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You forgot the \"nod of affirmation\" and \"stick poking.\"
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You forgot the \"nod of affirmation\" and \"stick poking.\"
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Bowing is popular in Asian cultures. We could adopt that here.
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@pecan 3.14159265: Handshaking is always unsanitary. And kind of gross. I hate when you're on a job interview, and the hiring manager has clammy or wet hands. Throws you off for the whole thing.
@Etoiles: Not a big fan of handshaking either. If that makes me a germaphobic freak, then so be it. How do I know where someone's hand has been?
My other issue with handshaking is the \"firm grip syndrome.\" A man is perceived as weak unless he can apply 400 pounds per square inch of pressure to your outstretched hand. I've literally felt the bones in my hand grinding together during some handshakes.
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I like the blinking idea.
It is like how I say hi to my cat.
Slow blink means I love you!
How about the ol' stinkeye?
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@wheresmymind: I read that as \"ebonics handshake.\" My first thought was \"I don't remember that move from any of the Friday movies.\"
How about the foot shake. You hop on one foot, each extend the other foot out and bump the side. Then you spin on your head and do \"The Worm\".
LOL @ the Wolverine.
You forget it's not the swine flu anymore. In order to prevent a panic, the CDC has renamed it \"Happy Tickle Fever.\"
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@Rectilinear Propagation: Now I have to go change everything.
\"No one will guess infectious diseases\" I thought...
\"We'll die of H6N4 before H1N1,\" I thought...
\"1918 what? Fool proof protection for all my intertubing,\" I thought..
Ruined.
@redskull:
I think it adds some pizzazz. It makes me feel like I am a robot refering to it that way. :)
It is the distant future.... the year 2000!
I blame the OP.
@mrgenius:
I'm sorry, you must be new here.
Do you think the swine flu wanted to be vilified? Its just the drug corporations trying to steal our precious monies. In fact, where did this this start? Mexico.
And whats an anagram for mexico?
Coimex. Leave it two months and I bet you'll see the corporations roll that one out. Dont tell the government though, they're in on it.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
The Air-Five.
High Five that stops in mid-air with no touching.
Why not post the Rick Mercer Report video \"shake hands with your elbows\" for the upcoming plague years?
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Booty-shakes.
I can't think of a single tense social situation that wouldn't be defused with a good, hearty booty-shake.
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much better than your video's ben ;-)
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The appropriate response to being that close to the hotness that is Jackman as Wolverine is to collapse in a pile of twitching orgasma-goo. Probably not workable in a business environment.
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I would like to formally request future installments of Popken Comics.
That's super creative.
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Isn't all this hysteria over the Swine Flu getting completely out of control? The TV news stations are going nuts over this, and there's nothing to report.
There's not a single case of Swine Flu in the state of Pennsylvania, but that doesn't stop TV reporters from talking about it incessantly.
Remember the furor over Bird Flu about 5 or 6 years ago? Same thing, different year.
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@Harry Pothead: I still don't understand why we can't wait to worry until as many people have the swine flu as die from the regular flu in a 24 hour period.
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@Harry Pothead: a little different than the bird flu scare becuase this one has actually made the jump from animal to human and as a bonus apparently has a bit of bird flu in it.
But as far as I can tell it is no different than a nasty version of the flu people get every year. And yet people are freaking out.
@Tmoney02: On average 30,000 Americans people die every year from the regular flu compared with less than 100 deaths from the swine flu. I bet those people wish they had the swine flu.
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Zclyh3
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LOL @ the Wolverine
If you liked that, you'll love this... (Warning - autoplay and kind of gory)
[www.cracked.com]
Cracked.com video - Why Having Wolverine's Claws Would Suck
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What about, you know... \"hello\"?
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as retarded as this is, there are public schools that have \"no touching\" policies, so kids are required to implement these pinesol moves and forego human contact.
I have been doing the Roman handshake for years now (grasp each other's forearm), as respectful as the handshake and much more hygienic.
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In middle school we jokingly did what we called the \"Ebola handshake,\" which consisted of rubbing your elbows together.