# Phil's a Punk **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483 "2003-02-03T13:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/1 "2003-02-03T13:38:46Z")
Yesterday was Groundhog Day, which explains my craving for sausage. So they poke Punxsutawney Phil with a stick, he waddles out of his “burrow”, stretches, scratched and looks around. Lo! A shadow! And there’s six more weeks of Winter. The bastard. On the other hand, the Official Groundhog of Ohio, Buckeye Chuck, nary a shadow did see. So Spring will show up in about a month and a half. -Rue. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/2 "2003-02-03T13:57:18Z")
Six more weeks of winter, my sweet patootie. It’s going to be 70 degrees in Charleston today. Of course, it’s going to be in the 40s on Friday. We usually have a manic-depression kind of winter here. One day it’s cold, the next day you wear shorts. Such is life. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/3 "2003-02-03T14:07:29Z")
According to General Beauregard Lee or whatever the heck they call that rodent at Stone Mountain Park, Winter is on the way out. Oh and mid 70s here today, but down to the 50s by Friday. Winter has exactly two more weeks to act up round these parts. By February 17th I wanna see stuff budding out. This is just a general reminder to Winter that it has two weeks to vacate. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/4 "2003-02-03T14:22:33Z")
**Skerri** - Feh. I lived in SC for five years. (Columbia and Florence.) JFTR, y’all don’t have ‘winter’ down there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/5 "2003-02-03T14:26:38Z")
Well, **Rue** , we’re supposed to get near 60 F today, then snow and cold tomorrow. Sounds like six more weeks of psychosis round our parts. And what’s that varmint say about the weather on Feb 15? ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/6 "2003-02-03T14:33:20Z")
**RTFirefly** , yeah, but this is the first ‘winter’ I’ve ever been through where my pipes froze. Two mornings in a row, even! 😃 But, I will be in Baltimore next winter, so I guess I’ll have to get used to ‘real’ winters. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/7 "2003-02-03T14:34:07Z")
**Rue** , I would think that the best way to prevent this in the future would be to blind Puxsutawney Phil with red hot needles. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/8 "2003-02-03T15:01:44Z")
The forecast for the [15th](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=154212), **Shibb** , is: temperate. I think if you desecrate the vessel that is Phil, you are doomed to re-live that day over and over and over until you become a better person **welby**. You go first. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/9 "2003-02-03T15:23:15Z")
_clambers out of a hole in the ground_ _Blinks a few times in the unsaccustomed glare_ _Makes snorting groundhog sounds_ Yep, there’s my shadow. I’m going back to sleep. Don’t wake me up until May. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/10 "2003-02-03T15:30:34Z")
What bothers me is a superstition is actually listed on the calendar and shown on the news! Ignorance eradicating eh? Not yet… ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phils-a-punk/152483/11 "2003-02-03T16:00:49Z")
**Rue!** How nasty to imply that I’m not good enough just like I am. Shame! All I did was suggest a way to relieve your stress. Besides, I don’t look a thing like Bill Murray.