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Groundhog Day Meaning

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Title text: Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.

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This comic was posted on Groundhog Day, February 2nd. Cueball is shown explaining the holiday to Black Hat.

Groundhog Day originates from a superstition regarding the behaviour of a groundhog. Supposedly, if the groundhog does not see its shadow, the spring thaw is likely to happen shortly thereafter. If it does see its shadow, however, it is frightened and retreats into its burrow, and six more weeks of winter await.

Groundhog Day is also the title of a film starring Bill Murray. In the film, Murray's character is trapped in a time loop centered on Groundhog Day; no matter how his day ends - whether by falling asleep at the end of the day or dying somewhere during the event - he wakes up on the morning of Groundhog Day again, retaining his memories of the previous loop(s) while the rest of the world sees nothing amiss. The movie has become synonymous with the plot element of a time loop in English-speaking cultures.

Black Hat, apparently representing someone who has never heard of Groundhog Day in any context, is baffled. Whether his reaction is due to the historical origin, the time loop plot, or the incongruity between the two meanings is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Cueball: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean "a time loop experienced by one person."

Black Hat: ...what.

[Caption below the panel:]

Easily our weirdest holiday.

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This is not. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 17:01) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this

^furhhfghure _{guyrburgryhuyvfr} "rvhru"

interesting way of writing quotations xd

hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
108.162.241.216 02:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

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<a href=" [AT THE JULY 28TH MEETING][tab] "Cancel the meeting! Our cover is blown.">

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