After a hiatus of about two years, the website 5ives.com is back. Merlin Mann has a sweet web site with many lists of five. I like lists. Some of my favorites from his earlier run:
Five actors I prefer not to visualize having intercourse
Broderick Crawford
Rondo Hatton
Richard Dawson
Paul Lynde
Curly Joe DeRita
Five people with whom to never start a conversation on MUNI
Needy-looking guy in kilt
Fat man with enormous parrot on his shoulder
Chinese lady quietly trimming her toenails
Stinky guy talking animatedly to fat guy’s parrot
Smirky guy taking numerous phonecam pictures of stinky guy, fat guy, and parrot
Five congressional terms that sound kind of dirty
Minority Whip
discretionary appropriations
filibustering
discharge petition
franking privileges
Five total scams in high school
class rings
cap and gown fees
Who’s Who Among American High School Students
prom
assemblies featuring christian rock bands
Five things it’s probably better not to do when you’re kind of drunk
buy domain names
hire an attorney
do lots of file management from the command line
sort out your finances
telephone people you remember fondly from elementary school
Five things it would probably be disingenuous for me to rap about
the streets
my bitches
thug life
popping a cap in your ass
my milkshake
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The finger, the wanker, the cuckoo sign, the shocker, rock horns, the shaka sign, and more (ATIT greatest hits)
By Mona Goldwater & Pablo Fanque
This article first appeared on All This Is That in 2006. According to Google, it is one of our "greatest hits." Every few weeks, we try to print a blast from the past. Having just discovered the great photo of Josef Stalin thumbing his noce at his bodyguard, we decided to update the article and include him.
The finger, the wanker, the cuckoo sign, the shocker, rock horns, the shaka sign, and more
by Jack Brummet, Social Mores Editor
Click to enlarge. Vice-President Rockefeller gives the finger to a
group of hecklers.
The finger - (e.g., "giving" someone the finger), is an extremely popular hand gesture made by extending the middle finger of the hand while bending the other fingers at the second knuckle. It's can perhaps be a softer way of saying "f*** you". In other countries, the OK sign means the same thing. President Bush can be seen in the montage below, performing the gesture. The finger can be extremely hostile, or, among friends, it can just be another way of saying "yeah, right."
This variant was sent by Mark Yeend, who called it the "fake flip off"
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The Bent Elbow is a theatrical, Italian version of The Finger, and is sometimes combined with the finger. In Italian it is known as the gesto dell'ombrello, meaning "the umbrella gesture." It is typically used two ways: 1) to answer "no way!" in an extremely emphatic (and quite vulgar) way, and 2) after a triumph against some unfair enemy, with a sense of revenge.
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The Sssshhh sign... (Thanks to Mark Yeend)
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The Fig sign - The sign of the fig is a highly insulting hand gesture used, so far as I know, only in Italy (perhaps in other places, too.) It is made by making a fist, with the thumb inserted between the index and middle fingers. The gesture allegedly represents the female genitalia, although I really don't see the resemblance. . .
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The cuckoo sign. A hard sign to illustrate, because it is active. It is used to indicate a person in the room is unbalanced. Kids sometimes use it in a sort of rebus: You (pointing toward a person) + drive (gesture showing two hands moving a steering wheel) + me (point toward self) + crazy (the cuckoo sign). Normally, the gesture is made by pointing your index finger at your head and tracing circles with the finger. It's a little bit old school, and you don't see it much anymore.
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The beckoning sign. Another active sign. The "come here" gesture. You hold your fist clenched. The finger moves repeatedly towards the gesturer (in a hook) as to draw something closer. It is normally seen as condescending because it is a command. It is sometimes performed with the four fingers, or the entire hand.
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The blah blah sign /the yak yak gesture. The fingers are kept straight and together in a horizontal fashion while the thumb is held out straight. The fingers and thumb then snap together repeatedly to suggest a mouth talking. Sort of like a duck's mouth. It is used to indicate that a person is pointlessly flapping their gums.
