That's right, my friends, and I almost missed it. Today is Groundhog Day!
Here are a few snippets of important info from the CBC webpage...
"The original Wiarton Willie died during hibernation during the winter of 1998-99. They discovered this, to their horror, just before Groundhog Day 1999. Willie's death made headlines around the world.
On Groundhog Day, they put Wiarton Willie face-up in a small pine casket, bright pennies over his eyes, paws clutching a raw carrot. But it was a fake! Turns out the real Wiarton Willie was so disgustingly decomposed he couldn't be put on display.
Why fake it?
'People needed closure,' someone explained."
Hmmm.
Just a bit more, again from the CBC webpage...
"The people of Wiarton insist their Willie was accurate 90 percent of the time, but what do you expect them to say when the Groundhog Festival attracts 20,000 free-spending tourists to the town every February? Scientific studies show groundhogs are accurate only 37 percent of the time, which means you'd do better flipping one of the pennies that covered ol' Wiarton Willie's eyes."
Let me just ask some questions, if I may.
WHO ARE THESE 20,000 PEOPLE THAT GATHER IN THE COLD TO WATCH A RODENT COME OUT OF HIS HOLE?
PEOPLE NEEDED CLOSURE???!!! SERIOUSLY????!!!
DID ANYONE WATCH THE MOVIE "GROUNDHOG DAY"?
(I fell asleep in the middle, and you couldn't pay me enough to sit through it a second time.) More importantly...
HOW DID THAT MOVIE MAKE IT INTO THE MOVIE HALL OF FAME, PRESERVED FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND WHO WE WERE? IS THIS REALLY WHO WE ARE???!!!
And one last question...what did the groundhog say this year? Early or late spring? Seriously, I need to know, but I tried to get on the website, and clearly the rest of the world is there, so I can't access it.
