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Today for Connorsmas, my daughter got me this: Two things: 1. That’s the Beanie Baby version of Punxsutawney Phil ( his name is Punxsutawn- e Phil). Inside this tag is the following poem: At Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney Lives a groundhog who’s big and brawny Punxsutawney Phil’s the name Predicting spring is his game! And he was born February 2, 2002. Twenty years after Rubin et al went to Punxsutawney to see the festivities to figure out what they could use in the film. 2. Yes, I called today—December 25—Connorsmas. Yet another way for me to be blasphemous and cute at the same time. It occurred to me recently that Phil is not the only person to die in Groundhog Day and come back. O’Reilly does the same, and he dies without the expectation the next morning that he might be alive and… as well as could be expected for a homeless man. Speaking of O’Reilly, what kind of nurse tells the next of kin (as far as she knows) that his loved one (as far as she knows) “was just old” ...