The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread IV
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Bigfoot3814
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Why do 'party people' all over the globe make this sign when posing for drunk photos?
It's supposed to be the sign for the devil. Not sure of the origin though.
If it makes you shiver: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False Religions/Wicca & Witchcraft/signs_of_satan.htm
Edit: According to wikipedia, it's an old hand sign meant to mean vulgarity or fertility and might go back to Indian culture. So apparently the Church of Satan stole it, and then heavy metal popularized it to be 'kewl'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
The fact that it's also "I love you" in sign language makes that funny, then.
a_propagandist
The Light Brigadier
How would one go about starting up their own secret society?
If it has the thumb added, is it still the horns? I thought that was only with the index finger and pinky.
First step: don't tell a bunch of idiots on an publicly viewable message board that you're starting one.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
You could start by not advertising it on an internet messageboard.
If by secret you mean completely underground, not public like the Freemasons, I suggest you follow the resistance group pattern, and read up on secret societies throughout history, notably the worshippers of Odin in Scotland.
EDIT: GODDAMMIT DACHS! YOU ALWAYS NINJA MY JOKES!
EDIT2: I tried to find something about the Odin-worshippers in Scotland, who only became public knowledge in the 1990s, but can't find anything, proving that theyr'e still pretty mysterious. Bizarrely, one of the pages has been removed by Google due to child porn complaints though.
If I correctly remember, the sign is called cornuto, and it means among Italians that a person's to which the sign is aimed at wife cheats him. It's also used to banish "the evil eye".
In modern culture it's associated with (heavy) rock music, and it's seems to indicate your general approval of the band playing, and that you're having good time. One reason for using it is probably that you have to hold your hand somehow when you're vawing it in the air, and the other viable solution is fist.
When you think drunken people in photographs, they want to show they're drunk and having good time,* so they have to:
1) twist their face to a cheerful shout or ironic grin and
2) lift at least other one of their hands.
Again lifting hand poses problem: it has to show some sign. Usual solutions have been plain salutation (which is pretty much the same thing as just lifting hand) or the victory sign. These how ever are wimpy signs. The drunken wants his drunkeness to be wild and authority defying, a show of his independence (in one word rocking). Therefore he must use gesture which is almost hostile, and that also explains the grin he might have.
Notice also how a group of drunken people often shows this kind of attitude in their other behaviour too.
*)They can also be reluctant to being photographed, in which case they turn away from the camera, show the middle finger to it &c.
Huayna Capac357
Deity
Isn't it a satanical symbol or something? I believe I saw people doing it on a show about satanism on the History Channel.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
The Church of Satan adopted it.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Horns or the Evil Eye.
I Wub You
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Huayna Capac357
Deity
Church of Satan? That's pretty fail.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Dolly Parton.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
I believe the initial input came from Aleister Crowley, who was known as "the Wickedest Man in the World," and was one bizarre, but fascinating bloke. But it was Anton LaVey, another noted occult weirdo, who founded it.
Church of Satan.
Apparently they don't even worship Satan - or believe he existed in the first place.
Mad Man
Your lord and master
You cut me deep there just now, bagel dude. Cut me real deep.
Don't worry Dachs I still think your cuter then a basket full of warm puppies
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
A BASKET OF HOT DOGS YOU SAY?Don't worry Dachs I still think your cuter then a basket full of warm puppies
I'm so there.
That page you linked to is just moronic.
GoodGame
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I did provide a caveat, that it's only fun if the sign gives you shivers.
The music is nice too.
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Survey says......WRONG!!!!!
Coming from a deaf family, and knowing sign language myself, o'course.
Placement of the thumb is the crucial difference.
I love you
"Devil sign" 'Corna'
EDIT: I was wrong too initially, as Bozo's initial post shows "I love you". But it is supposed to be distinct from the adopted "devil sign".
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