Shel Silverstein once had a poem about a snail that lived in your nose and would bite your finger off. Maybe he was inspired by something that’s been going on in Africa that nobody’s ever paid much attention to…until now… A US pathobiological science professor returned home from an ...
I started babbling (still trying to be polite) about how that was very interesting, but I had to go. Then he uttered the immortal words: "Do you want to put your finger in there?" He was pulling really hard on my hand trying to force my fingers into his empty eye socket. ...
Refusing to expose your palm allows a far smaller amount of contact between the two participants in a fist bump. Game show host and germophobe Howie Mandel uses the fist bump to greet contestants on Deal or No Deal. During the Swine Flu Panic, the Dean of Medicine at the University of C...