Talk:Punxsutawney Phil

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It's prety sad that half of the first paragraph is dedicated to an MTV show.

PocketPet

I changed "pocket pet" to no. How big are your pockets, anyway, and who keeps groundhogs as pets? Pustelnik (talk) 20:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other Groundhogs

In an effort to keep this page clear of unnecessary clutter/dead links any 'famous' groundhog that is added that does not have his own wiki article will be deleted. I will however add a link to profiles of other prognosticating groundhogs. --ImmortalGoddezz 19:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

the "in media" stuff was all deleted by a vandal who then added idiotic comments about masons or whatever.... when his comments were deleted, the stuff he deleted was not restored. I'm not bothering because quite frankly I give up - too many idiots on the net to even make wikipedia worth it anymore. Jafafa Hots 08:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry you feel that way, but for those of us who don't feel that wikipedia is a waste of time do try to make it better. The In Media section has been restored. --ImmortalGoddezz 18:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Century-Old Groundhog?

Surely the lifespan of these animals is no more than ten to fifteen years? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.32.8.33 (talk • contribs) 22:08, 3 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

According to the University of Michigan [1], the longest recorded lifespan in captivity is 10 years. I have noted this in the article. NTK 23:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any record of how many different Phils there may have been? NjtoTX (talk) 17:16, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's been only one Phil, didn't you read the about the immortality potion? 72.24.198.13 (talk) 19:30, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Prediction Accuracy

Is there any way that we can perhaps tell how accurate Phil's predictions have been?

You'd have to determine what exactly would constitute an "early spring", and whether one week of "early spring" conditions followed by five weeks of winter weather would mean that there were six discontinuous weeks of winter or an early spring that was interrupted... And then average that data for every day across the United States.

Personally, I'd prefer to save myself the trouble and assume that he's been accurate approximately half the time. Burpen 05:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]