Word: groundhogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we all agree," says Mara Friedman, "that a groundhog at a podium is funny...
...like, a groundhog convention...
...groundhog convention," Friedman says, going with it. "You can't go wrong with a groundhog convention...
This Thursday afternoon the e-Cards crew is sitting around a conference table, trying to make one another laugh. Today's subjects are office humor and holidays in February. A "Valentine's Day, My Ass" card for lonely hearts? Possibly. A motivational groundhog speaker? Probably. A support group for obscure Presidents? "'I passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff, but do I even get a tire ad?'" Absolutely...
...problem with simply discarding hope for an on-the-ground insurgency is that the in-the-air war is expensive and, top commanders will sometimes admit, ineffective. Almost every day at Incirlik is Groundhog Day, as in Bill Murray's 1993 film. "You wake up, you come in, you get ready to launch the aircraft, you launch the aircraft, they come back, you recover them, you go home," says Staff Sergeant George Palo, who maintains aircraft fuel systems. "We don't have a lot of calendars around here, because the only day that counts...