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Groundhog Day Explained
Groundhog Day Explained
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February is home to one of the most important holidays of the year not to forget: Groundhog
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Day.
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If you live outside of Can-merica then you might not know what a groundhog is so...
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here you go: this is a groundhog.
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They're basically giant grumpy squirrels who dig burrows underground.
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Burrows large enough, in fact, to occasionally make their comfy home a structural hazard
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to your comfy home.
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This explains the first half of their name.
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The second half is because they're kind of fat -- though unlike their fellow Can-mericans
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-- when winter arrives they need their excess weight to go into hibernation.
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The story of the holiday is that on February 2nd the wise groundhogs wake from hibernation
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to peek out of their burrow and look at the world.
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If they see their shadow they go back inside which predicts six more weeks of winter.
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If they don't, then spring will come early.
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The holiday started in the 1800s as a Pennsylvania Dutch custom of weather prediction and today
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is celebrated in Canada and 49 of the fifty states, the exception being Alaska which in
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2009 decided to forgo groundhog day in favor of marmot day.
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Outside of Alaska, many groundhogs contend with each other to be the King of Seasonal
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Weather prediction their their main weapon in this war being their delightful names such
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as:
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Queen Charlotte and Sir Walter Wally in North Carolina,
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Shubenacadie Sam of Nova Scotia
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Staten Island Chuck from New York
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French Creek Freddie in West Virginia
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And...
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Gus from Athens Georgia though this last groundhog is somewhat overshadowed by his neighbor,
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General Beauregard Lee, who one must assume has stylish facial hair and fans himself on
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the veranda of his plantation home while drinking Mint Julep and pining for the day when the
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south will rise again.
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1,000 miles north of the General, Wiarton Willie is the groundhog king of Canada, who
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throws an annual party to help him stay on top and make sure that people keep building
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epic statues of him.
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But, if there could be only one, Punxsutawney Phil would be him.
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Not only is his name the most fun to say but he also has quite a posse of top-hatted, tuxedoed
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men who look after him and call themselves the inner circle.
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According to them, Punxsutawney Phil has been making predictions since the 1880s.
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Not a Punxsutawney Phil, mind you, but this Punxsutawney Phil who is functionally immortal
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because of a magic life-extending elixir the inner circle members prepare for him so that
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he can continue to make predictions -- and bring in tourist revenue -- until the end
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of time.
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He also speaks a language called groundhogese that only the president of the inner circle
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can understand.
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If you think that Groundhog day is a dumb, pointless holiday then, there are two things
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you should consider:
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1st: you have no sense of fun and 2nd, you better be careful on Groundhog day, because
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in addition to their weather predicting day jobs, these groundhogs also have the magical
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power to trap you in a infinite time loop until you learn to be less of a jerk.
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Happy Groundhog Day�
