Chasing Shadows, Part Deja Vu
February 2, 2012 [alarm clock clicking to 6:00 AM]
[Sonny & Cher caterwauling to I Got You, Babe]
Ok, Campers, rise and shine! 'Cuz it's Groundhog Day!
Or, as Brenda here knows it:
;)
Today is the day that we celebrate the.. day...by having this cheeky little fella:
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;)
"Did I do that?"
...drive around town with Bill Murray looking for a weather forecaster who has no shadow. Which I think makes the weather forecaster a vampire.
Ah, American holidays*.
Today is also the day when we find out if winter will end soon or not.
Hm...
[clickety click click click]
;)
Yeah. Good luck with that, every-state-but-Florida.
So, unless shadowless weather forecasters are run over by rodent and celebrity driven automobiles, I'd say most of you are due to see a lot more of this:
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"Squashed octopodes?"
Er, no. I mean this:
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"Blue crabs?"
No, no, no!
THIS:
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[crickets chirping]
Oh, never mind.
Happy Grounn Dhog Day, y'all.
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Thanks to Brenda M., M.Z., Melissa B., Saundra, Karen C., Jamie, & Kevin H., who would like to remind you to never drive angry. Especially with a quadruped.
See you tomorrow, campers!
*Actually, I hear Canadians celebrate Groundhog Day, too. Except their vampire weather forecasters use beavers** to raise the stakes. [insert beaver joke here] [insert 'BWAHAHAHA!' here] [insert apology for beaver joke here]
**May or may not be entirely untrue.
Reader Comments (63)
Oh, please, please, please, please, please re-post this one tomorrow!! OMG It'll be like the super secret club where only the cool kids who read the comments get the joke. (hysterical giggle) Plus, we need a really good Epcot. (waves HoHos and Oreos in air)
@Kimberly Chapman that joke is like "Super Bowel" and never gets old. I remember seeing it in the theater and giggle/snorting my drink all over myself and my boyfriend. Good times.
Also, I now need to have pancakes for dinner tomorrow.
Oh no! It was a whole Groundhog YEAR!!!!??? I'm surprised more people didn't notice. Does that mean that only a few of us are stuck in the cycle? Help! HELP! LET ME OUT!! I really don't want a repeat of last year!
Lol ah well groundhog day seems to forecast the same thing every year. Should just go watch the movie again lol.
I didn't even know this was something people celebrated with cake. o_0
Hurrah for octopodes! No "not octopi!" rant from me for once (it's a highly specialized pet peeve).
Having moved from the west coast of the States to the east coast of Canada a few years back, I have to say it's a holiday that gets about the same amount of respect on both coasts/sides of the border. I live in Quebec and I've never heard of a Quebec version of the critter, however I maintain that they're just making Shubenacadie up.... that can't be a real place :P
Not to rain (or snow) on anyone's parade, but it's been in the 60's here in Oklahoma for the past month.
Came here to go "yay for octopodes!" and saw @littlefoot already had. Octopodes, REPRESENT. :D
I live in the Oklahoma City area, where the Snowpocalypse storm of 2011 originated. We were out of school for a straight week because not only did we get a foot of snow/ice, it didn't melt right away because it stayed cold. You see, we don't have plows here, so the method of snow removal is usually "wait until it melts".
What I wouldn't give right now for a Snowpocalypse right now.
My 3 year old keeps asking when the "warthog with the underground house" will come out again.
Apparently that means groundhog up here in Canada!
just commenting to high five you on using the correct plural form of octopus.
Nobody said Happy birthday to Brent Spiner, who is turning 63...
(i wonder if he got a nickname from that)
I know it's well past Groundhog Day now, but I only just saw this. I just have to complement you on using the correct plural form of "octopus". I have never seen anyone do that before!