It's Groundhog Day. Let's Eat Sausage!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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  • That makes no sense, you know.
  • What?
  • The title to this week’s thread.
  • How do you mean?
  • What does sausage have to do with Groundhog Day?
  • It’s like a joke.
  • “Like” a joke? What? “Like” it’s not funny?
  • Oh ha ha. No. “Groundhog Day”. Ground hog. Sausage. See? It is too funny.
  • Yeah, OK, whatever. So, I hear you had a little trouble this weekend. Something about a Valentine’s Day present?
  • Yeah, I… hey! How did you know that?
  • Because I’m really you dummy. Just get on with it.
  • Oh, OK. Yeah, see, I was looking for a special gift for the Little Woman since Valentine’s Day is coming up…
  • That would be February 14th.
  • Yeah, duh. Don’t interrupt.
  • Sorry. About your troubles?
  • I was looking for a special gift and I couldn’t find it. I figured it would be easy to find, but as it turns out, it’s not easy to find at all. I went to a bunch of places…
  • How many are a “bunch”? Just so we know.
  • A “bunch” in this case would be three. But I tried to go to this other place, but it was closed because a water main broke.
  • That’s too bad. But what are you looking for? So we could try to help you.
  • Oh, I can’t tell you what it is. What if the Little Woman checks out this thread? Me telling you would ruin the surprise.
  • What surprise? Every year you get her a dog for Valentines Day. It’s your little tradition.
  • Yeah, but she doesn’t know what kind of dog I’m getting her. That’s the surprise.
  • But you couldn’t find it.
  • No, I couldn’t. I have some feelers out right now and I might be able to score my Original Plan Gift. We’ll have to wait and see. But I did find this other thing.
  • Are you going to get it?
  • As it happens, no.
  • So you could tell us what it was.
  • I can tell you.
  • Will you?
  • Will I what?
  • Tell us what the other thing you found is.
  • If you ask nicely.
  • Fine. Please tell us what you found for Valentine’s Day for the Little Woman but as it turns out you won;t be getting it after all.
  • A plastic owl.
  • Why a plastic owl? And by “plastic owl” I think you mean the life sized plastic owls you put in your garden to keep the birds away.
  • Yeah, one of those. I found one of those and I was going to get it for the Little Woman.
  • Why would you do a stupid thing like that?
  • It’s not stupid, you are. Stupid. Because the owl is the symbol of undying love and eternal commitment.
  • No it’s not.
  • Yeah, I know. Unfortunately so does the Little Woman.
  • So, no plastic owl. Hey! Why don’t you get her a piñata? You could put candy and a nice gift, say a watch, in it and it would be all kinds of fun Valentine’s morning.
  • No way! Piñatas are nothing but trouble! Don’t you watch America’s Funniest Home Videos? Oh wait, you’re me, of course you do. Every Sunday night you pop up a big batch of popcorn and watch America’s Funniest Home Videos with the boys.
  • Oh that’s right! You get near a piñata and someone’s gonna take a shot to the groin. Not good. And you know, Funny Videos isn’t as good since Daisy Fuentes left. She was the best host.
  • Co-host.
  • Huh?
  • Daisy Fuentes was the co-host. There was this other guy there with her.
  • Nuh-uh!
  • Yeah huh!
  • Nuh-uh! When I was watching it, I only saw Daisy.
  • Yeah, uh-huh. So, what color are Daisy Fuentes’ eyes?
  • She has eyes?
  • Yeah, that’s what I thought. Anyway, what else did you learn this weekend?
  • No, you got it all wrong.
  • Huh? How?
  • You are the dash and I’m the asterisk. You know, it probably would have been easier if you used different colors. But anyway, I ask the questions around here.
  • Yeah, the color thing would have been easier to read, but it would have been way harder to code. But go ahead, ask the question.
  • What else did you learn this weekend?
  • I’m glad you asked. This weekend I learned: You should only combine pork products and coconut flakes under professional supervision.
  • Really? Do you care to elaborate?
  • No. No I don’t.
  • OK then. It looks like we’re done here.
  • Yeah, it looks like it. But remember: It’s Groundhogs Day. Eat sausage!
  • That’s still stupid.
  • Shut up.

-Rue.

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I had sausage links with my breakfast yesterday - does that count?

Well, Happy Groundhog Day to you two, Rue! (that’s to you * and you - so it’s you two!!) Speaking of Val’s day, I’ll actually be spending it with my sweetie! And my mother… That’s the day we’re taking the trailer to her house to start removing the stuff we have stored there. So it’s not like a bizarre, sick threesome or anything. :eek: It just happens that the day we’re going there is V-day.

But he and I don’t do presents. Never did. He never remembers V-day, and I never cared after I got out of elementary school. All those jewelry commercials pushing heart-shaped diamond crap drive my up the proverbial wall! So anyone who ran out to buy me heart-shaped diamond crap as a tribute of devotion can just take it back to the store post-haste!

