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First let me set the stage. My roommate is a young lesbian. She had never been to a club with exotic dancers. Was unconfortable going alone so I went with her. The crowd there grew into three distinct different groups. Major rednecks, navy guys from a local navy base and a group that I can only describe as "Boys in the Hood". The rednecks kept letting out their yeeeehaaas, the navy was yelling something that sounded like ooorah and the hood was using the bark from the old Arsenio Hall show. A couple of the rednecks were getting out of hand making comments that weren't appropriate. My roommate decided she had to leave. I stayed around waiting for the fight. The yells kept getting louder but the yeehaaas seemed to be winning. Don't know if it was just me but the tension seemed to be building. The from the hood side came a solitary yeehaa which was answered with one from the redneck side. Then another from the hood and back and forth it went. The biggest and most vocal redneck got up and started walking to the other side and I thought this is it and started looking around for a quick exit. He walked up to the biggest of the hood guys, bent over and said something to him. Then he sat down, put his arm around the guy and in unison came the loudest yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! I've ever heard. By the time I left I guess you could say the place was full of "Redneck Navy Boys in the Hood". It was amazing. I don't know if it was the yeehaas or maybe it was partially dressed women dancing on stage but something brought them together. Today they may be enemies again but I can't help but think that somewhere inside they've softened and maybe if one sees another on the street there will at least be a knowing nod and a smile. Did everybody catch the "YeeeHaas"? Maybe it's a kind of a universal language for men watching beautiful young women dancing on stage. I don't know. I have been thinking that maybe that's the way we need to handle the next peace summit. Instead of a table let all of the world leaders sit around a stage watching young women dance. Then wait for President Bill to utter the first yeehaa. You know it would be him don't you? If it worked for the people I saw last night It could work for anyone.