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The time out sign. Used in sporting events, and sometimes in normal conversation. In conversation it can mean "let's take a break," "please quite talking about this," or "stop arguing."
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The benediction sign. Used by pontiffs and emperors (and, I think, Priests) as a blessing sign. Click on this link to see the Benediction gesture, on a coin of Emperor Constantine.
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Crossed fingers - Crossing the first two fingers is a good luck sign around the world, mainly, however, in Christian countries. One theory posits that when Christianity was illegal, the crossing of fingers was a secret sign for Christians to recognise each other. The gesture sometimes is used to negate something spoken (if you tell someone "you look fabulous" with your fingers crossed, you were probably not telling the truth).
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Rock horns/hook 'em horns/devil horns
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The OK sign________________________________________________
The shaka sign is the "hang loose" gesture. It is similar to American Sign Language letter "Y", where a fist is also made with only the thumb and pinky extended. The sign is often followed by waving as a greeting or acknowledgement--"thanks for letting me on the freeway!"________________________________________________
Call me. These days it might be a gesture you make to someone across the floor of a nightclub.
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Thumbs up
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Thumbs down - We think--from watching all those Cecil B. DeMille style sand and sandals epics--that the thumbs down gesture means "kill him!" In fact, scholars just aren't sure whether the gesture means kill him, or spare him...thumbs down meaning, "no, spare him," and thumbs up meaning "yes, kill him!"
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The stop gesture - In the U.S., this is the stop gesture. In Greece, however, it has a slightly different meaning: "I rub feces in your face!"
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The Vulcan salute ("live long and prosper").
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The wanker sign. . .I probably don't need to explain this one.
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Biting the thumb at anyone was once a mark of contempt, usually designed to provoke a quarrel. . .it also means to defy. ``Do you bite your thumb at us?'' -Wm. Shakespeare
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The choke sign - The gesture refers to someone or something "choking" in the sense of failing under pressure. It generally refers to someone involved in an athletic event, although I have heard it used in the business world too.
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The cutthroat sign is usually used for one of two things: to warn someone to quit talking or suffer the consequences. Or to say "He's a dead man."
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The Bang Bang, or, gun sign
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nose thumbing/queen anne's fan - This is a mild mocking gesture. Here are some prime examples from both Karl V. Rove and Josef Stalin. . .
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The shocker - A sexually-charged, gesture in which the ring finger and thumb are curled down, with the other fingers extended. The index and middle fingers touch, and the back of the hand faces away from the gesturer. The gesture refers to the act of inserting the index and middle fingers into a vagina and the pinky finger into the nearby exit aperture (the "shocker"). The shocker is sometimes considered vulgar. Did I just write sometimes? There are dozens of rhyming phrases for this gesture, like "Two in the pink, one in the stink."
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The gag me sign - This is the only photo I could find of this gesture. I'm not sure, but the gesture may have originated with "Valley Speak," the idiom of the kids of the San Fernando Valley. I do remember the Valley Speak phrase "gag me with a spoon." I'm sure this gesture was around along before the 80s.
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Victory Sign - V for victory. A lot of us remember this as being one of Sir Winston Churchill's signatures. In this photo, President Richard Nixon used the sign at the moment of his greatest disgrace. . .he was leaving Washington D.C., having resigned the Presidency. Moments after this 'chopper took off, Gerald Ford became President and Nixon landed later that day in California, as a civilian.
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Let's get high - Tommy Chong in a vidcap from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno demonstrates this gesture.
This article first appeared on All This Is That in 2006. According to Google, it is one of our "greatest hits." Every few weeks, we try to print a blast from the past. Having just discovered the great photo of Josef Stalin thumbing his noce at his bodyguard, we decided to update the article and include him.
The finger, the wanker, the cuckoo sign, the shocker, rock horns, the shaka sign, and more
by Jack Brummet, Social Mores Editor
Click to enlarge. Vice-President Rockefeller gives the finger to a
group of hecklers.
