I have a question, but not about "the shocker."

What in the sweet Elysian fields is "Veronica Mars?"

This isn't one of those faux-unkowing ironic laugh lines. Honest. What or who is Veronica Mars?

bwahaha, work filter killed that site before I even got to see what it was - then i look again.... rotten.com... go figure :P

That's it. I'm done. I'm finding me a nice little island off the Caymans. Preferably one without PEOPLE. Hopefully I can get some supplies air dropped.

Are you familiar with the "Hook 'Em Horns" hand signal? The shocker is exactly the same as the University of Houston's hand signal.

See it here.

That's shocking. I'll have to try it sometime.

Hondo: The middle and index finger are spread apart in the Cougar sign, while placed together in the shocker. Either it's different from the shocker, or it's saying something about the girls in Houston.

Thanks ace! Now I have a new cryptically obscene hand gesture to flash in all the family photos, and the saps'll be none the wiser!

Um, right. Have I told you guys about the new obscene gesture I just inv--um, all the cool kids are doing? It's called the "Wanglewacker" and you just kinda make a fist with your thumb up in the air. (3rd picture down here.) It symbolizes a cigar.

Seriously, is this for real? I'm actually quite relieved I've never heard of it. Is it really an obscene gesture if less than a thousand people know what it's supposed to signify?

I don't want to get too analytical but I do wonder why you can see the fingers that are allegedly pooter encased but not the one in the squeakhole. Anybody?

BrewFan:

I'll try to answer your question as tactfully as possible: the ring finger is not involved in the actual act.

Does that help?

Robb,

So the ring finger is the 'taint' digit in this methodology?

God I hate teenagers. Savages, all of 'em.

Every kid gets locked up in solitary from age 13-19, says I.

I had a Beavis/Butthead moment reading Brewfan's assertion that he didn't want to get too anal-itical.

Sorry.

Yes, BrewFan, which is why it's not extended.

Otherwise, you get....well...an owie the likes of which God has not felt!

Really, this is just such a silly thing. It's a gesture that perhaps a bazillionth of the population of the US actually knows. Those who do either giggle like most of us did when we first discovered the Succubus in the First Edition Monster Manual or they just think it's the cool thing to do (like those girls in the photo on the linked article. What...think they're lesbians?).

The shocker is more well know than most of you seem to think. Virtually any teenager today knows what it means. Collegehumor.com has an entire section of pictures of college students making the hand sign. My high school wasn't able to release a class picture because people were making the shocker (my sister was asked to tell the principal of the school what it meant).

It's well known with young people, but not with adults. Part of the reason I guess it got by the UPN censors... or else they just didn't think that any adults would be watching and note it.

Jimmie,

It's well known. They put it in the show *because* it's well known.

Ace... uh... do you pick up high school girls in your spare time?

Not one of you is going to ask what the hell I was doing watching Veronica Mars?

ace: I don't know who Veronica Mars is.

Not one of you is going to ask what the hell I was doing watching Veronica Mars?

Uh, it didn't really occur to me since I was watching it too. I didn't catch the gesture, though. I guess I was too preoccupied with Charisma Carpenter flouncing around in a bikini.

Mmmmmmmm...

It is really that well-known?

It's not that I doubt, but when the older folks don't seem to know anything at all about it, I just wonder how famous it really is.

It just seems a tempest in a teapot to me.

Besides, if you want it to really be a "shocker", use the thumb instead of the pinky finger.

One Notre Dame student was very nearly not allowed to graduate because he was in a picture with the outgoing University president making "The Shocker," and posted it on the Internet.

So, yeah, it's no joke.

Not one of you is going to ask what the hell I was doing watching Veronica Mars?

I guess I just assumed The Gilmore Girls must have been preempted.

Ace: What the hell were you doing watching Veronica Mars?

Well, I had a theory.

Ace... uh... do you pick up high school girls in your spare time?

My 14 year old, who is homeschooled, confessed to me that he is really getting into the Gilmore Girls. I said, "Well, why don't you change your name to Gaylord McGay and get it over with."

Okay, now I know what it's called, anyway. I never knew it had a name and I certainly would never have thought of calling it The Shocker.

I think at my house this would probably be called Knock That Right the Fuck Off. Or Don't Even Dream About It You Freak Bastard, but then it might get confused with some other stuff that didn't go over real well.

V the K, you made me laugh out loud for the first time today.

Good on you!

ace, fix your damn preview comment...good god man!

(whine)
No one answered me! WTF is Veronica Mars? I gather it's a tele-vision programme and all, but please spare me the trouble of watching a/o googling for it myself ... you guys are nothing if not my unpaid on-call research staff.

One Notre Dame student was very nearly not allowed to graduate because he was in a picture with the outgoing University president making "The Shocker," and posted it on the Internet.

What a dumbass. He should have done a Lynndie instead.
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http://badgas.co.uk/lynndie/

Best shocker I've ever seen was in a recent Fark "Americcan Gothic" photoshop contest:
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What a dumbass. He should have done a Lynndie instead.
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http://badgas.co.uk/lynndie/

Best shocker I've ever seen was in a recent Fark "Americcan Gothic" photoshop contest:
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http://64.81.51.213/fpm/entry.php?sid=14936119&cid=1620765

Crap; don't know what tag I forgot to close, then I double-posted. Loose, loose shit.

It's a weekly series whodunnit, with a high school Sherlock Holmes-ette.

It's on that TV thingie in your living room.

My 14 year old, who is homeschooled, confessed to me that he is really getting into the Gilmore Girls. I said, "Well, why don't you change your name to Gaylord McGay and get it over with."

And they say homeschoolers aren't socially well adjusted.

We homeschool are kids until they get to junior high. If they aren't programmed right by then, they never will be.

Quite frankly, that hand position doesn't really work for what its intended to do.

Am I the only one who thinks that the whole thing is a hoax?

We homeschool are kids until they get to junior high.

...at which point they learn about what the rest of us call "a homophone." For you homeschoolers, that's not the time you spend on the cell, talking about the exploits of Rory and Lorelai.

The student section of UGA's Sanford Stadium is all about "The Shocker," this year, for some reason...