On 10/23/07, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/23/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahhh, errant sideburns, trying to grow up and inside his mouth, that gold
earring, the chemically-dilated pupils...the sweaty face...you caught a good
one, Frank!
I doubt he was in the
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:36, frank theriault wrote:
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do not open and view if offended by
one-finger salutes)
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
This a friend of yours, or a (yikes) stranger?
Interesting DOF
In a message dated 10/24/2007 2:32:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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We have the V sign, which is an invitation to go forth and multiply,
but using different words, and the Victory / Peace sign. Winston
Churchill was apparently unaware of the difference at the start of
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In a message dated 10/24/2007 2:32:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We have the V sign, which is an invitation to go forth and multiply,
but using different words, and the Victory / Peace sign. Winston
Churchill was apparently unaware of
In a message dated 10/25/2007 11:34:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Possibly apochryphally, it was meant to be a sign from English archers
to their enemies (usually a French army) that they still had their two
loosing fingers, the ones that hold the bowstring and
So what did the V sign, back side of the hand out, used to mean?
Same as it means now: go forth and multiply.
I am missing something here. I remember the cuckold sign,
cuckoldry being
popular in Shakespeare, as being something else.
Cuckoldry has remained popular
On Oct 25, 2007, at 13:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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This raises an interesting question.
Remember standing next to someone as a kid and someone else taking
your
photo? And you raising your hand up and putting up a V sign (palm
forward)
behind/over your friend's head
Used by heavy metal aficionados as devils horns.
Bob W wrote:
So what did the V sign, back side of the hand out, used to mean?
Same as it means now: go forth and multiply.
I am missing something here. I remember the cuckold sign,
cuckoldry being
popular in
P. J. Alling wrote:
Used by heavy metal aficionados as devils horns.
that's thumb and pinkie.
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I've again picked up this thread and probably skipping over this
comment offered by others, but it was always obvious to me that the V
formed by holding up the middle and index fingers signified a V for
victory.
The same gusture held behind and above someones head meant, silly
rabbit.
Jack
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Jack Davis wrote:
I've again picked up this thread and probably skipping over this
comment offered by others,
me too
but it was always obvious to me that the V
formed by holding up the middle and index fingers signified a V for
victory.
It depends on which direction the palm is facing.
In a message dated 10/25/2007 12:51:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The same gusture held behind and above someones head meant, silly
rabbit.
Jack
I like silly wabbit.
Marnie aka Doe ;-)
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Definitely devil horns where I grew up on the southside of Chicago in the
fifties and sixties.
Paul
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On Oct 25, 2007, at 13:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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This raises an interesting
In a message dated 10/25/2007 1:12:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the back of your
hand is facing the person it means f-you derived from the archer thing
mentioned before.
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Now that is what I remember, but know one was saying it. That you really had
I was not aware that there was a two finger f-you.
Back in my day and part of middle America, the index and little finger
combination meant Bull S
Jack
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Jack Davis wrote:
I've again picked up this thread and probably skipping over this
comment
In a message dated 10/25/2007 2:25:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was not aware that there was a two finger f-you.
Back in my day and part of middle America, the index and little finger
combination meant Bull S
Jack
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Well, I remember the back sided
er, we're using the term 'go forth and multiply'* euphemistically
because this is a family list.
We really mean that when a British person flicks a V he is telling
someone to f?ck off.
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Bob
* from Woody Allen's well known line A guy ran into my fender the
other day, and I said unto him
Be
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:00:30PM -0400, Christian wrote:
Jack Davis wrote:
I've again picked up this thread and probably skipping over this
comment offered by others,
me too
but it was always obvious to me that the V
formed by holding up the middle and index fingers signified a V
I wonder how one makes one full victory sign out of two half signs...
On 10/23/07, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do not open and view if offended by
one-finger salutes)
A cultural diversion here. Isn't the British equivalent of gesture
just like a victory sign, i.e., it uses two fingers?
Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/2007 5:19 AM
I wonder how one makes one full victory sign out of two half signs...
On 10/23/07, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/23/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See what happens when you speak before getting the REAL story?
Let that be a lesson to alla you guys!
Making assumptions can get you into trouble!
He's a good actor!
Well, I ~did~ kind of mislead you a bit...
;-)
cheers,
frank
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And he did seem to have a convincing flare for the part. :)
Jack
--- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/23/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See what happens when you speak before getting the REAL story?
Let that be a lesson to alla you guys!
Making assumptions can get
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Subject: Re: PESO - The Half-Victory Sign
A cultural diversion here. Isn't the British equivalent of
gesture
just like
From: Steve Desjardins
A cultural diversion here. Isn't the British equivalent of gesture
just like a victory sign, i.e., it uses two fingers?
