Yo list of 100 best movie quotes. The phrase "Yo, Blair. What are you doing?" was an informal greeting that United States President George W. Bush gave to British prime minister Tony Blair during the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 17 July 2006. Yo Yo is an English slang interjection, commonly associated with American English. It was popularized by the Italian-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s. Although often used as a greeting, "yo" may come at the end of a sentence, often to direct focus onto a particular individual or group or to gain the attention of
Yo, Blair lower middle class British slang as a "declaration of admiration... to the softer sex by the sterner". From the late 20th century, it frequently appeared in hip hop music and became associated with African American Vernacular English. Former British government minister Denis MacShane observed that "Yo, Blair" was the American equivalent of "wotcher, mate" and that metaphorically Bush and Blair had been addressing each other using the French informal "tu" ("you"), as opposed to the more formal "vous". Former British Foreign Secretary and NATO Secretary-General Peter Carrington reflected, "Iraq, and more recently Lebanon, have totally sidelined us. We have far