[Ads-l] "fist-stamping"

[Andy Bach]

> I think it's a yoga position.
Or the koan "the sound of one fist stamping"

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:42 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think it's a yoga position.
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 2:39 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In J. Lepore's "These Truths", (p461 Norton paperback)
> > "Wild-eyed, fist-stamping Louisiana senator Huey Long rallied his
> followers
> > by radio, too."
> >
> > I could find no instances of the hyphenated version, a few like "shook
> his
> > fist, stamping his foot on the ground" and one story in Harper's Magazine
> > vol 116, "Versus the Same" by Margaret Sutton Briscoe with:
> > "No good!" said my father. He spoke with is teeth set, and brought his
> hard
> > fist stamping down on the breakfast table, ...
> >
> > There's also the good luck/white horse "stamp" (North Carolina and
> > elsewhere folklore) where you put spit (licking one or two fingers right
> > hand fingers) onto the middle of palm of your left hand and stamp that
> with
> > the base of your right fist when ever you see a white horse to bring you
> > good luck. (paraphrase - The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC folklore,
> vol
> > VII)
> >
> > So, maybe that's a fist-stamp, akin to the 3 count timing gesture for the
> > beginning of rock, paper, scissors.  Just never seen it before. I don't
> > doubt professor Lepore knows what she meant by that.
> >
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