Pal, you got that moisture on your head! **updated**

This isn't a real update exactly, I just added a comment after several weeks of silence and I didn't want it to go unnoticed. To somewhat justify the update I wanted to add a picture, and while I was looking for one I came across this spanish blog. I was curious to see what this person had to say so I ran it through the AltaVista Translator. The translation was pretty sharp in my opinion, in a Super Karate Monkey Death Car sort of way, so here it is for your enjoyment.

This is laborious, thousands of personnel freezing the ass are hoping to adore a rat. That triviality. The day of marmota used to mean something in this town, used to remove marmota and used to eat it to it. You are hypocrites! All! [... ] If they want a prediction about the time asks to him the mistaken Phil. I will give a prediction them of the winter. He is going to be cold. He is going to be gray. And he is going to last the rest to them of his life.

When Chéjov saw the long winter, it saw an inhospitable and dark winter, hopelessly. But we know that the winter another step in the cycle of the life is single more. Being here, between the people of Punxsutawney, enjoying the heat its homes and their hearts, could not imagine a luck better than a length and beautiful winter.

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"Rita, I'm reliving the same day over and over. Groundhog Day. Today."
"Ok, I'm waiting for the punchline."
"NO. Really. This is the third time. It's like yesterday never happened."

I was listening to the audio from Groundhog Day on my iPod yesterday while at work (Thanks to DVD Audio Ripper). And while doing that I wondered something I've wondered several times before. As far as all the other characters are concerned, is that day actually happening?

In my opinion, there are two possibilities. Put simply, either it did or it didn't. (Profound, I know.) If it didn't happen, then in reality, everyone in the movie is repeating the same day over and over and Phil is the only one that realizes what's going on. Take the scene with Gus and Ralph for instance. After they knock over the mailbox, lead the police along the railroad tracks, crash the car and order flapjacks, all three of them end up in jail. The next morning when Phil wakes up he's back in his room and it's Groundhog Day again. What of Gus and Ralph? Did they wake up still in the jail cell, or are they back at their homes too (on Groundhog Day again), completely unaware of what happened? Phil obviously didn't have to live with the consequences of his actions, do any of the others have to live with them?

If you look at it like Sliding Doors, then each day that Phil experiences is spawning an alternate reality. Personally I think this is the more interesting of the two possibilities. If you carry the idea further then each day is spawning an infinite number of alternate realities based on whatever choices/decisions/actions everyone is making. And for some reason Phil is stuck in this particular day and cannot continue even though everyone else is. [One question this brings up is where is Phil in all these alternate realities? In the instances where he dies or kills himself it's not an issue, but otherwise does he exist in those realities? Does he mysteriously vanish?]

Or, reality is a straight line and everyone is repeating the day but Phil is the only one who knows it. In the end it doesn't matter, so here's this picture.




What blizzard?? It's a couple of flakes!