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Study Finds Use of Gang Signs by Middle Class Whites on the Rise
The Daily Rash ^ | unknown | Mark Donahue

Posted on 09/25/2012 7:14:38 PM PDT by HollyW

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY – A recent study by the Department of Sociology at Princeton found that up to 98% of middle class white adults flash or “throw” gang signs when they are being photographed. The three year study also reveals that 99.9% of those throwing the gang signs have never been in a gang, haven’t the slightest idea what the sign they are throwing means and do not listen to rap music.

“It is a perplexing phenomenon for sure,” Professor Allen Clydesdale told the Daily Rash. “It was quite surprising to meet a thirty-year-old physical therapist from Beardstown, Missouri, who subscribes to Readers Digest and leads a quilting group at the local library admit she practices throwing gang signs in front of a mirror at home.”

“Sure I throw a gang sign every now and then. It’s a way for me to let the world know that I’m not a typical suburban thirty-something who doesn’t have a clue. I have a clue! Gang signs are just one of the ways I telegraph that to others. I also have a unicorn tattoo on my shoulder,” Gladys Sullivan told The Daily Rash on her lunch break at Mount Monocle Hospital in Beardstown.

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TOPICS: Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: culturaltrends; culturewar; gangsigns; humor; middleclass; photography; photoops; princeton; satire; whiggers; whitepeople
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To: HollyW
There was gang where I grew up in rural Iowa. And it included older guys also.
You could tell them by the green hats they wore, that had a yellow deer jumping.
Some guy named “John Deere” was also on the hats. I guess this “John Deere” must have been a famous gang leader. He sure had a large following.
41 posted on 09/25/2012 8:39:50 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: HollyW

Around 1970 the media started pushing blacks as the cultural ideal, it was strange to watch, as people in authority started talking to each other in jive, about “how did it go down” “word on the streets”, whites started high fiving each other and teaching it to their little children.


42 posted on 09/25/2012 9:04:56 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: LauraJean

White chicks and gang signs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTDRqQtPO8
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43 posted on 09/25/2012 9:24:09 PM PDT by Melpomene (Proud member of the Who Dat nation.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

I thought only my adult kids immature. I guess a lot of that generation is. Could that explain their love of obama?


44 posted on 09/25/2012 9:49:59 PM PDT by Terry Mross (The Clintons seem to be very afraid of obama. Do they owe him their souls?)
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To: Molon Labbie

We live in a follow the leader group-think society. The social leaders happen to be communists and their heros - illiterate thugs.


45 posted on 09/25/2012 10:01:22 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Terry Mross

I call ‘em wiggers.


46 posted on 09/25/2012 10:02:17 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Molon Labbie

They’re paying homage to it in a way, but that is way outweighed by how they trivialuze them. Real gangstas look rather serious flashing signs. Middle-aged white suburban ladies doing it can only take away from that.


47 posted on 09/25/2012 10:41:20 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: SaraJohnson
I call ‘em wiggers.

When I learned that word from a Brit friend a few years ago, and used it in FR, I got a three day suspension.

Lucky for you FR has "evolved."

48 posted on 09/25/2012 11:01:59 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: HollyW

Word to yuh muthuh!


49 posted on 09/26/2012 1:17:51 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: mylife

Mossy Oak is be my gang colors an’ shit, yo.


50 posted on 09/26/2012 3:38:18 AM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo, being wily, pities the fool.)
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To: HollyW
Sounds like a way of making fun of gangs to me.

Throwing a gang sign.

51 posted on 09/26/2012 6:24:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: HollyW

But which is worse—throwing gang signs or “duck face” pics? Personally, I hate the latter far more.


52 posted on 09/26/2012 6:27:55 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: pnz1

wow...there’s an unholy trifecta for you...


53 posted on 09/26/2012 6:29:29 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: HollyW; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
A recent study by the Department of Sociology at Princeton found that up to 98% of middle class white adults flash or “throw” gang signs when they are being photographed. The three year study also reveals that 99.9% of those throwing the gang signs have never been in a gang, haven’t the slightest idea what the sign they are throwing means and do not listen to rap music.

KRAMER: Alright, so there I am at Lorenzo's - loading up my slice of the fixin's bar.. garlic, (imitates the shaking of garlic onto a pizza) and what-not.. mmm, mmm.. and I see this guy over at the pizza boxes giving me the stink-eye. (Imitates the 'stink-eye') So I give hime the crook-eye back, (Imitates the 'crook-eye') you know.. Then, I notice that he's not alone! I'm taking on the entire Van Buren Boys!

JERRY: The Van Buren Boys? There's a street gang named after President Martin Van Buren?

KRAMER: Oh yeah, and they're just as mean as he was! So, I make a move to the door, you know, (makes a noise) they block it! So, I lunged for the bathroom...
(demonstrates) I grab the knob - Occupado! Then they back me up agains the cartoon map of Italy, and all of the sudden, they just stop.

ELAINE: What? What happened?

KRAMER: Because I'm still holding the garlic shaker.. Yeah.. like this (grabs Jerry's peper shaker, and demonstrates) I'm only showing eight fingers.

JERRY: Well, what does that mean?

KRAMER: That's their secret sign! See, Van Buren, he was the eighth President.. (Holds up 8 fingers) They thought I was a former Van B. Boy!

< /Seinfeld >

54 posted on 09/26/2012 12:21:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: HollyW; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; Daffynition; JoeProBono
A recent study by the Department of Sociology at Princeton found that up to 98% of middle class white adults flash or “throw” gang signs when they are being photographed.

Still waiting for the sociological study explaining the cause (and cure) of duckface.


55 posted on 09/26/2012 12:25:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: pnz1
Even better, the ones flashing gang signs, making duck faces, AND taking a picture of themselves via the mirror!

NEKKID gangsign duckface pic in a mirror.

56 posted on 09/26/2012 12:27:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: pnz1

It’s the new tribal tattoo to show how original and creative “you” are.


57 posted on 09/26/2012 12:28:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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