Thanks, Rob!

[aroraborealis]

What vivid new slang should I add to my body language?

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[dilletante.livejournal.com]

moominmolly told me a while back about a book she read in which one of the characters, to express distaste or lack of interest in something (e.g. when you might say "whatever"), would turn her head away and use the back of her hand to lift the breast she was turning away from for a moment.

[lazyz.livejournal.com]

Ha, I just read that book. Excellent gesture.

[maebeth.livejournal.com]

I avoid body slang ever since, at 6 years old, I waved good-bye to my dad with the "new way to wave" I had learned at school.

So I basically told my dad "up yours" with a pretty smile on my face.

He was quite upset, and apparently I'm traumatized forever.

[vinnie-tesla.livejournal.com]

The Fig!

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

It's not new, but the sign of the fico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_gesture#Fig_sign) is vivid.