I wonder when the trend of funny names for this type of stuff is going to end. I find these names mildly amusing but I have to think that at some point a younger audience is going to find this type of naming convention really cringeworthy.
Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results
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#22I 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.
It’s a Eastern European name. Countless Americans have it because they are of Eastern European origin.
Re: Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results
#23That's fun. But Minnesotans might also be interested in the what happens to the road (and other) run-off water. Minnesota Pollution Control's 2021 impaired water bodies result just came out too: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/minnesotas-impaired-waters... It turns out that the St. Croix river that makes up much of the eastern state border near the Twin Cities is so heavily polluted with perfluorooctane sulfonic ac…
Wow and all they would have to do to fix it is not plow their roads? This sounds too good to be true!
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It’s a Eastern European name. Countless Americans have it because they are of Eastern European origin.
That's part of what it means to be a melting pot culture. The Big Leplowski isn't insulting or deriding some individual or family out of malice - it's a celebration of an important cultural production.
Re: Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results
#25That's fun. But Minnesotans might also be interested in the what happens to the road (and other) run-off water. Minnesota Pollution Control's 2021 impaired water bodies result just came out too: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/minnesotas-impaired-waters... It turns out that the St. Croix river that makes up much of the eastern state border near the Twin Cities is so heavily polluted with perfluorooctane sulfonic ac…
To be clear, the PFOS pollution in the St Croix is almost certainly from groundwater contamination from 3M manufacturing and dump sites near or in the lower St Croix watershed, not road water runoff.
The 3M-PFAS connection is clearly established. Run off is also a known problem and clear trade offs are being considered. (which is not a dismissal for the problems).
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#26I 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.
Very possibly I don't understand: It is the name of a movie, if that helps explain it.
Re: Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results
#27That's fun. But Minnesotans might also be interested in the what happens to the road (and other) run-off water. Minnesota Pollution Control's 2021 impaired water bodies result just came out too: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/minnesotas-impaired-waters... It turns out that the St. Croix river that makes up much of the eastern state border near the Twin Cities is so heavily polluted with perfluorooctane sulfonic ac…
I used to be an avid fisherman and thirty years ago I’d routinely eat every decent fish that I caught. Now days I’m strictly catch and release - I just get a bad feeling about water quality no matter what lake I’m fishing in. I don’t follow eco stuff as much as I should, but I think it’s sad we can’t trust our lakes anymore.
Re: Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results
#28I wonder when the trend of funny names for this type of stuff is going to end. I find these names mildly amusing but I have to think that at some point a younger audience is going to find this type of naming convention really cringeworthy.
I dunno, I like it, I’m 31.
“Aaron Brr, Sir” from Michigan’s got a good chuckle out of me.
Why not have fun?
Re: Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be clear, the PFOS pollution in the St Croix is almost certainly from groundwater contamination from 3M manufacturing and dump sites near or in the lower St Croix watershed, not road water runoff.
The 3M-PFAS connection is clearly established. Run off is also a known problem and clear trade offs are being considered. (which is not a dismissal for the problems).
Yup. Minnesota's DNR is usually pretty well-informed and pretty proactive. De-icing around the Twin Cities metro has improved significantly over the past 5-10 years.
Now if we could just convince the property owners around the lakes not to dump so much fertilizer on their lawns...
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#30Michigan's are better: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9615-575096--,00....
Ctrl Salt Delete, Scoop Dogg, Betty Whiteout, Plowasaurus Rex are in both lists.