IS IT LATIN OR GREEK?

[Bozo_D...@37.com]

And what's the origin and meaning or "rah rah sis cum bah"?

And is the 'bah' a sheep?

[Joseph C. Fineman]

Bozo_D...@37.com writes:

> And what's the origin and meaning or "rah rah sis cum bah"?

I believe it is "sis *boom* bah". According to one Web source:

sis-boom-bah. cheerleading chant, originally (1867) an echoic
phrase imitating the sound of a skyrocket flight ( sis), the burst
of the fireworks ( boom), and the reaction of the crowd ( (b)ah).

> And is the 'bah' a sheep?

No.
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[Bozo_D...@37.com]

Thank you —— and believe it or not I do look these things up, but the search engines are so tuned to every concivable look alike and sound like answer to a possible query, that when you do see an answer that appears to be yours and spelled with a "boom" or a "cum", it's hard to tell which ones right, innit?

[Default User]

Joseph C. Fineman wrote:

> Bozo_D...@37.com writes:
>
> > And what's the origin and meaning or "rah rah sis cum bah"?
>

> I believe it is "sis boom bah". According to one Web source:

>
> sis-boom-bah. cheerleading chant, originally (1867) an echoic
> phrase imitating the sound of a skyrocket flight ( sis), the burst
> of the fireworks ( boom), and the reaction of the crowd ( (b)ah).

The old comic strip Pogo had a bombastic character, based on a Rhode
Island Red chicken, name Sis Boombah:

http://seiginonakama.blogspot.com/2012/03/whm-2012-womensfolk-of-pogo-1.html


Brian