[a fool in paradise]

Below are ten Neapolitan gestures from 1832. They mean:

1. Silence
2. Negative
3. Beauty
4. Hunger
5. Derision
6. Tiredness
7. Stupidity
8. Beware
9. Dishonest
10. Crafty

[a fool in paradise]

The media's secret "handshake"

[Sa-teef]

Interesting to me to see these signs from nearly 200 years ago.

And #3 (beauty) and #8 (beware) is used locally by the natives in SE Asia where I am retired. I assume they picked them up from international media or the web? Lord knows it wouldn't have been an original notion. They don't have those around here. If wet rice cultivation wasn't so drop dead easy and the methods imported from China or India they would all starve to death.