http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8083 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:23:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8083#comment-13620 Chris Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:01:00 +0000 #comment-13620 I suppose that means that legions of Minnesotans will go to see the film not because they necessarily want to, but because they feel obligated to. Then, regardless of the actual quality of the film they will tell anyone and everyone (again out of sense of obligation) that it was deeply moving and made them proud to be Minnesotan. <br /> Non-Minnesotans who have not seen the film will protest its negative attitude toward people who are not Minnesotan.<br /> And then some guy will claim that the movie inspired him to erect a 60-foot sign that points out that "Iowa" is Lakota for "boring place." I suppose that means that legions of Minnesotans will go to see the film not because they necessarily want to, but because they feel obligated to. Then, regardless of the actual quality of the film they will tell anyone and everyone (again out of sense of obligation) that it was deeply moving and made them proud to be Minnesotan.
Non-Minnesotans who have not seen the film will protest its negative attitude toward people who are not Minnesotan.
And then some guy will claim that the movie inspired him to erect a 60-foot sign that points out that “Iowa” is Lakota for “boring place.”

]]> http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8083#comment-13616 Rex Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:19:08 +0000 #comment-13616 Also, mildly interesting to those of us who work online, the story contains a link to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman" target="_blank">Wikipedia entry</a>, a practice that is still relatively rare for the mainstream press to do. Also, mildly interesting to those of us who work online, the story contains a link to a Wikipedia entry, a practice that is still relatively rare for the mainstream press to do.

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