Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 02, 2016

Six more weeks of food for hawk chicks

Six weeks of “falcon” around?

Phil Connors unavailable for comment.

…no shadow.

I think that means six more weeks of unnecessary windstorms…

I am so tired of “if the groundhog sees his shadow it means six more weeks of winter.” Exactly when did it stop being ""if the groundhog sees his shadow it means six more weeks of winter WEATHER." Believe some time in the mid to late ‘90s. Got news folks, It’s always about six weeks left to winter whether or not the groundhog, or any creature touted as predicting the end of winter, sees it’s shadow or not. But it used to be that we were told we could expect spring-like weather early if the groundhog didn’t see it’s shadow. Which is kinda a real shocker with all the camera lights making it impossible for Phil to not see his shadow.

Besides which, the weather will be what it will be weather a groundhog like Phil or Wiarton Willie, or Balzac Billy, or Staten Island Chuck, or any one of a thousand different groundhogs see their shadow or not.

Sun Prairie Jimmy bit the mayor last Feb. 2 and got fired from his cushy one-day-a-year job. Now the city is using a human dressed up like a groundhog. I kid you not.

Bill Murry would enjoy today’s strip.

A groundhog and his shadow are a very famous pair / They predict the weather together, a trick that is rare / Now the one little thing that bothers me whenever outdoors I go / Does my shadow mean springtime, or sixteen feet of snow? / Never know which, I just can’t remember / Will it be warm, or make like December? / The whole thing just confuses me, and that is why I sing / A groundhog’s shadow just doesn’t mean a thing.

Oh, that’s right. It’s an election year.

How about ANY winter at all? Feb.1 and temps here in New England hit 63.

What’s Punxsutawney Phil doing in California with Pig and Rat?

the groundhog just comes out of the den tired of the wife yapping

Must be one of the other groundhogs for Phil comes out of a stump on Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney :-( …..Being from Pa. it is just crazy fun !

I’m grateful for the bird

Well, checking in from western PA, just for the record, Phil did not see his shadow, so look for an early spring. Huzzah, I think.

It would have been more relevant if a tornado came and sucked him into the sky!

I’m still surprised at the number of people who don’t get it. Groundhog Day is a spoof designed to fill in the gray, blah period between the holidays and spring. Kinda like having a “It’s A Gray Tuesday in February Party”

Perhaps tomorrow’s meal will be rat, then we can see more of the crocs.

Today is roughly the beginning of the Spring quadrant of the Earth’s orbit; March 21 is the mid-point.

Yea! Spring! Does it really matter why he doesn’t go back into his hole?

That Bird looked Hank Marvin, so plenty of Shadows.

I liked the movie better…

BTW, I read (on the internet) that Punxsutawney Phil died three weeks ago; no show today in all likelihood…

Wow, a strip in relation to Groundhog day. That reminds me: Happy Groundhog day everyone!

I like it…

I want to fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me…

Jimmy The Groundhog was retired last year after biting the mayor of Sun Prairie.

If she did it means six more years of unwanted campaign e-mails for the public.

i am the eagle i live in high countryin rocky cathedrals that reach to the skyi am the hawk and there’s mud on my feathersbut time is still turning they soon will be dryjohn denver

Does Groundhog Day even have a purpose or is it just another random American holiday?

xxx

Nothing like a nice, plump, drowsy groundhog for dinner if you’re a flying predator!Weather? What weather?

This is just wrong.

If I was a groundhog I’d come out of the backwards