Attribution: Marumari (through Wikipedia)
ALL HAIL, OH WISE GROUNDHOG
Today is the one day each year that I hope for first contact with an alien race, because I want their first report back to their home world to be: “Earthlings anxiously await the weather prediction of a large rodent.”
Furthermore, when the aliens ask to be, “taken to our leader”, they will be stunned to find that it isn’t the chubby omniscient rodent. They will be dismayed to learn that our political leadership not only isn’t omniscient, but isn’t even that “scient.”
On the other hand, perhaps they will back the rodents in an overthrow of our kind. I’m not saying this will happen, but have your varmint rifles at the ready.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 
Prognosticating rodents. Can’t remember if they have groundhogs in England – I know they have plenty of rodents. Stonehenge…groundhogs – a good combination. Maybe rodents have their priorities straight, who knows?
Later…
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Yeah, it may be just a U.S. thing. The most famous of these weather forecasting rodents is in Pennsylvania, but there is one in Georgia, where I live, as well. Outside the U.S. people may know Groundhog Day more as a movie with Bill Murray in which he relives the same day over and over again. (But they probably rename the movie for international markets, now that I think of it.)
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I used to teach in Ohio…heard all about Punxatoni Phil, or however his name is spelled. A Georgia verrsion? Guess everybody’s got to sell something. There’s no such creature here in Costa Rica…but I guess there’s no need. The weather is the same every day, and the sun comes up and goes down at the same time every day. There are no weather reports here…only earthquake reports.
Later….
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Yeah, In Georgia it’s General Beauregard.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/georgias-famous-groundhog-predicts-six-more-weeks-/nWDW2/
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The ghost of Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard lives on?
Wow…
That overwrown rat in Pennsylvania was always wrong. It just got colder and colder and colder in Cleveland until I bailed for Costa.
Later…
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