Considering that the market is in the middle of downtown, it has a remarkable sense of peace, shattered only by these small fry yelling "I want a doughnut!
I heard a small child yelling along to this song late into the night as I waited for a bus that seemed like it would never come.
Curtis stands at the top of a small bluff yelling, "You're trying to spot my face, but I need you to stare at me at the end of your spin not just try.
Don't appear as if you check Facebook too often; you must appear busy, even if, really, you're at home watching reruns of "Small Wonder" and yelling aloud to Heart's "Alone".
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Pick the smallest kid and yell "Boo!" A good grinch is aware that this is character-building treatment; after all, it is Halloween and a good grinch scare is a story a kid can feed off for years to come.
No, though: we're told that, though we have the right to protest – or whatever this is, it feels a stretch to call seven small boats and one yelling Bob Geldof a "protest", exactly – we have to keep out of the channels of the larger ships passing through in case one runs us over and we die.
And then she heard it: a yell, a small, joyous bellow of trumpeting delight that was her son's voice, coming from the direction of the river.
Familial screamers have long been a beloved part of American pop culture, from the Costanzas of "Seinfeld" back to the Goldbergs of radio and early television, but they didn't yell at small children.
Slate ran a bad-poetry contest two summers ago; myjewishlearning.com started one this August, prompting an administrator to note ruefully the plenitude of "hip-hop verses where the M.C.'s yell 'Challah!'" Small Press Distribution conducted one at this year's Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference.
