OK, I’ve run out of options among my smart friends (actually, she wasn’t home when I called), and I bow to the TM for aid.
When attending the local ball team’s home games and imbibing a wobbly pop or eight, somewhere around the seventh inning, the obligatory crowd version of ‘YMCA’ by the Village People (disco lives forever at the ballpark) comes on.
This is where the problem comes up. When performing the requisite arm motions to mime the letters in the song’s title, which way does the ‘C’ go? Do you put your hands to the right, so that the ‘C’ is correct for you, or does it go to the left, thereby enabling the other drunken idiots in one’s immediate vicinity to know that you too are hip the the public spectacle? There is no consensus amongst my crew, and judging by the vague and disjointed flailings of the surrounding herd, no one else knows for sure either.
Somebody has to have a definitive view on this. Or at least a funny story.
I thought it was going to be about the programming language…But for what it’s worth I’d say point the C towards whichever side of you the goofy drunk is on as opposed to towards the violent drunk on the other side.
P.S. I’m drunk right now and my arms just feel better going to the left, dominant side up.
P.P.S. Aren’t there any old Village People videos you can find that would show the correct way?
I came in here expecting to find something about the speed of light, but I suppose undercircumstances (exhaustion and sleep deprivation led me to take one of those knock-you-cold meds an hour ago and, although I’m really loopy, I’m still not asleep), arm pointing is about my level. Or slightly above it, probably.
Anyway, you want the other folks to be able to read what letter you’re doing; after all, you already know what letter it is. (If you don’t, time for a quick breakie.) So the arms should point left.