Is there a name for that trick where you go to shake someone's hand, but at the last second, pull back and mime combing your hair?

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No? How about that trick where you straight-arm somebody and they topple over because you have a friend hiding behind them on their hands and knees?

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Assholatry

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

cruising

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

"smooth move, ex lax"

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

dang.

GOOD ONE

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

That's not what we do here when we withdraw our hand. We open up the flat of the palm, slice it into our leg at crotch height, and give the handshakee a Fonze look. I like the combing hair version though - it's very 80's, very Tom Cruise.

― moley, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I think they do both of these in "Grease," but fuck if I remember.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

It's less a hair-combing and more a hair-handslicking, I thought. I think the appropriate term for this is "handPSYCHE."

― nabisto, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

major pwnj

― n_RQ, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

You can also just say "psych!" So I think it's called a psych.

xxpost

― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

best trick ever. almost as clever as the "GOT YOUR NOSE" move.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

What about the thing where you poke someone's chest, they look down, and you lightly smack them in the nose/mouth?

― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

And the old chestnut: "Did you know if your hand is bigger than your face, you have cancer?" SMACK!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

http://media.bestprices.com/content/music/70/485579.jpg

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

"The dreaded REAR ADMIRAL"

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

that one's better if you don't even poke their chest, but just look and/or point at it and say "what the fuck is on your shirt there?"

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

It's the advanced version of the "made you look" trick

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Around my middle school we had a variety of maneuvers that fell under the rubric of the "spodey." The classic original spodey was just to smack someone in the forehead with the heel of your palm. Hard. Then there were all sorts of mega-spodeys and reverse spodeys and such. Was this an interstate phenomenon, or one of the many things I'm learning were restricted to my immediate neighborhood? (See also: "umbers.")

― nabiscothingy, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Aw, man.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I don't want to say what I always assumed the Rear Admiral was. But Milhouse did bring it up right after the Wet Willie.

― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

You could also pretend you're going to PUNCH SOMEONE IN THE FACE and then mime combing your hair. It's a little more street.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Then of course you can introduce props like the switchblade comb.
http://www.swordmark.com/comb.gif

― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

kinda like when that guy from Radiers of the Lost Arc pulls out what looks like nunchucks, but turns out to be a coat hanger?

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I've often seen it spelled "sike."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

On a field trip to Chicago in like fourth grade, our bus stalled on what seemed to ten-year-old-suburban-child me to be a "scary corner," and the class bully leaned out the window with one of those folding pocket combs and started shouting at people, and some teenagers started shouting back, then tried to get on our bus, and the bully kid was still leaning out the window with the comb, waving it around, and his voice hadn't changed and he was just squeaking obscenities at these older kids. Just as things were really getting heated, the bus started and we pulled away from the curb, and the teenagers threw some kind of firecracker at the back of the bus and it exploded dully and rather anticlimactically, and I cried pretty much all the way home. I'd forgotten about it until just now.

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

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