{"id":377,"date":"2008-03-10T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T11:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/03\/10\/wiarton-willy-is-a-big-fat-fraud\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:49:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:49:27","slug":"wiarton-willy-is-a-big-fat-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/03\/10\/wiarton-willy-is-a-big-fat-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiarton Willy is a Big, Fat Fraud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_confused.gif\" alt=\"Confused\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Confused&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/action_eat.gif\" alt=\"Eating Breakfast\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> Eating Breakfast&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbrucepeninsula.com\/index.cfm?member=willie\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Wiarton Willy<\/a> is one of the Canadian groundhogs that predicts the coming of Spring every February 2.  That&#8217;s right, one of.  We are such a socialist country that we have three of them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20080202\/groundhog_day_080202\/20080202?hub=CTVNewsAt11\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">the rodent predicted an early spring<\/a>.  So did his comrades.<\/p>\n<p>As I look out my window at the 56 cm (official final total) of snow that fell this weekend, on top of the 28 cm from Wednesday &#8211; bringing us to 410.7 cm in total this year &#8211; I have come to the conclusion that Wiarton Willy is a fraud.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time this rodent becomes roadkill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Confused&nbsp;][&nbsp; Currently: Eating Breakfast&nbsp;]Wiarton Willy is one of the Canadian groundhogs that predicts the coming of Spring every February 2. That&#8217;s right, one of. We are such a socialist country that we have three of them. 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