> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Steve Desjardins > Sent: 24 October 2007 12:40 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO - The Half-Victory Sign > > A cultural diversion here. Isn't the "British equivalent" of gesture > just like a victory sign, i.e., it uses two fingers? >
We have the V sign, which is an invitation to go forth and multiply, but using different words, and the Victory / Peace sign. Winston Churchill was apparently unaware of the difference at the start of the second World War, and used them interchangeably until better informed. "Winston Churchill took up the Victory campaign enthusiastically, and made a V sign with his fingers whenever a camera was pointed at him, his palm facing in both directions. This dismayed his private secretary, John Colville. In September 1941, Colville wrote in his diary, 'The PM will give the V-sign with two fingers in spite of representations repeatedly made to him that this gesture has quite another significance.' Churchill was eventually persuaded to use only the palm forwards gesture." http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/the-v-sign/biography/v-for -victory Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
