# Weird or Unusual Cheers **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 15, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223 "2012-06-15T12:51:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/1 "2012-06-15T12:51:02Z")
It was one of those things that just pop into my mind for no good reason, but I decided to test if my imagination had gone kerflooey and did a Yahoo! search on “brek ek ek ek” to see if anything would happen. To my astonishment I found [Leave it to Yalies to cheer in ancient Greek at a football game](http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00008830.html) – which makes as much sense as the thing ever did to me. I believe I ran across this “cheer” decades ago, perhaps in a book of old music or college songs or something along those lines. I’m pretty sure I never _heard_ it being used at a game I attended. But the very idea made me think the topic would be fun to pursue, with other examples of bizarre or crazy cheers from wherever. YouTube clips would be even more exciting. For instance: [The Yale Long Cheer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdidELkdTM) Anyway, what’s the most unusual cheer you’ve run across? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/2 "2012-06-15T13:00:22Z")
I transplanted smack in to KU country, and after years I still think ‘Rock Chalk Jayhawk’ is one of the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever heard. No, I am not an MU fan. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/3 "2012-06-15T13:06:17Z")
Isn’t there a football club in the UK whose fans sing “Always look on the bright side of life” as their _official_ cheer? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/4 "2012-06-15T13:09:50Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Isn’t there a football club in the UK whose fans sing “Always look on the bright side of life” as their _official_ cheer? If not, there ought to be! That’s hilarious! There were all sorts of “blue language” cheers that random small groups would scream out at the high school I attended, but they were not “official” by any stretch. Funny, yes. Approved, no. ---
**Author:** ![PJMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PJMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PJMom)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/5 "2012-06-15T13:10:44Z")
E to the x, dy/dx, E to the x, dx Cosine, secant, tangent, sine 3.14159 Square root, cube root, log of pi Disintegrate them, RPI! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/6 "2012-06-15T13:21:03Z")
Obligatory Carlin cheer: Rat shit, bat shit. Dirty old twat. 39 assholes tied in a knot. Hooray! Lizard shit! Fuck! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/7 "2012-06-15T15:24:25Z")
A long time ago, Georgetown University had an amateur athletic club called the Stonewalls, and their fans used to chant “Huia saxa,” a sort of cockeyed Latin phrase meaning (sort of)“What Stones!” That’s supposedly where the current team nickname, “Hoyas,” came from. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/8 "2012-06-15T15:25:41Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Obligatory Carlin cheer: > > Rat shit, bat shit. > Dirty old twat. > 39 assholes tied in a knot. > Hooray! > Lizard shit! > Fuck! How I miss George. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/9 "2012-06-15T15:30:34Z")
I always thought ‘Tiny Bubbles’ was a silly fucking song for Man United. But my entire English football education came from Green Street Hooligans so what do I know. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/10 "2012-06-15T15:32:52Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Isn’t there a football club in the UK whose fans sing “Always look on the bright side of life” as their _official_ cheer? I think most of the football teams have a song like that. I don’t know they’re official or if they’ve just been so broadly adopted by fans that they are practically official. A bunch of them are not the type of Jock Jams stuff we’d associate with U.S. sports teams. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/11 "2012-06-15T15:36:15Z")
There’s Bossy Cow Cow, used at UC Davis (which started out as the UC farm school). \* Bossy cow cow! Honey bee bee! Oleo-margarine Oleo-butterine Alfalfa Hay! \* It’s a parody of Berkeley’s Oski Yell, itself a somewhat old old cheer. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/12 "2012-06-15T15:43:16Z")
Rah Rah Ree Hit 'em in the knee! Rah Rah Rass Hit 'em in the other knee! (from the Union College Flaming Dutchmen). ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/13 "2012-06-15T15:45:51Z")
> [@PJMom](#): > > E to the x, dy/dx, E to the x, dx > Cosine, secant, tangent, sine > 3.14159 > Square root, cube root, log of pi > Disintegrate them, RPI! With minor alterations, this is also used at Rice University. Weirdest and most unique I’ve seen in person has to be the University of Arkansas’s “Woo, Pig Sooie” chants. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/14 "2012-06-15T15:46:11Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Rah Rah Ree > Hit 'em in the knee! > Rah Rah Rass > Hit 'em in the other knee! > > (from the Union College Flaming Dutchmen). Hit 'em in the left knee! Hit 'em in the right knee! Hit 'em in the Wee…need a touchdown, Bulldogs! This could dissolve inte a thread filled with gag cheers rather quickly… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/15 "2012-06-15T15:50:04Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Obligatory Carlin cheer: > > Rat shit, bat shit. > Dirty old twat. > 39 assholes tied in a knot. > Hooray! > Lizard shit! > Fuck! I heard a slightly different version in the 70’s: Rat shit, bat shit. Dirty old twat. 69 douche bags tied in a knot, Eat shit, lick clit, Gonorrhea goo; We are the [team name], So, Fuck You! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/16 "2012-06-15T15:55:38Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > This could dissolve inte a thread filled with gag cheers rather quickly… I see no problem with that! In fact, I have been looking for links to such things. So far, nothing worth sharing. Anybody who is familiar with the [Hotty Toddy cheer](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hotty+toddy) at Ole Miss probably knows at least one version that is unlikely to be used in “polite company.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/17 "2012-06-15T16:29:43Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I always thought ‘Tiny Bubbles’ was a silly fucking song for Man United. > > But my entire English football education came from Green Street Hooligans so what do I know. I think you need to watch the movie again. I’m not sure what Man United’s theme song is, but in the movie, they were with West Ham, whose theme song is “Forever Blowing Bubbles.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/18 "2012-06-15T16:32:30Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I transplanted smack in to KU country, and after years I still think ‘Rock Chalk Jayhawk’ is one of the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever heard. > > No, I am not an MU fan. FWIW, Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college chant he ever heard. And I am a KU fan. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/19 "2012-06-15T16:40:14Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > FWIW, Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college chant he ever heard. > > And I am a KU fan. 🙂 I’ve heard that before, but I have yet to see the claim substantiated by anything except KU propaganda. Don’t even bring the King of Belgium into the conversation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223/20 "2012-06-15T18:43:44Z")
Back when CCNY had the best college basketball team in the world and all the best players were Jewish (and before point shaving scandals destroyed the program), their patented chant was… “Allagaroo, garoo, gara!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-or-unusual-cheers/625223.md?page=2)