#106. Now you know why people on Yahoo are called “Yahoos”. Jonathan Swift was a very prescient writer.
He described Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, “a brute in human form,” resembling human beings far too closely ... primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” that they find by digging in mud ... Hence the term “yahoo” has come to mean “a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person