# Lebowski Fest: What should I wear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330 "2010-02-02T03:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/21 "2010-02-02T19:52:52Z")
You could go as a marmot, it is groundhog season, after all [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us\_groundhog\_day](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_groundhog_day) ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/22 "2010-02-03T00:31:01Z")
I would go with ashes on my face and carry a maxwell house can. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/23 "2010-02-03T00:36:59Z")
I really need to see this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/24 "2010-02-03T01:54:42Z")
Go as a [German nihilist](http://bmwmoto.free.fr/lebowski/3_nihilists_large.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/25 "2010-02-03T01:58:38Z")
This is all a whoosh, right? Somebody please, **please** tell me _The Big Lebowski_ has not achieved cult-film status! ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/26 "2010-02-03T02:00:44Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > This is all a whoosh, right? > > Somebody please, **please** tell me _The Big Lebowski_ has not achieved cult-film status! Don’t get out from under that rock much, do you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/27 "2010-02-03T02:01:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > This is all a whoosh, right? > > Somebody please, **please** tell me _The Big Lebowski_ has not achieved cult-film status! Yes, yes, my little cephalophage, we’re all whooshing you. How could you doubt? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/28 "2010-02-03T03:48:52Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > This is all a whoosh, right? > > Somebody please, **please** tell me _The Big Lebowski_ has not achieved cult-film status! You have no frame of reference, glutton, you’re like a little child who wanders into a thread, you’re out of your element. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/29 "2010-02-03T04:03:17Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > You could go as a marmot, it is groundhog season, after all > > [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us\_groundhog\_day](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_groundhog_day) Darn and drat, that’s what I was going to say. The first time I watched the movie I had to pause it to almost literally laugh my ass off at the marmot scene. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/30 "2010-02-03T12:27:07Z")
Damn, I’m getting old. I’ve seen this movie dozens of times, and the marmot scene is only tickling the edge of my brain pan. Could somebody please refresh my memory? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/31 "2010-02-03T14:15:14Z")
The bad guys break into the Dude’s house and put a marmot in the bathtub with him to get his attention. It works. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/32 "2010-02-03T14:44:50Z")
There is a subtle running gag in the Big Lebowski that gets funnier when you rewatch it: the fact that the Dude keeps paraphrasing lines other characters have already said. If I were at a Lebowski fest I would totally paraphrase the other guests, only for my own amusements. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/33 "2010-02-03T15:12:26Z")
Nitpick: the “marmot” in the movie was actually a ferret. Fortunately for the fest in question, Illinois does not require a permit to posses a ferret. (Marmots I’m not so sure about) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/34 "2010-02-03T17:29:52Z")
> [@cactus\_waltz](#): > > …If I were at a Lebowski fest I would totally paraphrase the other guests, only for my own amusements. So you’re saying you’d reword what you heard from others just for a laugh? ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330/35 "2010-02-03T17:53:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > So you’re saying you’d reword what you heard from others just for a laugh? Yeah. Of course, I would have to make it seem natural and not all random like. All in the style of the Dude. _e_ Oh, I got it. Whoosh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebowski-fest-what-should-i-wear/527330.md?page=1)