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As I am sure many of you have heard, everyone now is making a big deal over the fact that Barak Obama uses the fist bump, or as apperently it is officallica called the Dap. And in the news paper today there was this whole stupid thing about What is replacing the handshake, and it had all these varrious different type greeting gesutres popular today, and where they came from, who uses them and so forth. It had the Fist bump (Dap), the chest bump, the high five, and so forth. But it made me think that just for the heck of it I should come up with my own greeting method, and being that I do not like to have physical contact with others it should be one that does not acutally involve touching.
Then I remebered in highschool there was this thing that me and this friend of mine use to do. I think it dervived from some form of martial arts bow, it is a sign of resepct and honor that does not envolve having to have any contact with the other person.
Basically you just touch your left fist to the plam of your right hand in front of you. The original version is to give a bow at the waist as you do this, keeping your head up so your eyes do not look away from the other person, as it was oriainally a warrior's bow. But the simpliifed version we use to do, is just give a nod/bow of the head to each other as we made the hand gesture.
4:38 PM - 6/17/2008 -
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When I started to read your post, I thought of martial arts bows, and then you alluded to them. I heard they are supposed to save time because you can acknowledge everybody in the room at once, and even better, avoid getting the germs of someone who sounds like they have a horrible case of the plague. At first, the fist pump made me think of Bush's tacky 'bring 'em on' lingo. Yeesh.
I am ever an admire of your misanthrope ways. Maybe you could teach an online course. I for one would be willing to pay for lessons.
School For Misanthropes
Hehe, Misanthope 101 or Misanthrope For Dummeies. There is an idea, I like it. Or Misanthrope for beginners. The possiblites are endless.
SilverWind - 8:50 PM - 6/18/2008
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