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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:55 AM
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That's it, I formally declare war on Groundhog's day
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 10:57 AM by Walt Starr
It's a stupid attempt to steal the REAL meaning of the season, Imbolc. This is the time in which the Baby God is growing and preparing to become the Reborn King. Trivilaizing it with groundhogs and shadows does nothing but make the Baby God cry!

And don't get me started on that short-lived Christianized version, Candlemas!
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:07 AM
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1. What, again ?
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:51 AM
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12. It's a demeaning of the Pagan Holy Day, Imbolc!
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 11:52 AM by Walt Starr
The Groudhogites have decalred war on IMBOLC!

Imbolc
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:10 AM
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2. Ground Hog Day
I like Ground and I like Hogs, but I hate Ground Hogs.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:13 AM
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3. That's Disappointing To Hear
I would never have thought you were an anti-Phil-ite. Wow! Bigotry is everwhere.
The Professor
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:14 AM
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4. obviously it is perpetuating a lie to our children
like a rodent can predict weather.

lie Lie LIe LIE i tell you
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:39 AM
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10. Wooley worms, on the other hand...
How come they don't have a day of their own?
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rpgamerd00d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:15 AM
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5. Hey, now! That was a great movie!
I like Bill Murray!

:P
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:20 AM
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8. ... and Andie MacDowell. (Hubba-hubba!)
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:38 PM
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29. Love that movie
and what's weird, my kids -- who were very young when they watched it on TV, loved it. And, to me, the story and sense of humor were very adult. Not X-rated adult. Just adult in the sense of middle-age malaise.
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carolinalady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:15 AM
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6. Always been a big pack of lies, anyway. Those damn
media lights always skew the results! Nothing more than a futile attempt by IUP at Punxy, to get their mugs on the map. My brother partied shamelessly at this event.
Bah groundhog!
;)
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:00 PM
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17. I had a friend from college get his PhD at IUP
I always loved the name of that school
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carolinalady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:16 PM
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23. My brother was there long enough for a PhD, but he came out
with a BS. Too many damn groundhog parties. LOL
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:15 AM
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7. i want a F*in movement on groundhog day. lets get olderman
and and and..... randi rhodes.
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Batgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:34 AM
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9. anyone who thinks they're going to take the Marmota monax out of
GHD is gonna have to go through me, okay? The ACLU is already hard at work making it a felony for schools to display the image of our blessed Woodchuck; schoolchildren have been expelled and cashiers fired just for using the traditional "Happy Groundhog Day" greeting.

Well, the ACLU and their secularist toadies better think twice, 'cause they're not going to succeed with this vicious assault on a hallowed American tradition, not on MY watch, pal.
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kahleefornia Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:49 AM
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11. he couldn't possible predict the weather
unless there was some higher power involved. Why don't they have to teach Groundhog-ology along with meteorology, which, as everyone knows, is not an exact science anyway?
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:52 AM
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13. not to mention the health issues of these rodents...... further
i propose it be national vaccination day to be drugged with the govt slash, pharmacutical companies, to take care of those pesky diseases
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:54 AM
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14. You Groundhogites have declared war on Ibolc, and WE PAGANS
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 11:54 AM by Walt Starr
ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:55 AM
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15. I remember how nice it was
Before they commercialized it.

Now we have Groundhog Day movies, Groundhog Day sales, Groundhog Day cartoons and comic books. It's disgusting, utterly disgusting.

It kills the true meaning of Groundhog Day.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 11:57 AM
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16. Brigid is the Reason for the Season!
This season belongs to Brigid, the Celtic goddess who in later times became revered as a Christian saint. Originally, her festival on February 1 was known as Imbolc or Oimelc, two names which refer to the lactation of the ewes, the flow of milk that heralds the return of the life-giving forces of spring. Later, the Catholic Church replaced this festival with Candlemas Day on February 2, which is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and features candlelight processions. The powerful figure of Brigid the Light-Bringer overlights both pagan and Christian celebrations.
In most parts of the British Isles, February is a harsh and bitter month. In old Scotland, the month fell in the middle of the period known as Faoilleach, the Wolf-month; it was also known as a’ marbh mhiòs, the Dead-month. But although this season was so cold and drear, small but sturdy signs of new life began to appear: Lambs were born and soft rain brought new grass. Ravens begin to build their nests and larks were said to sing with a clearer voice.

