When It's Cold Out
Our winter category revealed a few indelible truths about Buffalonians. Namely that we like winter sports, we are all sex fiends, we really don’t need any excuse to miss work, we spend way too much time in Florida and several of us don’t quite get it…any of it.
As is usually the case, sex ranks high in the Best Winter Activity, Nonsport category. But what about these variations that didn’t make the top five—”making love,” “bury the weenie,” “making whoopee” and “copulating”? These four answers came from a scientist, a romantic, a frat boy and an 80-year-old—you guess which came from whom. One person’s favorite thing to do in winter is to plan for summer. Either he has a very busy summer or no job in the winter.
Under Best Sledding, Buffalo seems hopelessly outmatched by the hilly southtowns, but Delaware Park’s Shakespeare Hill snuck its way in, as did Ellicott Creek Park. This, however, isn’t half as depressing as one answer, the I-90 split. Don’t sled too far, kids!
Buffalonians favor skating outdoors, as evidenced by three of the top five in Best Skating—Fountain Plaza, Cazenovia Park and Hoyt Lake. Other outdoor faves included the Black Rock Canal and backyard ponds. When we said “Snowbird Destination” some people must have read “snowbunny,” because Ellicottville was nominated.
One fellow who likes to have “snowball fights with the neighborhood kids as a nonsport activity” also used “took ice-ball to face in snowball fight with neighborhood kids” as an excuse for missing work. Serves you right.
Best Skating
Pepsi Center
Hoyt Lake
Fountain Plaza
Cazenovia Park rink
Buffalo State College rink
Best Skiing
Kissing Bridge
Holimont
Holiday Valley
Best Sledding
Kissing Bridge
Holiday Valley
Ellicott Creek Park
Delaware Park
Chestnut Ridge Park
Best Snowbird Destination
The Caribbean
Mexico
Florida
Ellicottville for skiing
Arizona
Best Winter Activity, Nonsport
Sex
Drinking, bar-hopping
Sitting by the fire
Going to the movies
Going to the theater
Best Winter Excuse for Missing Work
Snowed in, road closed, car won’t start
Skiing
Sick
Sex
Hangover
Best Winter Sport
Snowboarding
Sledding, tubing, tobogganing
Hockey
Downhill skiing
Cross-country skiing
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