Everyone knows that you cannot be driving a car while wearing your sword...

"Joe" wrote in message
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Charlie Morgan wrote:
On 29 Sep 2006 12:50:34 -0700, "Joe" wrote:


Thom Stewart wrote:
Yeah Joe,

It let's people know, "You're there and OK and they would also like
to
know the same of you. No need of assistance."


Thats right Ol Thom, Its a primal fear of the water that drives waving.
You get the points.

Joe


Oh, baloney!

Waving is an offshoot of shaking hands, which goes back to medieval
times.
Shaking hands when meeting is a "body language" demonstration that you
are not
using your "sword hand" for anything else. It's a greeting of peace.
When you
are physically too far away to actually shake hands, you mimick shaking
hands by
waving.

Then why do people in boats wave at each other and people in cars do
not?

Joe



You lose 50 asa points for, yet again, asking a quiz question for which
you
don't know the correct answer.

CWM