To answer one of your questions, Eliza, I don't think I've ever had anything happen (like a party or special food) on Groundhog Day. We don't do anything, we just joke about it.

The idea that things happen over and over is unique to the movie "Groundhog Day," where a rude and conceited TV weatherman relives Groundhog Day in a Pennsylvania town until he reforms.

Maybe the script writers got the basic premise from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

I hear that there's a town in Pennsylvania where they have a festival, but whether that was because of the movie or whether it came before, I don't know. It beats Lake Wobegon's Toast 'n' Jelly Days as an excuse to party.