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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (55542)	10/29/2002 4:37:44 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

OT Nope.. that's not it... However, I'll give you a hint... Men seldom use them... You're startin to scare me Hawk....... Here's the full Monty but methinks you're going somewjere else with all of this. (nylons??) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "What is a hoser?" Apparently the real history of the word came from the Dirty 30's or thereabouts, on the Prairies here in Canada, when farmers would siphon gas out of their farm vehicles with a hose - thus ending up being called hoseheads, aka hoser. Hosed would be the verb form g. Most of this stuff relates to Canadiana, but it can be used to refer to anyone - I have no qualms about calling anyone a hoser! :-) Anyway, in 1981 there were these two guys up here called Doug and Bob McKenzie. They wore lumbarjack plaid jackets, toques and drank beer (Molson's Canadian I've been told) and ate a lot of Canadian back bacon, which they fried on the Coleman. The name of the show was Second City TV and the two fellows were Doug Thomas (now on that Rhett Butler sitcom) and Rick Moranis (who was in the Ghostbuster movies). SCTV was kind of a Canadian Saturday Night Live type show. They also had a movie called Strange Brew and I've heard they also have another one coming out in the future. Anyway, they called each other hoser or hosehead, and would say thinks like "Take off, hosehead!", "You're hosed!", "Beauty!" or "Coo loo-coo-coo coo-coo-coo-coo!" [trying thinking that and typing the right number of coos! g] Being the Canadian hoser I am, I have continued to use the terms hoser, hosehead, and hosed all these years. So, if not many people understand I'm not surprised! In my vocabulary the word hoser/hosehead can have many nuances or definitions, equating to words like geek, weirdo, very funny person, corny, out to lunch - it has so many meanings it nearly means ANYTHING! g But, it's always said in an affectionate way. I would never call anyone a hoser if I really didn't like them - I'd call 'em something VERY MUCH WORSE! :-)