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February 2 - GroundHog Dog

Postby Silver_Surfer1 » Sun Feb 3, '08, 1:55 am

Well, today was groundhog day. A way of predicting the weather, sort of. If the groundhog sees his shadow, then there is expected to be six more weeks of winter, and if he doesn't see his shadow, then there is expected to be an early spring.

This year, the main groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, did see his shadow, so winter will be around for atleast six more weeks. Boo!!!!!!!!!

I've always thought this was kind of silly. No matter how you look at it, there are about six weeks or more until Spring is officially here anyway. Oh well. :x
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Postby Tsunami » Sun Feb 3, '08, 2:50 pm

Doesn't he always see his shadow? :D
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Postby Wolf Bird » Sun Feb 3, '08, 4:30 pm

Tsunami wrote:Doesn't he always see his shadow? :D


Yes. Probably because of all the lights shining on him. :lol:
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Postby SparkyIII » Sun Feb 3, '08, 9:28 pm

Or because they just need an excuse to let it go on until it actually comes.
Everything has a pattern. Something set. Even random things. They aren't random at all, its complex mathematics. The trick is to find the pattern. Then you can exploit it.

People think things have a certain end. Taxes. Work. Due dates don't really exist. Trust me. When you put a band of world scholars in the same room, and set them on talking about anything, the most interesting topics come up. The existence of negative time. The probability of "random occurrence". The government's involvement in the media. And falsified due dates. They aren't real, trust me....
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Postby Wolf Bird » Sun Feb 3, '08, 10:04 pm

I just always found it amusing that the news is always there shining all these big spotlights on the groundhog. I just think "well, of course he's going to see his shadow, look at all the huge spotlights aimed at the poor creature!" :lol:
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Postby Thoul » Mon Feb 4, '08, 3:32 am

According to wikipedia, he's predicted an early spring 14 times, including last year. That's out of 112 tries though, so I guess the spotlights win out a lot.
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Postby SparkyIII » Mon Feb 4, '08, 10:48 pm

Last year was an early spring? *didn't even notice* lol
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Postby Celeith » Mon Feb 4, '08, 11:58 pm

i know.. it stayed cold around here till pretty much the end of april last year >_< I say the groundhog is actually some kinda alien lifeform that lives underground and just does some kind of weird research and then screws with people.
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Postby Tsunami » Tue Feb 5, '08, 4:26 am

Caged Wolf wrote:
Tsunami wrote:Doesn't he always see his shadow? :D


Yes. Probably because of all the lights shining on him. :lol:
:rofl: So true...

Maybe if they turned off the lights, then he wouldn't see his shadow so much? :D
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Postby Celeith » Tue Feb 5, '08, 4:51 am

conspiracy i say
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