In popular culture Indiana native Kurt Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle describes this identification as an example of a granfalloon. In the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales (starring Clint Eastwood), a shopkeeper states "I'm a Hoosier" to the disgust of an elderly customer. The HBO miniseries The Pacific refers to PFC Bill Smith by the nickname "Hoosier", as do the two Marine memoirs on which the series is based. Adam Savage, host of the Discovery Channel series MythBusters, often refers to co-host Jamie Hyneman as a Hoosier, the latter having been raised on a farm in Indiana, and attended Indiana University. Serial killer Carl Panzram's last words were reportedly, "Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill 10 men while you're fooling around!" In the movie We're No Angels, Sean Penn's character says when asked to wear work clothes as a disguise, "Whaddya think I am, a Hoosier or something?" In the book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, gangster Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero uses Hoosier as an epithet. Hoosiers, a 1986 sports film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship. The Frugal Hoosier is a fictional discount grocery store depicted in the ABC sitcom The Middle, based in the fictional Indiana town of Orson. In the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation episode "Soulmates," a fictional online dating site called "hoosiermate.com" was the main subject. The series is set in Indiana. The US Secret Service has designated the code name "Hoosier" for former US Vice President, former Indiana Governor, and Indiana native Mike Pence. On his podcast, retired Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee defined the term as "a human who is willing to stand up in the face of adversity, chug two beers, and do anything he can to make America a better place. That's what a Hoosier is." In 1987, then-United States Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana requested of the Merriam-Webster dictionary to redefine the term "Hoosier" to mean "someone who is smart, resourceful, skillful, a winner, unique and brilliant." The dictionary denied the request.
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