Chasing Shadows, Deja Vu The Third Again The 2nd
February 2, 2018 [alarm clock clicking to 6:00 AM]
[Sonny & Cher caterwauling to I Got You, Babe]
Ok, Campers, rise and shine! 'Cuz it's Groundhog Day!
Or, as Brenda here knows it:
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Today is the day that we celebrate the.. day...by having this cheeky little fella:
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;)
"Did I do that?"
...drive around town with Bill Murray looking for a weather forecaster who has no shadow. Which I think makes the weather forecaster a vampire.
Ah, American holidays.
Today is also the day when we find out if winter will end soon or not.
Hm...
[clickety click click click]
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Yeah. Good luck with that, every-state-but-Florida.
So, unless shadowless weather forecasters are run over by rodent and celebrity driven automobiles, I'd say most of you are due to see a lot more of this:
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"Squashed octopodes?"
Er, no. I mean this:
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"Blue crabs?"
No, no, no!
THIS:
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[crickets chirping]
Oh, never mind.
Happy Grounn Dhog Day, y'all.
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Thanks to Brenda M., M.Z., Melissa B., Saundra, Karen C., Jamie, & Kevin H., who would like to remind you to never drive angry. Especially with a quadruped.
See you tomorrow, campers!
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Reader Comments (13)
I am really confused. I've heard of ground hogs. I've heard of road hogs. But groad hogs? Is that a bunch of ground hogs that decided to take over the highway? I don't think they'd see their shadows after that. In fact, I doubt they'd see much of anything.
And I'm really confused by all those things we're supposed to see after today. Are you telling us we should be seeing the logo for Blue Star Ointment, that we're going to see breasts with feet, and very flat, blue, shiny teddy bears?
And the last cake really has my head spinning. I realize that bakers are probably not up on their biology, unless someone has discovered how to breed a dog and a pig and I just missed that in the last tabloid.
AH! What a blast from the past. This is one of my favorites and still makes me laugh. Now I have to go home and check to see if Netflix has Ground Hog Day. Or maybe Amazon or Hulu. Or maybe I'll just play it in my head (I've seen it so many times I probably can).
Here in Sunny Southern California where we are still awaiting "winter" -- the groad hog, I mean the Grounn Dhog....oh no wait.... Oh forget it. Shadows have been seen -- it is sunny. AS usual. And a lovely 75. No complaints here! But, I wouldn't say no to a little rain! <3
Gosh how I hate to see a ground man cry....
Oops-- meant ground hog! Not much better....but t's sunny here, so I guess I'll look for the bugger's shadow......(Do they bite? Hope so...they'll fit right in, here.) =^~.-^=
This is one time where cakes really do not fail to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
To me, Mr. Crappy Back End looks like he has a malformed turkey leg shoved on his face.
Did you know that Woodstock, IL, where Groundhog Day was filmed, hosts its own G-Day festival? Punxsutawney Phil may get all the press, but Woodstock Willie prognosticates as well. (Both saw their shadows today.)
Also, shout-out to the Groundhog Day blizzard in 2011! That weather graphic brings it all back and makes me wonder if anyone ever commemorated cars stuck on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago with a cake. It would be easy--lots of Matchbox cars and white icing.
I rather like the blue sparkly bra.It's not a bra? But, it looks - oh, never mind.
Chubby cheeks up there would be cute if he didn't have diarrhea. Poor little guy!
The blue cake under the sparkly not bra - what is that? First I thought it was the outline of a teddy bear, but, if it were then it has a very full diaper or swollen package! Poor bear. Then I thought it might be the outline of a butterfly, but, that's clearly no butterfly! Any other ideas? I give up!
Grounn Dhog? Sounds Irish...
Lol this really gave me the giggles.
That’s a sparkly blue bra for me. And under neat that (see what I did there?) a blue teddy bear.
I have an issue with Cake #7. Did they really think they could make a cake baked in a Teddy bear cake pan look like a snowflake?
I love you (platonically) for using octopodes as the plural. Thank you so much.
I’m so glad that someone other than me knows that octopodes is the correct plural. My phone just tried to autocorrect it to octopuses while I typed that.