I want to go around and shake people’s hand at work and say, “Congratulations, today is National Handshake Day.” Actually what would be more fun is to go around with a hand buzzer and do that.
A selected sampling of factoids on handshaking from wikipedia:
- In some Oriental countries (like Turkey or the Arabic-speaking Middle East), handshakes aren’t as ‘strong’ as in America and Europe. Consequently a grip which is too firm will be considered as rude.
- Especially firm handshakes are sometimes called “Manshakes”
- President Theodore Roosevelt, who set the world record with 8,513 handshakes at a White House reception on January 1, 1907. (i’m not bothering to mention the Atlantic City Mayor who broke the record in 1977).
Other handshake stuff:
- Wikihow wrote an article about how to be a jerk and manipulate people with your handshake, “How to Have a Persuasive Handshake.”
- Batman and Superman shaking hands
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it’s two days past National Handshake Day and those smurfs are still shaking hands.
i like how the caption in the Batman and Superman shaking hands illustration says, “They hold the grip for a long time”
I picture Batman and Superman doing that long shake just because they are trying to show the other one who is boss. The Smurfs on the other hand, they are just Smurfs and they like to smurf around.