# Bullwinkle Takes Umbrage **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286 "2004-07-28T16:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/1 "2004-07-28T16:53:32Z")
Oh, Cecil, Cecil, [Cecil](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_022a.html). Where did your mother and I go wrong? It’s **Wossamotta U.**!! See if we invite _you_ to speak at the next Alumni Dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/2 "2004-07-28T16:57:46Z")
[Ed McMahon voice]You are correct, sir![/Ed McMahon] ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/3 "2004-07-28T17:02:21Z")
I should think so! Nor is it true that I played football without a helmet. Though with these antlers (nice rack, I say), the fit wasn’t too good. Might explain why I’ve been shacking up with a rodent for forty-five years. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/4 "2004-07-28T18:01:06Z")
Though since you already made the correction in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251828), maybe you want to check the padding on that helmet. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/5 "2004-07-28T20:59:55Z")
Typographical errors (especially in old columns) are not Cecil’s fault. That’s li’l Ed’s or the typesetter’s. And, of course, that column was run in the days before the internet, when Cecil liked to take on trivia questions from time to time as filler. Since the advent of the internet, such trivia questions are readily researched, and Cecil doesn’t do 'em much anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Faldage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Faldage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faldage)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/6 "2004-07-28T23:23:41Z")
Somewhere in the first season, in the _Jet Fuel Formula_ series, I believe he says that he went to Moose Institute of Technology (or something like that). Of course, this does not preclude his having gone to old WU, but it does suggest that Cecil’s answer is incomplete. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/7 "2004-07-29T13:40:18Z")
**Exapno** : If Cecil can repeat himself, then so can I! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/8 "2004-07-29T15:02:14Z")
Repeating yourself…? Just like history. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/9 "2004-07-29T19:08:35Z")
Bullwinkle may take all the umbrage he wants, as long as he returns it when he’s done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/10 "2004-07-30T14:16:02Z")
But where would he take it? To Shade, Ohio? ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/11 "2004-07-30T14:48:05Z")
Thanks for the umbrage! It’s _so_ hard to find that I usually have to settle for siennage. Even I find that pun painful. Speaking of _deja vu_: **Dex** , that disclaimer of yours looks mighty familiar. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/12 "2004-07-30T15:11:42Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > Even I find that pun painful. Then don’t pick it up while it’s still hot. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullwinkle-takes-umbrage/257286/13 "2004-07-30T16:37:20Z")
Hot cross puns. Mmmmmmmm.