October 10, 2009

Have You Noticed

that scientists often seem to gesture with the backs of their hands? Do you think this is because they are so often holding chalk?

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  1. Lucy Foley on October 10th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    I don’t know. Have you been dashing hopes lately?

  2. Daryl Scroggins on October 10th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    In a backhanded way, maybe.

  3. Lucy Foley on October 10th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Ah, the rare backhanded hope dashing manoeuvre! That takes practice.

  4. Sheila Ryan on October 11th, 2009 at 12:45 am

    The back-handed chalk-holding gesture signals an act of passive-aggressive resistance against a Blakean/Nietzchean (quantum) understanding of the universe.

    It must be true. A Freudian pseudo-scientist told me.

  5. Daryl Scroggins on October 11th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    Sheila: That has to be it! A kind of mime act of being inside a box, palm to face.

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