# What is woo? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622 "2010-12-18T12:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/41 "2010-12-19T23:14:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Woowoowoowoowoo!!! became an annoying replacement for “yay” or “huzzah” or even an approving whistle. Wuwuzela? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/42 "2010-12-20T02:08:37Z")
**What is woo?** Five feet of heaven in a ponytail? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/43 "2010-12-20T02:15:38Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > **What is woo?** > > Five feet of heaven in a ponytail? You must be thinking of [Lucy Liu](http://openbooksociety.com/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/69e09a7eca96357b78487f35fe94ba96.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/44 "2010-12-20T21:40:51Z")
It’s the [James Randi Educational Foundation’s](http://www.randi.org) word of choice for what they’re up against. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/45 "2010-12-20T22:50:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Wow, that’s about the most perfect chart ever! It is, alas, missing Cm\* from the Extraterrestrial group. \*Cattle mutes ---
**Author:** ![HawksPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HawksPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HawksPath)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/46 "2010-12-21T00:13:36Z")
How do you describe a woman in a unfitted dress trying to cast a magic spell to make her sex unresistable? The woo woo in the momo doing hoo hoo voodoo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/47 "2010-12-21T01:16:20Z")
> [@HawksPath](#): > > How do you describe a woman in a unfitted dress trying to cast a magic spell to make her sex unresistable? The woo woo in the momo doing hoo hoo voodoo. Not to poo-poo the woo-fu that you do so well, but… the “unfitted dress” is a mu-mu, which fits the rhyme scheme perfectly! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622/48 "2010-12-21T02:43:30Z")
Woo is the Chinese pig farmer in Deadwood, S.D. with a sideline in running mortuary services for the very poor and very unfortunate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woo/564622.md?page=2)