Happy Groundhog Day Y'all!

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"At around 7:25 a.m. ET, Phil, the seer of seers, saw his shadow and predicted the year would see an extra long winter!"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...5-punxsutawney-phil-live-updates/78138744007/

Fine.
Couldn't you just call him "Phil"? Or P.P.?

"Thanks for the varmint ..." Jed

The menu at the Road Kill Cafe' includes many popular seasonal favorites, while meticulously adhering to their core customer commitment:

- YOU KILL IT, WE GRILL IT -

Skip the -unappetizers - . Leave room for:

Flat Cat
Chunk of Skunk
Shrew Stew
Rigor Mortis Tortoise
Glistening Guts Goulash

Those that enjoy a little mystery in their meal can order:

Anything Dead on Bread

Slosh it all down with:

Vodka, O. J. & Milk of Magnesia (Phillips Screwdriver), or an

IRS Special [Make a big bartini & then withhold 30% of it]

gosh bless americer

 

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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania​

Punxsutawney (Lenape: Punkwsutènay) is a borough in southern Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States. Punxsutawney is known for its annual Groundhog Day celebration held each February 2, during which thousands of attendees and international media outlets visit the town for an annual weather prediction by the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil. The actual prediction location, Gobbler's Knob, is in adjacent Young Township. More from Wikipedia

note:
I didn't really want to spend time researching it, but it's quite common for locations to attempt to attract $revenue.
Apparently this reluctant rodent is also a $cash $cow.

Sciuridae

"It's a profit deal!" actor / comedian Steve Martin in the title role The Jerk discovering the mysterious secret of the carnival midway

 

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Bill Murray: Groundhog Day

Saw it at the cinema. Still not quite sure what to think. Message? Persistence? Redemption? Experience?

 

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Groundhog Day​

Popular North American tradition

Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grund'sau dåk,Grundsaudaag,Grundsow Dawg,Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day) is a tradition observed regionally in the United States and Canada on February 2 of every year. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and sees its shadow, it will retreat to its den and winter will go on for six more weeks; if it does not see its shadow, spring will arrive early. ... More from Wikipedia

 

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Anyone that likes sausages or laws shouldn't watch either being made. Mark Shields, among others

By the 1970's Ralph Nader had written of what Nader called "four D" ingredients:
- dead
- diseased
- dying
- decaying
and also mentioned the inclusion of lips and snouts and skeletal remains.

Reportedly a guideline at cattle abattoir is for the animal to enter the process on its own.
Fine.
For those that don't, what? Cattle corpses are not easily otherwise disposed of.
That's obvious perverse incentive for abattoir operators to apply "persuasion" at the animal's terminal juncture, a "slippery slope".

- but -
Finely ground swine anuses help fuel the unresolved debate: ketchup, or mustard.
Either way, delicious.

"The people who say 'you are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion you are what you think, and if you don't think; you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable." Russell Baker

Russ,
We are often defined not by what we eat or think, but by what we do. It is our actions that define us.