Heard: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=between oh-six and_ oh-ten_."

Benjamin Torbert btorbert at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 7 21:56:52 UTC 2013


It's been a while since I've seen the film, but I think the motel at the
end is in Bismarck.  The original meeting between Jerry and the crooks
takes place in Fargo, IIRC.  Just about everything else is in Minnesota.

BT

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> So do they sound more like the two young hookers?  The movie does end in a
> motel in Fargo, although I couldn't see how that justified the title.
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> Herb
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> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Nathaniel Sharpe <nts at bethlehembooks.com
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> > You may want to re-check your sources, Wilson, as the town of Brainerd,
> > North Dakota, while apparently legendary, doesn't actually exist!
> >
> > Perhaps you're thinking of Brainerd, Minnesota, the setting of the movie
> > Fargo (which despite its title had nothing to do with Fargo or North
> > Dakota in general). Which makes it even more ironic that the Coen
> > brothers shot the scenes of "Brainerd" in my own hometown of Bathgate,
> > North Dakota.
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainerd,_Minnesota#In_popular_culture)
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> > I've always been struck by the number of people who watch Fargo and
> > think they're getting a glimpse into North Dakotan culture. Of course,
> > I'm sure we're not too different from our eastern neighbors, but if
> > there really are people in Minnesota who talk like Jerry Lundegaard, I
> > haven't yet stumbled on any in my neck of the woods.
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> > (Just a pet peeve.)
> >
> > Nat
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> > On 2/7/2013 1:41 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > > tip of the slung, perhaps? nope. several more uses of "oh-ten." white
> > > male speaker from the legendary Brainerd, North Dakota
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