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Fargo

Fargo, North Dakota
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About Fargo

Fargo is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The population was 125,990 at the 2020 census and estimated at 136,285 in 2024. Fargo and its twin city of Moorhead, Minnesota, form the core of the Fargo–Moorhead metropolitan area, which had a population of 248,591 in 2020. It is the county seat of Cass County.

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There was a guy called Brian Schmidt, who won the 2011 prize for physics for discovering dark energy. He went to visit his granny — she lives in Fargo. On his way out at the airport, it was in his laptop bag, and it came up on the screen as this completely black disc, because it's made of gold.

from No Such Thing As Sauce For The King Of Sweden, 2016-10-07 at 00:23:01 · read transcript

Other times Fargo came up

  1. They say, why did he give this to you? He says, because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating. At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humour. Then he tells them it's a Nobel Prize and he says, and their main question was, why were you in Fargo? He could have saved a lot of problems if he smuggled it in his rectum. It's big though.

    134: No Such Thing As Sauce For The King Of Sweden, 2016-10-08 · listen

  2. Because the accent is not dissimilar as it creeps over the border into Wisconsin, and North Dakota, if you think of that movie Fargo, and the wonderful Francis McDormand performance, they've got to question your police work there, A kind of, it's got that similar kind of slight, and there, the reason is supposedly the Scandinavian input into Wisconsin, and that part there, they're all called.

    244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen

  3. I think there's been a suggestion that there is a small bit of England where there's a similar inflection and I can't remember where it is actually but people took it from there. Because the accent is not dissimilar as it creeps over the border into Wisconsin and North Dakota. You think of that movie Fargo and the wonderful Francis McDormon performance. They've got to question your police work there.

    No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen

  4. He's called Roderick James. He's an elderly English gentleman and he's edited all the movies of the Coen brothers and he doesn't exist. He's been edited. He's been nominated for an Oscar twice for editing Fargo and no country for old men. The reason he has never been to attend the Oscar ceremony is because he is made up by the Coen brothers. You keep saying this, but why?

    267: No Such Thing As Mission Impossible For Slugs, 2019-05-03 · listen

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