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| 501.1 | Rawhide? | PAMOLA::RECKARD | Jon Reckard, 381-0878, ZKO3-2/T63 | Mon Apr 11 1988 13:44 | 7 |
| I've heard it as a brief and emphatic form of "Git along, little dogies."
To the accompaniment of a cracking whip, the sound of cattle moving and mooing,
guitar, harmonica, crackling campfire, howling coyotes, and/or some combination
of any of these. (At least in the theme song of a 60's American TV Western.)
To be pronounced as: (sort of)
Yeeeee (rising in volume and pitch into the falsetto)
HAH''''' (many accent marks).
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| 501.2 | this is whewre it might have started | MARKER::KALLIS | Why is everyone getting uptight? | Mon Apr 11 1988 15:49 | 5 |
| I've been told that "Yeeee-HAW!" is the Rebel; Yell -- that is,
the cry of the soldiers and supporters of the Confederate States
of America.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 501.3 | from tv too! | TWEED::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Mon Apr 11 1988 16:16 | 5 |
| It was also used extensively in the once popular tv program
"the Dukes of Hazard". I have two sons who still use the expression
years after the show has gone off the air.
Bonnie
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| 501.4 | yeeee-HAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!! | VIA::RANDALL | back in the notes life again | Mon Apr 11 1988 22:36 | 8 |
| Damn straight it's the rebel yell, imported to the western US with
the thousands of disenfranchised Southerners who migrated west
seeking land and gold in the years following the war.
And this cowgirl can do a good one when the Red Sox score the
go-ahead run in the ninth inning . . .
--bonnie
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| 501.5 | Sounds like ... | RAVEN1::MKENNEDY | | Tue Apr 12 1988 14:54 | 7 |
| In plowing parlance, one says "gee" when the mule is directed left and
"haw" when it is to turn right.
Chubby Checker knew this.
Moffatt Kennedy
Greenville, SC
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| 501.6 | All of the above? | VALKYR::RUST | was ::RAVAN | Tue Apr 12 1988 15:44 | 16 |
| 'Tis definitely the rebel yell, which probably migrated to the American
West after the war. As to where it came from - the South being
primarily agricultural, there would certainly be a need for a signal
that would carry for some distance, whether calling the boys back
to the house for dinner, signalling the mules, or summoning the
hawgs. (An alternate theory: it's derived from "Jehu" in some fashion.
I prefer the hog-calling idea, though.)
Or it *may* be an instinctive response to that intense joy of living
one feels when on the brink of danger... I don't recall having heard
anyone else give the Yell prior to the first time *I* burst into one.
Or maybe not; somehow I can't imagine a bunch of Neanderthals
shrieking "Yeee-Hah!"
-b
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| 501.7 | both ways at once | VIA::RANDALL | back in the notes life again | Tue Apr 12 1988 18:10 | 6 |
| re: .5
If you yell "GHEE --- HAAWWW!" while you're plowing, you will
have one confused mule.
--bonnie
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| 501.8 | In the plural | DECSIM::HEILMAN | My paging file, it is full of eels | Tue Apr 12 1988 23:32 | 5 |
| A local Boston band, the Fools, has a song out (recorded live) in
which they can be heard to encourage the crowd "Lemme hear some
Yee-haws out there".
The song by the way is "Life sucks and then you die".
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| 501.9 | Semper Tyrannus | RIGAZI::SPERANDIO | | Mon Jul 24 1989 22:29 | 11 |
| re: .8
...that's probably just what those Bluebellies were thinking as they cowered
with the hair on their necks standing straight up. Somewhere out there in the
mist, or in those trees they would meet death. And the spectral sound of the
Rebel Yell would be the last sound they would hear.
I agree with .2 and .4 that the Rebel Yell lives on with this expression. I can
remember moving South as a kid and being surprised by this yell which all the
Southern kids made when playing. Do kids in N.E. make this sound?
-Skeezix
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| 501.10 | Mom | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Tue Jul 25 1989 01:42 | 5 |
| The only person I've ever heard do a rebel yell is my Mother. She very
effectively called me out of the woods with it once at a summer camp,
much to my embarrassment, when all the bells and calls of the others
simply didn't "get through". One of the other campers said, "J..., what
animal was that?!" to which I had to reply, "My Mother".
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