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Wallace & Ladmo Featured Clip of the Month from the personal video collection of Dan Horn Title: Pondering Description: Dan and Harry muse about life’s little paradoxes. Date: 1982 Comments: Here’s an early bit with “Harry,” a featured character from my school safety show. It’s from the time right after I officially joined the cast of Wallace & Ladmo, following almost a year of guest spots promoting traffic safety. I was trying hard to find a “voice” and “identity” on the show and at the time of this clip, I still had a lot of searching ahead of me. At the end of the bit, Wallace asks about the origin of the “shame on you” finger gesture, and invites the audience to share any information. To my knowledge, no one ever responded, but a search of the Internet (something we couldn’t do back then) provided some answers. Here’s a summary of the explanations I found: The "shame on you" hand gesture (both index fingers extended with the others clenched, and one rubbing on the other, in a sort of whittling motion) is called The Forefinger Rub, and it implies a superior position from sender to receiver (the guilty person). The gesture is restricted to North America and the rubbing of the two forefingers is thought to symbolize friction. The origin is unknown.So at last, we know; we don’t have to bear the shame of ignorance anymore. Dan Horn 2008 |