In Ireland, the land was prepared to receive the new seed with spade and plough; calves were born, and fishermen looked eagerly for the end of winter storms and rough seas to launch their boats again. In Scotland, the Old Woman of winter, the Cailleach, is reborn as Bride, Young Maiden of Spring, fragile yet growing stronger each day as the sun rekindles its fire, turning scarcity into abundance. Of her, Alexander Carmichael wrote:

Bride with her white wand is said to breathe life into the mouth of the dead Winter and to bring him to open his eyes to the tears and the smiles, the sighs and the laughter of Spring. The venom of the cold is said to tremble for its safety on Bride’s Day, and to flee for its life on Patrick’s Day.

<snip>

http://www.celticspirit.org/imbolc.htm
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:07 PM
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19. Here's to Brigid rising again to kick off a season of impeachments

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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:09 PM
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20. Blessed Be!
I won't let the Groundhogian anti=Pagans take away MY holy day!

;)
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GrpCaptMandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:00 PM
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18. Now you just stop that!
Quit trying to take the Christ out of Groundhawg Day!

Pastor Whackbottom done 'splaint t'me how it is that the Groundhawg is a cymbal of Jesus' abidin' patience, a-waitin' in the cold n' dark of the toom to come out an' show the world the way out of the Satanic, demon-possesed shadows an' into the lite of his crucifixation.

Be gone, vile gargile! I rebuke thee in the name of the Lord!

:crazy:
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:14 PM
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21. You're taking Brigid out of Imbolc!
amnd inserting a VARMINT in Her place!
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GrpCaptMandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:34 PM
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27. Pastor Whackbottom's told me about people like you!
I betchu play w/ weejeey boards, don't you?!
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:43 PM
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31. IF you be a Christian, you should join me in the WAR ON GROUNDHOG'S DAY!!!
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 12:53 PM by Walt Starr
Because in Christianity, this day is Candlemas which is the celebration of the day when the Virgin MAry re-enters purity under Judaic law!
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GrpCaptMandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:52 PM
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33. Ahhhhhh! You must be one o' them Papists
what Pastor Whackbottom also warns us about, two! All that Mary stuff! Ewwwwww!

The groundhog (or Whistlepig of Holiness, as we call him) is one of the Awmighty's most intelligentest designs.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:49 PM
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36. I'm not a Catholic, nor any other sort of Christian
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 01:49 PM by Walt Starr
I'm not Jewish, nor am I a Muslim.

I'm not a Hindu, nor a Buddhist.

I am a PAGAN, and damned proud of it!
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:15 PM
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22. Save The GROUNDHOG!!!!!! when will the madness stop???
Pretty soon you people will be insisting that we remove all references to the GroundHog in our public schools!! Don't you realize that this Country was FOUNDED on the GROUND??? If you hippies suceed in your war on GroundHog Day, then I will simply have to home school my children... they do not deserve to have their beliefs ripped to pieces by you people. :crazy:
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:20 PM
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24. Is Groundhog Day a teachable alternative to meteorology...
After all if the length of winter can be determined by the Groundhog's shadow, isn't that as reasonable a theory as the elliptical orbit and angular shift of the earth? Shouldn't we teach both theories to our students and let them make up their own mind?
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SpaceCatMeetsMars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:30 PM
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25. As a native of Pennsylvania, I will not stand to be PERSECUTED like this!
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 12:33 PM by SpaceCatMeetsMars
I'm calling O'Reilly this minute. He will put a stop to this, since he was so successful at stopping the Great War on Christmas of 2005.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:34 PM
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26. ah hahahahah taht is funny. you go girl/guy n/t
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:37 PM
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28. LOL!!!!!!1 and Rec n/t
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:41 PM
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30. groundhog day
No thats the day when Dick Cheney raises his ugly head out of his undisclosed location....if he
sees his big shadow, then we have another year of "War on Terra"
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 12:49 PM
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32. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:38 PM
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34. Yesssss- but 1st we must destroy New Years Eve and MLK day!!!!
All in good time, all in good time!
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:41 PM
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35. then Chinese/Lunar New Year on February 9
According to the Lunar New Year, it will be 4073.

Everyone knows the world is 6,000 years old.
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