how did the custom, gimme five (handshake) originate?
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If by "give me five", you are talking about the open handed light slap of palm on palm, it was started back in the 1970's by black sports stars.  They started doing it when they made a touchdown whatever.\n\nThey didn't dance around in the end zone back then.
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Just in case you didn't catch it when 6 people said the same thing before, the answer to your question is:\n\nthe origin
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The number of handshakes is 302C2, i.e. (302)(301)/2 = 45451.\n\nYou're essentially looking for the total number of pairs of people in the group.  With your answer of 90902, I suspect that you were on the right track.\n\nSo to find the number of pairs, you have 302 choices for the first and then 301 choices for the second, making 90902 possibilities.  We have to cut that in half because this is counting 'pick person A then pick person B' and 'pick person B then pick person A' as two distinct choices, but this is really just two ways of looking at the same handshake.  Cheers!
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Traditional etiquette requires the woman to offer her hand first in this scenario.  However, the times are changing.  I still like etiquette, and you asked.
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The phrase started in the 19th or maybe 18th century and it had to do with women's gloves that went up to the elbows when they went to gala events such as balls and tea at the palace and that those gloves had nine buttons so some occasions meant they had to "dress to the nines."
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The expression "Put up your dukes" comes from old Cockney rhyming slang: "Put up your forks. Put up your Duke of Yorks." (forks refer to fingers and hence your hands)\n\nHowever there is a line of thought that the phrase "put up your dukes" and "duke it out" refer to the name of the God of Boxing, Polydeuces
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ooh i actually know this one!  \n\nBack in history, when the Brits would fight with arrows, their enemies would cut their middle and pointer fingers off as a punishment so that they couldn't pull back on the bow--- so when soldiers DID have their two important fingers, they's show them off by holding them up, like "ha ha--i've still got these! screw you!"\n\nin England they still use both as the "middle finger" gesture, but in america we just use the middle  (we're lazier, ya know, dropping the "u" out words like colour and flavour" lol)
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Never heard of it until now.  \n\n"If they stick their finger through the "wong"...\n\nhmmm... now that sounds a little kinky...
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Prior to U.S. colonial times, the custom in England was to eat with the fork in the right hand, then transfer it to the left hand and use a knife in the right hand when needed, then set down the knife and continue using the fork back in the right hand.  The key characteristic of such a method is that the knife is out of the hand entirely most of the time.  A knife held in the right hand could quickly be used as a weapon, so this method removed that risk and was a goodwill gesture to show that the meal could continue in peace.  It is probably of similar origin to the right-handed handshake, which was also used to show that neither party was carrying a weapon.\n\nWhen America was a British colony, this method became generally accepted practice in America, as well.\n\nSome time after U.S. independence, King George III had remarked on the barbaric origins of the custom, and decreed that at his state dinners there was no danger, so everybody should use knife and fork in a sensible way, namely keeping the knife ready in the right hand when needed, and keeping the fork in the left hand.  Over time, it became the custom throughout the U.K. to eat in this manner.  The additional feature of keeping the fork tines turned down was probably a florish added to emphasize the delicacy of the cuisine.\n\nIn the newly independent U.S., people were not eager to adopt customs from the U.K., so Americans continued to use the older method, and that has persisted to this day.  However, either the U.K. or U.S. style is considered proper etiquette.
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People, Handshakes\n1, 0\n2, 1 = 0 + 1\n3, 3 = 1 + 2\n4, 6 = 3 + 3\n5, 10 = 6 + 4\n6, 15 = 10 + 5\n7, 21 = 15 + 6\n8, 28 = 21 + 7\n9, 36 = 28 + 8\n10, 45 = 36 + 9\n11, 55 = 45 + 10\n12, 66 = 55 + 11\n13, 78 = 66 + 12\n14, 91 = 78 + 13\n\nNotice how when you add a person, he has to shake hands with the prior 'n' people.  So each answer is 'n' more than the prior answer.\n\nThe answer for 14 is the sum of 0 to 13.  A quick way to calculate this is n(n-1)/2.  \n\n14 * 13 / 2 = 91.\n\nThe answer is: 14 people, 91 handshakes
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AHOY!using the word ''hello''as a greeting only as old as the telephone invented by alexander graham bell in 1876. alexander graham bell suggested that people say ''ahoy'' when they answered a ring, but this doen't catch on. ''hello'' caught on instead. it is related to ''hallo'', a cry of surprise in the mid-19th century
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5,345,154,455 give or take
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"This gesture originates from the custom of making a wish upon the cross. It was believed that the cross was a symbol of unity and that benign spirits dwelt at its intersecting point -- to wish on a cross was a figurative way of securing the wish at the intersection until it came true.\n\nThis custom dates back to pre-Christian times and, in many early European cultures, two people were required to use their index fingers to form the sign, one to make the wish and the other to support it. Over the years, the custom was modified so one person could make a wish on his/her own."
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The aftergame "handshake" or "high-five" is a ritual adopted by little leagues and schools to teach sportsmanship to the youth. It's a way of saying "No hard feelings, the score doesn't matter because we're friends." MLB just hasn't adopted this "tradition" for its teams. Besides do you honestly think the yanks and Red Sox would shake hands after one of their games. Well maybe only for Johnny Damon....this just in...\n\n3.09\nPlayers in uniform shall not address or mingle with spectators, nor sit in the stands before, during, or after a game. No manager, coach or player shall address any spectator before or during a game. Players of opposing teams shall not fraternize at any time while in uniform. \n\nwhat do you know it's actually a rule!
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I take it as a sign of affection that someone would take a couple of seconds and strain their finger just to acknowdledge me.  I always return their salute with a double one of my own.
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Only subjects should bow/curstey to their own monarchs. If you are an American, a simple handshake is proper etiquette.
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it was invented in 1905 by a school teacher named frank h. rose\n\np.s. when u read this call me as soon as possible please\nalso he likes u \nhe wants to hug u \nhe wants to kiss u