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yahoos

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• Moore greatly admired Swift as a satirist, but charged him with caring no more for the "misery" of his Roman Catholic countrymen "than his own Gulliver for the sufferings of so many disenfranchised Yahoos".
• "Eight Lectures on Yoga" is divided into two chapters: "Yoga for Yahoos" and "Yoga for Yellowbellies".
• The narrator then contracts Cody to organise a false police raid on the Yahoos' hideout to steal back the pills.
• Their official explanation for the name choice was that they considered themselves to be a pair of yahoos.
• Jim Henson's Creature Shop created several CGI wasps and some prosthetic make-up for the Yahoos.

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• Ultimately, The Yahoos played 13 shows in 16 days in support of "Fear Not the Obvious".
• On the other hand, Jonathan Swift's yahoos from "Gulliver's Travels", and European traditions of hairy wild men, are also cited as a possible source.
• Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel "Gulliver's Travels" contains a story about Yahoos, a kind of human-like creature turned into a savage, animal-like the state of society in which the Houyhnhnms — descendants of horses — are the dominant species.
• Gulliver can no longer stand the smell of the English Yahoos (people), so he stuffs rue or tobacco in his nose to block out the smell.
• The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" that they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain.

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• "Yahoos managing editor Lyndsey Parker detailed many points that she argued was "American Idol" "throwing Quentin Alexander under the tour bus" referring to the idiom of throw under the bus by sacrificing a friend as the show heavily promotes the summer tour which only guarantees the top five finalists will be included.
• In the first the judiciary was divided into a Grand Council of Yahoos, to try officers of the Klan, and a Grand Council of Centaurs to try regular Ghouls.
• The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the amorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity (Yahoos); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of "A Modest Proposal".