Somewhat off- topic

[Wilson Gray]

No offense, George, but, as a retired librarian who once nearly had a
nervous breakdown trying - eventually, successfully - to locate a
number of this serial for a patron, I'd like to add that this
periodical is very often cataloged under "Folklore Fellows
communications" and not under merely "FF communications," at some of
this country's finer libraries.

-Wilson

On Feb 1, 2005, at 3:54 PM, George Thompson wrote:

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> Archer Taylor wrote a history of the nose-thumbing gesture: The
> Shanghai Gesture.  Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia (Academia
> Scientiarum Fennica) 1956.  76 pp.  FF communications ;  no 166.
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> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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> From: Barnhart <barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM>
> Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 3:35 pm
> Subject: Somewhat off- topic
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>> This query is somewhat off-topic of dialect.  Is there a history of
>> gestures (e.g. middle-fingering and finger wagging [often
>> accompanied by
>> tsk-tsking])?  I'm sure the mummy in The Mummy Returns is
>> anachronizingwhen he wags his finger at the young boy.  The same
>> may be true of Walter
>> Eckland (in Father Goose, a movie set in WWII) who is reported to have
>> used a gesture of disgust and frustration by the harbour masters
>> lackey.
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>> barnhart at highlands.com
>>
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