Besides the fact that it's fixed, is the stakes aren't high enough. Six more weeks of winter, five more weeks of winter, who gives a shit? Now say, for example, we change the rules so that if the groundhog comes out of his hole and sees his shadow, each and every human on the planet has to move to the first country to their left. Suddenly people would have something riding on the whole groundhog-shadow business. Because some of them would like to move to the first country on their left, and some people wouldn't. You'd have the kind of yearly event that people would care about. They'd care enough, lots of them, to threaten the groundhog's life.
Monday, February 2, could be the first day of your new life in Bazookistan
Looks like that groundhog needs to push himself back from the table a little sooner.
Posted by: Ben | January 30, 2009 at 01:41 PM
And he must have been pretty damn close, given his lack of arms.
Posted by: UF Mike | January 30, 2009 at 04:18 PM