Talk:Thumb signal

Split suggestion

Suggest to split this article into two separate articles — one for Thumbs up (gesture) and another for Thumbs up (newspaper). Reason being they are completely unrelated to each other. --Sengkang 01:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- I agree. If you would like to do that I fully approve(not that that makes much difference) or I can do it my self. --Yarnalgo 05:07, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Done. --Sengkang 08:05, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move request

Request to move this article to Thumbs up to conform to wiki standards. As the latter article already exists, can't move it (without cutting and pasting). Probably need an admin's help. Thanks. --Sengkang 08:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking the same thing when I happened on this article. I don't think the gesture itself is really a "proper" noun so no need for the Title Case IMO either. --TS1 02:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tried but failed. Need an admin's help. Thanks. --Sengkang 08:14, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the move. Note: You'll get these kinds of requests done faster if you ask an admin on his or her talk page rather than just leaving a comment on an article page. —Lowellian (reply) 06:25, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Formerly insulting gesture in Australia

As an Aussie travelling in rural areas of my country I have very occasionally come across people using a thumbs up gesture with an abrupt upward motion in the same "up yours" or "fuck off" sense normally associated with the V sign and the bird. In my childhood (1970s Melbourne) I can only remember the V sign with palm facing the person making the gesture. More recently the middle finger has become very common due to American cultural influences. I would suggest that most Aussies are familiar with both the V and the middle finger gestures but that some few must also be familiar with the thumb gesture which I can only assume predates British cultural influences introducing the V. Can anybody else comment on this? — Hippietrail 18:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Corbeill

"In 1997, Professor Anthony Philip Corbeill of the University of Kansas concluded ..." Desmond Morris' Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution mentioned this long before 1997. why give Corbeill sole credit?

Clarification

"Another rude gesture among kids (now less popular), is to show the thumb to a person and say "thengaa," sometimes followed making a face, drawing the tongue out and touching the chin with it.[citation needed] It indicates cocking a snook at someone.[citation needed]" Am I the only one that doesn't know what a "thengaa" or "cocking a snook at someone" is?