If you greet me with outstretched knuckles, in anticipation of doing the traditional male “knuckle touching” move, rest assured that I will not leave you hanging. I will fulfill the gesture in the manner that society has mandated:
However, it’s worth noting that you’ve achieved the absolute opposite of what you intended. Rather than bonding with me, you have almost guaranteed that we will never be close in any form--because if we were really friends, you’d know that I find the gesture completely annoying . It’s actually my first filter for a potential friend. Well, that and whether you use the word “Irregardless.”
Furthermore, you might not want to push your luck and try it a second time. Because as I said, I won’t leave you hanging. But that doesn’t mean I won’t press my fist to yours and shout “WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE.”
And wouldn’t that be embarrassing if I did that with a lot of people around? Well, maybe not for you; you’ve already taken on the form of a Doofus.
BOOO! I like knuckles, during sports. And we taught my baby nephew to do high-five, then knuckles. It is cute when babies do it, right?
Do you prefer touching noses?
but is one still a doofus if one is actually looking for WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE as the correct response to the knuckle offering? this question, mind you, is merely a hypothetical. cuz surely not even i would be so goofy as to do that for real. uhm, yeah. so, please to be answering. just out of curiosity.
I just jump back and say “He tried to HIT me. Dude, what is wrong with you?” and it tends to stop.
I don’t get it. I’ll have to remember the Wonder Twins Powers Activate the next time one of the morons try to do this. Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean?
Megan, babies don’t need to touch fists; they greet people by spitting up on them. Dad, only if the person can catch fish with a club. P, in that case, it’s fine and encouraged. Deb, that’s even better. DM, check here.
Greg, you forgot the baby greeting of a liquid nature from… uhm… a little lower. Oh, and a filter word for me: “literally.” I find most people/reporters have no idea what it means.
I was working in Los Angeles about 8 years ago. I was on the rental car bus from Hertz going to the Continental Airlines Kiosk at LAX. Anyway. There were two suits talking about how they had to close some big deal for something while on the bus. Right before one gets off the bus he says to his co-worker, “Give me some pound.” And holds up his fist. His co-worker proceeds to give him some pound.
Wouldn’t it be an ice doofus?
Okay, so I was watching football on Sunday, and I watched one player go up to another player on the sideline with his fist “cocked.” Instead of knocking his friend’s knuckles, the other player cupped the invading fist in a warm, welcoming gesture.
All I’m saying, Greg, is you should trying being the submissive next time, see how that goes over.
only ten minutes ago I referenced the wonder twins. Form of a pail of freaking water. Man. So lame. (How I loved them...)
My friends and I started doing the knuckle thing just to be ironic at first, compounding flourishes onto the basic template such as recoiling explosions after knuckle connection. Boom.
Now we’re hooked. It’s not a reflection on us, we’re actually the antithesis of a frat persona. It’s an addiction, a sickness, one which society gives no provisions for recovery.
just wear brass knuckles all the time, it’s what I do. No one ever tries to “bump” me or shake my hand or talk to me or let me sit by them at lunch!
I’m with Beth. Why did one of them ALWAYS say: “Shape of… A BUCKET OF WATER!!” ? So awesome.
lol I almost choked on my tea. I totally did the Wonder Twin Powers, ACTIVATE! the other night at a party. I couldn’t help myself.
And I’m totally with you on the word “Irregardless”, I want to bitch slap ANYONE who uses that word.
Try mixing an old school “Shazzan!” in there every once in a while.
Pfft… where I work, we’ve taken the “Knuckle Bump” on as an appropriate replacement for the handshake. See… I work in a multicultural, multinational, multi-hygienic place where certain “people” don’t use toilet paper… and there are is no sink in a Port-A-John. The less skin to fecal-matter-encrusted-skin contact, the better....
PS: Form of; Disinfectants!