Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 02, 2017

The point is that one day a year people are allowed to say “Gobbler’s Knob” in public without giggling.

. . . and make them go to Wikipedia to figure out which thing happens if he sees his shadow.

6 more weeks of whatsit.

These days you check to see if he’s got zinc oxide on his nose and a pair of shades.

The groundhog looks like a baby Wiley Bear Cub. If it is, it means 6000 months of a new ice age.

There’s ALWAYS six more weeks of winter! Which means in a good one, more skiing!! (And happier polar bears!!)

The Shadow knows.

I’m still celebrating Imbolc.

Apparently Wiley doesn’t live in the Midwest

Somewhere in Texas….

To celebrate the revelation that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese?

It is a great financial promotion for Punxatawny. Also, it is a fun, silly things to do to relieve the winter doldrums. Of course, this year it has been a record breaking warm one so far.

It’s summer down here, in my little patch of paradise !

“Anymore?”

Hey Wiley, PA isn’t in the tropics, nor will it be anytime in our lifetime.

Stephen Wright said he was going to get a new shadow because his old one didn’t do what he wanted. Maybe Phil will.

I don’t know why everyone complains about alleged climate change. I’d love for New Hampshire to have the kind of mild winters Virginia used to have.

It’s about 32 degrees in Punxsutawney, PA, at 9 a.m. Eastern time, with temps dropping to 13 overnight. You took a gamble, Wiley, but you lost. Sorry the facts didn’t line up with your theory today.

What’s the point? Any excuse for a party!

2067

Nobody mentioned it, but today is the day you are supposed to eat pork sausage (ground hog).

And Phil wakes up to a hot, muggy day. For the 4 millionth time.

“In Wisconsin on Groundhog Day, if the groundhog sees his shadow there will be 6 more weeks of winter; if he does not, there will be 8 more weeks. If he sees Dick Cheney’s shadow, there may never be spring again.” —Jerome Van Epps

Just a means of attracting people. The only thing it means to a woodchuck or ground hog is whether things are right to wake up the female to forage for food. The whole thing is a bogus means of getting in revenue.

And THAT is how we celebrate Groundhog Day in The Villages, Florida.

The alternate president will be appointing Punxatawney Phil to head the National Weather Service.

C’mon, folks – it’s a “global warming” joke…sheeesh!

There is a Groundhog Day event in Atlanta, where General Beauregard checks his shadow. Pennsylvania isn’t the center of the groundhog universe.

Imbolc was really a time for inventory of how much food you have for the winter. Hopefully, you were doing well and could increase the daily food rationing. It was also a time to see how the food stores were doing and getting rid of or using those items that weren’t doing so well. So even if you were thinking of having to tighten the belt in the future, the was one meal (at least) where you had some extra to prevent the soon to spoil food from going to waste.

I’ve been trying to Figure out the Purpose of Ground Hog Day for 50 years

This is significance of ground hog day.

http://www.snopes.com/2017/02/02/where-groundhog-day-from/

Wiley, you are always spot on!!!!!!! I am so sick of heat in winter, and would love some WINTER!!!!!!

I’M FREEZING! Where is my summer? (“No. I do not want any cheese with my whine!”)

I thought the point was so networks could show that Bill Murray movie 5 million times in a row. What was that thing called again……?

Quick, put an umbrella over him so he can’t see his shadow!