Yahoo Responds

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> 
> Toads? They're self-confessed Yahoos, which is to say they're a group
> of hairy, brutish, dirty subhumans like those depicted in "Gulliver's
> Travels." (Why any website or organization would name itself after
> such creatures is beyond my comprehension.) Toads would be a step up,
> AFAIC.

As they spell their name with an exclamation point ("Yahoo!"), I
always thought it represented the sound that people shout when they go
down the waterslide.