Manufacturing Facts

I recently discovered that a lady by the name of Wu Hou was once Empress of China. I planned to make a comment about how her name led to today's exclamation of "WooHOO!" when something exciting happens to us. Because, of course, one would think that becoming Empress of China would be a cause of some excitement in a woman's life.

However, I then found out that Wu Hou is not pronounced "woo-HOO," but rather, "WOO-hoe," which would take the discussion in an altogether different direction. One much less suited to what I had in mind. One that perhaps would discuss not the immortalization of a name, but the immoralization instead.

I was going to claim that while we owe Wu Hou for the phrase wooHOO, we also owe a lesser-known, but equally important, Chinese figure for his contribution to the English language. That would be, "Yee Ha," the name of the first (and perhaps only) Chinese bull-rider in rodeo history. In honor of his accomplishments, his name has been immortalized in the cowboy cry, "Yee-Haw!"

This leads me quite naturally to the topic of manufacturing facts. If, in fact, you remove the fact from manufacture, you end up with manuure. Oddly fitting for a tall tale about a fictional bull-rider...