Two thumbs up

Do you ever wonder how a "thumbs up" came to be?
Me too.















Was someone trying to signal that someone else did a good job, looked down at their hands, and decided that their thumb was the thing that would do that?

Why the thumb?

The pointer finger is pretty versatile.

You can use it to wag at someone, to shame people, to point a direction, to signal an amount, pick your nose, hook something, tell someone to come to you.

Who figured out that the pointer finger could do all this?


Who decided that holding your middle finger up was a bad thing, and why do the ring finger and the pinky just get to lay there and look pretty?

Why don't we wear wedding rings on our middle fingers, and tell people they're number one with our middle finger?
Wait. Some of you probably do that.


I often wonder gangs come up with their signs.

It makes me laugh when I think of gangs just sitting around, contorting their fingers.
"How about this?" (as they gnarl their fingers)

"Nah, let's do this!"

Twisting their fingers and making shapes with their hands.

This means Bloods!

This means 48th street ganstas!

Do they do that?
There are only so many ways you can contort your hand and fingers.
What then?
You can't start a gang?
Hmmm...
I hope gangs don't read blogs.
I wonder if there are gang blogs.

No, not really.