Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for October 22, 2012
Transcript:
Bixby: So, what do you do there, "Rowdy"? Rowdy: Well, Mr. Bixby, sir, I'm a cowboy! Bixby: I see that. Anything else? Rowdy: What do you mean? I do everything a cowboy does. Why would I need anything else? Bixby: Y'see, in this business, you need a gimmick. There's nothing you can do taht couldn't be accomplished by putting any monkey in a hat and chaps. Okay, one thing!!
Yee haw! A little history… When people used to plow their fields with mules and a drawn plow, they would say “yee” to get the mule to go left and “haw” to get the mule to go right.
So…. Left-Right (YeeHaw)
The phrase YeeHaw was use to mock the lowly poor farmer once steam powered farm equipment became the norm.
“Look at that YeeHaw”