# Bullyah, Kramer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 28, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230 "2006-03-28T09:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OliverTwistofLime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b487fb/32.png) [@OliverTwistofLime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OliverTwistofLime)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/1 "2006-03-28T09:15:54Z")
I watch Jim Cramer’s program frequently and have heard Boolyah, Kramer from wherever…Perhaps I’m one of only a few who doesn’t know the origin or the meaning of this so frequently used expression…but would some kind soul out there clue me in?..Please! ---
**Author:** ![OliverTwistofLime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b487fb/32.png) [@OliverTwistofLime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OliverTwistofLime)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/2 "2006-03-28T09:18:17Z")
> [@OliverTwistofLime](#): > > I watch Jim Cramer’s program frequently and have heard Boolyah, Kramer from wherever…Perhaps I’m one of only a few who doesn’t know the origin or the meaning of this so frequently used expression…but would some kind soul out there clue me in?..Please! K is my error. I know his last name begins with a C…thats about it. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/3 "2006-03-28T11:29:01Z")
I think its Booyah, not bullyah. Not sure of the origins, but basically it can mean; a win, or “nailed it!”. Its something positive. So if you buy a lottery ticket, and you hit the numbers, Booyah! If you nailed a touchdown, you can scream Booyah! in your opponents face. If your chosen stock goes up 100%, Booyah!! ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/4 "2006-03-28T12:14:03Z")
Didn’t Stuart Scott of “Sports Center” take the phrase mainstream, if not invent it? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/5 "2006-03-28T12:29:16Z")
> [@T\_SQUARE](#): > > Didn’t Stuart Scott of “Sports Center” take the phrase mainstream, if not invent it? Scott made it mainstream(around the mid-late 1990’s?). It was popularized in hip-hop/rap by T.R.I.B.E. in 1990 or so. Evidence indicates that it was the imitative sound of a sawed-off shotgun firing and probably an urban expression in the 1980’s at least. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/6 "2006-03-28T13:01:31Z")
If you watch “ER,” the Eriq LaSalle eps show him in the opening credits kinda squatting on the floor and thrusting his fist down in front. This comes either from the pilot movie, or the first regular season ep, in which he has just \*saved a patient who was suffering from a dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysm. In the actual ep, he is saying “Boo-yah!” as he squats and thrusts. \*The patient was scheduled to have surgery in the next week or so, but his AAA seemed to have already started leaking, so Dr. Benton (LaSalle) thought. No one seemed to take his diagnosis seriously (and do emergency surgery), so Benton thought he’d start operating himself. When word gets out to the other surgeons that Benton is opening the man himself, they start coming in to take over, at which point Benton says, “Suddenly I have all the help I need.” After they tell him that they have the situation under control, and he leaves the OR, he does the scene that’s shown in the credits. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/7 "2006-03-28T13:47:25Z")
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Money#Boo-yah.21_catch_phrase_used_by_Cramer_and_his_listeners) > [@](#): > > Boo-yah! catch phrase used by Cramer and his listeners > On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, a viewer asked Cramer by e-mail on Mad Money’s Mad Mail segment what his boo-yah! catch phrase means, and Cramer replied he himself did not have a clue. > On the next day, Wednesday, May 25, 2005, two viewers e-mailed him on his Mad Money program and said that Cramer’s boo-yah! catch phrase is similar to the Booyah registered trademark of the Booyah Bait Company [1] or to the phrase of SportsCenter’s Stuart Scott, but Cramer answered that his phrase is not copied from that company nor from Stuart Scott, and that he apologizes for any similarities, since his boo-yah phrase means “Are you ready to make some money?” > The boo-yah phrase has since become an opening greeting for his callers, similar to the “dittos” used by Rush Limbaugh callers. A recent trend (late 2005-early 2006) has been for callers to have their young children shout boo-yah; Cramer will then fall to his knees and push the “crowd cheering” button. Another up-and-coming trend on the show is the “stuttering” boo-yah, “b-b-b-b-ooo-yah!” > Cramer has since come up with a new phrase, “Are you ready, skee-daddy? It’s the Lightning Round on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money!” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/8 "2006-03-28T14:53:42Z")
Booya (no h) also refers to a [communal stew](http://www.startribune.com/804/story/71736.html) traditional amongst Minnesota-Wisconsin peoples. Judging from James Lileks’ reportage, it sounds like a defanged, northernized version of Kentucky [burgoo](http://www.angelfire.com/ky/burgoo/). ---
**Author:** ![Capa84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Capa84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capa84)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/9 "2006-03-29T03:23:39Z")
There was a rap group in the late 80s named the BooYah Tribe…I want to say they were Samoan, or perhaps Filipino. They had a few videos on MTV Raps. That was the first use of the term that I’m aware of. ---
**Author:** ![OliverTwistofLime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b487fb/32.png) [@OliverTwistofLime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OliverTwistofLime)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/10 "2006-03-29T04:04:07Z")
Thanks everyone, I can now sleep soundly right after I watch Cramers’ late show. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullyah-kramer/350230/11 "2006-03-29T04:15:06Z")
Any relation to the juvenile British taunt “yah boo”?