Winnipeg

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• "...I was amazed how people would wear T-shirts at the windy corner of Portage and Main where the wind comes whistling off the plains. Seeing people wear T-shirts made me feel like a big pansy, I was in a big parka, and you'd see girls in little dresses going down the street. I couldn't understand it." Craig Ferguson from the Late, Late Show commenting on his time spent in Winnipeg in 2004 filming the movie Niagara Motel.
  • Winnipeg Sun, April 2, 2006. Hart Berger reporting.

• "Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!"
  • Hermes, from the TV series Futurama

• "If you kids can't keep your hands to yourself, I'm gonna turn this car around, and there'll be no Cape Canaveral for anybody. (Nelson smacks the back of his head). THATS IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG!" ~ A father warning his kids who are fooling around in the back of the car.
  • The Simpsons 3F17 - "Bart On The Road"

• "Every salvage mission that's been to this system has disappeared. Even those old pirates out at Winnipeg Drift say it's cursed."
  • The character Harper making a remark in EPISODE 112: The Mathematics of Tears in the TV series Andromeda

• "I could, remember when we were in Winnipeg? Six hours, I couldn’t go." Paul talking to Jamie about their dog who has to hold it in for hours while trapped in their apartment.
  • "An Angel For Murray" (406) Mad About You

• "With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which."
  • Stephen Leacock Source: My Discovery of the West, 1937

• “I wouldn't say it's cold, but every year Winnipeg's athlete of the year is an ice fisherman.”
  • Dale Tallon, ThinkExist.com

• “You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.”
  • Burton Cummings, ThinkExist.com

• “Winnipeg is like Fargo, North Dakota, without the action”
  • Billy Jay, ThinkExist.com

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• “When my dad was playing in Winnipeg in '72-I was about 8 years old-he took me to my first outdoor rink in the winter. My feet were so cold, and then it gets even more excruciating once they start to thaw. It was the most excruciating pain I've ever had.”
  • Brett Hull
• “You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.”
  • Stephen Harper