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Old 09-04-2012, 05:04 PM
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The high five gesture became popular in college basketball (around 1979) and then spread everywhere, even to golf and billiards. Give me a break! Have we gotten to the point where married couples high five each other after intimacy?

Ho hum! What's so great about it? Nothing, as far as I can tell. It may have been great amongst those college basketball players who knew how to do it properly. But amongst seniors in The Villages, high fiving is often whimpy and sometimes clammy. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it "hand touching".

Can we at least have a moratorium on high fiving during the flu season?

We could get up a petition not to touch you, if that would help.
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