Punxutawney Phil

[Mark Mandel]

Officially, it's "Punxsatawney", with "xs", which seems
phonologically... excessive... <gd&ra>
Mark Mandel


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> At 2/3/2009 06:45 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >Poor Phil has fallen victim to the awe droppers.
>
> I lost my awe for Phil years ago.*  On the other hand, I still have
> awe for "Groundhog Day" (1993).
>
> Joel
>
> * Figuratively speaking, only.

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