Tokyo woman found dead in Minnesota was looking for 'Fargo' loot

Minneapolis StarTribune ^ | December 6, 2001 | Staff

[Silly]

Marge Gunderson: "There's more to life than a little money, ya know. Don'tcha know that? And here ya are. And it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it."

Police in Detroit Lakes, Minn., said they have yet to determine what caused the death of a woman from Japan last month -- six days after she was spotted in Bismarck on an apparent mission to find money buried in a scene from the movie "Fargo."

[Silly]

Perhaps she took the opening credits of Fargo too seriously, when it stated that the movie was based on actual events. I guess the director and all those actors deserved those Oscars!

"OK, so we got a trooper pulls someone over, we got a shooting, these folks drive by, there's a high-speed pursuit, ends here and then this execution-type deal."

[Bella_Bru]

Put this in the dumbass file.

You bet'cha!

[Silly]

late night bump. good night all.

Just being,

[Silly]

Yah!

[Dan from Michigan]

What?

Darwin award here.

[Silly]

Maybe she was a relative of Mike Yanagita ("You're such a super lady...!").

[abner]

This has nothing to do with the article other than I couldn't watch Fargo, because of the exaggerated Minnesota accents.

I will say this, Minnesotans have a much thicker accent than they think. If you live there you don't notice it. But, if you live there, leave, and then come back, the accent is all you hear.

[Silly]

I second the nomination.

[Defender2]

If the female trooper pulled me over pictured in you're post #1, I would try to be the nicest I could be!:-)

[hole_n_one]

Great movie!

I would have put money down on the idea that WJM's Murray Slaughter would have been asked to provide an alibi.

[Doctor Doom]

The gene pool is self-cleansing.

[Bella_Bru]

LMAO! Silly, thank you for posting this. I loved Fargo.

To this day I still laugh my ass off. Even when that one dude is pushing Steve Buschemi's foot through the wood chipper.

[Silly]

I used to live there, and believe me, the accent is not exaggerated -- at least not in northern Minne-soh-ta. The Coen brothers, who directed it, are also from Minnesota.

By the way, I amuse my NYC friends by doing the accent perfectly. When I went home recently, in the airport, the lady from Northwest Airlines on the loudspeakers made me laugh out loud as she directed people to the proper line.

I also do a great Jesse Ventura voice, which is quite different in tone (much rounder) than the nasal, up-inflection of the northern Minnesota accent.

[Dan from Michigan]

Bwhahah. One of my friends is a Minnesota native and has an accent. I really don't know how to describe it.

I think it's on its own, like a yooper accent stands alone.(Upper Penn of Michigan)

[Silly]

"Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf... Well, that passed. Now I'm hungry again."

And one of my favorite bits of dialogue:

Marge Gunderson: Hon?
Norm Gunderson: Yah?
Marge Gunderson: Prowler needs a jump.

[abner]

I used to live there, and believe me, the accent is not exaggerated -- at least not in northern Minne-soh-ta

I used to live there too. I grew up in Nord East Minneapolis.

The accent is not exaggerated?

I was trying to be nice, dont'cha know.

[Silly]

"I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou."

[HairOfTheDog]

I have no response to this.... other than ROTFLMAO!

[Silly]

Carl Showalter: I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry.
Jerry Lundegaard: Okay.
Carl Showalter: I'm not gonna sit here and debate.

[Cultural Jihad]

Maybe she was a relative of ...

Will the libertaliban ideologues allege police brutality somehow? There HAS to be a cover up because the newscasters are not reporting on the doings of the police that day in Fargo. They'll allege anything to further the Great Greens Cause of discrediting self-governance, you know.