"Heeeyyyyyyy!!"
 

I have no idea what team started the whole "Hey!" thing, but I think it's great.
Walking around Six Flags on Saturday, you see any team and go "Heyyy!" and they go "Heyyy!" back. And another team close by hears you and goes "Heyyy!" as well, so you of course have to respond...It could go on forever. It was awesome.
Maybe it was just me, but I think that was among the funnest things about Houston.

everyone did it last year at epcot, i dunno what year it started but it was a lot bigger last year than this year

yeah we had a whole thread on it last year, at epcot leaving the team party a few were making fun of some guy who was trying to get someones attention and yelled eeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy!! then like 400 people said it back the rest is history....i wonder if that guy ever got that persons attention....

Really? Hmm...None of my team mates ever tell me anything about previous years (it's my first year).
I mean, 814 was at nats last year, they could have said "Yeah, there was a 'hey' thing going on last year too" but nooo...just leave Alaina to be naive and clueless...

Yeah, it started last year.

It's actually an "ehhhhhh"... they were originally making fun of the Canadians.

It kind of morphed into a Fonzie-esque "ayyyyyyyy" and even a "heeeeey", but now you all know the truth. :D

Ah, it's all clear to me now. :D

This has to be the closest thing to an urban legend that FIRST has. Everyone has their own version of this story. Everyone claims to have started it, or that it is eh, hey, yay, ayy etc. I know for my team we used to say "hey" 3 years ago at universal city walk when we went over on the weekends. When we got to nats that year we decided to bring it along. We have pushed it every year since. Truth is it is simple enough of a joke that i'm sure it has been around as long or longer than most of us to be alive. The important thing is everyone has fun with it.

Making fun of us!??? We thought they were trying to fit in :( (:D) I remember it being really big when after the team party at Epcot, when everyone was waiting in line for the buses... :D

I remember taking part in the "ehhhhhhh" last year while we were waiting for the "boos," and at least we didn't have to pay a "dole-er" to get on them. (The guy who started my rookie team last year was from Canadia, so we had fun mocking his pronunciations.)

lol exactly.. no matter where you trace it back to, its the canadians : P


eh!!!!!

eeeeeehhhhhhhhh!

LOL! We also did that (team 5)! Cool and fun!

You all are so wrong. You have no clue what you're talking aboot.

nay an idea what they're talkin aboot, eh?

If anyone puts 'Eh' and 'Y'all' in the same sentence, I'll know FIRST is having some strange effects on culture...

Heh our head teacher said that he can remember that going on as far back as 1998 ;)

heh this teacher has been on our team for a few years...since um 1992....

I know last year a bunch of teams at the MMR did that... No clue where it started, but we kept the tradition going.

my favorite is when we threw up a "heeeyyy" and we got a "hooooo" back

yeah on every roller coaster a six flags, on every drop, we got most of the people on the coaster yelling "Heyyyyyy!". It was cool, especially on the wooden one with about 12 drops.

We didn't start it...we just killed it!!

HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.......SHuttupppp....haha jk...

Yea it was good for a while.. but later it started to piss me off. Speically at six flags.. were every other person used to yell..
Good Times!

~ AMX

You're all wrong. It isn't "heyyyyyyyyy", or "ayyyyyyyy", or "ehhhhhhhh". it's

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I wasn't on the team yet, but this thread was here last year and mike explained the story: (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&threadid=3975)

I just remember that coming out of Epcot last year after the fireworks that in the mob I was in, nobody was doing it until two of my teammates saw another team they knew and yelled hey and it kept going for... oh, a long time. :D

Good, set them right, I hate when people would say WHY DO YOU SAY THAT ITS NOT YOURS... that happened at great lakes this year... bah...

