The Reids

Following up to Bill Moore

    >>>Hoser!
    >>?????
    >Using a term like that usually identifies the speaker as a
    >Canadian.

thanks, what does it mean?
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Claim Guy

"The Reids" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Following up to Bill Moore
    > >>>Hoser!
    > >>
    > >>?????
    > >
    > >Using a term like that usually identifies the speaker as a
    > >Canadian.
    > thanks, what does it mean?


"A hoser is the all-Canadian, beer-swilling, tuque-headed yokel, as
popularized by Bob & Doug McKenzie, TV characters created by SCTV stars Rick
Moranis and Dave Thomas.

A hoser is one who hoses. As a colloquial verb, for some thirty years, to
hose has meant to clobber the opposing team in a hockey game, also to screw
someone up, to mess up another's plans."

Markku Grönroos

"Sjoerd" <[email protected]> kirjoitti viestissä
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    > "The Reids" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > Following up to sufaud
    > >
    > > >But faced with
    > > >hostility on their foreign holidays, some Americans are going to great
    > > >lengths to conceal their nationality.
    > >
    > > never believe what you read in the papers?
    > I see so many people here in Amsterdam with maple leaf flags on their
    > backpacks / jackets, that it is hard to believe that they are all
Canadians.
And naturally you point at Canadian hockey players as sissies and pansies.

kuacou241

You already forgot the Marquis de Lafayette. And, to a lesser extent
that admirer of things American (and subsequent Minister of Foreign
Affairs) de Tocqueville.

B Vaughan

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:38:41 -0500, "Claim Guy"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >"A hoser is the all-Canadian, beer-swilling, tuque-headed yokel, as
    >popularized by Bob & Doug McKenzie, TV characters created by SCTV stars Rick
    >Moranis and Dave Thomas.
    >A hoser is one who hoses. As a colloquial verb, for some thirty years, to
    >hose has meant to clobber the opposing team in a hockey game, also to screw
    >someone up, to mess up another's plans."

Letters of the sort that begin, "Thank you for your application to
.... Unfortunately we had many qualified applicants ..." were known as
"hose letters" among American students when I was working at
Princeton.



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Barbara Vaughan
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I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

Charles Hawtrey

The Reids <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Bill Moore
    >>>>Hoser!
    >>>?????
    >>Using a term like that usually identifies the speaker as a
    >>Canadian.
    >thanks, what does it mean?


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoser

is as good a definition as any



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The Reids

Following up to Miguel Cruz

    >>>>> Hoser!
    >>>> ?????
    >>> Exactly!
    >> ?????? (in spades).
    >Take off, eh.

got it, my planes hosered without me, eh? Or hoser your clothes,
darling, eh?
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The Reids

Following up to Claim Guy

    >> thanks, what does it mean?
    >"A hoser is the all-Canadian, beer-swilling, tuque-headed yokel, as
    >popularized by Bob & Doug McKenzie, TV characters created by SCTV stars Rick
    >Moranis and Dave Thomas.

sounds similar to Barry McKenzies Australain Minister of Culture
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The Reids

Following up to Sjoerd

    >I see so many people here in Amsterdam with maple leaf flags on their
    >backpacks / jackets, that it is hard to believe that they are all Canadians.

I see quite a few people with stars and stripes on clothing here
in London, they are probably not US either!
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Miguel Cruz

The Reids <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Following up to Miguel Cruz
    >>>>>> Hoser!
    >>>>> ?????
    >>>> Exactly!
    >>> ?????? (in spades).
    >> Take off, eh.
    > got it, my planes hosered without me, eh? Or hoser your clothes,
    > darling, eh?

I think you are in need of some educatin' about Bob and Doug McKenzie, most
Americans' primary source of information about Canada.

miguel
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The Reids

Following up to Miguel Cruz

    >> got it, my planes hosered without me, eh? Or hoser your clothes,
    >> darling, eh?
    >I think you are in need of some educatin' about Bob and Doug McKenzie, most
    >Americans' primary source of information about Canada.

I had a feeling I didn't quite get it.
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nitram

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:53:55 +0000, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Miguel Cruz
    >>> got it, my planes hosered without me, eh? Or hoser your clothes,
    >>> darling, eh?
    >>I think you are in need of some educatin' about Bob and Doug McKenzie, most
    >>Americans' primary source of information about Canada.
    >I had a feeling I didn't quite get it.

No nor me, but we know what thruppeny bits are and they don't. :-)
--
Martin

Ronald Hands

The Reids wrote:

    >
    >
    > I had a feeling I didn't quite get it.


Don't feel bad. I'm Canadian and I don't get it.

-- Ron

Claim Guy

"Ronald Hands" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > The Reids wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > I had a feeling I didn't quite get it.
    > Don't feel bad. I'm Canadian and I don't get it.


Aw, come on, Ron - take off, eh!

Set yer touque on tight, wipe the beaver tail off yer face with a serviette,
sit down on the chesterfield and we'll have a talk aboot it. After that
we'll play some beer-hunter.

Koo-loo-koo-koo-koo-, loo-koo-koo!

Charles Hawtrey

[email protected] (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

    >I think you are in need of some educatin' about Bob and Doug McKenzie, most
    >Americans' primary source of information about Canada.

The more sophisticated among us take advantage of PBS, and get our
information about Canada from the "Red Green Show."


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