Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Six more weeks


With all the news about celebs being admitted to psych wards, the presidential race and Heath’s toxicology reports, no one is talking about Phil.

Groundhog Day came and went on Saturday without so much as a CNN news alert. Up on Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney little Phil saw his freaking shadow and we are doomed for six more weeks of winter. They take this stuff very seriously. Here's what they have on the official site:

Phil's official forecast as read 2/2/08 at sunrise at Gobbler's Knob:

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

On Gobbler's Knob on this fabulous Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2008
Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators,
Rose to the call of President Bill Cooper and greeted his handlers, Ben Hughes and John Griffiths.

After casting a weather eye toward thousands of his faithful followers,
Phil consulted with President Cooper and directed him to the appropriate scroll, which proclaimed:

"As I look around me, a bright sky I see, and a shadow beside me.
Six more weeks of winter it will be!"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you. Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore...

Watch that first step... it's a dooooooozie!