GIMMIE AN A.. GIMMIE AN A.. GIMMIE AN A.. WHATS THAT SPELL!? AAAAAAAAAAa

I got my team into doing the whole 'Hey' thing at Epcot last year. I thought I had started the entire thing...but I guess yelling 'hey' isn't all that original :P

(At Six Flags...there was the pirate ship that went upside down...I started chanting 'up Chuck' which was an old chant for our robot 5 years ago...hehe)

WOOD RULES!!!!
^For anyone that saw our bot

I only got to go on one of the rides, and nobody said "Hey" on it. But it was fun anyway!

ok...well. i came across a WHOLE lew custom.and EVERYONE was doing it.

when ppl went it roller coasters..they ALL shouted "'aaaaaa' or whatver.like they were scared.it was cool. and people did it on EVERY roller coaster they found. haha.it is goood. ok. bye

Did anyone ride the "greezed lightning" when they made you say "to infinity and beyond" when they were hitting the all clear?

Well in line for the Batman stand-up coaster (crap) our driver, Jason, and I started the "wave" and had it going through the line and around corners and all... it was pretty neat... and then there was of course the "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!" in the ramps leading to and from the Astrodome and all... yea... just thought I'd post this for no apparent reason...

I personally enjoyed the big ol' "Tally-ho!" during each Galileo match :)

My friends all made fun of my today b/c I apparently picked up a Chicago/Michigan accent cuz I hung out with those ppl tooooo much in Houston!! All that Wildstang tie-dye had some crazy effect on me...;)

haha. back in the day(99) we started the Wooo . It cought on but only for that year.

i think it is ehhhhh caus 2 years ago at epcot one of our members was canadian, and we went through an entire discussion on what eh meant, so we said eh to everyone we saw in the parks on the last day.

and did anyone hear the WOOO WHOOOOOOooPs?(and drawn out "wah waH wAH WAH" (increasing in speed and volume as you go) our team and a guy from 225 (i think) were doing it at JnJ and Nats. specially in the long halls to and from the arena.

o yea and we didnt have the speakers or lights on our cart this year so we made our own techno with our voices, like spit noises, clapping ect. on the way to our matches.

we were one of the original starters of the eh.... back then it was eh as in canada.... you can often hear our team yell canada also... although we are not from canada it is an inside joke because everyone thinks we are, our school district being called West Ottawa and all. Anyways, yeah that was a blast..

Great Lakes was good this year, and yes, it is Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

During the Visteon pictures (all teams sponsored by Visteon at GLR got pictures together)....

Everyone: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
470: Oooooooooooooooooooooo
(We are Alpha Omega, or AO) Then for the rest of the pictures all of us were yelling Aaaaaaaaaa Oooooooooo.. good times.


According to people on my team, they started it. Making fun of another member who would always mutter "ehhhh" then it developed from there.. who knows, not me.

prolly combo of everything, no way one person could ever start something like that

I'm not sure who started it, and my team has already made their claim, but even if we didn't start it, we sure did take it to an extreme last year. It really got out of hand at Epcot last year. Anybody who saw us would yell AAAA! and of course, we'd have to yell back louder. At Great Lakes last year, our team even managed to drown out a drum corp. With voices. And we are NOT a big team. If you remember the busses at Epcot, that was us. If you rode the monorail for any length of time, you ran into us, with our corny jokes, box full of buttons, cheers and flags. Good Times.
Our team got yelled at by one of the buss drivers for being "too loud" (Is there really such a thing?). Team Rush has taken to using AAAAAA as a running joke in their team, or so we have been told. Unfortuneatly, we didn't have quite as much volume this year, with all our officers of last year leaving. But, I don't care who does it, just so long as it continues.......


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BBBBBBBBB?

I and a few other of my teammates tried getting some good "AAAAAAAAAAA"s out of people leaving 6Flags. Some groups responded quite well, others just gave us weird looks. I'm quite disappointed that I never got that 'verbal wave' going at the stadium. It would have been pretty neat hearing "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" echoing all throughout Nats.

I really don't think it matters if it's "Aaaa," "Heyyy," or "Eeehhhh."


The point is: The culture of FIRST is the most fun, interactive, wonderful culture there is. I wish I could get as emotional as that girl from 159 did about it. :p

Yup. It went something like this:

RO: Okay, at the count of three, everyone say "To Infinity and Beyond!" 1... 2... 3...

