It’s about damn time! Groundhogs are regularly abused and mishandled all over the U.S. on February 2 in the annual ritual of Groundhog Day. But Jimmy the Groundhog in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, got his revenge on behalf of all rodentdom. As WISC.tv reports:
Just as Sun Prairie Mayor Jonathan Freund, leaned in to hear Jimmy’s prediction, he was bitten in the ear by the groundhog. He then declared Jimmy didn’t see his shadow and there would be an early spring.
One of Jimmy’s caretakers, Jerry Hahn, told News 3 the mayor may have misinterpreted Jimmy, and there would be six more weeks of winter. Hahn added this was Mayor Freund’s first time participating, which could have added to the confusion.
This is like theology: they already had their conclusion, and simply made up stuff to confirm it. It’s rodentsplaining!
The groundhog was trying to tell the mayor to get a less ostentatious means of transport.
Ha! I mentioned that if I were a groundhog, I’d bite the person you dragged me out from sleeping in the middle of winter & this groundhog did! Good for him!
I think the ground hog said to the major – Bite Me.
CAN WE CALL THAT EAR BITING GROUNDHOG
“MIKE TYSON”!!!!
Or Luis (?) Suarez, the Uruguayan footballer, aka The Chomper.
EXACTLEY!!!!RIGHT ON!your reference is more timely then mine!
did the mayor need stitches?? or the groundhog need an oral surgeon?
The real question is which one got the rabies shot.
LOL!
Diana MJcPherson told us yesterday:
“I’d bite the handler if I were the groundhog – see how what that means for the future!”
Diana is a wizard !
oups, McPherson, sorry for the J
LOL! Notice you never see me or the groundhog at the same time….
Diana- are you hogging the poor groundhog’s burrow??
Anything to get a good Reader’s Wildlife Photo!
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Win for the woodchuck!
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How many mayors can a woodchuck chomp…
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Substitute “chumps” for “mayors,” and you’ve even improved on the original tongue twister.
Perfect! Shall we copyright it? The new Lennon and McCartney?
Uh….
Well, sure! Then I think we should retire on our laurel.
yeah, laurel singular;-)
We deny scientific consensus about climate change but rely on a rodent to predict the weather. Only in America.
Make that North America…..
A rodent and a politician together in the same picture? Why do I think that there is a joke about two rats in there, just waiting to get out?
Don’t be rude to rodents!
I think the joke would be like so: A photograph of a member of a farm-destroying nuisance species, holding the groundhog that bit him.
Say, that’s a novel way to get a body piercing….
Sure, Mr. Woodchuck, I’d love a Prince Albert! Whatever that is, it sounds fancy OHMYGOD!!!
OMG is right! I just googled Prince Albert piercing, as I had no inkling. Warning to all — shield your eyes is you’re squeamish!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_%28genital_piercing%29
Luckily years ago, I had a cousin who told me about a guy who proudly showed his off.
The Wiki article may not be so friendly for work viewing as well.
Thanks for the reminder…. NSFW.
It occurs to me that “Muskrat Love,” the worst song recorded by America (or Captain & Tennille, for that matter, and that is saying something!), would be much improved rewritten to commemorate this event.
But then, that’s not a muskrat. “Marmota Love” maybe. I have to go pitch this to Willis Alan Ramsey …
MUCH better than the original ( but that ain’t sayin’ much…)
Why, thank y … HEY!
Rodentsplaining The Groundhog of Being.
Someone had to say it.
Ah! Well they should use a stuffed one…
eg http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/02/d-c-s-groundhog-potomac-phil-sees-his-shadow/
Indeed. If Clint Eastwood can use a fake baby in an Oscar-nominated film…
A stuffed baby? Now there’s an idea! 😉
FYI, same thing happened at the NC Museum of Natural History last year. Probably no the mayor and probably not on camera.
I grew up in Minnesota. We were happy when the groundhog saw its shadow because that meant only six more weeks of winter instead of the usual four months.
Seems like we should have a latitudinal cline of groundhogs such that south Florida ones predict no winter at all, while Barrow, Alaskan ones just stay in their burrows year-round…
I lived in Minnesota for 10 years. It’s the only place I’ve actually seen a groundhog and it was in a tree of all places.
I remember it was -42F one morning and my old Porsche actually started. Later, when I was a starving grad student and couldn’t afford a car, I rode my Honda 750 motorcycle all winter, even on the freeways, dressed in a snowmobile suit and a rain suit, with gloves covered with cowhide mittens. Those were probably the happiest days of my life.
I wasn’t expecting that ending. 😀
Michigan’s cold enough for me, thanks. Can’t imagine being on a ‘bike on the freeway in winter! I hate just standing outside when there’s a bad wind chill factor.
Groundhogs, or as they’re more often called in some places, woodchucks, often climb trees. We have one that scales our mulberry tree as soon as the berries are ripe.
I miss seeing them at my old job. The cute tubby things were all over areas of grass. The one place I saw them also had a couple of Hawks though!
You see, Diana, it’s called the circle of life…
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Hawks are cool to watch, too.
My dog treed one up by Geoegian Bay a few years ago. (I remember wearing shorts so it couldn’t have been GH Day). I had no idea it was a grounhog till I took a photo and did some googling later.
When you see a person who looks like a combination of Scott Walker and Chris Christie, the natural response is to bite.