Two fingers with the palm of the hand toward the photographer = V for
Victory.
http://www.fototime.com/D5E20E281148C5D/standard.jpg
Two
Oh!!! Or like it is customary to say here: HAR!
Now I get it. So it was indeed half the victory sign...
Fascinating!
On 10/25/07, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Steve Desjardins
A cultural diversion here. Isn't the British equivalent of gesture
just like a victory sign,
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do not open and view if offended by
one-finger salutes)
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/Rx3k91jUSaI/A1k/pUwIhQDFO60/s1600-h/oct_22+003.jpg
At least he didn't try
Cool shot. The limited DOF works well here. Did he have anything to say?
Paul
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From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do not open and view if
Frank,
I like this better than the mist/fog shot. At least I can tell what
it is! Strangely appealing...
Regards, Bob S.
On 10/23/07, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do not open and view
In a message dated 10/23/2007 5:39:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do not open and view if offended by
one-finger salutes)
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
From: frank theriault
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do not open and view if offended by
one-finger salutes)
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
At least he didn't try grabbing my camera and trashing it...
Comments always welcome.
On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:36 AM, frank theriault wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/Rx3k91jUSaI/A1k/
pUwIhQDFO60/s1600-h/oct_22+003.jpg
LOL ... I like it, a strong, direct subject interaction. ;-)
Godfrey
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On 10/23/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL ... I like it, a strong, direct subject interaction. ;-)
The essence of street photography. I hope ~some of us~ are taking notes...
ROTFLMAO!
cheers,
frank
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On 23/10/07, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/Rx3k91jUSaI/A1k/pUwIhQDFO60/
s1600-h/oct_22+003.jpg
At least he didn't try grabbing my camera and trashing it...
Comments always welcome.
I'd say that was a pretty
On 10/23/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd say that was a pretty conclusive gesture.
Friend of yours?
Of course!
cheers,
frank
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Cotty wrote:
On 23/10/07, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/Rx3k91jUSaI/A1k/pUwIhQDFO60/
s1600-h/oct_22+003.jpg
At least he didn't try grabbing my camera and trashing it...
Comments always welcome.
I'd
On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:54 AM, frank theriault wrote:
LOL ... I like it, a strong, direct subject interaction. ;-)
The essence of street photography. I hope ~some of us~ are taking
notes...
ROTFLMAO!
You betchum, snappy man. ];-)
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On 10/23/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahhh, errant sideburns, trying to grow up and inside his mouth, that gold
earring, the chemically-dilated pupils...the sweaty face...you caught a good
one, Frank!
I doubt he was in the mood for conversation of any sort, truth be known.
I think he simply chose to verify his version of a life philosophy.
I read somewhere that Churchill had a paralyzed index finger.(?)
Jack
--- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/23/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL ... I like it, a strong, direct subject
Hey, at last, a real digit-al image.
Kenneth Waller
http://tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PESO - The Half-Victory Sign
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene gesture - do
I like this! You can never completely control composition on a candid,
but the Dof on the hand and the face is really good. You should thank
the guy.
frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/23/2007 8:36 AM
Some people just don't like getting their picture taken, I guess.
(WARNING!: obscene
Kenneth Waller wrote:
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/Rx3k91jUSaI/A1k/pUwIhQDFO60/s1600-h/oct_22+003.jpg
Hey, at last, a real digit-al image.
Ah yes, I knew there was something about that shot. I just couldn't put
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Kenneth Waller wrote:
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tinyurl.com/2sn86e
http://bp2.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/Rx3k91jUSaI
On 10/23/07, Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah yes, I knew there was something about that shot. I just couldn't put
my finger on it...
Yeah, I think he nailed it!
Yes, well, I try to put my fingerprint on all my work...
cheers,
frank
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frank theriault wrote:
On 10/23/07, Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah yes, I knew there was something about that shot. I just couldn't
put
my finger on it...
Yeah, I think he nailed it!
Yes, well, I try to put my fingerprint on all my work...
This one gets a thumbs-up from me.
Ah yes, I knew there was something about that shot. I just couldn't
put
my finger on it...
Yeah, I think he nailed it!
Yes, well, I try to put my fingerprint on all my work...
This one gets a thumbs-up from me.
It's digital?
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frank theriault wrote:
On 10/23/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahhh, errant sideburns, trying to grow up and inside his mouth, that gold
earring, the chemically-dilated pupils...the sweaty face...you caught a good
one, Frank!
I doubt he was in the mood for conversation of any sort,
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