Today Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his hole to signal spring’s arrival in six weeks.
Thousands of people without any real purpose in their life showed up in the Pennsylvania town to celebrate the old German holiday and organizers stated that the furry rodents’ forecasts are accurate 75% to 90% of the time.
More interesting is that my nephew Matt posted an article questioning how much time Phil Connors from GROUNDHOG DAY spent repeating February 2. The film’s director Harold Ramis had answered 8 years, 8 months, and 16 days, although one critic of this estimate questioned whether you could become a pianist in ten years and broke down the time sequence as follows;
Day 1: Groundhog Day
Day 2: The first repetition
Day 3: The fixed pencil
Day 4: Punching Ned
Day 5: Deceiving Nancy
Day 6: Robbing the bank
Day 7: Seeing Heidi 2 with a French Maid
Days 8-12: Engineering the near-perfect date
Day 13: The bad perfect date
Days 14-21: One for every slap
Day 22: “Phil you look terrible!”
Day 23: Jeopardy
Day 24: “This is pitiful!”
Days 25-27: Breaking the alarm clock
Day 28: Kidnapping Punxsutawney Phil
Day 29-31: Phil’s suicides
Day 32: I’m a God!
Days 33- 35: First piano lessons
Day 36: Sexually harassing Ned
Day 37: Looking after the homeless man
Day 38: The final Groundhog Day
ps Bill Murray is capable of anything.