# So I just saw Fargo...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-fargo/255508>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 16, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-fargo/255508 "2004-07-16T23:39:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-fargo/255508/81 "2004-07-20T13:52:21Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> I’d kinda suspected it meant “Upper Peninsula,” but that was just a guess. Cut me a little slack, though: even if I’d never heard the term, at least I know that Michigan _has_ an upper peninsula.

I can respect that, given that you’re Canadian. But, should I have connected “Bear Flag Republic” with Canada?

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> Not many other Americans know that much about Canada, after all.

Wait! Canada has an Upper Peninsula?! Why wasn’t there a memo?! I’m so confused…

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-fargo/255508/82 "2004-07-20T17:24:59Z")

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I thought the movie was hysterically funny and dark. After being married to a Minnesotan “Ranger” and being around her family for 20 years listening to them talk in that very fashion, preoccupied with the weather and cars, and relentlessly cheerful, I thought the Coens did a wonderful job of skewering the microculture of the midwest.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-fargo/255508/83 "2004-07-24T02:55:33Z")

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> [@Coldfire](#):
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> Well, _you_ didn’t sound annoying to me when I met you, SF. Or at least not because of your accent. 😃

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :gasp: HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Whatever, at least I know what sound the letter “J” makes. _ZING!_ or somethin’.

(Why yes, this _is_ the only reason I bumped this thread.)

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