Everybody Feels So Determined Not to Feel Anyone Else's Pain
As excited as you all probably were about today being Groundhog Day, I"m going to make the bold proclamation that your combined excitement still fell short of this guy's enthusiasm.
While some people were excited about today's Groundhog Day festivies, others were not, particularly "Staten Island Chuck", who surprisingly is not a Yankees fan, but is instead Punxsutawney Phil's Big Apple-based doppelganger.Phil was as docile as usual, but the same couldn't be said for his grumpy New York City counterpart, Staten Island Chuck, who bit Mayor Michael Bloomberg during his annual forecasting ceremony on Monday.
"It nicked his hand," said Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser. The groundhog, officially named Charles G. Hogg, drew blood from the billionaire, but Bloomberg was told there was no risk of rabies.Groundhogs and the U.S. Congress: The Two Groups Trying to Bleed Billionaires These Days.
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week.
No, no, you're too kind.
Labels: Groundhog Day, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck, The Evil Empire
posted by Justin @ 2/02/2009 08:00:00 PM
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5 Comments:
Apparently Punxsutawney Phil doesn't actually see his shadow or not see his shadow. What Phil "sees" when he emerges is decided by secret ballot by a council of 14 before they pull him out for all the world to see. I have never felt more lied to.
More deliberate falsehoods like that and I'll have you kicked out of this blog, mister.
Next thing I know you're going to have me discussing how chickpeas are actually neither chicks nor peas.
You jest like a man who is finished with PC...
...or one just released from the gulag.
Alan,
I'm actually having Alexander Solzhenitsyn on later in the week.
He's going to kill.
Not really, though.
If an emoticon existed communicating the appreciative snapping of fingers, I would post it here.
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