2007-11-09 08:20:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
So, yahoos were and remain uncouth idiots (unlike the free-spirited horses)? How appropriate!
2007-11-09 10:32:23 · update #1
the stanford students who started the company decided to call it Yahoo based on a phrase from Gulliver's Travels meaning "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
2007-11-09 08:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by ♪ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jonathan Swift, from 'Gulliver's Travels'
2007-11-09 08:28:48 · answer #2 · answered by Mark V 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some industrious Chinese-American businessman
2007-11-09 16:03:29 · answer #3 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some Swedes who didn't want to curse so instead they always said "yahoo" instead of "s**t"
2007-11-09 10:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by Darky 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sorry Ari but if that were true Yahoo would be toxic!
2007-11-13 04:06:02 · answer #5 · answered by I'm here 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question
2007-11-13 05:26:45 · answer #6 · answered by phatgirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