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    Groundhog Day

    Happy Groundhog Day everyone.

    #2
    Re: Groundhog Day

    I didn't pay attention... did he see his shadow or no?
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      #3
      Re: Groundhog Day

      Originally posted by Juniper View Post
      I didn't pay attention... did he see his shadow or no?
      Yes, 6 more weeks of winter. Someone needs to smack that little rat upside the head!
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        #4
        Re: Groundhog Day

        Originally posted by Hawkfeathers View Post
        Yes, 6 more weeks of winter. Someone needs to smack that little rat upside the head!
        I don't understand how a rodent can predict the season by its shadow.

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          #5
          Re: Groundhog Day

          Originally posted by Bartmanhomer View Post
          I don't understand how a rodent can predict the season by its shadow.
          Ah...

          You know rodents. Their teeth twitch in cold weather.
          Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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            #6
            Re: Groundhog Day

            Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
            Ah...

            You know rodents. Their teeth twitch in cold weather.
            That still doesn't explain how a groundhog predicts a season with its shadow.

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              #7
              Re: Groundhog Day

              same way daylight savings can make a rug longer by cutting a piece off the end and sewing it on the other end thus making the rug longer simple no?
              MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

              all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
              NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
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                #8
                Re: Groundhog Day

                Originally posted by Bartmanhomer View Post
                That still doesn't explain how a groundhog predicts a season with its shadow.
                The shadow thing is a myth.

                To predict the weather, you have to look closely at the teeth, and count the chatters-per-second. This worked fine until the late 1950s with the invention of television. When the teeth-chatter count was filmed for television, the producers were afraid it would frighten children.

                They decided to do the chatter-count privately and, on film, pretend it was all about shadow-seeing.

                Now, nobody remembers the real history of this tradition.

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                Originally posted by Bartmanhomer View Post
                That still doesn't explain how a groundhog predicts a season with its shadow.
                The shadow thing is a myth.

                To predict the weather, you have to look closely at the teeth, and count the chatters-per-second. This worked fine until the late 1950s with the invention of television. When the teeth-chatter count was filmed for television, the producers were afraid it would frighten children.

                They decided to do the chatter-count privately and, on film, pretend it was all about shadow-seeing.

                Now, nobody remembers the real history of this tradition.
                Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                  #9
                  Re: Groundhog Day

                  Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                  The shadow thing is a myth.

                  To predict the weather, you have to look closely at the teeth, and count the chatters-per-second. This worked fine until the late 1950s with the invention of television. When the teeth-chatter count was filmed for television, the producers were afraid it would frighten children.

                  They decided to do the chatter-count privately and, on film, pretend it was all about shadow-seeing.

                  Now, nobody remembers the real history of this tradition.

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                  The shadow thing is a myth.

                  To predict the weather, you have to look closely at the teeth, and count the chatters-per-second. This worked fine until the late 1950s with the invention of television. When the teeth-chatter count was filmed for television, the producers were afraid it would frighten children.

                  They decided to do the chatter-count privately and, on film, pretend it was all about shadow-seeing.

                  Now, nobody remembers the real history of this tradition.
                  Now that is something I didn't know. Personally I like the Jack Frost story line better though he he he
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                    #10
                    Re: Groundhog Day

                    We live in the post reality age.

                    Anything you can say with a straight face is true for the rabble.
                    Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                      #11
                      Re: Groundhog Day

                      Originally posted by Bartmanhomer View Post
                      That still doesn't explain how a groundhog predicts a season with its shadow.
                      Um, Feb 2 is approximately 6 weeks after winter solstice and 6 weeks before the vernal equinox, ergo, shadow or not, there's still 6 weeks til spring.

                      I eat sausage on Ground Hog day, myself...
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                        #12
                        Re: Groundhog Day

                        Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                        The shadow thing is a myth.

                        To predict the weather, you have to look closely at the teeth, and count the chatters-per-second. This worked fine until the late 1950s with the invention of television. When the teeth-chatter count was filmed for television, the producers were afraid it would frighten children.

                        They decided to do the chatter-count privately and, on film, pretend it was all about shadow-seeing.

                        Now, nobody remembers the real history of this tradition.
                        Is it bad that I didn't even know about any of this until I saw the film Groundhog Day with Bill Murray?
                        �Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
                        ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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                          #13
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                          Originally posted by Juniper View Post
                          Is it bad that I didn't even know about any of this until I saw the film Groundhog Day with Bill Murray?
                          Nah.. No.

                          GHD isn't a bling holiday.

                          You buy nobody nothing, nobody buys you nothing, nobody decorates their front yard with a tableau of wise men going to visit the ground hog with gifts of frankincense and myrrh, and the childers sleep easily at night with dreams of standard cartoony adventures involving psychotic cats and stoopid dogs.

                          All the ground hog has is Bill Murray.

                          No shame in that...
                          Last edited by B. de Corbin; 06 Feb 2021, 19:30.
                          Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                            #14
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                            i always knew about it because it is my sisters birthday
                            MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                            all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                            NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
                            don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




                            sigpic

                            my new page here,let me know what you think.


                            nothing but the shadow of what was

                            witchvox
                            http://www.witchvox.com/vu/vxposts.html

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                              #15
                              Re: Groundhog Day

                              Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                              Nah.. No.

                              GHD isn't a bling holiday.

                              You buy nobody nothing, nobody buys you nothing, nobody decorates their front yard with a tableau of wise men going to visit the ground hog with gifts of frankincense and myrrh, and the childers sleep easily at night with dreams of standard cartoony adventures involving psychotic cats and stoopid dogs.

                              All the ground hog has is Bill Murray.

                              No shame in that...
                              Well the Ground Hog has a small role in the Jack Frost cartoon. He sort of narrates the cartoon for a bit then old man winter says the ground hog tells him when his time is up.

                              I'm Only Responsible For What I Say Not For What Or How You Understand!

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