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  • Re: Ryan and the Rodent

    From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to Nightfox on Wed Feb 18 17:36:44 2026
    This is one of those things that I must have somehow missed
    when I was growing up. I'd never heard of Groundhog Day or
    Punxatawney Phil until the movie "Groundhog Day" came out in
    1993, and I was wondering what the title meant. When I learned
    what Groundhog Day is, I was wondering if people actually do
    that. :P

    Quite a few of those things in the movie were obviously absurd.
    But, that is their big tourism money maker each year.

    In the wake of Phil's forecast for 6 more weeks of winter, there
    have been a ton of memes on Phil's fate, including:

    1) Witness Protection Program.
    2) Jailed with repeated charges of escape attempts.
    3) Caught a flight to Mexico, where it was warmer.
    4) His ex-wife, divorcing him, as he was "a pathological liar".
    5) Dressed up in military fatigues, with a bulletproof vest,
    a rifle, and magazines of shells.
    6) A wolf in the snow that said "he ate the groundhog, as he
    had said '6 more weeks of winter'".

    In short, Phil must have a lot of cousins or impersonators!! Of
    course, he's not the only groundhog, but that's a yearly ritual.

    Another cartoon had a groundhog in his underground burrow,
    rapidly running between computers with weather data.

    I will say that "the girlfriend" in the movie was rather cute. :)

    Daryl

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Daryl Stout on Thu Feb 19 07:16:36 2026
    Daryl Stout wrote to Nightfox <=-

    I will say that "the girlfriend" in the movie was rather cute. :)

    There's a podcast called "I was there, too" where they interview people
    with minor roles in major films. They interviewed Steven Tobolowsky, who
    played Ned Ryerson, the insurance salesman who recognizes Bill Murray on
    the street several times.

    It's interesting to see what they thought of the lead actors behind the
    scenes, and what it was like filming the movie.




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