Updating Groundhog Day Traditions
I signed into Twitter today and there was a lot of chatter about Groundhog Day. Morbius Kromwell got me thinking when he tweeted "Just once, instead of a groundhog, I wish some mutant creature from the depths of hell would rise and wreak havoc...". I started musing about ways to improve this holiday.
This is what I've come up with.
We replace the Groundhog with a Chicken. On the special day, the chicken gets decapitated. If it runs around for more than 1 minute, it means we have a longer winter. If the corpse stops moving before then, we have an early spring (hence the term "spring chicken").
If children in the crowd of festivities get splattered with blood as the chicken runs around, it means more precipitation (rain or snow depending on the spring/winter forecast).
AND best of all, if someone eats the chicken - and by doing so, devours the chicken's living essence/soul - THEY get to overrule the outcome of the chicken run and decide what the forecast will be.
There is a small group of supporters already. Who else is with me?
this creeps me out a bit. But I cannot deny how original and funny it is! I have to admit it made me laugh and I was just about to type "I'm with you!" until I remembered that vegetarian thing...rats! (No, I am not suggesting we kill rats instead :D)
As always, thanks for making my day!
Cheers!
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Submitted by The Frog Queen (not verified) on February 2, 2010 - 1:08pm.Having once been a vegetarian for 5 years, I can appreciate your stance. Secretly, I'm not for the murdering of animals for a ritual weather-reading, but maybe this works if the chicken was free range and someone ate it afterward ;) lol
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Submitted by Ghoul Friday on February 2, 2010 - 2:36pm..... as if the groundhog doesn't already have it bad enough
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Submitted by A Nameless Minion (not verified) on February 2, 2010 - 2:38pm.What happens if we get a repeat of Mike, the chicken that refused to die for 18 months after the old CHOP :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
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Submitted by Zombie Bob (not verified) on February 2, 2010 - 3:16pm.... a meatless option: how about Tofurky Day?
I hear they don't run very fast and there is less chance of a blood bath, just a thought.
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Submitted by Cooter (not verified) on February 2, 2010 - 4:30pm.lol yes, but we'd always have the same outcome every year since I hear the tofurkey doesn't move very much ;)
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Submitted by Ghoul Friday on February 3, 2010 - 10:35am.As someone whose knowledge of Groundhog Day comes from the Bill Murray movie, I've got to say that Headless Chicken Day doesn't sound that much stranger than the actual practise, albeit a bit messier.
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Submitted by Holly (not verified) on February 2, 2010 - 8:20pm.. . . love chicken, I'd be happy with any animal that wasn't afraid of its own shadow.
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