Friday, May 22, 2026

Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah

The Chinese words for 5 and 1 are transliterated wu and yi. However, the initial consonants are just to indicate that the vowel begins a syllable and are not pronounced -- so the numbers sound like "oo" and "ee," respectively. Thus, thinking about the number 51 made me think of the David Seville song "Witch Doctor," with its "Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah" chorus, so I gave it a listen. The first result on YouTube was the Chipmunks version:


Immediately after listening to that, I clicked for a random /x/ thread and got this one. This was the lead image:


It says "THE VVITCH" -- with the capital W written in the old style, as VV. Spelled this way, the word now includes VI, the Roman numerals for 5 and 1. I believe the ancient Romans would have pronounced these two letters the same as the Chinese numbers: "oo" and "ee."

There's also a certain resemblance to my last name -- TycHoniEVICH -- and in fact I used that old-fashioned W in the header image on one of my old blogs, from 2009.


I guess Debbie likely knows where that comes from.

"Oo-ee" also maked me think of the Seinfeld episode discussed in "Koko the monkey with no tail." After George Costanza receives the nickname Koko, after "that monkey that could read sign language," his co-workers give him a jersey with 00 on it. Jerry thinks it's "double zero," but George clarifies that it means "oo, as in oo-oo-ah-ah!"


3 comments:

WanderingGondola said...

Three pairs of characters on both George's shirt and Alvin's sign. That reminded me of something J wondered about last night -- what the most shuffled state of a Rubik's cube might be. I figured that for minimum colour repetition on one side, three colours need one square and the other three colours need two. After that, J interrupted my line of thought by linking the below song ("song"?) to describe himself, via the title. Gotta agree with him that reading the lyrics would be quicker than listening to the thing...
youtube.com/watch?v=wrowVa6DGPg
genius.com/David-lynch-strange-and-unproductive-thinking-lyrics

Ra1119bee said...

William,
Yes, I'm familiar with Bacon and The New Atlantis.
The worke is 'bout to be finished IMHO.
250 years.

While I didn't see a 5 1 connection in the Alvin video,
I did see lots of pentas and the number 25.
I guess the letter A for Alvin could be considered
a 1.

5 is one of my personal numbers which have
followed me throughout my life,
beginning in 1955 .

OO
EE

55 is EE.
E being the fifth letter in the alphabet

OO is 66. O being the FIFTEENTH letter
in the alphabet, and when reduced to a single
digit is 6.

Master number 55 is not reduced.

So, here we are back to 15 and 6 , no?
Oh My!

Follow the symbolism.

Ra1119bee said...

William,

Oh, in the Witch photo there are 6 people.

Also I just noticed my last comment on this thread is time stamped
5:11
5 11's are 55.

Sync fairies be real crafty.

Popular posts