BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!

Subject: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Raptor
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 09:24 PM

And To All A Good Night!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 09:43 PM

Thank you. Unfortunately, those of us living in the deep south don't relate very well to Groundhog Day since groundhogs don't live here. We've tried to come up with a southern alternative like "Armadillo Day" but the 'dillos won't cooperate. The basic idea is that you catch an armadillo and turn him loose on the shoulder of the road. If he makes it to the other side of the road... Well, we aren't quite sure what'll happen 'cause we've tried a couple of thousand times and not a one's made it across the road yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Kaleea
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 09:52 PM

Believe it or don't, as a Music Educator, I used to sing a song for the little ones on this prodigious holiday.

Groundhog, Groundhog, Come on out & play;
It's a beautiful, beautiful, February day;
Oh the sun is shining and the sky is blue;
So won't you come on out?
I want to play with you.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 09:52 PM

Tahnkee, Raptor...

I just so happen to have onr of them in the smoker as we speak, He oughtta be ready fir eatin' in, oh, 'bout an hour...

I loves Grond Hog Day...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 10:06 PM

There is a ceremonial groundhog somewhere hereabouts, maybe in Georgia or Alabama, I'm not sure. Anyway, I heard about it on the radio today, and for the first time in my life (that I can remember), they said that the groundhog did not see his shadow today, and we will have an early spring. Sounds good to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: open mike
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 10:06 PM

punxtatawny phil--what did he see/say?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Layah
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 10:08 PM

Exactly how far does that weather prediction spread for? I do believe there is one groundhog that predicts for the entire US, but does that include Canada? What about Europe? Or places where it isn't even winter yet, like Australia, will they have an early spring next spring?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: open mike
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 11:05 PM

he is magic..
http://www.groundhog.org/
http://www.groundhogs.com/
well phil says 6 more weeks of winter..
that must mean he saw his shadow today.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 01:50 AM

Wiarton Willie (most famous Canadian groundhog) says it'll be an EARLY SPRING! Screw Punxatawney Phil! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 03:18 AM

I had this coversation with Muppett last night about Groundhog Day.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 03:19 AM

I had this conversation with Muppett last night about Groundhog Day.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 03:20 AM

I had this conversation with Muppett last night about Groundhog Day.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,groundhog
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 03:54 AM

zzzzzz.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Mooh
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 08:09 AM

Wiarton Willie is my hero. I'm thinking of having his likeness tatooed to my bum, so I'd always be backed by Willie. His Own Self has a dandy big statue in the park by the dock. My hero.

Peace, Mooh of Wiarton.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: tarheel
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 09:02 AM

Down the road here from us,in Lexinton,N.C.,(which is known as the Barbecue Capitol of N.C.)they are now using a little pot belly pig,to forcast the weather for the next 6 weeks!
after all,what could be more GROUND HOG,than BARBECUE!!!!!
this the first year of the event and hundreds of folks showed up to be a part of the now,Annual event!
no,they didn't kill the little pot belly pig to commemorate the event,but Lexington Barbecue was served to those in attendance and it's the best that you can find,anywhere!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: beadie
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 09:30 AM

Jimmy the Groundhog, a resident of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, agrees with Wiarton Willie. It will be an early spring. Notwithstanding the town's name, Jimmy saw no shadow and frolicked for a time before ambling back to the burrow.


So, take that, Phil, . . . . . and (as Bill Murray says) don't drive angry.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 09:45 AM

groundhogs are found over east central Alaska and across southern Canada to the Pacific coastal provinces, extending south to northern Idaho. They are also distributed in the eastern United States (south to central Alabama and Arkansas)and westward to the edge of the plains

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Crystal
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 05:11 AM

Excuse a poor brit and her lack of knowledge but what is a groundhog?
I assuming some kind of burrowing rodent native to the US and canada yes?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 08:25 AM

A groundhog is large rodent like critter, weighin' up to 30 pounds, with long course brown hair and usually found sleepin', 'er somethin', along side of the road...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 08:52 AM

it's a large Marmot.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 09:03 AM

...and in the case of Wiarton Willie (& maybe the pretenders, I don't know), albino. Great tourist attraction, even if it is true and real.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 09:08 AM

They're really cute if you don't have a garden. My next door neighbor did have a garden. I had several ground hogs all over the place, and once they crossed into his property and started eating his veggie blossoms, he did too. The difference was the ones in my back yard were scattered population-wise, and his were scattered on a more individual basis. (He has a gun.) I don't know if there were any that made it out of Summer alive, but if so, they were the ones smart enough to avoid the neighbor's garden.

