Word: yay
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...tall I am Your best pick-up line: “Hey, I may might not be the best-looking guy in the room, but I am the only one talking to you...” kidding, kidding. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Yay, go Red Sox! Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Webb, clean up your side of the room Favorite childhood toy: Baseball glove Sexiest physical trait: My calves, pythons Favorite part about Harvard: Rowing team, my blocking group Describe yourself in three words: I can?...
...Beach: When it comes to war, there's always a propaganda effort to influence everybody so that they say, "Yay! It's good." Eastwood's interpretation was, I think, to get a stronger perspective on the battle of Iwo Jima. It was one of the bloodiest and most important battles of the war. A lot of people - especially our younger generation - are forgetting the veterans who fought in that era. The soldiers going into that battle knew that they were in trouble, but it didn't stop them. They had a job to do. We have to respect them...
...strongly resembled monsters were violently assaulting one another on television. But regardless, as the precocious, attention-seeking youngster that I was, I saw my window of opportunity and I seized it. Bolting from my hiding place, I ran towards the screen and began yelling, “Football! Football! Yay! Football!” before sprinting from the room as quickly as I had entered while my father roared with laughter. When I quietly reemerged a short time later, he snatched me up and sat me down beside him, explaining the sport as best he could while we took...
...have thought it was a gag. Sometimes he used it for fun, in high-pitched baby talk, as George Rock's comic falsetto had for the vocal in Spike Jones' 1947 novelty hit "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)." And the reading of "bay-yay-bee" in "Sherry," offers a few seconds of comedy-record crib noise...
...percussion was the soon-to-be-familiar Seasons combination of hand-claps and marching feet that lent a military air to the enterprise. The unique element, of course, was Valli's voice, stretching two words into ten aching, urgent syllables ("Sheh-eh-eh-eh-eh-er-ry bay-yay-bee") over half of the four-line chorus. / Sheh-eh-ry, can you come out tonight?" The falsetto is used to establish the singer as the proper young gent ("You better ask your mama. / Tell her everything is all right"). Then the tenor shout in the bridge reveals...