# Why does the yawn continue???

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-yawn-continue/52544>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 31, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-yawn-continue/52544 "2001-01-31T12:38:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jukeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jukeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jukeball)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-yawn-continue/52544/1 "2001-01-31T12:38:49Z")

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I frequently travel in trains and have noticed that if someone yawns atleats two ppl yawn after him, and now since i noticed it i cant help yawning sometimes 2!!!

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**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-yawn-continue/52544/2 "2001-01-31T14:22:23Z")

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I once yawned after seeing my cat yawn! What’s up with this?

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**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-yawn-continue/52544/3 "2001-01-31T14:34:34Z")

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[Already covered by the master…](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_309.html)

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**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-yawn-continue/52544/4 "2001-01-31T16:46:40Z")

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No disrespect to Cecil intended, but…

Dr. Suess covered this one _years_ ago. Didn’t you folks ever read “The yawn that went around the world”?  
It started with the littlest Who in WhoVille, and from there got out to Horton, who spread it around the rest of the world. 😉