Today’s list of Days includes Marmot Day, an obvious ripoff of Groundhog Day. Marmot Day is a Spokane specialty because we supposedly have a monopoly on marmots. I’ve only seen them in the downtown park, not elsewhere. Sure enough, “local” media had to mark Marmot Day.
So Spokane owns two official Days, both plagiarized. Fathers Day and Marmot Day.
Spokane is remarkably uncreative. The city’s own street department mechanics developed one genuinely useful invention, a hydraulic gate for snowplows so the driver can avoid blocking driveways. The aggressively anticompetent city “government” stopped using its own invention, then later COPIED it from one of the cities that had copied it from us in the first place. We can only use something when we plagiarize it.
This tendency isn’t solely a Spokane thing. Conventional wisdom says that companies refuse to use designs that are Not Invented Here. More often they refuse to use their OWN designs. They can only produce a design when it was copied from someone else.
Polistra's Mill 