On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:32:22 -0400, "Charlie Bress"
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><aspasia> wrote in message
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>> This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address
>> occurred on the same day.
>>
>> And as it has been pointed out, "It is an ironic juxtaposition of
>> events: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a
>> creature of little intelligence for prognostication, while the other
>> involves a groundhog."
>>
>> Aspasia
>
>Just another fallacy. The State of the Union address was Jan 28.
>Groundhog Day (US & Canada) is always Feb 2
>So what exactly was being pointed out?
>
I assume that the satirical comment (which I am not clever enough to
have composed) took poetic license to make a really funny point.
Aspasia