Posted on 09/25/2012 7:14:38 PM PDT by HollyW
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY A recent study by the Department of Sociology at Princeton found that up to 98% of middle class white adults flash or throw gang signs when they are being photographed. The three year study also reveals that 99.9% of those throwing the gang signs have never been in a gang, havent the slightest idea what the sign they are throwing means and do not listen to rap music.
It is a perplexing phenomenon for sure, Professor Allen Clydesdale told the Daily Rash. It was quite surprising to meet a thirty-year-old physical therapist from Beardstown, Missouri, who subscribes to Readers Digest and leads a quilting group at the local library admit she practices throwing gang signs in front of a mirror at home.
Sure I throw a gang sign every now and then. Its a way for me to let the world know that Im not a typical suburban thirty-something who doesnt have a clue. I have a clue! Gang signs are just one of the ways I telegraph that to others. I also have a unicorn tattoo on my shoulder, Gladys Sullivan told The Daily Rash on her lunch break at Mount Monocle Hospital in Beardstown.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailyrash.com ...
Around 1970 the media started pushing blacks as the cultural ideal, it was strange to watch, as people in authority started talking to each other in jive, about “how did it go down” “word on the streets”, whites started high fiving each other and teaching it to their little children.
White chicks and gang signs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTDRqQtPO8
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I thought only my adult kids immature. I guess a lot of that generation is. Could that explain their love of obama?
We live in a follow the leader group-think society. The social leaders happen to be communists and their heros - illiterate thugs.
I call ‘em wiggers.
They’re paying homage to it in a way, but that is way outweighed by how they trivialuze them. Real gangstas look rather serious flashing signs. Middle-aged white suburban ladies doing it can only take away from that.
When I learned that word from a Brit friend a few years ago, and used it in FR, I got a three day suspension.
Lucky for you FR has "evolved."
Word to yuh muthuh!
Mossy Oak is be my gang colors an’ shit, yo.
Throwing a gang sign.
But which is worse—throwing gang signs or “duck face” pics? Personally, I hate the latter far more.
wow...there’s an unholy trifecta for you...
KRAMER: Alright, so there I am at Lorenzo's - loading up my slice of the fixin's bar.. garlic, (imitates the shaking of garlic onto a pizza) and what-not.. mmm, mmm.. and I see this guy over at the pizza boxes giving me the stink-eye. (Imitates the 'stink-eye') So I give hime the crook-eye back, (Imitates the 'crook-eye') you know.. Then, I notice that he's not alone! I'm taking on the entire Van Buren Boys!JERRY: The Van Buren Boys? There's a street gang named after President Martin Van Buren?
KRAMER: Oh yeah, and they're just as mean as he was! So, I make a move to the door, you know, (makes a noise) they block it! So, I lunged for the bathroom...
(demonstrates) I grab the knob - Occupado! Then they back me up agains the cartoon map of Italy, and all of the sudden, they just stop.ELAINE: What? What happened?
KRAMER: Because I'm still holding the garlic shaker.. Yeah.. like this (grabs Jerry's peper shaker, and demonstrates) I'm only showing eight fingers.
JERRY: Well, what does that mean?
KRAMER: That's their secret sign! See, Van Buren, he was the eighth President.. (Holds up 8 fingers) They thought I was a former Van B. Boy!
< /Seinfeld >
Still waiting for the sociological study explaining the cause (and cure) of duckface.
NEKKID gangsign duckface pic in a mirror.
It’s the new tribal tattoo to show how original and creative “you” are.
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