The finger - (e.g., "giving" someone the finger), is an extremely popular hand gesture made by extending the middle finger of the hand while bending the other fingers at the second knuckle. It's can perhaps be a softer way of saying "f*** you". In other countries, the OK sign means the same thing. President Bush can be seen in the montage below, performing the gesture. The finger can be extremely hostile, or, among friends, it can just be another way of saying "yeah, right."
This variant was sent by Mark Yeend, who called it the "fake flip off"
________________________________________________
The Bent Elbow is a theatrical, Italian version of The Finger, and is sometimes combined with the finger. In Italian it is known as the gesto dell'ombrello, meaning "the umbrella gesture." It is typically used two ways: 1) to answer "no way!" in an extremely emphatic (and quite vulgar) way, and 2) after a triumph against some unfair enemy, with a sense of revenge.
________________________________________________
The Sssshhh sign... (Thanks to Mark Yeend)
________________________________________________
The Fig sign - The sign of the fig is a highly insulting hand gesture used, so far as I know, only in Italy (perhaps in other places, too.) It is made by making a fist, with the thumb inserted between the index and middle fingers. The gesture allegedly represents the female genitalia, although I really don't see the resemblance. . .
________________________________________________
The cuckoo sign. A hard sign to illustrate, because it is active. It is used to indicate a person in the room is unbalanced. Kids sometimes use it in a sort of rebus: You (pointing toward a person) + drive (gesture showing two hands moving a steering wheel) + me (point toward self) + crazy (the cuckoo sign). Normally, the gesture is made by pointing your index finger at your head and tracing circles with the finger. It's a little bit old school, and you don't see it much anymore.
________________________________________________
The beckoning sign. Another active sign. The "come here" gesture. You hold your fist clenched. The finger moves repeatedly towards the gesturer (in a hook) as to draw something closer. It is normally seen as condescending because it is a command. It is sometimes performed with the four fingers, or the entire hand.
________________________________________________
The blah blah sign /the yak yak gesture. The fingers are kept straight and together in a horizontal fashion while the thumb is held out straight. The fingers and thumb then snap together repeatedly to suggest a mouth talking. Sort of like a duck's mouth. It is used to indicate that a person is pointlessly flapping their gums.
________________________________________________
The time out sign. Used in sporting events, and sometimes in normal conversation. In conversation it can mean "let's take a break," "please quite talking about this," or "stop arguing."
________________________________________________
The benediction sign. Used by pontiffs and emperors (and, I think, Priests) as a blessing sign. Click on this link to see the Benediction gesture, on a coin of Emperor Constantine.
________________________________________________
Crossed fingers - Crossing the first two fingers is a good luck sign around the world, mainly, however, in Christian countries. One theory posits that when Christianity was illegal, the crossing of fingers was a secret sign for Christians to recognise each other. The gesture sometimes is used to negate something spoken (if you tell someone "you look fabulous" with your fingers crossed, you were probably not telling the truth).
________________________________________________
Rock horns/hook 'em horns/devil horns
________________________________________________
The OK sign________________________________________________
The shaka sign is the "hang loose" gesture. It is similar to American Sign Language letter "Y", where a fist is also made with only the thumb and pinky extended. The sign is often followed by waving as a greeting or acknowledgement--"thanks for letting me on the freeway!"________________________________________________
Call me. These days it might be a gesture you make to someone across the floor of a nightclub.
________________________________________________
Thumbs up
________________________________________________
Thumbs down - We think--from watching all those Cecil B. DeMille style sand and sandals epics--that the thumbs down gesture means "kill him!" In fact, scholars just aren't sure whether the gesture means kill him, or spare him...thumbs down meaning, "no, spare him," and thumbs up meaning "yes, kill him!"
________________________________________________
The stop gesture - In the U.S., this is the stop gesture. In Greece, however, it has a slightly different meaning: "I rub feces in your face!"
________________________________________________
The Vulcan salute ("live long and prosper").
________________________________________________
The wanker sign. . .I probably don't need to explain this one.
