Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: It's Groundhog Day!

Again.

 
Da queste parti invece e' "Candelora"
e dato che il sole e' spaccato, l'inverno non e' cominciato :(.
G

 Again.
February 2 - day on which the groundhog comes out of his den for the
first time (US popular legend states that if he does not see his
shadow there will be an early spring, if he sees his shadow there will
be six more weeks of winter)

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We have a conflict.
Punxsutawny* Phil (the "original" groundhog) did see his shadow: Six more 
weeks of winter.
Staten Island Chuck (our local groundhog) did not. SPRING IS HERE!
*It's pronounced punk-sa-TAW-ny. A Delaware Indian term meaning "town of the 
sandflies**." The town is in Pennsylvania.
**Sandfly: a small, hairy, biting fly of tropical and subtropical regions 
that transmits a number of diseases, including leishmaniasis***. ï¿œ Subfamily 
Phlebotominae, family Psychodidae: several genera, in particular Phlebotomus.
*** leishmaniasis:  a tropical and subtropical disease caused by leishmania 
and transmitted by the bite of sandflies. It affects either the skin or the 
internal organs. PR: leesh-ma-NYE-a-sis.
I'd rather be in Staten Island.
-- 
Joe/Joey da New York
English as she is spoken (and sometimes written) in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke

 Again.
I got you babe...
-- 
Anna

 internal organs. PR: leesh-ma-NYE-a-sis.
Qui in  Italia da qualche anno è arrivata la zanzara tigre che ti dà
dei bites terribili alle caviglie (vola bassa) per ora non porta
malattie ma pare che  potrebbe farlo, speriamo bene!
ciao

> Again.
"It's still just once a year, isn't it?"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/
Pleg

 I got you babe...
My take was that it was a Bill Murray reference. The Cher reference 
still escapes me.
Well, it did escape me until I just did a creative Google search. What a 
mind for trivia you have!

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Hum... That doesn't entirely sound like a compliment! :)
-- 
Anna

 Hum... That doesn't entirely sound like a compliment! :)
No? Beh, con ogni anno ho pi� rispetto e desiderio per la memoria che 
non traduisce, ma invece registra bene gli eventi che passano nella vita.

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Oh, now I see your point... Se ti pu� consolare, la mia memoria riesce a
richiamare con una certa facilit� soprattutto cose che ha registrato prima
del 1995; quello che viene dopo � generalmente molto pi� nebuloso, sigh...
Meno male che c'� google!
-- 
Anna

 malattie ma pare che  potrebbe farlo, speriamo bene!
I haven't seen them yet here in Turin, but
"Aedes albopictus puï¿œ trasmettere patogeni e virus come il virus della
febbre del Nilo, della febbre gialla, dell'encefalite di St. Louis, del
dengue, l'agente patogeno della dirofilariasi e chikungunya"
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus
-- 
Anna

Dopo dura riflessione, Tony The Ice Man ha scritto :
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Well, it's the song Phil had to listen every single morning for years 
and years. How could we (Groundhog Day fans) forget it?
I think I have seen that movie a hundred times.
It felt like being in it.
(And I have yet to find a solution to the Ned Ryerson conundrum)
cheers,
Peltio
"That about sums it up for me"

 (And I have yet to find a solution to the Ned Ryerson conundrum)
I assume that you're identifying with Phil here, and not Ned. You don't 
seem much like the Ned Ryerson type. Bing!
But you can always respond to any Ned-sayer with, "Ti mancavo da 
morire!" and give him a great, big hug. At least it would work in 
Pennsylvania.
Thanks to Google again, not Bing!