MAGIC WORDS • Booga-wooga-wooga-wooga -- Majority Report Radio (2004) • Booga wooga wooga wooga wooga -- SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) • Wooga-wooga-wooga-wooga-wooga -- Deconstruction.f9.co.uk (2005) In Literature: • Cheryl Charming, Be a Star Magician! (2002) • Christopher Durang, Naomi in the Living Room and Other Short Plays (1998) Woogie Facts: This is a magic word featured in the ValuSoft computer game "Blue's Room: Blue Talks" (2004), spoken by a talking jukebox named Boogie Woogie. Work Mystique: "Though a little one, the master-word looms large in meaning. It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone, which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. . . . With the magic word in your heart all things are possible, and without it all study is vanity and vexation. The miracles of life are with it . . . Not only has it been the touchstone of progress, but it is the measure of success in every-day life. . . . And the master-word is Work, a little one . . . but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads."18 Wow What is wow? Is it filled with magic, too . . . ? Is it a magic word? -- Tom Birdseye, The Eye of the Stone (200 ) Mystique: Wow is the ultimate expression of surprise and wonder, of enthusiasm, of a thrill. As an exclamation, it often seems involuntary, as if it is the voice of Awe-itself channeling through. When spoken slowly, it sounds like a holy mantra, and indeed the word has a sacred quality to it. With a 18 William Osler, Osler's "A Way of Life" and Other Addresses (2001)