My understanding is that P. Phil (a) lives in a man-made, heated burrow in comfort, and (b) is hauled out by the celebrants whether he wants to come out or not. So he might not have much choice about using the brains the Goddess promised a woodchuck. Phil is not a gopher.
I know it's all a carefully staged media event. Punxsutawney Phil, Charles G. Hogg (the Staten Island Zoo), etc., are all quite domesticated. But if I were a burrowing rodent, and there were several inches of ice on the ground, I'd stay in my burrow and the hell with everybody ;-)
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