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[quote=Anonymous]So, I grew up in Pennsylvania in the 1970's and we used the phrase similar to the current usage well before the movie. However, the exact meaning was slightly different before the movie. Before the movie, the meaning of "Groundhog Day" was going and doing something that you knew was pointless or fake to convince yourself that it mattered. In this case it referred to going out in February of every year to watch a rodent to determine if the winter was going to last 6 more weeks or not, since, in essence, the duration of the winter was unlikely to be either affected or detectable by said-rodent. So if you had a groundhog day action, it was generally something you repeated regularly that was pointless, but you did it anyway. The concept of the phrase was elaborated far more extensively in the movie and became more common usage to repeat actions ad infinitum. So, it was already in use, but in a bit more general/generic way than the current evolved usage.[/quote]
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