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Phil and Willie How can we allow rodents to rule our lives? Six more weeks of winter! Yep, that's the consensus of the groundhog gods both north and south of the border. Phil pronounced first. He saw his shadow and by tradition that means six more weeks of winter's icy chill. Ditto Willie in Wiarton - shadow: six weeks of winter. But fear not. The two varmits have a dismal record of prognostication , as you'll see from my earlier post. And if you thought you knew everything there was to know - or wanted to know - about Groundhog Day, think again. My colleagues at HumorBloggers Dot Com have come up with lots of news you can use in our first Annual Groundhog Day Humor Carnival .

Hey, when you think of Groundhog Day, what comes to mind? Bill Murray? Or this little guy? At this time of year you probably think of the little ball of fur. But any other time, I'm sure it's the movie, starring Bill Murray that comes to mind. And that's fine. I'm with you. After all, the damn little rodent is a poseur. Yep, that's right, everybody thinks he knows what he's doing but it turns out he's wrong more than he's right. Here's what the day is all about... But a Canadian study (leave it to those Canucks) conducted over 30 to 40 years showed that for nearly two-thirds of those years the groundhogs' forecasts turned out to be wrong. That's right, either they were contrary to what they should have been, or winter dragged on its normal duration. Groundhogs across the nation had a dismal record of being right about 37% of the time. For shame. No wonder they've been the subject of ridicule. And look at the names they've been give...