Ironboots
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posted on 2/4/2002 at 09:48 AM |
What is Oi? (or Oy, or Oui, or any other incarnation) Itīs been
in my vocabulary of exclamations for a very long time ( Guy:"Hey, we have a
test today" Me:"Oui..." I spell it Oui...) But I donīt know what it means,
nor where it came from, besides that it rolls out the mouth well. And I know its a band...
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Dolorosa
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posted on 23/5/2006 at 12:17 AM |
Bohu-yath is actually first used in ancient hoary Pnakoptic manuscripts as
a distortion of the name Boshua-Yaggath, a dark and alien god of the other
realm that represented pyrrhic victories and also smoothies, though I am
not sure which kind, mostly probably some sort of cephlapod. During the
migration to northern america by europeans the term was frequently used by
irishmen to signify a resounding blow thrown in fisticuffs or a riot gone
successfully awry. Due to the irish peoples' blasphemously poor english and
ghastly accent the term was often heard as "Boo-yah"
Several non-irish attempted to use the word themselves but each and
everyone disappeared mere hours after witnesses experianced the action. The
final dissemination of this word occured when one O. Walter Freeman, who
was already documented as a daring eccentric and snipe breeder built an
enormous ladder out of lincoln logs and tongue depressors in southern
Maine, of a height that just barely managed to exit our atmosphere. He
climbed aformentioned ladder with a paper bag over his head to serve as a
means of providing oxygen and dropped a rather large rock in the general
vicinity of the british isles. As luck would have it, Ireland was
completely obliterated by this act and sank immediatly to the bottom of the
sea. The Irish people themselves were struck into an obscure fugue and
wandering to their sunken home as if called by perilous writhing voices we
mere mortals are not privy too. When this momentus and historic event
occured, O. Walter Freeman was heard to boom as loud as he could
"Boo-YAH!"
And due to thier disarray, no mysterious consequences could be leveled upon
him by the scary irish.
Thus entering into common parlance, the term "Boo-yah" now literally means
"I just sunk Ireland."
Thank you for your time. ____________________ In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King |
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IamSquid
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posted on 20/5/2006 at 01:10 PM |
I bellieve "boo-yah" is some form of onnomonopeia to denote an impact or
explosion of some sort.
I supposed it may also be used as a term for dissatisfaction with divinity.
"Boo" denoting disapointment and "Yah" (sometimes spelled "Jah") a Hebrew
name for divinity. ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
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feralucce
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posted on 20/5/2006 at 12:57 PM |
as defined by teh Urban dictionary online... (with four spellings)
A sign of celebration as used by The Oakster, but also can be used by him
as a sarcastic celebration as well.
-or-
Catch phrase of men with no testicles. Usually shouted upon premature
ejaculation.
-or-
Words uddered while ass fucking a tranny with a strap on tire iron
Also see-woozle wuzzle
-or-
Can be said whenever feeling happy or excited in any situation
there are a couple others, but as I understand it from my caucozoid
afro-american friends (the wiggers), it is an exclamtory used to express
either total pwnage or elation
____________________ The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
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Monolycus
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posted on 18/5/2006 at 09:31 PM |
Well, I'll be damned. This thread again. My very, very first contribution
to this website.
Like an old friend. Who really needs a bath.
Been a long time since March of 20 ought 2. Lot of water under the bridge,
lot of growing and maturing. And I still got no idea what the hell
"Boo-Yah" is supposed to mean. ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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feralucce
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posted on 18/5/2006 at 03:19 AM |
also... in haitian kreole... it is spelled...wi ____________________ The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
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feralucce
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posted on 17/5/2006 at 08:50 PM |
This is where i cut in..while gratmical emotional intensifiers can be
terribly effective... it is all in HOW something is communicated...
frankly there are some sounds that need no words... and the no linguistic
verbal components of communication are as, if not more, important than the
words one chooses...
I will simply site the word fuck... without the non-linguistic overtones...
this word is useless, but it's emotionality defines the entire sentence...
