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April 23, 2007
What’s A ‘Hoo? And Other Thoughts
In my last post I showed Beta Bridge painted with the sentiment “Hoos For Hokies” which is the University of Virginia’s way of expressing support for Virginia Tech during this tragic time. This raised the inevitable question: What’s a ‘Hoo?
I’ll quote from the paper of record at the U, the Cavalier Daily:
“WAHOOS? What the heck is a wahoo?” Prospective University students ask this question every year during tours around Grounds. One can only imagine the looks on the faces of University guides as high school students and their parents gaze expectantly at them, waiting for an answer. For, as every Wahoo comes to know — as well as every Wahoo’s chagrined parents — a wahoo is a fish that can drink twice its own weight.”
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You know you’re a parent when your courtesy notice from the library advises you that one of your many overdue books is titled Paws Off, Cheddarface!
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It’s been a cinch lately to figure out who’s a regular reader in town. These fans are marked by a compulsion to stop me anywhere– at Sunday School, at the ball park, at Publix– to start a conversation using the phrase “pop a boner” as conspicuously as possible.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 8:38 am, boomama Says:
If I ran into you in Publix (WHAT IF WE GO TO THE SAME PUBLIX AND DON’T EVEN KNOW IT?), I think I’d be tempted to scream “PAWS OFF, CHEDDARFACE” very loudly, because if that isn’t the best book title ever, then I don’t know what is.
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:48 am, Clearlykels Says:
My sister said that UVa is covered in support for Tech.
I’d see it this weekend if I didn’t decide to be responsible and forgo Foxfield this year.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 am, Lauren Says:
Ha! I don’t know if I’d have the nerve to use the phrase “pop
a boner” if I saw you in Publix! (I don’t know if we go to the same
Publix, because I feel like I’m there ALL the time, and I don’t think
I’ve ever seen you.)
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 am, Karin B Says:
I was at Publix by the graveyard the other day and thought if I run into you I will say BEEFBALLS.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:57 am, Katherine Says:
We’ve read “Paws off, Cheddarface” around here too. My 11 yo thinks those books are too young, but he still reads them when the 8 yo checks them out.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm, Melissa Says:
Are you going to Blogher? I hope so because I’ve been practicing my introducing myself and I have carefully scripted it to include “pop a boner” “eat it don’t google it” and “Angelina Jolie has nothing on you because she doesn’t have such terrific beef balls”.
ha!
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:59 pm, Blythe_One Says:
>>You know you’re a parent when your courtesy notice from the library advises you that one of your many overdue books is titled Paws Off, Cheddarface!
April 24th, 2007 at 10:11 am, Karyn Says:
Thanks for the What’s A Hoo info - as a Yankee, I feel completely adrift and out of the loop…
We don’t have a Publix. I’m so totally not invited to Blogher. And I’ve never read Paws Off, Cheddarface, but I will be perusing the children’s section in search of it the next time I hit the library.
But - can I just say - I was recognized by a non-blogger complete stranger out in public recently for the first time! It was way exciting and after two and a half days I stopped giggling about it. But it was pretty cool. Of course, I got “Oh you’re that redheaded blogger whose friend is being artificially inseminated” and not “pop a boner”, but I’ll take what I can get.
April 24th, 2007 at 4:51 pm, Kitchen Madonna Says:
I’m a redheaded blogger from Birmingham and I shop at Publix but I’ve not been artificially inseminated and because I’m single I’ll leave that “pop a boner’ thing alone since…well…forget it.
April 27th, 2007 at 1:30 am, baseballmom Says:
Heh…one of our overdue books was Walter the Farting Dog.