# Yadda, yadda, yadda **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429 "2003-01-23T14:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/1 "2003-01-23T14:00:40Z")
Let me be the first to point out today’s Staff Report [What’s the origin of “yadda, yadda, yadda”?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/myadda.html) is the work of our newest Staff, **samclem** , who has just been given the official designation of Staff with all the emoluments and impertinences attributed thereto. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/2 "2003-01-23T14:49:08Z")
So he’s not a guest contributor? It still says so at the tail of the piece. 'Grats **samclem**. Although if you _have_ been made Staff, you were probably unwise to use your one impertinence towards **little Ed** in your first missive. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/3 "2003-01-23T14:54:40Z")
We’ll get that fixed, thanks for pointing it out, **hawthorne.** When samclem wrote the report, he was a guest contributor, but yesterday, we said, “What the hell” and made him Staff. Er, I mean, we completed the lengthy election and selection process, and got a final OK from the Powers that B. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/4 "2003-01-23T16:25:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > the Powers that B. You mean that **David B** is in charge! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/5 "2003-01-23T17:03:18Z")
C’mere kid, let me show you this nice goat. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/6 "2003-01-23T19:00:31Z")
Yeah, I was wondering about that, too. Congratulations, Sam! But be warned: All of a sudden, there’s going to be about ten thousand and six questions popping up in the Mailbag about coins. I know that that happened with astronomy questions, when I joined. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/7 "2003-01-23T19:48:17Z")
Did he get his coffee mug yet? ---
**Author:** ![wilcobearswamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8797f3/32.png) [@wilcobearswamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wilcobearswamp)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/8 "2003-01-23T21:20:26Z")
BTW, there is a town (wide place in the road, actually) in Australia called “Yatte Yattah.” It’s on the South Coast, a couple hours south of Sydney. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/9 "2003-01-24T01:10:56Z")
Congrats, samclem, on adding a bit of steam to this here paddleboat! ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/10 "2003-01-24T16:25:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wilcobearswamp \* > \*\*BTW, there is a town (wide place in the road, actually) in Australia called “Yatte Yattah.” It’s on the South Coast, a couple hours south of Sydney. \*\* How is that pronounced? RR ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/11 "2003-01-24T17:44:00Z")
R. Crumb comics from the '60s show women saying “yedda yedda”. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/12 "2003-01-25T02:25:03Z")
> [@](#): > > …you were probably unwise to use your one impertinence towards little Ed in your first missive. What! I only get one shot at the guy? What-the-hey? My contract distinctly says that I can pound him unmerc…er, what? He can do WHAT to my article? No way. And what do you mean, “first missive?” You missed my first one. NO ONE responded to it. [What’s the origin of “Tin Pan Alley”?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mtinpanalley.html) Now that I have that off my chest, thanks for the welcome. I’ll try to keep up the standards of the other Staff writers. :::h-e-r-e, goaty, goaty, goaty. ::::: ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/13 "2003-01-25T02:38:03Z")
Cf. “Cocktail Party” from Rogers & Hammerstein’s 1947 “Allegro”. [http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/hammerstein/CocktailParty.txt](http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/hammerstein/CocktailParty.txt) ---
**Author:** ![migod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@migod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/migod)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/14 "2003-01-25T14:34:00Z")
The first thing to be observed about this description is so obvious you have to hold it down or it will drown out every other observation. This is: It is just duller than ditchwater. Yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah, carburetor, gear ratio, compression, yah-da-yah, piston, plugs, intake, yah-da-yah, on and on and on. That is the romantic face of the classic mode. Dull, awkward and ugly. Few romantics get beyond that point. Zen and the Art of Mortorcycle Maintenance, p79 Robert Pirsig ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/15 "2003-01-25T14:39:07Z")
Do “staff” get paid? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/16 "2003-01-25T16:38:58Z")
Staff don’t get paid in terms of money, but we are reward by the pride of a job well done… and an occasional kind word or compliment from a board member. ---
**Author:** ![CasperQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@CasperQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CasperQ)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/17 "2003-01-25T19:06:54Z")
Word! [sub] said with the utmost kindliness [/sub] [sub]\* I know, I know… I’m getting goated next - can I have a male one please?\*[/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tammi\_Terrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Tammi\_Terrell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tammi_Terrell)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/18 "2003-01-26T02:23:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Staff don’t get paid in terms of money, but we are reward by the pride of a job well done… and an occasional kind word or compliment from a board member. Heck, I can do **a lot** better than that: to what address do I send the asparagus, **samclem**? ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/19 "2003-01-26T02:31:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*Staff don’t get paid in terms of money, but we are reward by the pride of a job well done… and an occasional kind word or compliment from a board member. \*\* …and the occasional Pit thread from a board member - sometimes the same one! \*I personally think you’re all doing a bang-up job, of course. \* ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/20 "2003-01-26T02:37:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Heck, I can do a lot better than that: to what address do I send the asparagus, samclem? Trying to _piss_ me off, are you? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429.md?page=2)