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This is serious stuff.

You see, I mean Pennsylvania has this stupid little tradition about this. this is

is serious stuff.

Pennsylvania has this stupid little tradition about this punctualic fill, the drunken little

rodent that comes up on February 2nd and predicts the weather.

Well it's about time someone exposed a little sham for what it actually is and I'm the one to do it.

Oh, aren't you?

First of all, they say that if this weasel...

It is a weasel, grandfather's a weasel, isn't it?

If this weasel doesn't see a shadow, there will be only two more weeks of winter.

Come on, I mean when was the last time winter ended here in New England in the middle of February?

Or Pennsylvania for that man.

Or even Pennsylvania. It never ends in February. And here's the other bogus part of the

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