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my marmot done told me…

You know it’s bad when Black Hat is the one who’s confused

Was halfway through the Person of Interest pilot and guess I need to pause that and go rewatch groundhog day I guess.

Yeah when I doubted science behind it my adult child said to let the groundhogs have their fun 😂

Praise be the rodent, may it bring the warm sooner rather than later

Get Imbolg'd!

The stuff humans come up with.

Gonna plug the movie "Palm Springs (2020)" here which is a Groundhog's day type movie. I really like it!

The way it's worded it makes it seem like groundhogs are inherently racist or something.

Maybe because it's groundhog singular instead of plural?

This is why English is so hard to non-native speakers.

I love that movie

That was literally the theme of my GHD article this year medium.com/counterarts/...

It's science.

How one film can spoil a holiday´s meaning 😄

Here are my ideas:

My experience in New Jersey, where we had a lot of groundhogs, was that they were going to come out of their burrows around six weeks after Groundhog Day no matter whether Punxsy Phil saw his shadow or not. So yeah, might as well Do the Time Loop Again.

Well we had to adapt to winter no longer lasting 6 weeks to begin with.

Tell us about it. We don't do that here.... 🤣

“Jesse. Let’s celebrate Groundhog Day.”

You’ve confused poor Heisenberg

This is on the shortlist of xkcd's I would get as a signed fine art print if they were available.

Also since the holiday's process is basically just to seek an answer for the question "How long will this (season) go on?" I can't think of a better holiday for a time loop movie to focus on. The movie title wouldn't have come to be slang for time loops if it was about Fourth of July or Arbor Day.

Best explained here: youtu.be/0rGa4-ImoRo?...

Groundhog day, Bill Murray and Andie McDowell

Similar to Guy Fawkes day, only completely different.

Wow, at the risk of being an old codger, they don’t make movies like they used to. There are memorable, good movies all the way down to the 140s on that list.

I'm 40 from the midwest and they made us watch it in high school as part of the curriculum. (Can't recall why; may have had to write an essay or something.) 😂

TBF: Nightmare Before Christmas and Hocus Pocus are also from that year and did even less at the box office.

I definitely went to see it on an afternoon bunking off from my day release course.

@gamesack.net here you go.

also, according to one housemate years back, national day for eating crepes, in France.

Would be cooler if it was the first one that was based on a fictional story.

We’re very civilized

Language is tough, sometimes a hoot, and then you throw a groundhog in the works, and it's funny. So, I've got that going for me. Now watch this.

It’s a “holiday” because it’s midway between the solstice and the equinox. It is masquerading as a celebration of rodent meteorology in the current paradigm

well yeah, there's records going back to at least the late ice age. The cave paintings are a bit... distinctive.

This is very close to how we got "California".

Look, culture includes cult movie classics.

It is kinda weird that there's a holiday where the "true meaning" of it is to experience Samsara, and there's basically *no* religious affiliation, especially prior to the 1980s

On a side note, groundhogs are not hogs and crêpes are not pancakes. Not sure it helps.

What if we rename it to Roundhog day since it loops

This holiday gets weirder and weirder every year I swear.

Please also post this tomorrow

Even black hat froze with that one

February 2 is also James Joyce's birthday. Joyce is the author of Finnegans Wake, a novel about history repeating itself. I wonder if this is more than coincidental.

Honey Badger Day would have been equally ineffective at predicting weather but much more exciting (and bloody).

“Originally, it was a religious holiday about two old people recognizing an infant as the Messiah, but it only got weirder after that.”

A rare exception, one of those awful alternative German movie titles works. Others are 'Ritter der Kokosnuss' and some of the Spencer/Hill movies, but who thought 'Das turbogeile Gummiboot' or 'Ich glaub', mich knutscht ein Elch!' were a good idea.

Yeah, I can see it having a nursery rhyme type quality with the beat of the stresses. I'm surprised German went with the marmot, latin roots direction. Was expecting some compound name, like waschbär or stachelschwein.

"The Groundhog Greets Every Day".