Today: "Hooo-wah"

1. Shortly after he Stopped Being Fab, British recording artist George Michael recorded a popular song entitled I Want Your Sex. This was, of course, before Mr. Michael succumbed to the shameless, toxic narcissism that resulted in both Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. I and his arrest in a California public restroom.

As astute listeners will recall, the refrain of I Want Your Sex featured a good deal of enthusiatic grunting, both from Mr. Michael and a chorus of backing singers, most of it along the following lines:

"Hooo-wah! Sex!"
"Hooo-wah! Sex!"

etc.

2. Years later, the popular actor Al Pacino appeared in a film adaptation of Giovanni Arpino's novel Profumo di donna ("Scent of a Woman"). Mr. Pacino's character in the film, Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Ret.) frequently expresses strong emotions -- joy, excitement, depression, contempt and what have you -- with gravel-voiced exclamations:

"Hooo-wah!"
"Hooooo-Waaaaah!"

etc.

3. Today, a large, well-funded sporting organization called "Major League Baseball" conducts public matches between teams of athletes. From time to time, teams based across the United States compete against the "Toronto Blue Jays" at that team's home facility. At each instance of inept batting by a visiting athlete, "Toronto Blue Jays" employees play a recorded message over the facility's public-address system:

"Hooo-wah! Ding!"