Chocolate is OK, tho. Nothing expresses love and devotion like good chocolate. But not with sausage - that’s just too weird.
Note how I got back to the ground hog thing? :wink:

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As it so happens, I am having ground hog today. I’m making meatloaf for dinner and I put sausage in it. Yesterday I had hog also but it was ham and ham ain’t ground up until ya chew it up, so technically, I had ground hog yesterday cause I chewed before I swallowed.

It’s cloudy and rainy in Jawja today so the weird rodent at Stone Mountain won’t see his shadow. That is unless he’s into back lighting in which case he will see his shadow. I’m not sure that counts though cause I think it has to be the sun casting his shadow he sees but I don’t know. In any case back lighting is supposed to be good cause it’s supposed to make ya look better. Maybe lightingtool can enlighten (hah! I kill me!) us on this.

I have no sweetie right now so no special Valentine’s swag for me. But on the upside I ain’t gotta go find something for somebody either so it works out either way.

Maybe we should all have ground hog for Valentine’s day.

-swampbear (It’s raining and I forgot my umbrella! :frowning: )

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Who could go for some FLAPJACKS??

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Now what’s the deal with the shadow? Only he knows what evil lives in the hearts of men? No, with the shadow and the groundhog. If the groundhog sees his shadow, it’s six more weeks of winter, but if he doesn’t spring comes in a month and a half? Something like that?

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Beat it, Rue DeDay–I’m workin this htar holiday, & Groundhog’s Day aint big enough for the both of us.

Also, my thread’s plumb better’n yours. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Damn. I had bacon.

I’ve never actually understood the whole “forecasting the weather by observing the behavior of a Pennsylvania woodchuck” thing, especially since the guys in the top hats always seem to have to drag the little critter out of that box by brute force.

Hello? It’s early February, so of course we’re going to have six more weeks of winter. And that’s a minimum. It’s a no-brainer, folks.

No-snow-having people like FairyChatMom and swampbear excepted, of course.

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Thanks for finally making this joke clear. I didn’t get it 'til I read this thread.

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The scene is a children’s Sunday School class. They were going to be learning about Easter. The teacher asked the class what was significant about Easter.

Little Suzy said, “That’s when the Easter Bunny brings us presents.”

"No, you’re thinking about Santa and Christmas, " said the teacher.

Little Tracy said, “It’s when we get to go door to door collecting Easter Eggs!”

The teacher sighed. “No, you’re confusing it with Halloween.”

Little Kenny spoke up. “It’s when Jesus comes out of the ground…”

“Very good, Kenny!” the teacher said."

“… and if he sees his shadow…”

:smiley:

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Really, the main reason Groundhog’s Day kicks ass so much is that it gives me a good excuse to blast the Primus song over and over.

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Well of course your thread is better Bosda. But mine blatantly put the joke in the title. See, that’s the difference between us, you go all subtle and I don’t so much. And I can link better. Ha!

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You guys are going to have to do this thread over again until you get it right!!

…and with a Sonny & Cher soundtrack playing in the background, to boot!

:smiley:

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Rue, there’s a place near my house, I think it’s called the Animal Haus, that might be a good place to find your dog. If you send me an email I can check for you later this week when I’m back in Cincinnati.

Oh, and I actually read the comics before your MMP, which ruined the joke for me. But good try.

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Now I have that Sonny and Cher song stuck in my head. Thanks a lot, Polycarp.

I am afraid I don’t have any sausage. I cannot properly celebrate Groundhog’s Day.

We will have at least six more weeks of winter here, because I live in Canada, and spring doesn’t really get going until mid-May. We don’t need silly rodents to remind us that we live in the Frozen North.

Valentine’s Day is Mr. Lissar’s birthday. Last year I gave him the present of getting his wisdom teeth pulled. Isn’t that romatic? Nothing says love like a thousand dollars worth of dental surgery! I don’t know what to get him this year. He’s out of wisdoms teeth.

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No,No,No! Owls are not for St. Val’s day. They’re for Superb Owl Sunday!

Anyway, it’s been cloudy here today. No shadows for the woodchuck. So, we only get 42 days of further winter. If there had been a shadow, we’d have 6 more weeks.

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Thanks for the thought Shibb, but my Secret Plan is in the works. All should be well by Wednesday. And worst case, I’ve found a couple places that have little dog statues. I have been doing this for a while, you know. You should see the place. More damned dog statues that you could throw sticks for. Not that they’d bring them back, being statues and all.

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Amazing. I was born in Punxsutawney and somehow never heard the sausage joke in 40-some years of Groundhog worshipping.

Most of the humor tends to run more towards “What has 10,000 assholes, but no brains?” Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney.

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Ha! That’s a good one.

Too bad it doesn’t work as well verbally as it does in print. Still a good 'un.

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They had trouble even getting him to peer out this year. I think he was scared someone was going to take his pistol andd $750,000.

I like ground hog. It’s so Philing.

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Not to worry, Rue. Phil only has a 23% accuracy rating, anyway. He saw his shadow this year…big deal. Have some more bratwurst and don’t sweat it. Spring is on the way!!