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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't get all the moose and ship references, but in my family we call this kind of thing a moose story.

Back when my uncle was like 7, in fairbanks alaska, he came home from school and said he saw a moose. That's nice, everyone agreed. And he walked right up to it. Oh did you? And punched it right in the nose. No, you didn't though, did you?

60+ years later he still maintains that happened.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As in, unchallenged? he punched it for fun? that's incredibly brave

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 days ago

In moose culture that's considered a dick move.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Yep, or so the story goes. There was some dispute as to whether he could physically reach a moose's nose to punch it. And even more dispute as to whether he actually did.