Horton Hears a Hoohaa

David Weigel | February 9, 2007

Dave Barry provides your Friday fun link (until something even stupider happens):

The marquis for Atlantic Theaters advertises a number of plays including, the Masquerade Ball, Band Jam, and now The Hoohaa Monologues.

Some said hoohaa is a strange word and that its definition depends on its context, while others said it sounds like a country band.

However, it's not a band at all. In fact, most people know hoohah by a different name -- vagina.

"We got a complaint about this play The Vagina Monologues," said Bryce Pfanenstiel, of the Atlantic Theater.

The play improves immensely when you make the word substitution: "I was worried about hoohaas. I was worried about what we think about hoohaas, and even more worried that we don't think about them." It improves further if you pronounce "hoohaa" like Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman.