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Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Girl? Ew... He’d do something really sweet—bring me my favorite drink: Yoo-hoo...
...those soldiers will come from Fort Hood, Texas, where President Bush last week rallied 4,000 members of the largest army base in the U.S. "The leader in Iraq has publicly proclaimed his hatred for our country and what we stand for," Bush told the troops. They roared approving "Hoo-ahs!" when he said they might be called on to fight...
...from saloon baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you"), the occasional glottal addition ("Glove me tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with a cute quaver in the "at" when he pleads "At least please telephone...
...years ago when doing researches for what became, in 1999, a Simon & Schuster book titled Atlantis Rising: The True Story of a Submerged Land, Yesterday and Today. I talked to scientists from the recently deceased paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to the great naturalist Bil Gilbert. I investigated the old hoo-hah espoused by such as Ignatius Donnelly, Jules V erne and Arthur Conan Doyle, and looked into the sounder theories of bygone thinkers such as Rachel Carson and J.V. Luce. I developed a Deep Throat source at the venerable Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and, frankly...
...throw flowers, blow kisses and otherwise demonstrate their appreciation for her 50 years as monarch. Last week, as she and husband Prince Philip toured Newcastle, local resident Brynn Richard Reed expressed his feelings in a less conventional way. Jogging alongside their Rolls-Royce, Reed waved and shouted, "Yoo-hoo!" But chances are, what caught the royals' attention was Reed's unavoidable nudity. That and the words RUDE BRITANNIA scrawled across his buttocks. Police dragged him away, but he may have given the Queen the greatest gift of all--the chance to be embarrassed by someone other than her own children...