hip hip
1Just so you know hip hip is actually an anti-semitic phrase
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/hip-hip-in-hip-hip-hooray-was-once-an-anti-semitic-phrase/
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Just so you know hip hip is actually an anti-semitic phrase
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/hip-hip-in-hip-hip-hooray-was-once-an-anti-semitic-phrase/
That's really interesting, I do like learning about where words and phrases come from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_Hip_Hooray
A widely disseminated but false etymology suggests that the word "hip" stems from a medieval Latin acronym, "Hierosolyma Est Perdita", meaning "Jerusalem is lost",[8][9] a term that gained notoriety in the German Hep hep riots. The claim is simply untrue. English usage predates the riots, for example Thomas Moore wrote in his Memoirs that "they hipped and hurraed me" in 1818, a year before the riots,[10] and The life of Pill Garlick (1813) likewise has a crowd toasting to the hero's health "with . . . hip! hip! hip! and a hoorra!".[11]
Schooled!
well then... looks like i got told.