Where did the exclamation Woo Hoo originate from?
The phrase wahoo or sometimes said as woohoo originated from the 1870s in Tallahassee, FL. The Seminole Indian tribe frequently fished out of Lake Jackson. An Indian named Telulawana (meaning Gator Crusher) caught a wahoo fish and celebrated by calling out the fishes name. Ironically Telulawana's canoe was also under a wahoo tree and his beverage of choice that day was a yoohoo. - Professor Jack Kneehoff South Harmon Institute of Technology