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You did answer it but as a comment on another question so hard to find. You are not losing your mind!! :) Merry Christmas!
I think I am missing the point of the old joke, too…? Is there a joke about fathers or winter hidden in the groundhog seeing its shadow?
No, there is a joke about six weeks being the duration of half-a-quarter. The whole of the joke went, If the groundhog sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter, but if it does not, winter will hang on for a month and a half. (Or possibly the other way around; I disremember.)
Ta, L.
They definitely celebrate birthdays in The Sharing Knife!
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You did answer it but as a comment on another question so hard to find. You are not losing your mind!! :) Merry Christmas!
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I think I am missing the point of the old joke, too…? Is there a joke about fathers or winter hidden in the groundhog seeing its shadow?
No, there is a joke about six weeks being the duration of half-a-quarter. The whole of the joke went, If the groundhog sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter, but if it does not, winter will hang on for a month and a half. (Or possibly the other way around; I disremember.)Ta, L.
They definitely celebrate birthdays in The Sharing Knife!
