Groundhog Day

[DaJudge]

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address occur on the same day.

It is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, while the other involves a groundhog.

[creepycrawler]

Juxtaposition......that's a pretty big word.

[DaJudge]

Juxtaposition......that's a pretty big word.
Yeah, almost as big as....prognostication. :flipoff2:

[Slacker]

Yeah, almost as big as....prognostication. :flipoff2:

Like you could prognosticate that I was coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolconoconiosis....:shrug:

[Dave McDonald]

Like you could prognosticate that I was coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolconoconiosis....:shrug:

Gesuntheit.

[DaJudge]

Like you could prognosticate that I was coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolconoconiosis....:shrug:
Or could guess you were going to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenakitanatahu for your next vacation:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/New_Zealand_0577.jpg/800px-New_Zealand_0577.jpg

[Slacker]

OK. You win.....

[Dave McDonald]

I an't readin all that.

[DaJudge]

OK. You win.....
You give up too easily. There is one longer (sorta) English word:

Lopadotemachoselachogameokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphio- paraomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryon- optekephalliokinklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon

is a fictional dish mentioned in Aristophanes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes)' comedy Assemblywomen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblywomen).

Look up lopadotemachosel... (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyp hophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon) in Wiktionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary), the free dictionary.

The original Greek spelling had 171 characters (something which is not
obvious in the Roman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_alphabet) transcription, depending on the variant) and for
centuries it was the longest word known (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#Coinages).

The dish was a fricassee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fricassee), with 17 sweet and sour ingredients, including
brains, honey, vinegar, fish, pickles, and the following:

Fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish) slices
Fish of the Elasmobranchii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmobranchii) subclass (a shark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark) or ray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray))
Rotted dogfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfish) or small shark's (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Small_shark%27s&action=edit) head
generally sharp-tasting dish of several ingredients grated and pounded together
Silphion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphion) "laserwort," apparently a kind of giant fennel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_fennel)
A kind of crab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab), beetle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle), or crayfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish)
Eagle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle)
Cheese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese)
Honey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey) poured down
Wrasse (or thrush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrush_%28bird%29))
On top of a kind of sea fish or Blackbird (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird)
Wood pigeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_pigeon)
Domestic pigeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_pigeon)
Chicken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken)
Roasted head of dabchick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabchick)
Hare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare), which could be a kind of bird (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird) or a kind of sea-hare (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sea-hare&action=edit)
New wine boiled down (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must)
Dessert fruit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dessert_fruit&action=edit) or thing eaten raw
Wing, finThe word-by-word translation is in the wiktionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary) entry (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyp hophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon).

[Oscar]

If I can't say it I don't eat it

[Slacker]

You give up too easily.....



Some of us actually have to work for a living and don't have time to spend hours surfing the webby for longer ones........ ;)

.........I spend enough work time already on CO4x4!! :D

[Waifer2112]

Personally, I believe in antidisestablishmentarianism.

But that's just me. I'm old school.

[Slacker]

If I can't say it I don't eat it

Looks like it would taste a lot like......chicken?

[Slacker]

Personally, I believe in antidisestablishmentarianism.

But that's just me. I'm old school.

You believe in order? Me, too!

....and I'm sure DaJudge does as well. It's his job....

[Slacker]

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address occur on the same day.

It is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, while the other involves a groundhog.

Nice joke BTW! Hijack off!