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4 months, 1 week ago

A stowaway groundhog is elevated to local icon

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania groundhog is making a name for himself for something other than predicting an early or late spring. An intrepid varmint dubbed Colonel Custard — so named for the frozen custard shop and mini-golf outlet where he was discovered — was found stowed away with a passel of stuffed animals prizes in an arcade game two …

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7 months, 1 week ago

'Groundhog Day fact check': CNN unloads on Trump's latest courthouse rant

Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump took yet another opportunity to complain about the criminal proceedings against him outside the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday — and, just like on previous occasions, CNN's Daniel Dale was there to debunk all the false claims he uttered shortly after in a conversation with anchor Jake Tapper. Dale began with what he called the "Groundhog Day …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Punxsutawney Phil, the spring-predicting groundhog, and wife Phyllis are parents of 2 babies

Associated Press

Now we know what Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who predicts whether an early spring will arrive each Feb. 2, does on the other 364 days. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said in a Facebook post Wednesday that Phyllis recently gave birth to two healthy babies. “We’re pleased to announce that Punxsutawney Phil has had his first children; we believe there are …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring at Groundhog Day festivities

Associated Press

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring on an overcast Friday morning at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania, the scene of the largest and best-known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States. Vice President Dan McGinley read the decision, written in verse and filled with quips about the groundhog’s envy for humans’ opposable thumbs and hopes to garner some …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Susan B. Anthony dollars, bankruptcy, and trademark on Groundhog Day : Planet Money : NPR

NPR

Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed It's Groundhog Day, and the eyes of the nation have turned to a small town in western Pennsylvania. Once again, our Planet Money hosts find themselves trapped in the endless Groundhog Day news cycle, and their only way out is to discover an economics story from Groundhog Day itself interesting …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Beyond Punxsutawney: How Groundhog Day is celebrated in other cities (with other animals)

Salon

Every Feb. 2, the legendary Punxsutawney Phil is put to the test. Here are many of the unexpected places all over North America that celebrate Groundhog Day: 01 Mid-Atlantic Quarryville, Pennsylvania: Said to be a rival to Punxsutawney's Groundhog Day celebration, Quarryville's Octoraro Orphie used to be a contender against Punxsutawney Phil. The town which hosts thousands for the holiday …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Groundhog Day’s European creature parallels – and surprising 3000-year-old origins

BBC

Groundhog Day’s European creature parallels – and surprising 3000-year-old origins Getty Images The US tradition of the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerging on 2 February to herald spring has fascinating origins – and creature parallels across Europe. Because of this, during I giorni della Merla, the locals say that if the weather is mild these three days, winter will extend longer …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Happy Grundsaudaag! The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day

BBC

The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day Getty Images In 2023, the weather-forecasting groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, predicting six more weeks of winter You say Groundhog Day, I say Grundsaudaag: how German and Swiss settlers in Pennsylvania created a new language – and a much-loved American holiday. Using horse-drawn buggies is part of …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

A.I.’s Groundhog Day

Slate

At the latest congressional hearing on A.I., the hype was high. In 2016, Facebook’s algorithm unleashed the “fake-news genie.” In 2015, it was financial companies using big data to cut credit limits. “It replicates the anxieties we’ve seen around social media for a long time,” she says. Questions about online data privacy “dovetail with a lack of privacy protections that …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Brett Kavanaugh’s Whoopsie Forces Groundhog Day at the Supreme Court

Slate

Two years ago, the Supreme Court set the stage for its 2021–22 term through a wild abuse of the shadow docket after lawmakers in Texas passed a deliberately unconstitutional abortion ban in the form of a vigilante law called S.B. The third full term in thrall to the 6–3 supermajority is now upon us, and it brings yet another crisis …

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1 year, 5 months ago

DutchNews podcast special: The Groundhog Day Is Over Edition

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces? A special edition of the DutchNews podcast focuses the collapse of the cabinet, the end of the Rutte era and the upcoming election. Will immigration dominate the campaign, will Vincent Karremans get back on his high horse and will Pieter Omtzigt team up with …

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1 year, 5 months ago

DutchNews podcast special: The Groundhog Day Is Over Edition

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces? A special edition of the DutchNews podcast focuses the collapse of the cabinet, the end of the Rutte era and the upcoming election. Will immigration dominate the campaign, will Vincent Karremans get back on his high horse and will Pieter Omtzigt team up with …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Groundhog Day at 30: How it became a classic, from Bill Murray tensions to adoring letters from monks

The Independent

The radio alarm goes off and yet again the beleaguered, middle-aged weatherman, stranded in a time loop, is woken up by the drone of the Sonny and Cher song, “I Got You Babe”. “It was a movie that, in spite of being very funny and entertaining, actually started to raise philosophical questions.” One of the issues with Groundhog Day, ironically, …

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1 year, 10 months ago

America in Arctic blast turns to Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day to predict end of winter

Daily Mail

Punxsutawney Phil has predicted there will be six more weeks of winter - as Groundhog Day kicked off in style in Pennsylvania. Punxsutawney Phil has predicted there will be six more weeks of winter - as Groundhog Day kicked off in style in Pennsylvania AMERICA'S WEATHER-FORECASTING GROUNDHOGS Groundhog Day has its origin in a German legend about a furry rodent …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Déjà Vuniverse: Why some physicists believe we could be living in a Groundhog Day universe

