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Start Sharpening Your Puns, Chicago. Annual ‘Name a Snowplow’ Contest Is Now Underway

(WTTW News)

Chicagoans, are you up for a challenge?

Streets and Sanitation has just announced its third annual “You Name a Snowplow” contest and let’s face it, winners in Years 1 and 2 mined a lot of the obvious territory like Sears Plower and Da Plow.

So it’s time to dig deep. No reference is too obscure, no pun too tortured, no metaphor too hackneyed.

Submissions — limited to 50 characters or less — are due by Jan. 4 or whenever entries hit 20,000, whichever comes first. (Click here for info on how to submit.)

Streets and Sanitation staff will choose 50 finalists and then open up the voting to residents on Jan. 10. People can vote for as many as six names by Jan. 21.

The top six vote-getters will be featured on one snowplow in each of the city’s six snow districts.

Here’s a reminder of previous winners:

Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow
Da Plow
Salter Payton
Sears Plower
Sleet Home Chicago
Holy Plow!
Jean Baptiste Point du Shovel
Skilling It
CTRL-SALT-DELETE
Casimir Plowaski
Ernie Snowbanks
Mies van der Snow
Bad, Bad Leroy Plow

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