# Happy(?) Groundhog Day, y'all **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365 "2010-02-02T12:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/21 "2010-02-02T15:25:38Z")
I have a .300H&H with a 4x20 Leopold and a bad temptation to use it. Properly cooked/roasted groundhog (famous or not) can be good eating. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/22 "2010-02-02T15:27:59Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > What that damned hedgehog impersonator’s track record, anyway? And do the idiots in Pennsylvania claim his weather predictions are nationwide? According to Pittsburgh news last night (KDKA I believe), his average is about 85% and usually he picks more winter. They didn’t say if that was regional or national on the accuracy. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/23 "2010-02-02T15:54:35Z")
[Mad Mex](http://www.madmex.com/regions/pittsburgh/entrance/intro.shtml) is having a Groundhog Day special on drinks, with one special if he sees his shadow, a different one if he doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/24 "2010-02-02T16:14:17Z")
Good evening. Tonight on ‘It’s the Mind’, we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we’ve lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/25 "2010-02-02T16:18:51Z")
I’m in Canada! We _always_ have six more weeks of winter! There’s no point to doing this! _twitch_ :: goes out to shovel the deck :: ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/26 "2010-02-02T16:23:11Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > What that damned hedgehog impersonator’s track record, anyway? And do the idiots in Pennsylvania claim his weather predictions are nationwide? The options, as I understand them, are “six more weeks of winter” or “early spring.” As spring begins about seven weeks after Groundhog Day, I’d say he’s got a track record of 100%\*, since the options both mean the same thing. - or 0%, depending on how you look at it. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/27 "2010-02-02T16:24:36Z")
Good evening. Tonight on ‘It’s the Mind’, we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we’ve lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/28 "2010-02-02T16:30:41Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > … > As spring begins about seven weeks after Groundhog Day… But it doesn’t, unless you’re talking about that whole, silly Spring Equinox thing, which has very little to do with weather patterns. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/29 "2010-02-02T16:39:41Z")
Somehow appropriate for today…[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V\_nrSqTLUDw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_nrSqTLUDw) ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/30 "2010-02-02T17:16:27Z")
Definitely not happy about the six more weeks of winter part. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/31 "2010-02-02T21:06:23Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > It’s always on February 2nd. Which also happens to be a friend of mine’s birthday… Happy Birthday Debbie!! My son’s Birthday as well ! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/32 "2010-02-03T05:06:46Z")
All the reports today about Punxsutawney Phil are fake. His burrow was foreclosed six months ago by the banks. He’s been living the high life somewhere down south where it’s always sunny and the six week clock resets every morning at sunrise. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/33 "2010-02-03T05:25:39Z")
So I had an astronomically bad day, I’m going to slice and dice if it starts repeating. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/34 "2010-02-03T11:21:40Z")
_click_ They say our love won’t pay the rent, before it’s earned, our money’s all been spent… ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365/35 "2010-02-03T20:08:18Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > So I had an astronomically bad day, I’m going to slice and dice if it starts repeating. [It did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550581). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-groundhog-day-yall/527365.md?page=1)