[silence]

RO: 3!

[cricket's chirping]

RO: Come one everyone -- "To Infinity and Beyond!"

[tumbleweed rolls by]

Someone: Heyyyyyyyyyyy!

The RO finally gave up and launched us.

On another note, I was one of 3 members of 190 who were on the morning plane with Team 125, and I tried to start a "Heyyyyyyy" when the captain made the announcement about them, but no one responded, and I just looked like an idiot. Oh well.

Remember, we were in Texas. That probably happened a few times.

We were talking to some of 783's members (they're Canadian), and some of our team was making fun of them. Someone yelled out "eh," and then everyone else began. Then, someone on 783 (don't remember who) yelled out "B?" They got to "F," and then complained that the "Imperial Alphabet" was confusing them. Good times in Houston.

I always associated "AAAAAAA" with our sister Visteon team, 862, (good times at GLR) So it was kinda weird saying it in Houston without them. Felt like I was cheating on them. Sorry guys.

I'm not sure who exactly started but I remember we did it the most last year... We didn't hear any other teams do it(last year that is)... It started with us and Rocky(203) last year in New Jersey(at Rutgers)... We use to say it to teammates, then the Rocky mascot, and then just other teams... and it's "EH" (Canadian)...

Actually your all wrong, It was me that Started the whole Ayyyyyyy thing, Way back in 1984 when I was born, In califorina, I called Dean Kamen and was like ,Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy in to the phone, and then he did it back, and that gave him the idea for FIRST, so yea it was all me...




(The above is completly false and is just poking fun at the people who say they started, becasue we will never know where it came from, so stop trying to say you started it)

Ackkk Im scared
Im reading this thread and I am thinking to myself," Hmmm It sounds like my friend Will but he is not in robotics. Isn't that creepy?" Then when I read "good times" I think to myself,"Thats even scarier he says that all the time. It has to be from a show."
Its really funny since he also has quite a few people he knows doing it including myself.
:p I think it came from a movie or show. It just goes to show you that all smart geeky people are physic because we all come up with the same corny jokes.

lmao. That's hella funny.

I sort of agree with you there. I mean, HOW many people have claimed they have started it? What if 20 completely different teams thought it up on their own?? And then everyone else just caught on at Nats?? I really doubt we'll ever find out for sure!

We discovered that this was a great way to keep people off the elevator when we were trying to get to the lobby in the hotel. There were so many people staying there taht we stopped at every single floor in between ours and the lobby. Since of course the elevator was packed becuz our whole team decided to wait until the last minute to go down there, as we reached each floor and the doors opened the poor unsuspecting people heard a loud "AAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!" hehe.

I feel sorry for the poor nonFIRSTers who sometimes were jammed into the corners of our elevators.

The first time i encountered the "Ehhhhhh" beast, was at nationals in 2000. That was the year of the "Wasssaahhh!!" commericals during the superbowl. Somebody on our team brought his ibook wth all those commercials on it and we watched them as we got to the hotel room the wednesday of nationals. Take in mind this was before the commercials really became popular. So we had walkie talkies and in the parks and around the pits we were always screaming WAAASSAAHHH!!! and even re-enacting the whole commericals at times. At some point in Disney we screamed WASSSAHHH and the response was EHHHHHH!!!!! so we adopted that after the WASSSAHH became too popular around NORMAL PEOPLE (non-firsters)

My team this year adopted the EHHHHOOOOOOOO. This would be from Don Hertzfeldt's cartoon "Rejected" at Annapolis and LI whenever our team was called for a match, everyone on the TEAM would go EEEEHHHOOOOO!!!!, we called it the Marauder Cry, however it as defintly a kung-foo call


and then at Six Flags when that free-fall ride would come down while we were all waiting to get in... WOW... EYYYYY!! EHHHH!!!! OOOOO! AHHHHH!!!! EEEEHHHOOO!!!!

some many beginings to the ehh thing...ehh?

i thought 481 started it by yelling ehh to a team we mentored

Actually, it spells YARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!