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 more importantly, referred to an armed conflict that had just broken out in Lebanon between Israeli forces and the Shi'a group Hezbollah ("What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit"). "Yo, Blair" or "Yo, [any surname]" almost immediately became a catchphrase in Britain. In her annual "language report" (2007) for the Oxford University Press, the lexicographer Susie Dent devoted over half a page to the term, including some of the references below. When Blair rose to make a statement in the House of Commons on 19 July 2006, he was greeted with