[lbo-talk] Duck! Twice!

[wrobert at uci.edu]

For some reason, it made me think about the Kruschev incident at the
United Nations.  I had always dreamed of working that one into a meeting I
was attending, but I don't have those kind of moves.  robert wood


> On Dec 14, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-shoe15-2008dec15,0,1930513.story
>>
> As I learned in Morocco 50 years ago, in an Islamic culture to put
> one's shoe in one's hand is a severely threatening gesture and to
> throw it is a gesture expressing unmitigated contempt. If there is a
> Western term for this sort of thing, it is to be found in the *codex
> duello*.  It is the equivalent of slapping one's enemy across the face
> with one's glove.
>
> Shane Mage
>
>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>
>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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