The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 12, 2017

We were camping, I forget where, when my wife saw a critter scurrying into the brush. In her excitement, she couldn’t decide whether to say “ground hog” or “woodchuck”, and it came out “Ground chuck”…. family anecdote…

Cat and Ape….

Yeah, I don’t want to have to call Feb 2nd “Sausage Day.”

Our daughter referred to them as “chuckersnoots” and chipmunks as “chipchucks” when she was a toddler. Both names stuck.

Why Wickowski remained the gopher at work.

By any other name, it would smell as sweet.

And taste equally good.

The ground beef and turkey are almost gone, but there’s plenty of ground hog. Could there be a link?

better to say “pig” or “pork”. Hog in this context is bad.

Though, why are groundhogs called that anyway? Prairie dogs is also an odd name. I guess we could keep going with seahorse, sea cucumber, starfish, guinea pig, etc. etc.

Where are the hot dogs?

As Chancellor Bismarck once noted, nobody who’s fond of law and sausages should ever watch either being made.

he was just making a statement. “our pigs don’t fly”

Okay, coffeeturtle, you appealed to my inner nerd. Prairie Dog is the name given because they live on the prairie and bark like dogs. I couldn’t find the origin of groundhog but I did learn that Woodchuck is actually an Algonquin word “wuchak.”Now then, how come you’re a coffeeturtle?

When I went to Germany on vacation I saw that they get right to the point. Any time pork appears on a restaurant menu, it’s called “swine flesh” (Schweine-Fleisch).

Groundhog should be two words, ie ground hog.

He needs to call ground control.