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<DIV><FONT size=2>"Where's Yehudi?" was a tagline on the Bob Hope radio show in
the forties. May have had somehing to do with:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Yesterday upon the stair</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I met a man who wasn't there.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>He wasn't there again today.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Oh how I wish he'd go away.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:jdhall@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU" title=jdhall@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU>Joan
Houston Hall</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:35
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> "Yahooty" - Origin and
definition</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Can anyone help Mr. Caraway? DARE has only one bit of anecdotal
corroboration.<BR><BR>>>>><BR>
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19:48:48 -0600<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:jdhall@facstaff.wisc.edu">jdhall@facstaff.wisc.edu</A><BR>From:
Jim Caraway <<A
href="mailto:jcaraway1@austin.rr.com">jcaraway1@austin.rr.com</A>><BR>Subject:
"Yahooty" - Origin and definition<BR>Cc:
lvonschn@facstaff.wisc.edu<BR><BR>Hello.<BR><BR>Since I retired in 1993 I've
been writing on a Journal at the request of my family, in which I've tried
to set down all the recollections I can remember growing up in Mills County,
Texas during the depression as a boy. One of the things I remember was the
use of the word, "yahooty", pronounced "yea" (as in, "Yea shall know the
truth, ...") "hooty". It was used in the context of a fictitious or
imaginary person, like under the following circumstance: Someone says, "Who
took the last piece of pie?" And I'd say "Yahooty took it." when in fact it
was I who took it. A sort of scapegoat. Then, recently I was watching a
rerun of an episode from the TV series, "The Waltons", and the name,
Yahooty, came up again. This time it was used in the context of the name of
the little man in the refrigerator who turns off the light when the door is
closed.<BR><BR>My question is do you have any information on this word, or
do you have any idea where I could get a true definition of its use and
origin? I've searched the internet without success.<BR><BR>I'm not talking
about the word, <B><U>yahoo</U></B>, which when I was growing up meant an
uncouth person, lout, brute, or person lacking sensibility, and which
originated with Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.<BR><BR>Nor am I
talking about the word, yahudi, (in Arabic-speaking or Muslim countries) or
yehudi (in the U.S. and Israel), which simply means a Jew, in English or in
Hebrew. Since Jews frequently are scapegoats, there could be a relationship
between words here, but I doubt that was the case when I was growing
up.<BR><BR>I noticed that the latter volumns of D.A.R.E. (containing words
beginning with the letter "Y") have not been published. Am I
correct?<BR><BR>I'm not really sure of the spelling of yahooty; it could be
yeehooty, or yeahooty. Would appreciate your comments.
Thanks.<BR><BR><BR><BR>-<BR>jcaraway1@austin.rr.com, Austin,
Texas.<BR>Please visit my home web site
at:<BR>http://home.austin.rr.com/jcaraway1/<BR>Also, Please visit my
genealogy web site
at:<BR>http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/r/James-C-Caraway/<BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><<<<
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