# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/21 "2003-01-26T02:45:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > \*\*Trying to _piss_ me off, are you? \*\* Hey, like they say: urine, the big league now. ---
**Author:** ![tim\_curtis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tim\_curtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim_curtis)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/22 "2003-01-26T07:15:39Z")
Credit for the very first use of the word “yadah” must be given to Adam & Eve: Genesis 4:1: “And Adam knew (Hebrew = yadah) Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.” “Yadah” is biblical Hebrew for f\_\_k. Whenever Adam had problems with the family, he screamed, “Yadah, yadah, yadah!” (f\_\_k, f\_\_k, f\_\_k!) ---
**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 26, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/23 "2003-01-26T15:57:34Z")
Y-D-’ is also used for “know intimately” – not just for having sexual intimacy. When Pharaoh says, “Who is this God? I do not know him and I will not let your people go,” he’s not talking about sex. But, thanks, **tim,** it’s a nice bilingual word-play. And welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, glad to have you with us! ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/24 "2003-01-26T17:29:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > **Staff don’t get paid in terms of money,** Just say it: **Staff get stiffed**. ---
**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 26, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/25 "2003-01-26T18:00:10Z")
\<\< Just say it: Staff get stiffed. \>\> Hey, **Wikkit,** no sexual innuendo, please. \< grin \> ---
**Author:** ![tim\_curtis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tim\_curtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim_curtis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/26 "2003-01-27T06:52:00Z")
Good point Dexter, a more appropriate rendering of Genesis 4:1-2 would be: “And Adam knew Eve; that is, they were able to feel/know each other to be together in appropriate personal intimacy in personal care and she conceived and bare children.” ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/27 "2003-01-27T17:15:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tim curtis \* > **"And Adam knew Eve; that is, they were able to feel/know each other to be together in appropriate personal intimacy in personal care and she conceived and bare children."** Did they have kids before or after leaving the garden? I don’t remember the myth very well. Anyway, if it was after, they wouldn’t be bare children; they’d have little fig leaves. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/28 "2003-02-06T17:23:28Z")
The intimacy occurred before the Fall-- which is quite useful to point out to certain people who, like the “Serpent”, twist the truth into something evil. The kids, however, came after the Fall; thus raising Cai . . . ah . . . never mind. . . . ---
**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:** [February 6, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/29 "2003-02-06T21:06:30Z")
> [@](#): > > The intimacy occurred before the Fall-- which is quite useful to point out to certain people who, like the “Serpent”, twist the truth into something evil. Though Catholic theologians agree that Adam and Eve would have had sexual relations without the fall, the actual text of _Genesis_ doesn’t say that they _did._ ---
**Author:** ![bronto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@bronto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bronto)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429/30 "2003-02-08T08:20:39Z")
Who was it, about thirty years ago, that wrote/sang a song whose refrain consisted mostly of yaddas? Melanie Safka maybe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yadda-yadda-yadda/150429.md?page=1)