Why does Manitoba have Mosquitoes?

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Considering you bloody empireists once owned the known world, I'm surprised you haven't figured it out. You're surrounded by bloody water, which keeps you warm, albeit wet. Winnipeg - aka Winterpeg - is in the middle of the bloody continent. It gets damned cold from the prevailing winds coming directly out of the arctic.

Very strange people, those Manitobans, to put up with that bit.

G.

We're a bunch of tough-nuts from round here Good soldier material