THUMBS UP

Self | 3-29-2003 | Vanity

[Mike Darancette]

Excuse the Vanity.

I have seen supposedly happy Iraqis, including one little boy smiling at the news cameras and giving a 'thumbs up' sign to the troops.

Now I thought I heard somewhere that the 'thumbs up' gesture is an insult in the Arab world on a level of our 'one finger' salute.

[Mike Darancette]

Can anyone help on this?

[dighton]

Maybe here.

As far as "thubs" are concerned, it happens to the best of us.

;-)

[martin_fierro]

When my thub goes up, I just cross my legs demurely.

[MWS]

Sounds like this could be series...

(sorry, couldn't help myself!)

[Admin Moderator]

In case you're wondering what they are talking about, you had a typo in the title that I corrected.

[kitkat]

Awww, darn it, Mike. This is series. You just went and coined a new word for the FR vocabulary. That was a HUGH mistake.

Better start smiling, you're gonna hear a lot about THUB. (Grin)

[Mike Darancette]

Thanks.

I talk with a litsp, since the accident my right thumb is a thub!

[Mike Darancette]

I know, I saw it too late, after I hit post button. And you can't get them back.

I took my beating like a man though!!!

[kitkat]

Aw, darn it Mod

It's Saturday night and here I am home, dateless, sober and depressed. And you had to go and spoil all the fun.

Just the other day I said that I wait hopefully at the KMart, yearning for the Blue Light Special so that I can meet you and fall passionately in love.

DRAT

[kitkat]

***I took my beating like a man though!***

You're a good man, MIke.

(Hey, do you live near a KMart?)

[potlatch]

THUB = The Huge Ugly Bomb!!

[whadizit]

Thank you. It was driving me crazy!

[Churchillspirit]

Don't know about thumbs up, but I have learned since the war began that showing the sole of a shoe is the equivalant to the middle finger.

[Consort]

CCThumbs up? I didn't see any thumbs up.CC

[VRWCmember]

Now I thought I heard somewhere that the 'thumbs up' gesture is an insult in the Arab world on a level of our 'one finger' salute.

I'd never heard that one, but this gesture that we use for "A-OK" is interpreted by Germans as calling them an @$$hole.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Gee .... for a moment there I was stuned and thought I was going to have to use my beeber.

[Admin Moderator]

Check the date of your post

[kitkat]

Apparently, we have a case of mistaken identification. *I* am kitkat and I did not post anything to this thread. So I guess someone else has signed up using my name. Also, please note my tagline which is NOT the one used by the "other" kitkat.

[kitkat]

***Check the date of your post***

GULP!

Will you still let me stay around and play?