The Minnesota Department of Transportation wants your input.
I voted for a few. My criterion was that they at least have some connection to Minnesota.
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation wants your input.
I voted for a few. My criterion was that they at least have some connection to Minnesota.
Anyone looking for inspiration can check the tracker for snow ploughs and gritters on the road in Scotland at the moment.
Surely they should all be called Plowy McPlowface?
Police arrest ‘Elsa’ as prime suspect behind winter storm
llyris@2 beat me to it.
Disappointed that these weren’t on the list, among others:
Plowy McPlowface
Manipulate Snow and Ice (5th Edition spell)
A Snowball’s Chance in Hell
Amy Plowbuchar
Kevin Snowblo
Lake Snow-B-Gone
How about:
“The Plow”
?
“Please select up to 8 names.”
Minnesota only has 8 snowplows?
They could use all of those and hundreds more.
@2 and @5, Plowy McPlowface was the winner last year.
How about Minniehaha?
Rich Woods @1 “Robert Brrrns” really did make me LOL!
@2 @5 @8 The first one that popped into my head along similar lines is “Snowy McSnowface”. They do get snow directly in their face so it is literally true (at least if you equate face with the front of a vehicle). Plowy fits the pattern better I realize. (Yes, this “joke” needs a permanent ban.)
beyond tundradome
sno man is an island
many are cold but few are frozen
take it to the bank
Lake Snow-be-gone? Not my best, I was working as hard as I could to come up with a Minnesota connection.
If you want a Minnesota connection, “The Iron Ranger” is a good choice.
Mary Tyler Moore was set in Minneapolis. Maybe there’s something there. “Love-is-all-around-snow-need-to-waste-it” is a bit long, but that’s all I got.
I say “Lou” or “Mr. Grant”
and put a quote on the door
“I hate snow!”
-Lou Grant
a subtle salute to Ed Asner who passed away just prior to this winter season starting
and as PaulBC posted @15 the Mary Tyler Moore show was set in Minneapolis
But…but…
C-3PSnow DOES have a connection to Minnesota!
As it happens I was living in Minnesota when the original SW was released and my dad dragged me and my older sister (my younger sister was too young) to the theater to see it. So I LITERALLY MET C-3PO in a theater in Edina (or thereabouts), if by “literally met” we include “saw footage of a fictional character on a screen 60 feet away”.
By the way, SW was the 4th movie I had ever seen in a movie theater, though only a little bit before I saw “Man in the Iron Mask” on broadcast TV, sponsored by Xerox with limited commercial interruption.
Or maybe I did. I might have had to go to bed halfway through.
Somehow this comment didn’t end up being very much about snowplows.
A few suggestions. No, I won’t spell it the US way:
“Brockway Plough”
“Abita Snow”
“Minnesnowpolis”
“Land-O-Snowflakes”
“Don’t Cry Out Ploughed”
Addendum:
“Don’t Cry Out Ploughed” should be placed in Manchester, Minnesota.
Intransitive@18 “Land-O-Snowflakes” Perfect! I though about Land-O-Lakes but I wasn’t sure what to do with it.
Based on that, I’ll revise @13 to “Flake Snow-Be-Gone”.
As two (2) new separate British political scandals have come to light just today, the worst and most useless plow should be named “Boris”.
You snow? I snew.
Apparently they’ve already done this in the UK and one of the salt-distribution trucks is called “Spready Mercury”
CD@23 “Spready Mercury” would be a better name for a coal-burning power plant.
Just as a reminder, for over five years now, Transport Scotland has had an on-line map showing their named gritters in action: Trunk Road Gritter Tracker. For example, as I type this, William Wall-Ice is apparently heading towards Aberdeen, albeit Sled Zepplin is idle, possibly in the area around Loch Lomond. (Source: Andy Flurry and Mary Queen of Salt: craze for naming Scottish gritters goes global, the Grauniad about one year ago.)
@blf #25:
Sorry to break it to you, but you’re nine hours and forty minutes late with that reminder!