Comments on: Whatever X, Day XVII http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:57:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mister slim http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47659 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:41:32 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47659 This kind of moral decision making is why this election I’ll be voting for the party with small town values.

]]> By: Schambers http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47649 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:02:19 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47649 Wow. Unbelievable. Of course where I live, one of our local groundhogs is stuffed. I’d been hearing about “Wildwood Willie” for years. I was shocked and appalled one day, when I walked into the park office after his prediction and found his lifeless body laying abandoned on the counter. I’d never seen Willie before; only his photograph. They just pretended he was alive. I was angry, I felt ripped off. That groundhog didn’t SEE anything! Was I the only one who CARED? That was an EX-GROUNDHOG! ‘K I’m gonna go calm down now.

]]> By: Willywoollove http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47652 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:24:25 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47652 That “Willy” sucks. hahaha ha…………h..

sorry

]]> By: JReynolds http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47654 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:22:22 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47654 Heh. I live in London, Ontario, which is 49 Google kilometres south of Exeter Ontario. Exeter’s main claim to fame is that it is home to many white squirrels. According to Wikipedia:

Exeter, Ontario in Canada is known for having non-albino white squirrels, believed to be the result of a genetic mutation in the early 20th century.

So come to Canada everybody! The country where there is more than one national rodent! And none of them are Mickey Mouse!

]]> By: lauren http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47657 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:44:45 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47657 This is the best blog post revisited that I have read so far!

Thank you for making my 2008 Sept. day more fun.

]]> By: Pegkitty http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47658 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:22:53 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47658 This was before my first exposure to Whatever, but I do have a theory as to why a successor had not been picked out before WW’s demise. I’m thinking it’s like the Dalai Lama, and they have to search many groundhogs to find the one containing the reincarnated soul of Willy.

]]> By: Jon Hansen http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47656 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:43:36 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47656 Ahh. It’s early entries like this that foreshadow the internet juggernaut Whatever would someday become.

]]> By: SeanF http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47655 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:18:11 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47655 I disagree with your assumption that Willie’s death would have been handled better in the US. I think the discovery of the rodent’s body would have prompted a MASSIVE cover-up. Pres. Bush would have arrived for the ceremony, watched a bloated corpse be pushed through a hole in the ground by his secret service guys, and muttered something to the effect of “Heck of a job, Willie;” after the public discovered that the entire groundhog ceremony had been a rouse the White House would have sent spokesperson(s) out to the talkshows to blame, in order: The Democrats, Al Queda, The Democrats.

]]> By: Andrew http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47646 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:56:42 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47646 This brings back many fond memories.

In 1999 I had just started business school. I was doing it part-time while working full-time. I lived in suburban Toronto, worked in Hamilton and went to school in Downtown Toronto. The distance between home and work was about a 1/2 hour to 40 minute commute. The distance between home and school was about 40 minutes, in the exact opposite direction from work. On work days I would spend between an hour to an hour and a half on the road. On school days I would spend between two and three hours on the road.

In those days I routinely listened to the local all news station and given my driving habits, listened to it alot. On February 2, 1999, they sent one of their weather reporters to Whiarton to cover the festivities. He was the guy who broke the story in the Toronto media market.

February 2, 1999 was also a really slow news day so Whiarton Willy was the big news story for the day. This station, tongue planted firmly in cheek, report the Whiarton Willy story just like they would have reported the Kennedy Assinnation. News is rarely funny; on february 2, 1999 listening to the news brought laughter.

The world would be a better place if the news were funny most of the time, instead rarely.

Cheers
Andrew

]]> By: kelson http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/09/17/whatever-x-day-xvii/#comment-47648 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:33:57 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1763#comment-47648 In truth, one of the best poems, evah.

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