I attended the winter music concert for the local high school today. The kids did an amazing job and I really enjoyed hearing the strings. I love watching the bows bounce across the violin during a performance. Plus the kids played a song called the Regal Overature and part of the song required them to pluck the violin strings. The other sing titles I remember are Procession for a New Day and Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. All nicely done.
When I was at the school I got a chance to chat with a little five year old I formerly babysat and she graciously tried on my two finished Soley Granny Squares Hats for me. I wanted to see if my sizing estimations were correct. When she put the smaller hat on her head it was clearly too tight. She looked up, then leaned close and whispered to me, “My head is too big”. That little girl is still the cutest! Unfortunetly I couldn’t get a photo as my batteries died on me.
I must have taken too many pictures of these chairs from the band room. I just thought the handwritten numbers were interesting. The little purple message is also informative.
I spent half of high school in Massachusetts and ‘yeat’, or for added emphasis ‘yeat da bun’, was a very popular swear word to write on school property. The word was banned from school vernacular but it was inked on bathroom stalls, etched into wood desks and written anywhere else conceivably possible. The origin and meaning of the word was not obvious and I remember a few debates as to what the word literally meant. The school newspaper even had an article on the word once where the author attributed the word to horse dung. The article about ‘yeat’ from the online Urban Dictionary doesn’t mention horses though. Has anyone else heard of this slang word?
Stay tuned. The next post will have more of Crafty Christina‘s Soley Granny Squares Hats!
I’ve never heard of the word “yeat” before. Sounds like something you’d cook with…though if it does mean dung, then gross!
The most creative swear word we used in Brooklyn was “momo.” I’m not sure if that’s common or not, or if its a NY thing. Its the equivalent of idiot. My husband, who isn’t from NYC had never heard of it before he met me.
At little monster’s school, the number the chairs also, to keep track of them. Apparently school chairs are a hot item to steal. Umm, how does one steal a school chair? Does noone see a person leaving the school with furniture on their backs? And what is the black market like for stolen school chairs? Things that make you go hmmm….
I love high school bands! I was a band geek in high school! I played flute in the marching and concert band. I haven’t played since high school and am pretty sure I’ve forgotten it all by now. Was alot of fun and your post brings back good memories.
I also have never heard of that word. I went to high school in Louisiana. I can’t really remember if we had a weird made up curse word. Thanks for the fun read. Have a great weekend.
yeat 121 up, 28 down love ithate it
A colloquial word used in Newburyport, Massachusetts at least before the Second World War (1939-1945), allegedly shouted from one naval ship to another to identify a resident of Newburyport. Also used to show both affirmation and disapproval (“yes,” “no”); first word of the Newburyport slang-phrase “yeat the bun.” Yeat can be used as a greeting, as a noun, an interjection, an adjective, and a verb.