ?

alternatively

http://www.comics.com/comics/offthemark/archive/offthemark-20080202.html

for each (double loser in gathering)

{

get(life);

do { something(useful); something(constructive); } while (NOT(dead));

}

I'm here in Pennsylvania about 40 miles away, and Bob the local groundhog was chillin' in my backyard all morning.

I think Phil's being paid off by corporate interests- he's been taking campaign contributions from the sidewalk salt and snow chain industries for years!

A woodchuck could chuck no amount of wood, 'cos a woodchuck can't chuck wood.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monkey_Island#Monkey_Island_2:_LeChuck.27s_Revenge

Off to go play Monkey Island 2 once again ...

At the risk of looking like I'm actually interested, I looked up Imbolc on Wikidedia (I know, I know) and it looks like Imbolc was celebrated around February 2nd.

They also had this old rhyme:

"The serpent will come from the hole

On the brown Day of Bride,

Though there should be three feet of snow

On the flat surface of the ground"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't snakes cold-blooded? It's just that I'd have thought most snakes would be doing a passable impression of a broom handle if there was 3 feet of snow on the ground.

Could be his middle name.