Salon

Something like 13.8 billion years ago, all energy in the universe was condensed into a single point. Related Why physics Nobelist Roger Penrose believes there are black holes left over from previous universes But an intriguing alternative, even if it doesn't carry much scientific weight, is that before everything ices over, the universe could fall back again — all the …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Searching for the greatest economic Groundhog Day story : Planet Money : NPR

NPR

Groundhog Day 2023 Enlarge this image toggle caption Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Jeff Swensen/Getty Images It's Groundhog Day, and once again, the eyes of the nation have turned to a small town in Western Pennsylvania. This year, in a cruel twist of fate reminiscent of the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, two Planet Money hosts have found themselves facing a curse. They'll …

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2 years ago

Op-Ed: It’s Groundhog Day for the GOP. Failure after defeat is becoming a Republican hallmark

LA Times

Former President Trump speaks Nov. 6 in Miami at a campaign rally in support of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock referred to a woman getting pregnant during a rape as something “God intended.” Mourdock lost the election to Joe Donnelly, a red-to-blue pickup for the Democrats. In Missouri, Republican candidate Todd Akin claimed that it’s …

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2 years, 6 months ago

‘Groundhog Day’ at IRS: Returns pile up, phone delays worsen

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It’s Groundhog Day at the IRS. The National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog within the IRS, also said taxpayers are experiencing longer wait times on the telephone, and delays in processing paper returns have been running six months to one year. “When I released my Annual Report to Congress six months ago, I wrote that ‘Paper is the …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Bill Murray: ‘We are afraid to die and afraid to kill’

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A couple of years later, Murray invited Vogler on …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Ohio election officials beg to end Groundhog Day of map flap

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If the fight in Ohio between a defiant political mapmaking panel and an equally stubborn Ohio Supreme Court bears a resemblance to the movie “Groundhog Day,” then long-suffering election workers are the guy caught in the daily nightmare — at least according to the head of their trade organization. The Ohio Association of Election Officials drew the …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Have I Got News for You is living a dreary panel show Groundhog Day

The Independent

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3 years, 7 months ago

Why there’s more to time loop movies than Groundhog Day

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And although Groundhog Day wasn’t the first time loop story – in fact two writers …

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3 years, 10 months ago

The Airbnb you've seen over and over again: Stay in the 'Groundhog Day' B&B from £125 a night

Daily Mail

Okay, campers, rise and shine! Here's an inn you can book that will leave you with a distinct feeling of déjà vu – because it was used as the Groundhog Day B&B for Bill Murray's character Phil Connors. The Cherry Tree Inn Airbnb in Woodstock, Illinois, was used in the filming of Groundhog Day as the B&B Bill Murray's character …

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3 years, 10 months ago

At Virtual Groundhog Day Ceremony, Punxsutawney Phil Predicts 6 More Weeks Of Winter

NPR

At Virtual Groundhog Day Ceremony, Punxsutawney Phil Predicts 6 More Weeks Of Winter Enlarge this image toggle caption Barry Reeger/AP Barry Reeger/AP The morning after a winter storm dumped up to 2 feet of snow in parts of the northeastern U.S., a world-renowned groundhog named Phil emerged from his burrow and predicted six more weeks of winter. Continuing a 135-year-long …

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A stowaway groundhog is elevated to local icon

'Groundhog Day fact check': CNN unloads on Trump's latest courthouse rant

Punxsutawney Phil, the spring-predicting groundhog, and wife Phyllis are parents of 2 babies

Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring at Groundhog Day festivities

Susan B. Anthony dollars, bankruptcy, and trademark on Groundhog Day : Planet Money : NPR

Beyond Punxsutawney: How Groundhog Day is celebrated in other cities (with other animals)

Groundhog Day’s European creature parallels – and surprising 3000-year-old origins

Happy Grundsaudaag! The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day

A.I.’s Groundhog Day

Brett Kavanaugh’s Whoopsie Forces Groundhog Day at the Supreme Court

DutchNews podcast special: The Groundhog Day Is Over Edition

DutchNews podcast special: The Groundhog Day Is Over Edition

Groundhog Day at 30: How it became a classic, from Bill Murray tensions to adoring letters from monks

America in Arctic blast turns to Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day to predict end of winter

Déjà Vuniverse: Why some physicists believe we could be living in a Groundhog Day universe

Searching for the greatest economic Groundhog Day story : Planet Money : NPR

Op-Ed: It’s Groundhog Day for the GOP. Failure after defeat is becoming a Republican hallmark

‘Groundhog Day’ at IRS: Returns pile up, phone delays worsen

Bill Murray: ‘We are afraid to die and afraid to kill’

Ohio election officials beg to end Groundhog Day of map flap

Have I Got News for You is living a dreary panel show Groundhog Day

Why there’s more to time loop movies than Groundhog Day

The Airbnb you've seen over and over again: Stay in the 'Groundhog Day' B&B from £125 a night

At Virtual Groundhog Day Ceremony, Punxsutawney Phil Predicts 6 More Weeks Of Winter