<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>The Top 10 Hand Gestures You'd Better Get Right : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>The Top 10 Hand Gestures You'd Better Get Right : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Top 10 Hand Gestures You'd Better Get Right]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36776/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Anybody remember when George H W Bush tried to signal &#8216;peace&#8217; during a visit to Australia in the 90s by giving a huge crowd the time-honoured two-fingered salute? Though he didn&#8217;t know it at the time, he was actually telling the whole crowd to go screw themselves.]]></description></item><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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