The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101767   Message #2055765
Posted By: PoppaGator
18-May-07 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fer like, hosers, eh.....
Subject: RE: BS: Fer like, hosers, eh.....
Little Hawk, you're Canadian and I'm not, so perhaps I should not take issue. BUT:

Bob & Doug MacKenzie (Thomas and Moranis' characters) have absolutely no criminal tendencies, except their proclivity for smoking pot, and the iconic "hoser" that they represent does not present a danager to you or me. These guys are too complacent, too loaded, too good-natured, and perhaps too dumb, to commit assault and battery or even robbery.

These characters pretty much define what a "hoser" is to the outside world. I will only believe that it means something entirely more sinister to Canadians in general if a few more of you express agreement with your characterization.

I also take issue with your classification of backbacon as "fast food." Pizza is indeed fast-food, but isn't backbacon more correctly categorized as "groceries"? You have to fry it up yourself, don't you? For all I know, there may be Canadian fast-food franchises that sell backbacon, but wouldn't they have to offer, say, backbacon sandwiches?

(Backbacon as a pizza toppiing doesn't count.)

For the uninitiated, "backbacon" is the Canadian name for what the rest of the world calls "Canadian bacon." Sort of like the French calling French Fries "pommes frites."

Or am I still supposed to say "Freedom Fries"? Never mind...