# XKCD Winnipeg shout-out **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298 "2017-03-03T15:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/1 "2017-03-03T15:27:00Z")
As a survivor of Winnipeg winters I found today’s XKCD [What-if](https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/) hilarious. FWIW, it’s not quite as bad as he makes out but Winnipeg winters are somewhat…brisk. I’ll have to get my nephew to try this out; it’d be right up his alley. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/2 "2017-03-04T01:20:54Z")
I lived in Winnipeg until 2014 - never was attacked by wolves. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/3 "2017-03-04T03:52:09Z")
That’s because they all froze at the intersection of Portage & Main. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/4 "2017-03-04T04:33:04Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > I lived in Winnipeg until 2014 - never was attacked by wolves. 😃 I live in Fargo and I’ve never been attacked by wolves either. But there was one year when my wife drove past a moose on her way to work every day. We named the moose “Olga”. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/5 "2017-03-04T13:51:20Z")
The incessant wolf attacks were why I moved away from Winnipeg. Also, I foresee that “Outcomes of Scientific Experiments in Canada” graphic being posted on university office doors throughout the country. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/6 "2017-03-04T15:53:35Z")
I was hoping one of the mouse-overs\* would be a _My Winnipeg_ reference. - Just discovered my spell checker thinks “moues” is a word. And it is. Plural of “moue”. This is going to be my Word of the Day. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/7 "2017-03-04T19:16:45Z")
My sister discovered the secret to a successful Canadian scientific experiment: do your research so far north the wolves would die of exposure before reaching you. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/8 "2017-03-04T19:38:45Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > I live in Fargo and I’ve never been attacked by wolves either. > … Have you been attacked by Steve Buscemi? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/9 "2017-03-04T20:10:52Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Have you been attacked by Steve Buscemi? What’s he look like? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/10 "2017-03-04T20:24:50Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > What’s he look like? [https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F6e%2F02%2Fec%2F6e02ec3cd78a8321ac103e4db0fc4383.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F513340057509791441%2F&docid=pJ-UkiB4LN09qM&tbnid=jZ3OOWTaxd\_joM%3A&w=900&h=600&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim#h=600&imgrc=jZ3OOWTaxd\_joM:&w=900](https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F6e%2F02%2Fec%2F6e02ec3cd78a8321ac103e4db0fc4383.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F513340057509791441%2F&docid=pJ-UkiB4LN09qM&tbnid=jZ3OOWTaxd_joM%3A&w=900&h=600&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim#h=600&imgrc=jZ3OOWTaxd_joM:&w=900) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/11 "2017-03-04T20:29:03Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > What’s he look like? Two eyes and a mouthful of teeth flying in loose formation. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/12 "2017-03-05T02:57:38Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > I live in Fargo and I’ve never been attacked by wolves either. But there was one year when my wife drove past a moose on her way to work every day. > > We named the moose “Olga”. I had a moose run by me when I was waiting for the bus to school one morning. They are just ridiculously big. I did not name it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/13 "2017-03-06T00:22:34Z")
I’ve only seen a moose once, in a slough at the Moose Mountains, appropriately enough. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/14 "2017-03-06T00:29:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I was hoping one of the mouse-overs\* would be a _My Winnipeg_ reference. > > - Just discovered my spell checker thinks “moues” is a word. And it is. Plural of “moue”. This is going to be my Word of the Day. And I misread it initially as “moose-over”. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/15 "2017-03-06T15:42:21Z")
I wrote a nice post on Saturday about how the wandering were wolves of Winnipeg are beginning to look better than paying rent in Vancouver, but Tapatalk is capricious. Let me defend the city by saying if it were anywhere with a better climate I would move there immediately. I have very happy memories of living in Winnipeg, but I also remeber the cold. Once I purchased a burger at a drive through and the grease actually turned solid as I was eating it. Within a few blocks I felt as though I was eating a lard burger. Another minus is the wind. I recall a wind storm where I saw a child’s big wheel bike sailing past my third floor balcony. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/16 "2017-03-06T21:06:31Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > I live in Fargo and I’ve never been attacked by wolves either. But there was one year when my wife drove past a moose on her way to work every day. > > We named the moose “Olga”. Did your wife ever figure out where the moose worked? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/17 "2017-03-07T19:57:46Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Did your wife ever figure out where the moose worked? > > 😛 Obviously, for [this](http://moosehockey.com/) organization. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/18 "2017-03-08T18:53:40Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Two eyes and a mouthful of teeth flying in loose formation. Nailed it! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/19 "2017-03-08T20:25:22Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Did your wife ever figure out where the moose worked? > > 😛 More importantly, was he accompanied by a flying squirrel? ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298/20 "2017-03-09T15:12:21Z")
Natasha, follw dis meat eating plant around and see vat he knows! My wife’s school had a moose run through the playground two weeks ago, and doing field work I’ve seen several wolf packs, things I can honestly say I didn’t see in my entire time in Winnipeg. Saw plenty of cougars in Strawberries and the Big A though… 😃 Winnipeg has a lot going for it, not the least of which is bragging rights for living in a climate so desperate to kill you. Any maroon can live in Vancouver or TO… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-winnipeg-shout-out/781298.md?page=2)