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The Top 10 Hand Gestures You'd Better Get Right Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
Anybody remember when George H W Bush tried to signal ‘peace’ during a visit to Australia in the 90s by giving a huge crowd the time-honoured two-fingered salute? Though he didn’t know it at the time, he was actually telling the whole crowd to go screw themselves.
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Bi-linguals make more hand gestures Posted: 3 years ago by sparky
Recent research has shown people who know more than one language make more non-verbal gestures.
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Deconstructing Military Hand Signals Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
Ohhhh, so that's what they mean!
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Are Hand Jobs Over? NSFW Posted: 6 months ago by suebe
It seems, in many peoples' sex lives, that the hand job is to a CD Walkman what the blow job is to an iPod. It was great when you were in junior high, but then something new came around and you sort of forgot about it.
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New Prosthetic Hand So Nimble an Amputee Can Type Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A new prosthetic hand uses individually movable fingers to hold a credit card, use a keyboard and lift a heavy bag. Researchers bill it as the world's first commercially available prosthetic hand that can move each finger separately. The i-LIMB, made by the Scottish company Touch Bionics, is being tested at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany.
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Nepali cuts off hand for Hindu goddess offering Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A 23-year-old Nepali man cut off his right hand after morning prayers and offered it to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power.
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Chico the hungry pygmy hippo gets a helping hand (puppet) to rediscover his appetite Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A pygmy hippo which started turning up his snout at food has been given a helping hand to start eating again. But the little animal was lured back to his trough under the watchful eye of Gloria, a hand puppet based on the star character in DreamWorks children's film Madagascar.
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Russians Refused To Shake Obama's Hand Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
A video from President Obama's recent trip to Moscow shows clearly that a number of Russians who were offered President Obama's hand refused to shake it. Though Russian President Medvedev extended his own hand as cover to shake hands with those who refused to shake Obama's, the President's frustration is clearly evident after the second snub.
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Mexican boy glues hand to bed to avoid going back to school Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
A 10-year-old Mexican boy dreaded returning to school after Christmas break so much that he glued his hand to his bed.
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Amazing Art of the Hand (PICS) Posted: 2 years ago by deepcleanfun
Cool collection of artwork made by hand for hands....Gives new meaning to an amazing hand job.
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Marine moves fingers after rare hand transplant Posted: 8 months ago by kakana
"For a hand, it takes quite some time to get full movement," said spokeswoman Amy Dugas Rose. "He has some movement, which is a good sign."
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Raymond Crowe's hand shadow puppetry Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
Self described Unusualist Raymond Crowe does some hand shadows. Deformed Rabbit this ain't.
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Dead baby hidden in plane hand luggage Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Papua New Guinea police have arrested a woman attempting to carry a dead baby in her hand luggage on an internal flight.
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One Cold Hand Posted: 1 year ago by muppetmaker
One Cold Hand is for the city of Pittsburgh, and has been created to help the residents there through a rough and tragic time in their life: The Loss of A Glove.
Here you can submit found gloves, submit Lost alerts. Help reunite gloves with their loved ones. Now we need a One Cold Foot site.
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Wife cuts off husband's right hand because of internet addiction Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
I was on the internet, and suddenly felt a numbness in my right hand. The arrow on the screen stopped moving," says Jiang Ming.
"Then I found that my right hand was on the mouse pad, and blood was shooting out."
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Thousand Hand Bodhisattva Posted: 3 years ago by shredtone
This is a video of 21 members of the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe performing the "Thousand Hand Bodhisattva" dance. Looks amazing!
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Hand of Hope Posted: 3 years ago by Neiako
Emailed photo, once thought to be a hoax, showing the hand of a 21-week-old fetus, Samuel Alexander Armas, grasping the finger of a surgeon performing a prenatal operation turns out to be true. Scroll to bottom to view photo.
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Doc admits giving cadaver's hand to stripper Posted: 3 years ago by Wingnut
I guess he was so impressed with her dancing that he had to give her a hand. (*ducks thrown tomatoes*)
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Man punched attacker with stump after having hand chopped off with sword Posted: 8 months ago by bingo
A man who had just had his hand severed with a samurai sword punched his attacker in the face with the stump, a court heard yesterday.
He said that the victim did not notice that he had lost his hand, which, he said, must have been due to shock.
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"Cool Hand Luke" director dead at 79. Posted: 3 years ago by punthe
Television and film director Stuart Rosenberg, whose best-known movies include the prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" and hit chiller "The Amityville Horror," has died of a heart attack at age 79, his family said on Monday.
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