Originally posted by coquetteUpdate:..................................................................................................................................................[26] [19]
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Tis nuttin... 'deferential, glad to be use'.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYeah, because nobody had thumbs before the Romans invented them. You are the king of stupid $#@!
[b]"The original meanings of "thumbs up" and "thumbs down":
Juvenal refers to the Roman custom of spectators’ voting on the fate of wounded gladiators with their thumbs. You may think a gladiator would appreciate the crowd’s “thumbs up” (verso pollice), but exactly the opposite is true. [i]Where we give thumbs up as a sign of approval, it meant d ...[text shortened]... ael Macrone
and Fabulous Fallacies by Tad Tuleja
http://wordinfo.info/unit/3735/ip:1/il:K[/b]