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3. The original meaning of Yahoo has stuck with me since I was a child

Thu Jan 23, 2014, 08:32 AM

Jan 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_%28Gulliver%27s_Travels%29

A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.

Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean "a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person".

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Yahoo Comment Clowns: Our Hatred Burns Like An Eternal Flame, No Matter WHAT the Subject Is. [View all] HughBeaumont Jan 2014 OP

Comment Trolls RockaFowler Jan 2014 #1

I know, I see that all the time shenmue Jan 2014 #2

The original meaning of Yahoo has stuck with me since I was a child Fumesucker Jan 2014 #3

In other news: Some people still use Yahoo! flvegan Jan 2014 #4

It's likely where all the AOLosers migrated to. HughBeaumont Jan 2014 #6

responding to such thugs is something of a hobby of mine dembotoz Jan 2014 #5

Hmm. "Thugs." Orrex Jan 2014 #11

I cut my teeth against the Yahoo comment trolls long ago MrScorpio Jan 2014 #7

Haters gonna hate. Rex Jan 2014 #8

Bottom of the barrel trolls. JaneyVee Jan 2014 #9

Someone is paying these comment clowns. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #10

It's just amazing when I see the usual sisterbanger dog whistles . . . . HughBeaumont Jan 2014 #12