"Fuck." ____________________ The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
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Monolycus
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posted on 16/4/2002 at 06:08 PM |
Some days, it doesnīt seem to me that it would be tremendously different if
they did. ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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goathead
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posted on 13/4/2002 at 05:44 AM |
hehe.. what a weird world itīd be if everyone went around just quacking at
eachother ____________________ All your base are belong to ME!!! |
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Monolycus
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posted on 12/4/2002 at 09:22 PM |
Yes, it can be a bad thing when we are simply making noises at one another
in lieu of genuine communication. We already use phrases like "Hey, how
are you doing?" to mean "I see you standing there and canīt be moved to
actually communicate anything so hereīs a trite, reflexive cliche that does
not require a genuine response so that we may pretend that we have shared
information with one another and go about our business." Fortunately, I
donīt think that duckspeak has yet become epidemic, but it is something to
watch out for. If "spicing up the language" or "making it less dull" means
sacrificing content, then colour me bland. Boo-yah. ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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goathead
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posted on 12/4/2002 at 05:18 PM |
is that a bad thing? i donīt think so.. the language gets so dull if you
have to use 100% correct grammar all the time.. bleh. ____________________ All your base are belong to ME!!! |
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Ironboots
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posted on 12/4/2002 at 05:04 PM |
I bet you can get them on the internet. You can get anything over the
net...
Oh, and hella is derived from helluva, which is
derived from the full phrase "hell of a" which means a large or intense
x.
Sometimes I wonder if I have become too culture-saturated and am
losing my grammar. I find it hard to say hello or hi (even harder). I
automatically call out "hey" which works, but is not really becoming... But
what the hey... ____________________ Piggy's got the Conch! |
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Monolycus
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posted on 11/4/2002 at 08:55 PM |
Grammatical emotional intensifiers can be a very effective means of sizing
up a personīs background or weltenschauung in a hurry. Damn it.
I was not trying to deride their use, I was simply
interested in where they come from, what they mean, and where I could
procure some for myself. ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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callei
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posted on 9/4/2002 at 01:43 AM |
Im in favor of emotional intensifiers in speach. they give it added flavor
and let you know the age and geographical allegance of the person speaking. ____________________ Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
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posted on 8/4/2002 at 10:56 PM |
Whatīs hella supposed to mean? My blond sister uses it quite often and
manages to convey so many different meanings with it...
Me a troublemaker? Riight, like you think someone with no ears is
capable of creating trouble...always blaming the guy with no
ears...sheesh...are you not ashamed of yourselves...(are you convinced that
I, such bearer of the highest morals of humanity in innocent of all crimes
including the one time that I "supposedly" would do something like taking a
ninety degree turn at ninety miles an hour on a dirt road?) Please, oh,
please say "of course not, you are but the perfect reincarnation of
lawfulness"...and if you buy that Iīve got a million dollars to sell to you
in return for one million, million dollars...
[ This message was
edited by: Zalosisae on 2002-04-08 23:00 ] ____________________
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goathead
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posted on 8/4/2002 at 04:31 PM |
you mean as in "boo-ya-kasha"? i dunno, i think that guy ali g says it all
the time.. no friggin idea what it means tho.. ____________________ All your base are belong to ME!!! |
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Monolycus
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posted on 8/4/2002 at 04:26 PM |
While we are at it, Iīve been wondering what the heck "Boo-Yah" is supposed
to mean. ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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callei
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posted on 7/4/2002 at 09:49 PM |
It is also british for "yo!" as in "yo baby wzzup?"or "here there!"as in
"hey there, what are you doing with that gun on this belltower?" ____________________ Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
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bettie_x
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posted on 7/4/2002 at 07:59 PM |
Devin and mono are both right. There are "oi" bands, and lots of rabis and
punks share that quirky expression. Maybe it was started by a jewish punk
kid in the 80īs...weīll never know..
Smacking with
newspapers "in the name of science"...I smell bored troublemakers.... ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Monolycus
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posted on 7/4/2002 at 10:20 AM |
Starting to stray a little off-topic, so I will be brief. Anthropology is
the study of human beings. I never took a course in any branch of
anthropology (Physical, Cultural, Archaeology, Linguistics) in which
someone did not sit bolt upright halfway through the semester and announce
with enormous conviction that "THIS IS BORING!" To be entirely fair, the
suffix "-ology" denotes "the study of" and its presence at the end of a
noun is enough to conclude that all the fun has been sucked out of whatever
is being discussed.
Just so that I can not be accused
of straying entirely off-topic now... OY! Incidentally, my rolled-up
newspaper experiments have so far produced 6 "Ows!", two "Ays!" (one of
which was followed with an "ai-yi!") and a bruised rib (What do old French
women carry in their purses anyway? Cinder blocks?). All you junior
scientists out there please submit your results here for peer review before
racing out to meet with your publisher. I am,
your
faithful friend,
~Monolycus ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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