Well...,
Worms make the soil nice and rich
Butterflies in China make it rain
But some creatures have no redeeming features,
They're the weakest links in the food chain.

And then, there's the 'Independence Day' parody I posted a few years ago, but folks probably saw (and carefully stepped around) that.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 11:15 AM

We don't have groundhogs or groundhog day here in Oz, but if we did we could whack 'em with our spatulas :-)

Whack A Groundhog

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 11:59 AM

But in Australia this is the middle of summer anyway, so it wouldn't apply to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 12:10 PM

Obviously it's a different season here at the moment, but at the equivalent time for us, which would be at the beginning of August, we don't have anything like that either.

Think I'll go and whack some cockroaches. We have plenty of those...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 12:16 PM

Doesn't Australia have any hibernating animals?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 12:23 PM

Start a new tradition - ECHIDNA DAY!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 12:43 PM

Yeah, well, the trouble with that is that they are very seldom seen anyway. Unless you lived in or near the bush you wouldn't see them at any time, except in the zoo. I've only ever seen one - it wandered into my aunt's garden by mistake. She had trees and bushland behind her property.

We don't have really well-defined seasons here in the temperate zone. In Sydney, winter is somewhat cooler, and a lot of the days are quite pleasant. You people who have snow, ice and blizzards wouldn't really call it winter at all. Up in the mountains it is a different matter. Occasionally there is snow in the Blue Mountains, but only rarely. We have the Snowy Mountains, where the ski resorts are, but the majority of us are either on the coast, in one of our major cities, or further inland, where it is likely to be hotter.

There really isn't any animal that I can think of that appears at the beginning of spring here, unless you count the houseflies. If we get an unseasonally warm day in winter, some of them will hatch out, then when it cools down again, they can be seen walking around, all sluggish from the cold.

Somehow, I can't warm to the idea of HOUSEFLY DAY!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 12:57 PM

And you are willing to let a littlereality interfere with establishing a new Holiday?

tut-tut! that will never do...


just think of all the little kiddies who will be disappointed when on the Eighth of August Eloise Echidna emerges from her winters sleep, and no one celebrates her arrival!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 01:46 PM

A wombat could maybe stand in for a groundhog at a pinch.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: open mike
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 02:25 PM

it is like a tail-less beaver
how much wood would a wood chuck chuck
if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 02:27 PM

- hmmm - that implies semi-aquatic; which isn't true.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Raptor
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 04:15 PM

Lets Have Beaver Day!

We should celibrate Beaver.

Beavers are Wonderfull.

Tell the world... A Day to Honour Beavers!!!

There shall be rejoicing and dancing in the streets

HURRAY, HAZZAH !!!







Oh Look at that it's medication time again!
Sorry

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 04:17 PM

That Wombat is about the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Beavers are nice too. I once spent the good part of an hour creeping up on one.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 10:41 PM

The idea of Wombat Day has a certain amount of appeal.

Hmmm. I'll have to give it some thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 10:55 PM

Yeah, LH, foreplay can take a long time, but it's an art and a labour of love.

Nice work, if ye kin git it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Groundhog Day!!!!!!!
From: LadyJean
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 11:40 PM

Here I am somewhat late from Punxatawney Phil's home state. Punxantawney Phil is the official grondhog. All others are imposters. He did indeed see his shadow, on 02/02. But I see little sprouts coming up from where I planted tulips last fall.
It was also the birthday of my friends' Tim and Sarah's son, Alexander. He was born 02/02/02. Fortunately he doesn't look like a whistlepig. By the way, groundhogs whistle.