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Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results

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Re: Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results

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Post by nkrisc »

throwaway6767 wrote: post #4

I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.

Why are you making this about Eastern Europeans? There are countless Americans with that last name, it’s an American movie, and as I recall the characters in the movie bearing that name are American. Lastly, these snowplows are also in the US.

Everything about this is American.

Eastern Europeans don’t enter into it.

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Post by NikolaeVarius »

throwaway6767 wrote: post #4

I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.

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Post by peanut_worm »

throwaway6767 wrote: post #4

I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.

how is the films title a joke? are you kidding?

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Post by selimthegrim »

throwaway6767 wrote: post #4

I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.

The movie didn’t star Mike Ditka, if you recall.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

throwaway6767 wrote: post #4

I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.

One of the jokes in The Big Lebowski is about a Mexican-looking guy called Jesus (with the English pronunciation of the name).

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Post by [deleted] »

peanut_worm wrote: post #13
throwaway6767 wrote: post #4

I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.

how is the films title a joke? are you kidding?

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Post by jsiaajdsdaa »

throwaway6767 wrote: post #4

I realize that it’s based on a movie, but it always surprises me how acceptable in the US are jokes about Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine “The big Leplowski” for a different group of people? It would cause an outrage.

Would Plowtrick O'Plowihan be more acceptable?
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