________________________________________________
Biting the thumb at anyone was once a mark of contempt, usually designed to provoke a quarrel. . .it also means to defy. ``Do you bite your thumb at us?'' -Wm. Shakespeare
________________________________________________
The choke sign - The gesture refers to someone or something "choking" in the sense of failing under pressure. It generally refers to someone involved in an athletic event, although I have heard it used in the business world too.
________________________________________________
The cutthroat sign is usually used for one of two things: to warn someone to quit talking or suffer the consequences. Or to say "He's a dead man."
________________________________________________
The Bang Bang, or, gun sign
________________________________________________
nose thumbing/queen anne's fan - This is a mild mocking gesture. Here are some prime examples from both Karl V. Rove and Josef Stalin. . .
________________________________________________
The shocker - A sexually-charged, gesture in which the ring finger and thumb are curled down, with the other fingers extended. The index and middle fingers touch, and the back of the hand faces away from the gesturer. The gesture refers to the act of inserting the index and middle fingers into a vagina and the pinky finger into the nearby exit aperture (the "shocker"). The shocker is sometimes considered vulgar. Did I just write sometimes? There are dozens of rhyming phrases for this gesture, like "Two in the pink, one in the stink."
________________________________________________
The gag me sign - This is the only photo I could find of this gesture. I'm not sure, but the gesture may have originated with "Valley Speak," the idiom of the kids of the San Fernando Valley. I do remember the Valley Speak phrase "gag me with a spoon." I'm sure this gesture was around along before the 80s.
________________________________________________
Victory Sign - V for victory. A lot of us remember this as being one of Sir Winston Churchill's signatures. In this photo, President Richard Nixon used the sign at the moment of his greatest disgrace. . .he was leaving Washington D.C., having resigned the Presidency. Moments after this 'chopper took off, Gerald Ford became President and Nixon landed later that day in California, as a civilian.
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Let's get high - Tommy Chong in a vidcap from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno demonstrates this gesture.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Faces No. 192 - analog drawing on scratchboard (and Faces No. 192 digitally reversed)
Drawing by Jack Brummet
click images to enlarge
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
The best Funkadelic video ever
The best Funkadelic video ever. Guitar player Gary Shider, who died this year, sings this one (if you've ever seen P Funk, he's the guy who wears the diaper).I've seen them play twice...once with Gary, once without. Lots of great Manhattan scenes in this video...
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The Lost Painting by Jack Brummet
This is a lost painting I did about ten years ago. . .lost in the sense that I don't know who owns it. I have been scanning slides and old photos, and ran into a photo someone took that has this part of the painting in the photo. All I remember about it is that it is done with pen and acrylic on canvas and that it was 2 x 3 feet.
click to enlarge
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Polls show Charlie Sheen beating Sarah Palin and Barack Obama
By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor
Illustrations by Jack Brummet, Photo (c) charliesheen.com
A new poll by PublicPolicyPolling.blogspot.com shows that in a head to head run for President, independent voters would favor Charlie Sheen over Ex-Governor Sarah Palin for President by a 41/36 margin. Democrats would support him 44-24 and Republican/Tea Party voters prefer Sheen over President BHO by a 37-28. But then, they would probably also prefer Idi Amin or Field Marshall Goering over BHO too....
And it's more than just fruitcake independents supporting the warlock. Democrats would support him by a 44-24 margin for president over Palin and Republicans would support him 37-28 over Obama.
National Affairs Editor
Illustrations by Jack Brummet, Photo (c) charliesheen.com
A new poll by PublicPolicyPolling.blogspot.com shows that in a head to head run for President, independent voters would favor Charlie Sheen over Ex-Governor Sarah Palin for President by a 41/36 margin. Democrats would support him 44-24 and Republican/Tea Party voters prefer Sheen over President BHO by a 37-28. But then, they would probably also prefer Idi Amin or Field Marshall Goering over BHO too....
And it's more than just fruitcake independents supporting the warlock. Democrats would support him by a 44-24 margin for president over Palin and Republicans would support him 37-28 over Obama.
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