February 02, 2004
Groundhog Day
Today is Groundhog Day in the U.S. In honor of my favorite day of the entire year, here are some fun links:
Groundhog Day songs
Groundhog Day birthdays
Groundhog Day the movie
Groundhog day blog
The amount of time that went into that groundhog day songbook hurts my head.
I wonder after the thought that prompts one to get their weather forecasting information from a largish rodent.
And for only a single day! I mean, groundhogs live in holes. 364 days a year, that means the forecast is "dark, smelly, with occasional bugs and worms." We should trust him today?
Cynic! We like it because it's fun, not because we ignore chaos theory and believe a fluffy rodent can actually predict six weeks of weather.
While I like Groundhog day, I'm really looking forward to February 29 and the Ides of March.
i was interviewing the PR guy for the u.s. naval observatory last week (about leap year), he said that groundhog day is an actual astronomical occurrence -- it's a "cross-quarter" day that marks the halfway point of a season. so, as he said, regardless of what the groundhog says, we have six more weeks of weeks of winter.
other cross-quarter days include halloween and may day.
Psssssst! There's another reason Groundhog Day is Kimberly's favorite day!
Look at the silly monkey!
In an interesting bit of trivia, Kimberly shares a birthday with the following:
Christie Brinkley
Farrah Fawcett
Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills, and Nash & Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)
Tom Smothers
and
BRENT SPINER!
There's a really funny joke behind Brent Spiner. But he won't move, and now we're going to miss it. Thanks, Brent.
woo!!! cup o' cock punch raises to kimberly!
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