re: Someone explain to me groundhog day...

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It was discovered over 700 years ago, shortly after Sam Waterston (later to be known as Uncle Sam) flew over on the Hindendurg and discovered America, that groundhogs were created by great sorcerers in prehistoric times to alert them when it was time to switch to the spring capes. Once Sam and his fellow explorers discovered their powers, it was decreed that all groundhogs were to be murdered and sacrificed to the Quaker Oats deity. One groundhog, however, escaped the purge and migrated to what is now a small town in Pennsylvania. They named him Phil (which is where Philadelphia got its name) and continued to use him as the prehistoric sorcerers wanted.

Punxsutawney Phil is over 600 years old, is the size of a Shetland pony, and has predicted the coming of spring or its delay with 100% accuracy since then.

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