tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post3561826716950804375..comments2024-03-28T07:03:01.419-04:00Comments on The Daily Apple: Apple #657: Shame on You GestureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-78247132672932763162021-04-10T15:33:49.704-04:002021-04-10T15:33:49.704-04:00Great story, but I remember using this gesture whe...Great story, but I remember using this gesture when I was a 11-year old kid - - - in 1968. Maybe *I* was the one who invented it. 🤷♀️ (shrugs)Valerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14626000408589102917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-274551163487526002021-04-10T15:33:33.420-04:002021-04-10T15:33:33.420-04:00Great story, but I remember using this gesture whe...Great story, but I remember using this gesture when I was a 11-year old kid - - - in 1968. Maybe *I* was the one who invented it. 🤷♀️ (shrugs)Valerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14626000408589102917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-19208131758805370842016-07-09T14:04:10.765-04:002016-07-09T14:04:10.765-04:00Five stars for creativity for this very entertaini...Five stars for creativity for this very entertaining (yet apocryphal) post. Tom McCombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02544576106656303474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-76322357278798053152014-05-13T14:02:16.919-04:002014-05-13T14:02:16.919-04:00I invented the finger rub back in 1972 as a gestur...I invented the finger rub back in 1972 as a gesture to tell others what they are doing is shameful and they should stop. <br />My father was putting together a garden and my cousin Mike decided to throw dirt into our driveway. I was having none of it and I shamed him by crossing my index finger over my other index and "brushing" it forward as a sign to stop doing it. It also meant what he was doing was shameful. <br /><br />Next thing I know other kids in the neighborhood are doing it to shame other children. They were running around all over the place shaming people. Teachers, firemen, police, priests, doctors, lawyers and especially parental units were being shamed to high heaven. It was horrible. <br />At that point I decided that the only people allowed to make the gesture was a parent to a child or an elder child to a younger one. And it could only happen when that younger child was actually doing something shameful. <br />Because, as a five year old I had set this rule up it started losing its cache over the years and usually only older brothers and sisters took advantage of what I dubbed "the shameful finger shrug."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com