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   Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:48:12 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

   Or, as Americans are so fond of saying: "Yippie Kay Yay, Motherf*ck*rs!"

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     Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:48:07 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • Fitheach

     @fitheach

     Oh no, there is no need for such a dramatic scenario!

     I often say this under my breath when getting out of a 4h meeting, having obliterated the rest of the incompetent nincompoops I have to work with... 😂

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     Fitheach (fitheach@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:48:08 JST Fitheach

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     @ParadeGrotesque
     Many a true word spoken in jest. The phrase probably does have that meaning now, as the movie quote is so famous.

     You just know the next time you are trapped in a multi-storey building with some German psychopath terrorists this is the first phrase that will come to mind.

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     Fitheach (fitheach@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:48:09 JST Fitheach

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     @ParadeGrotesque
     I agree with this article:
     "no one really knows what it means at all."

     Yipee is fairly common in English, although perhaps a little dated these days. I understand it as an expression of excitement or joy.

     Ki-Yay, on the other hand, is meaningless, to me. I think they are non-lexical vocables introduced by, as stated in the article, by Bing Crosby.

     https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/yippee-ki-yay-origins-of-die-hard-iconic-phrase/

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     Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:48:09 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • Fitheach

     @fitheach

     My previous post was said firmly tongue-in-cheek... 😉

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     Fitheach (fitheach@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:48:10 JST Fitheach

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     @ParadeGrotesque
     To be fair, it was only ever one American, John McClane (Bruce Willis).

     Also, I have no idea what the first bit means.

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     Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:48:10 JST Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • Fitheach

     @fitheach

     From I understand, uh... (checks notes) it is an expression to challenge one's opponents, a bit like "come on!".

     But what do I know? 🤷♂️

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 19:40:50 JST clacke

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     • Fitheach
     @fitheach @ParadeGrotesque I always understood it as a variant on e.g. "yippie-aye-aye" in "She'll be coming round the mountain".
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     Henry Edward Hardy (hhardy01@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 16:15:37 JST Henry Edward Hardy

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     • Fitheach

     Yippee yi ki yay
     Git along little dogies

     Roy Rogers
     Git Along Little Dogies
     1940

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2cFji4CmHE

     @clacke @fitheach @ParadeGrotesque

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