Chicago asks residents to name six snow plows, with finalists including 'Sleet Home Chicago'

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'Austin Plowers,' 'Hey now, you're a plow star,' and 'O-Plow Winfrey' are all finalists in a contest to name six of Chicago's snow plows.

January 16, 2023, 9:02 AMAt first glance, "Hey now, you're a plow star" and "Sleet Home Chicago" sound like songs a "Weird Al" Yankovic impersonator might sing at a snow-removal industry conference.Mist rises from Chicago and Lake Michigan at sunrise on Dec. 23, 2022.Chicago Streets and Sanitation officials encouraged residents to submit name ideas in December. Voting is now open through Jan.

Among the final contenders are, "Austin Plowers," "Better Call Salt," "O-Plow Winfrey," "Chance the Scraper," "LollaPLOWlooza," "Benny the Bull-izzard" and "The Plowminator."

 

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Mickey Mouse

No! Not Boaty McBoatface. It's Plowy McPlowface.

Holy Plow! It’s Chicacgo, baseball fans

O-Plow Winfrey for the win 🥇

Moo Goo Gi Plow.

Hey Plow, you're an all star?

North Dakota plows names are Plowabunga Scoop Dogg Big Leplowski Plow Force One Austin Plowers CtrlSaltDelete Sleetwood Mac Blizzard Buster

Plowin ain’t easy but it sure is necessary. Haaayyyy

Boaty McBoatface was the first thing I thought of! I’m glad that made it to this article hahaha

Hamilton, ON just released winning 10 names & number of votes for new plows: Max Kermanator – 18723 Plowy McPlowface – 2167 CTRL-SALT-DELETE – 1139 Clearopathra – 868 Icekee Wee Wee – 845 The Big Leplowski – 664 HAMBONI – 630 Betty Whiteout – 496 Mr. Plow – 403 Plowasaurus – 340

Vanilla Ice Plough....🎵😀

O’Leary’s Plow.

Sleetness 34 (aka Walter Plowton)

Creepy Cruiser

Doogie Plowser. Sorry ‘bout that. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Can't beat Plowie McPlow-Plow, Sir-Plows-Alot, and Betty White-out here in Spokane, WA!! 😁❄️❄️

How about 'My kind of plow'🤷

What do they call their criminals?

there are stories about ginnithomas and Kushner' saudi billions waiting to be written... fyi/

If one of those finalists isn't Plowy McPlowFace then Chicago's dead to me

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