This is not news nor fark.

I pooped a groundhog and it saw the shadow of my brown eye. (six more weeks of butter thighs)

good for them , worthless without photoshop of groundhog pic

Six more weeks months.

So in Canada six more weeks of Winter means an early Spring?

Marmota monax have to be, without any doubt, the most stupid members of the entire family of Scuiridae. They are lousy weather forecasters and their lack of opposable thumbs makes them all but useless in the service industry. I'm sorry if this comes across as speciesist, but I've never met a single groundhog/woodchuck/whistlepig that wasn't a complete burden to society.

I'll gladly take only six more weeks of winter.

I read that as Manitoba Perv.

I dismissed it as likely redundant.

In Winnipeg, every year winter ends just in time for winter to start again.

/former Winnipegger

Manitoba Merv sounds like the name of a professional wrestler who would've had a feud with The Mountie or something...

Anybody have any idea how many days are actually shown in Groundhog Day? Everything I've read says 34 are shown, but I think that must be full days shown. There are many sections where they show the same thing happening over and over in quick succession, and there must be more than 34 days shown. Someone should count for me.

You hardly need to be Nostradamus to figure out that there's at least 6 more weeks of winter in Manitoba. If spring shows up in all earnestness before the beginning of April, you'd be lucky.

I_Hate_Iowa: Anybody have any idea how many days are actually shown in Groundhog Day? Everything I've read says 34 are shown, but I think that must be full days shown. There are many sections where they show the same thing happening over and over in quick succession, and there must be more than 34 days shown. Someone should count for me.

Harold Ramis (writer/director) says that the day repeats for 10 years on the latest DVD commentary.

Ten years? I knew Bill Murray is mean, but yow.

But what does Handsome Jack Manitoba think?

When in Winnerpeg, you must remember, it gets damn hot in the summer (sometimes it will hit 40 Celcius, to the Imperial Units types, that is HOT) and can get damn cold in the winter at -45 Celcius (to the Imperial Unit types, that is friggin' cold).

So how is this news?

I could have predicted this.

Winnipeg is nestled in the asscrack of satan. In the summer you boil alive if the flies don't eat you and you freeze to death if you aren't dragged away by a roaming polar bear.

Former `pegger. I'm glad I no longer live in a place where, on a cold night, exposed nose hairs freeze.

Am I the only one that read that there wasn't a groundhog involved in this at all, but rather a puppet?

I'm not saying that relying on a groundhog for predictions is much better, but a puppet? Because it's mean to wake up a rodent?

W
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F
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wtf... has the Sun stopped using spaces on their front page??

What, no love for Balzac Billy?

Manitoba Merv is a hack.

Whatever happened to Punxatawny Phil? Did he die?

/I've got you, babe.

this is what I think of groundhogs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srzn4eKprQc


/can't wait for spring
//just sighted my rifle in today

Manitoba Merv, that's my dad's name, too funny. Merv, not Manitoba, he lives in Toronto. Actually he lives in Mississauga, hmmmmmm.

I wonder would you get the same result with a Beaver?

Only Six more weeks?

He must be new to Winnipeg.

oryx: So in Canada six more weeks of Winter means an early Spring?

Damn. You beat me to it.

I heard Manitoba Merv and Punxatawny Phil are an item.

Al Gore predicts there will be no more winters.

But then again, he is from the ice planet, Hoth, and temperatures above freezing are painfully hot to him.

dervish16108: I heard Manitoba Merv and Punxatawny Punxsutawney Phil are an item.
FTFY

Screw Manitoba Merv, worthless ripoff. There hasn't been a worse one-sided celebrity wedding since Britney and K-Fed, and look how well that turned out for her.

There can be only one... and Phil is it.

The bastard moved to Manitoba? I thought he was dead?

WTF? Where's Wiarton Willy and who is this punk?

The_Religious_Left: WTF? Where's Wiarton Willy and who is this punk?

Didn't Willy go all still and dead last year? Merv is the replacement I believe.

Predicted 6 more weeks of winter for the 'Peg? Well ain't this just the Ric Romero of the rodent world.

You spelled it wrong. it's WINTERPEG.

Take that, global warming kooks.

I grew up in Winnipeg thinking that six more weeks of winter was an early spring, so I am really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

Bad_ad85: This is not news nor fark.

If it's not news
then it is FARK

"Merv has been right pretty much every year, except in 1997"

He's either been right every year, except in '97. Or he's been pretty much right every year. You can't have it both ways!

I think he's mistaken. Winterpeg gets only six weeks of summer at best.

Ghastly: I think he's mistaken. Winterpeg gets only six weeks of summer at best.

It's referred to as "Contruction" not "Summer".

9 months of Winter, 1 month of Thaw, 1 month of Mosquitoes, and one month of Construction.

/Hate Winterpeg Manitscolda

So this was greenlit for the 5 farkers from winnipeg?

theres clearly almost 10 of us, jerk.

Manitoba Merv the groundhog predicts six more weeks of winter for Winnipeg

Try sixteen. Or sixty.

Tiiger
It's referred to as "Contruction" not "Summer".

9 months of Winter, 1 month of Thaw, 1 month of Mosquitoes, and one month of Construction.


THIS!!!

I can't believe I was looking forward to Winter last Summer/Fall.
I guess i was thinking about it with rose coloured glasses. [anything to get rid of those damned misquitoes and +33C weather.]
I pictured -10C to -4C [hey, it *was* a pretty warm winter the last year or two, if remember correctly] and nice fresh snow, softly falling. Instead we get -20 to -30 with a -40C windchill for weeks at a time, with an occasional teasing of -4C or -8C inbetween!!

/"Forcast for tonight:....Dark. With mostly scattered light begining in the morning". George Carlin FTW.

// cue "One Great City" by The Weakerthans.

/// i don't really follow the groundhog. It's just a stupid superstition.

MooseUpNorth: oryx: So in Canada six more weeks of Winter means an early Spring?

Damn. You beat me to it.

If he sees his shadow it's six more weeks of winter.
If he doesn't, spring with come in 1 1/2 months...

Just like a pedestrian pushing that button on the stop light to make it change.

If one pushes it, the light changes to green in 30 seconds.
If one does NOT push it, the light changes in 1/2 minutes...

I hear, though, that it's already Springtime in Germany.

/Heil myself

Lovin' the Groundhog's name.

*chants for Merv*

There can only be one. Merv isn't even eligible to be a contender.

Go away, Phaux Phil.

Do not want.

You know,

I've always wondered what would happen if, one day, the groundhog just simply freaked out and died on the spot.