Groundhog Day

[TimberWolf]

Rise and shine campers, its Groundhog Day. WooHoo!

A shadow of Punxsutawney Phil means six more weeks of winter and no shadow means spring is just around the corner.

Gobbler's Knob is the place and any squirrel called Phil will do. [Is Gobblers knob a grassy knoll]?

Will it be an early Spring?

[VectraMan]

I always thought 12:01 was better.

[BrowneIssue]

Rise and shine campers, its Groundhog Day.

Wrong continent.

Go away.

[ferret]

Wrong continent.

Absolutely. Even if the weather gets better the winter of financial turmoil will last longer than 6 weeks that is for sure. And I don't need a American rat's shadow to tell me that.

[AtW]

And I don't need a American rat's shadow to tell me that.

[TimberWolf]

Absolutely. Even if the weather gets better the winter of financial turmoil will last longer than 6 weeks that is for sure. And I don't need a American rat's shadow to tell me that.

Groundhog Day is one of the better and cuter customs that we could import from the states for sure. The film was good anyway. Regarding predictions of gloom, the beauty of economics is that everyone can be right eventually, whether their predictions are based on complex mathematical models or a Marmots tail.

[BrowneIssue]

Groundhog Day is one of the better and cuter customs that we could import from the states for sure.

Huh? But it is completely and utterly meaningless.

WE DO NOT HAVE THE SAME CLIMATE AS THE USA, FFS.

Do we really have to Merkinise everything?

[Gonzo]

Regarding predictions of gloom, the beauty of economics is that everyone can be right eventually, whether their predictions are based on complex mathematical models or a Marmots tail.

An economics graduate is passing his old college and decides to call in and visit one of his old tutors.

They have a long chat and the graduate asks to see one of the current examination papers so that he can see the questions that the current undergraduates have to answer.

He is astonished to see that the exam questions are all identical to the ones that he had to answer when he did his finals. He queries this and his tutor tells him

"Of course, the questions are all the same every year and never change. It is the answers that are different each year."

[d000hg]

I never even knew it was a real day. I thought they made it up for the film... which was pretty good.

[TimberWolf]

Huh? But it is completely and utterly meaningless.

Our coldest weather is statistically at the end of Jan / beginning of Feb. Mid-winter is around that date too.

Apart from the fact that it does have a meaning in the sense of the weather improving and being cute since when did a celebration have to have a meaning? Non-christians celebrate Easter / Christmas, etc.