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<blockquote data-quote="Victoria" data-source="post: 497265" data-attributes="member: 1258"><p>Well, our Albertan groundhog, Balzac Billy, did not see his shadow. Neither did our best known Canadian groundhog Wiarton Willie in Ontario. Our second most well-known groundhog in Canada, Shubenacadie Sam who comes from Nova Scotia also did not see his shadow. :banana: </p><p>My condolences to all of you Americans since Phil saw his shadow.</p><p></p><p>I liked what one of the CBC news reporters said in 2007; "It's always been a pack of lies, of course, but it's fun, and we need fun if we are to survive another Canadian February."</p><p></p><p>Supposedly groundhogs are accuarate 37% of the time according to scientific studies.</p><p></p><p>Here's a humourous about Ontario's original Wiarton Willie (from CBC):</p><p>"The original Wiarton Willie, an albino groundhog said to be 22 years old, died during hibernation during the winter of 1998-99. The good burghers of Wiarton discovered this to their horror just before Groundhog Day 1999.</p><p></p><p>Willie's death made headlines around the world.</p><p></p><p>On Groundhog Day, they put Wiarton Willie face-up in a small pine casket, bright pennies over his eyes, paws clutching a raw carrot. But it was a fake! Turns out the real Wiarton Willie was so disgustingly decomposed he couldn't be put on display, so they found a stuffed facsimile and laid it in the casket.</p><p></p><p>"We didn't try to hide the fact that he was stuffed," said Tom Ashman of Wiarton Willie's publicity team. "If the media had been doing their job they would have seen the stitches on the belly."</p><p></p><p>But, why fake it?</p><p></p><p>"People needed closure," Ashman explained."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victoria, post: 497265, member: 1258"] Well, our Albertan groundhog, Balzac Billy, did not see his shadow. Neither did our best known Canadian groundhog Wiarton Willie in Ontario. Our second most well-known groundhog in Canada, Shubenacadie Sam who comes from Nova Scotia also did not see his shadow. :banana: My condolences to all of you Americans since Phil saw his shadow. I liked what one of the CBC news reporters said in 2007; "It's always been a pack of lies, of course, but it's fun, and we need fun if we are to survive another Canadian February." Supposedly groundhogs are accuarate 37% of the time according to scientific studies. Here's a humourous about Ontario's original Wiarton Willie (from CBC): "The original Wiarton Willie, an albino groundhog said to be 22 years old, died during hibernation during the winter of 1998-99. The good burghers of Wiarton discovered this to their horror just before Groundhog Day 1999. Willie's death made headlines around the world. On Groundhog Day, they put Wiarton Willie face-up in a small pine casket, bright pennies over his eyes, paws clutching a raw carrot. But it was a fake! Turns out the real Wiarton Willie was so disgustingly decomposed he couldn't be put on display, so they found a stuffed facsimile and laid it in the casket. "We didn't try to hide the fact that he was stuffed," said Tom Ashman of Wiarton Willie's publicity team. "If the media had been doing their job they would have seen the stitches on the belly." But, why fake it? "People needed closure," Ashman explained." [/QUOTE]
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