It's GroundHog Day!!!!!!!!!!
The question today is . . . does Phil feel lucky?
I love this movie!!
Punxsutawney Phil Makes His Annual Winter Prediction
Georgia Groundhog Contradicts Phil's Findings
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- The groundhog has spoken -- or at least indicated.
Punxsutawney Phil's handlers said the groundhog has seen his shadow, which legend has it signals six more weeks of winter.
At a tongue-in-cheek ceremony Wednesday morning in an area called Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania, the world's best-known groundhog saw his shadow, said his handler, who woke Phil up from hibernation and placed him on a stump.
Speaking in prose, a top-hatted interpreter lamented the tsunami, mudslides and frigid cold of this winter, but said there won't be an early end.
According to Phil, he said, "I'm sorry to say I have seen my shadow today." The alternative would have been an early spring if he didn't spot the shadow.
Thousands of people on hand in Punxsutawney booed as the furry prognosticator indicated six more weeks of winter. Most people were bundled up against the cold, but at least one woman was wearing a bikini top.
Georgia's Groundhog Predicts Early Spring
He may not be the country's most famous groundhog, but odds are more people will like his prediction.
General Beauregard Lee came out of his miniature mansion in Georgia this Groundhog Day and failed to see his shadow. That means we're in for an early spring.
Yeah, in GEORGIA!
It also contradicts what Punxsutawney Phil said in Pennsylvania.
The weather may have played a role. It was raining at the time, and that could have prevented him from spotting his shadow.
Ya think?!
Although thousands turned out to see Phil in Pennsylvania, only about 100 were on hand for the event in Georgia.
General Beauregard Lee has been serving up springtime forecasts for the past 15 years in Lilburn, Ga., but may be ready to hang up his spurs. The ranch where the general lives says Beau is getting fatter, slower and sleepier, and this could be his last Groundhog Day.
Your average groundhog lives to be just 2 or 3 -- but the ranch's spokesman points out that when you get fed every day and only work one day a year, "you can last a long time." Still, 15-year-old Beau is getting on up there.
Not bad for a quadruped.
But it's been quite a groundhog's life. He's collected honorary doctorates from the University of Georgia and Georgia State. And he has a remarkable 97 percent accuracy rate.
Great, a groundhog smarter than me.
Beau's one big blunder came in 1993, when he predicted an early spring. Instead, the South got its worst blizzard in decades.
Ah, maybe he’s human after all.
N.J. Groundhog Missing
There's no joy in Hunterdon County, N.J., this Groundhog Day because there's no groundhog.
A four-legged weather prognosticator known as J.B. has been missing from its Franklin Township burrow for almost a year.
The disappearance of J.B., which stands for Just Because, has led The Eastern Extension of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge to disband after 15 years of forecasting with marmots.
Members would go to the woods in top hats and white robes every Feb. 2 and thump on the ground with sticks to get J.B. to come out. If the groundhog saw its shadow, there would be six more weeks of winter.
Lodge members have been thumping all summer and fall, but J.B. hasn't surfaced. No one knows what happened to the groundhog.
TONIGHT - on America’s Most Wanted: The kidnapping of J.B. ---- one year ago, while going about his yearly routine, JB was abducted in broad day light. No clues have been found, no leads have been discovered. If you have any information about this senseless crime, please call this station.
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press
I love this movie!!
Punxsutawney Phil Makes His Annual Winter Prediction
Georgia Groundhog Contradicts Phil's Findings
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- The groundhog has spoken -- or at least indicated.
Punxsutawney Phil's handlers said the groundhog has seen his shadow, which legend has it signals six more weeks of winter.
At a tongue-in-cheek ceremony Wednesday morning in an area called Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania, the world's best-known groundhog saw his shadow, said his handler, who woke Phil up from hibernation and placed him on a stump.
Speaking in prose, a top-hatted interpreter lamented the tsunami, mudslides and frigid cold of this winter, but said there won't be an early end.
According to Phil, he said, "I'm sorry to say I have seen my shadow today." The alternative would have been an early spring if he didn't spot the shadow.
Thousands of people on hand in Punxsutawney booed as the furry prognosticator indicated six more weeks of winter. Most people were bundled up against the cold, but at least one woman was wearing a bikini top.
Georgia's Groundhog Predicts Early Spring
He may not be the country's most famous groundhog, but odds are more people will like his prediction.
General Beauregard Lee came out of his miniature mansion in Georgia this Groundhog Day and failed to see his shadow. That means we're in for an early spring.
Yeah, in GEORGIA!
It also contradicts what Punxsutawney Phil said in Pennsylvania.
The weather may have played a role. It was raining at the time, and that could have prevented him from spotting his shadow.
Ya think?!
Although thousands turned out to see Phil in Pennsylvania, only about 100 were on hand for the event in Georgia.
General Beauregard Lee has been serving up springtime forecasts for the past 15 years in Lilburn, Ga., but may be ready to hang up his spurs. The ranch where the general lives says Beau is getting fatter, slower and sleepier, and this could be his last Groundhog Day.
Your average groundhog lives to be just 2 or 3 -- but the ranch's spokesman points out that when you get fed every day and only work one day a year, "you can last a long time." Still, 15-year-old Beau is getting on up there.
Not bad for a quadruped.
But it's been quite a groundhog's life. He's collected honorary doctorates from the University of Georgia and Georgia State. And he has a remarkable 97 percent accuracy rate.
Great, a groundhog smarter than me.
Beau's one big blunder came in 1993, when he predicted an early spring. Instead, the South got its worst blizzard in decades.
Ah, maybe he’s human after all.
N.J. Groundhog Missing
There's no joy in Hunterdon County, N.J., this Groundhog Day because there's no groundhog.
A four-legged weather prognosticator known as J.B. has been missing from its Franklin Township burrow for almost a year.
The disappearance of J.B., which stands for Just Because, has led The Eastern Extension of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge to disband after 15 years of forecasting with marmots.
Members would go to the woods in top hats and white robes every Feb. 2 and thump on the ground with sticks to get J.B. to come out. If the groundhog saw its shadow, there would be six more weeks of winter.
Lodge members have been thumping all summer and fall, but J.B. hasn't surfaced. No one knows what happened to the groundhog.
TONIGHT - on America’s Most Wanted: The kidnapping of J.B. ---- one year ago, while going about his yearly routine, JB was abducted in broad day light. No clues have been found, no leads have been discovered. If you have any information about this senseless crime, please call this station.
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press