"New Jersey's Milltown Mel "recently crossed over the rainbow bridge," his handlers say — and they scrambled to find a replacement rodent for Groundhog Day, to no avail."
Only in New Jersey. There 2022 will be known as the Year of the Forever Winter.
But then there's that thing called Global Warming. I suspect this "Forever Winter" is just a jink in the weather pattern. I suspect NJ will soon return to warmer summers and warmer winters.
Here in California the big problem is not enough snow and rain. Again, global warming likely the culprit. Please, NJ, send us some of your snow and rain. Hurry.
Phil's been at it for 120 years or so, but since 1969, his accuracy has been about 36%, or slightly better than Vrede's March Madness picks. On could make the argument that it isn't Phil that's wrong, it's those who interpret his work. If we said "see his shadow, early spring," he'd have been right 64% of the time, well over chance.
Phil's been at it for 120 years or so, but since 1969, his accuracy has been about 36%, or slightly better than Vrede's March Madness picks. On could make the argument that it isn't Phil that's wrong, it's those who interpret his work. If we said "see his shadow, early spring," he'd have been right 64% of the time, well over chance.
Average age in the wild - 6 years
In captivity as much as 14.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
So how does Phil stack up against human forecasters? "If Punxsutawney Phil is right 39% of the time, that's much, much worse than a climatological prediction," Roche said. "Even if you flip a coin, you'll still be right close to half of the time. That's a 50 percent accuracy rate. So you'll be better off flipping a coin than going by the groundhog's predictions."
I think Phil just decides the night before if he wants to chance being fish slapped or stomped tomorrow or if he wants to go back to bed. People build fires and commit crimes based on this junk.
Everybody knows that Phil, along with his pretender wannabes, is just part of a game to break up a miserable time of the year, and nobody really cares if he's right or wrong. In fact, even determining what is "right" is a bit fuzzy since the first day of Spring is about 6 weeks from Groundhog day no matter what. And it doesn't matter if Phil "sees" his shadow - it's whether or not he casts a shadow. So the theory comes down to one issue: whether or not February 2 is sunshiny or cloudy can predict the severity of the remaining 6 weeks of Winter. And since Phil doesn't actually speak or write his "prediction," if he's wrong or right is really the humans' fault. But as I noted previously, if you reverse the meaning humans have given to Phils shadow, he'd have a 60+ percent right record, which is about the same real scientific humans have for predicting the same thing -which is whether a specific 6 week period will be "mild" or harsh.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A large bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the sled dog team of a rookie Iditarod musher in the wilds of Alaska last week — and the attack didn't end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied her gun into the animal. She said on Facebook Friday that the moose, after seriously injuring four of her dogs, wouldn't leave and that the ordeal stopped only after she called friends for help and one showed up with a larger caliber gun and killed the moose.
“This has been the most horrific past 24 hours of my life,” she posted after the Thursday moose attack on the Salcha River trail system near Fairbanks. Watkins wrote that the attack, first reported by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, happened while she was on a 52-mile (83.7-kilometer) training run for the nearly 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It starts March 5 in Anchorage.
"As he charged me I emptied my gun into him and he never stopped,” she wrote on Facebook. “I ran for my life and prayed I was fast enough to not be killed in that moment. He trampled the team and then turned for us.” The moose stopped its charge toward them about 2 feet (0.6 meters) from the snowmobile and she managed to cut free six dogs that were tied to the machine. But the moose went back to her sled and began stomping the dogs that were still tethered to it — standing over the dogs and trampling them repeatedly for over an hour.
“I have never felt so helpless in my life,” Watkins wrote. “He would not leave us alone and he even stood over top of the team refusing to retreat.”
... seriously injuring four of her dogs, wouldn't leave and that the ordeal stopped only after she called friends for help and one showed up with a larger caliber gun and killed the moose....
... seriously injuring four of her dogs, wouldn't leave and that the ordeal stopped only after she called friends for help and one showed up with a larger caliber gun and killed the moose....
Neobullwinkle?
This is funny to you?
Not a well man.
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... seriously injuring four of her dogs, wouldn't leave and that the ordeal stopped only after she called friends for help and one showed up with a larger caliber gun and killed the moose....
