On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 3:27:56 AM UTC-5, Ophelia wrote:
> "Nancy Young" wrote in message ...
>
> On 2/3/2017 4:07 PM, Gary wrote:
> > Nancy Young wrote:
> >>
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >>> OB Food: I don't cook anything special for Ground Hog Day.
> >>
> >> I just make the same thing every time. Over and over.
> >
> > lol Nancy! I got your joke. Funny too because AMC showed that movie
> > all day long, back to back, for about 18 hours yesterday.
>
> I should have known someone would!
>
> > I figured they were just cheapskates to slack on programming.
> > Then I read your post and realized that they were probably just
> > doing a parody of the movie....each day repeats so each movie
> > repeats.
>
> Pretty funny now that you think of it.
>
> > I like that movie but I actually didn't watch it at all
> > yesterday. I found a few other good ones on.
>
> I did like the movie, I should watch it again.
>
> nancy
>
> ===
>
> I got it because I understood 'ground hog' day to be about doing the same
> thing over and over. What i didn't know was there was a film))
>
> What I am unsure about is ... is there an actual ground hog day? If so,
> what is it about?

February 2 is Groundhog Day. What it is about... Well, what it really is
about is people being tired of winter. However, the legend is that a
groundhog pops his head out of his hole on February 2. If he sees his shadow,
there will be six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see his shadow,
there will be an early spring.

Various small municipalities have capitalized on the legend to have
a festival where they trot out a groundhog and proclaim his (or her)
results to be the definitive answer. Punxsutawney Phil is the most famous:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punxsutawney_Phil>

It would seem that early February is actually a little early for groundhogs
to break hibernation, but nobody lets that stand in the way of an
opportunity to have their small town on national TV.

Cindy Hamilton