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**orange** · October 5, 2002, 00:58

i agree Apoc

They have like 100 different variants on it...just shake like any normal person!

**loinburger** · October 5, 2002, 01:01

If you "accidentally" crush their hand in the process, then they tend to shake your hand normally the next time around.

**DRoseDARs** · October 5, 2002, 01:10

Originally posted by loinburger
If you "accidentally" crush their hand in the process, then they tend to shake your hand normally the next time around.

I'm a small guy, but I've been known to have a tight grip, so I quickly learned to grip ONLY firmly enough that the other hand COULD NOT pull away UNTIL I have completed the Gentlemans' Handshake to my statisfaction (re: the other person comes to understand, "...just shake like any normal person!

").

Our civilization, in decline...

**Inverse Icarus** · October 5, 2002, 01:40

Originally posted by Apocalypse
I just don't like the handshakes.

one of my friends tried that and i said "yo, i aint into hand humping".

we all had a good laugh.

anyway, i grew up in the suburbs of long island, there were some minorities, but it's majority white. people were always saying stuff like that, myself incliuded.

i think it's just funny to make fun of. like "fo shizzle mah nizzle". thats flurking hillarious.

**Bugs ****ing Bunny** · October 5, 2002, 03:27

I don't think there's much danger of me saying things like that. They'd probably sound odd when spoken in a Somerset accent.

**Kepler** · October 5, 2002, 04:15

They do it to rebel and be daring... in a completely safe, white middle class, merchandized manner. I.e., for the same reason that kids have been by turns beats, hippies, and conservatives.

**Rufus T. Firefly** · October 5, 2002, 05:32

The real kicker is when tragically-hip adults do it. I remember reading a Village Voice article some years ago in which film critic Amy Taubin -- a nice Jewish girl who was at least 40 years old at the time -- gave "mad props" to somebody. Ewwwww.

**Kepler** · October 5, 2002, 05:50

I'm sure she thought she was being self-referentially parodic. But of course, that is also a hipster affectation, which in turn is also... etc, etc...

**Provost Harrison** · October 5, 2002, 05:59

Originally posted by Frogger
I like talking physics to my colleagues and appending everything with a "G" or "dog"...

You must be a riot to be with. I bet the ladies can't get enough of you

**Chris 62** · October 5, 2002, 11:06

Why?

Because they see it on TV, in adds, and hear it on radio.

Kids always latch onto something, you think they are bad, I can actually remember hippies.

**Al B. Sure!** · October 6, 2002, 01:17

It's the rich ****ers in the suburbs throwing out their silver spoons so they can be 'cool'... it's a disease they got. Ungrateful crackers...

it always cracks me up though when they come to the city and are scared as hell. My class went to a shakespeare play and there was these suburban schools there. This suburban girl asked me and a friend of mine where we lived and we said here in the city and she got scared, nervously asking if we was in a gang. Funny ****... especially considering in her little suburban world, she probably refers to herself as a 'thug mami' or some **** like that

thanks

**KrazyHorse** · October 6, 2002, 01:20

You be one tough mother****er, Speer. You're my hero.

**orange** · October 6, 2002, 01:21

Peep this - speer gets beat up on the b-ball court by guys named "Labeeb" and "Wateefo" so we oughta be listening to him yo

**Al B. Sure!** · October 6, 2002, 01:33

Wateefo?

**orange** · October 6, 2002, 01:41

is that some kinda urban speak for what the ****?

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