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Hey, I’ve heard plenty of Canadians say aboot, eh. Is it true that Canadians never said hoser? That Bob and Doug just made that up?

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I can swear on The Cup, that I never heard anyone say "hoser" before that skit. "Hosebag," was the word they "cleaned up" for TV.

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"Take off" and "eh" I heard all through my childhood from the frostbacks. In fact when I first saw the McKenzie Brothers I thought "how do they know Uncle Bud and Aunt Addee?"

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Back in early 2001, I went to a protest in Quebec city against George W Bush and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the best protest button I saw had a maple leaf with the words "No, eh"

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