Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 01, 2021

Yay to Pucky telling it like it is!

Gasp! Puck just figured it out…..Many hooomans are also in on the scam!

And here’s Goldie on-paw for a hard-hitting investigation of this dastardly deception from Outside!

Never heard the ‘six weeks away from spring’ bit. Did Elvis get that mixed up? XD;

Of course, if he did. He’ll never admit it. X3

Also: Goldie and Lupin. X333

Goldie and Lupin, doing it with a smile! Does this mean they’re now frenemies?

DA DA DA DAAAAA….. or is that DOOM ?!?!

My birthday is on Groundhog’s Day. Lucky me!

Yeah, you can’t trust those groundhogs.

Finally, a newscater, reporter figures it out. No matter whether a groundhog in PA, or CA, spring will arrive in about six weeks. probably a bit early as Easter is early this year.

My dad was born and raised in Punxsutawney, PA, home of the Groundhog. We used to have a PA, Groundhog/PA party this time of year here in the Houston area. But now between the group aging and covid it is over for now. BTW, the movie was filmed in Ohio and the real celebration was outside of town in the woods.

Gotta love a holiday named for a rodent, and memorialized in one of the all-time great films.

From the movie Groundhog Day: Delbert McClinton sings The Weatherman

Predictions show more cold and snow

The timing is still the same

And spring will come and winter go,

In six weeks as they claim

…….

Pucky can’t believe it

What he believed is a scam,

Is it six weeks to warmup?

Yeah, according to the weatherman!

…….

Cold winds blowin’

Snow is drivin’ everyone insane

Hard rain’s fallin’

It’s all the same!

…….

If precipitation is all a wintry mix

The groundhog can’t tell

Elvis is the weathercat

Elvis is the weathercat

…….

They say it’s gone say winter’s done.

But Pucky knows the truth

It’s six weeks or a month and a half

Until it turns into spring

…….

So if you’re tired of winter,

Please understand that

Someday it will warm up,

Just ask the weathercat!

Doesn’t look like a high-five Goldie and Lupin are giving each other; on the other hand, it doesn’t look too serious, either.

How do they know whether the groundhog has seen its shadow or not? The weather might be clear, but the groundhog could have been inattentive, or distracted by its iPhone, or just downright bolshy and thus refusing to look. And how clear does the shadow have to be to count as a shadow?

Have to love Goldie and Lupin doing the fist pump. Yeah Groundhog Day is just around the corner, sometimes catch a bit of it on the Weather Channel, they usually send one of their meteorologists out to cover it. The movie might have been the last Bill Murray movie I watched in the cinema as well.

The truth is out there.

And he pulls it every year.

I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS.

All right, here it goes. The ground hog lives in a little den by the library in the town and every year they take him.out and transport him to a place outside of town called Gobblers Knob. And once there, amid much pomp and circumstance,is pulled out his fake lair, by people caots and top hats, before the sun even comes up to make his official proclamation, “Hear ye, hear ye! The prognosticator of prognosticators has ….” and makes his weather prediction.

I never understood the alternative. What happens if the groundhog doesn’t see his shadow?

Poor Pucky. He’s a study in disillusionment.

Welcome to my birthday month! It’s been such a dismal year, I figure I can celebrate for the next couple of weeks.

Puck is smarter than millions of hoomins….

Happy Groundhog Day Eve!

Clutch the pearls! :-O

This is not how I was taught it works. Atlanta, Georgia, has its own groundhog, and he almost always agrees with that Northern groundhog. It’s either 6 more weeks of winter or an early spring, 2 different options. And you don’t have to speak Groundhog to know; it just depends on whether it is cloudy or not that day. Of course here in the South winter is mostly over by the end of February.

QT has decided that she likes one of Kiki’s cat toys.

You know the kind that has the electronic tweeter in it. :D

So I got my English teacher to read some of the BCN comics in class, and I think she’s a fan now.

But what do the groundhogs stand to gain from this “scam?” I think “somecat” needs to do a hard-hitting investigative report.

The cats will have to send tommy out to cast a shadow ( or not) and send bea to broadcast the results.

The groundhogs started it just to get presents.

hey look, everyone’s at the table, and Goldie and lupin are not afraid to show their mutual dislike of one another in the workplace

Groundhog, groundhog, groundhog

Roamin’ cross the prairie wide!

Groundhog, groundhog, groundhog

Ride groundhog, ride!

Sung to the tune of the Boomtown theme for those old enough to remember

My dad always (half-seriously) calls Groundhog Day “the most important holiday of them all.” From now on, instead of just rolling my eyes and shaking my head, I am tempted to send him this strip . . .

I—wait…huh…you know, I never once, in all these years, ever stopped to think about that? :P

And if you want to be different, Happy Imbolc! Have a grand St. Bridget’s Day! Blessed Candlemas! Follow whatever ritual you like to Carry Winter Away!

I once saw a real, live, groundhog in the field across the road on February 2, basking in the sun. Why would groundhogs be afraid of their shadow on February 2 but not on the other days of the year?

OT: Spreadsheets… and me.

I’m in the area where there is a distinct difference between “six weeks of winter” and “siz weeks of winter from now”. The latter puts it about mid-March. The former can paint it in mid-May.

As a child I was confused by all the stories about various ‘heroes’ keeping the ground hog from seeing his shadow because they didn’t want six more weeks of winter. Where I lived having only six more weeks of winter would be a GOOD idea. It never occurred to me (or any of my grade school teachers it seems) that there were places where spring could come in early March and not early (or mid) April.

Groundhogs moved into my woods for the first time a few years ago, but I wouldn’t trust the destructive fatballs as weather indicators. Robin flocks, however, do a good job. When the robins show up, it means we’ll have one final cold spell, then spring shows up a few weeks after that.

I agree with Pucky, how does a groundhog looking at its shadow change the weather?

And just a reminder to flip to the new month on your BCN calendar and see Tabitha toe beans in an instant replay as she catches the red dot!

Scheming rodents

’bout time someone figured that one out! lol! Way back before mankind had all these fancy machines to keep us informed of what the weather will be like, mankind had to rely on nature to give them clues, really good clues.

Oh happy birthday >3

Check out today’s Non-Sequitur: https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2021/02/01?ct=v&cti=1491470

There is an adorable groundhog on Instagram. Check out Chunk the Groundhog. You’ll find yourself visiting more than once.

Does anybody else think Goldie looks just a bit distorted on the outside edge, as if the image had to be squished a bit to get it to fit the form?

OH MY CAT!!! AN EXPOUSRE!!

OT: Santana

WINTER WEATHER, ELVIS!!!!! GET IT RIGHT!. We’re in for six more weeks of winter whether or not it sees it’s shadow. But are we in for six more weeks of winter weather or will spring weather come early?

In the far north we ask, six weeks from now or six additional weeks?

Looking forward to this week!

Around these parts we have Wiarton Willie, a white groundhog prognosticator. I am usually grateful, though, if we ONLY have six more weeks of winter. :)

G A S P

It really is a Groundhog Scam, a Chamber-of-Commerce Stunt and a Slow News Day Filler. So, it gets a bunch of reporters out in the fresh air for a while. As long as nobody drops the groundhog (again), no harm is done.

its a scam!!!!!!!!

oh my ground hog day is a scam