Comments on: The Friday Question: 27 April 2012

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:09:00 +0000

Slightly OT, but I saw a proposal to use Occupy-style hand signals in Skype meetings: http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/jazz-hands-how-to-run-skype-meeting

By: JP

JP — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:18:21 +0000

@clive, yes! These are some of the hand signals that were in use at the Bombay Stock Exchange in 1946. Similar signals were in use in Calcutta as well, akin to the tictac men on racecourses.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:16:41 +0000

Nope, not cricket signs

By: cliveboulton

cliveboulton — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:05:28 +0000

Hand signals used in trading.

By: Anand

Anand — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:52:25 +0000

Cricket hand positions that correspond to a yorker,offsping, googly perhaps?

By: JP

JP — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:32:49 +0000

Nope, not to do with marbles either.

By: JP

JP — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:32:31 +0000

Nope. Not to do with shadows/

By: JP

JP — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:32:03 +0000

@celine, no not Indian dance

By: Joe Kelly

Joe Kelly — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:03:41 +0000

Are they the shapes the hand makes while playing marbles 1) to start the game and 2) and 3) to move the marble?

By: Dominic Sayers

Dominic Sayers — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:47:12 +0000

Are they hands making particular shadow shapes?