The Yats Are Back!

The Southern Yat Hysterical Society Web site has returned, with a new URL, after an absence of about a year. Maybe they were looking for another home, or perhaps it took me that long to find them again. Welcome back.

As I mentioned in my 1998 article "A Yat? What's a Yat?" …there is a common colloquial dialect in New Orleans, that includes phrases such as "Where y'at?", short for "Where ya at?", and translated, means "How are you, today?" Of course, there are other, less flattering attributes that help define a Yat, but then, maybe that doesn't bother the Yats. You see, Yats can laugh at themselves.

Some of the more interesting sections of this site include "Yat Exam", "YatBonics", "Jokes", "Gawbage Nite", "Dear Awdry", "Recipes", and "Lagniappe". This site now has a Gift Shop, and a long list of links that the owners like, many of which I would list on my site, if they were more related to my New Orleans topic.

There is a long time rumor that you are a Yat if you wear white boots. This is a reference to those employed in the lower St. Bernard Parish shrimping industry, where white boots are common. For sure, if you can't relate to this site's humor, you are not from New Orleans. If this isn't you, then you are a foreigner!