Is Yahoo an acronym for something?
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you bet...shit!!!
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You Aren't Hector or Octavio
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Nope. "The word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang jokingly considered themselves yahoos. It's also an interjection sometimes associated with United States Southerners' and Westerners' expression of joy, as alluded to in Yahoo.com commercials that end with someone singing the word "yahoo". It is also sometime jokingly referred to by its backronym, Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologies
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No, it's just an expression like excitement.
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I still haven't gotten the right answer, anybody else want to take a shot?
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Yahoo stands for "Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle"
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