Word: yay
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beautiful weekend wasn’t it?Cambridge gave us all the best parts of autumn: the freezing cold rain, muddy tracks, continual cloud cover. It just felt so unbelievably horrible to be outside. Yay!Thank goodness for football. Man, without that old pigskin on the old telly, I would have been so bummed. Like, imagine the waves swelling really high, but you just broke your board yesterday on some crunchy rocks. Bro, that bummed.But last weekend was different. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the debate hangover, but Saturday was ugly. The top-25 saw upsets...
...tougher puzzle. They've found themselves a suitable--maybe even superior--mate, had a bit of productive fun with the old gametes and ensured that at least some of their genes are carried into the next generation. They've done their duty, evolutionarily speaking. Their genome will survive. Yay them. So for Pete's sake, why do they persist with the game...
...John McLean coming to meet his family for the Holidays. A German terrorist/robber gets in the way. Choice lines: “I’ve got a machine gun now. Ho, Ho, Ho,” written on a sweatshirt in blood, and “Yippee kai- yay motherfucker.” Also has a cheery moralistic ending full of holiday cheer: Willis’ ally on the LAPD finally gets over his fear of guns (he once shot an unarmed 13-year-old boy) and shoots a bad guy. Brings tears to my eyes every time...
...word of 2007. A hybrid of letters, numerals, shorthand, and hooting noises, “w00t” is defined as “an interjection expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word ‘yay.’” Instead of analyzing precisely why “w00t” reads better with zeros instead of “o”s, I offer some alternatives, taken from the big and the small screens. 1. “Doorman?...
...during the Reagan years paid for itself--in part by encouraging the rich to stop finagling--and the evidence mostly backs him up. "You find these enormous responses in the upper brackets," Laffer says. "These guys fire their lawyers and accountants and actually pay their taxes. Yay! Isn't that what we want them...