How popular is the high five nowadays where you live? I have been trying to reintroduce for the last 4 years, but it’s far too often subverted with an awkward hand-grasping or such. It seemed like a lost battle. But now I’ve seen people do it on both The Office and in How I Met Your Mother. If it is in fact back, I would totally do a celebratory gesture of some sort with my friends.
Really, at this point, I think you have to be The Todd to pull it off.
Retro Five!
Very popular here. We high-five when we’re out like it’s going out of style (heh).
I high five people all the time. It’s criminally unappreciated. The high five is the ultimate signal of mutual assent. I think it should replace the handshake in peace negotiations.
By the way, once you’ve mastered the basic high five and its down low to slow cousin you should attempt the rare Top Gun Windmill High Five. A mis-windmill is very embarrassing (more so than even being left hanging), but if you can master it the results are spectacular.
The only time we exchange high-fives is if we just scored in a drinking game. Like beer pong.
The high five is out. Knuckle bump is in.
High fives are standard at bowling alleys all over the world!
I high 5 my oldest daughter every day when I drop her off at school. the guard makes her come give me a high five if she ever misses one.
Do you have to mimic Borat when high five-ing?
High five and fist-bump are both alive and well in my bowling league.
The high five is more commonly a low-five, or a mid-five, but occasionally the high-five, or high-ten makes an appearance.
Fist-bump might be more popular with black people in bowling league, but I haven’t actually sat down with a notebook and calculator to confirm that hypothesis.
I got a high-five this weekend after pulling off a feat of coding excellence. It both stunned and elated me.
I’ve been trying to get my friends to do more “Todd-style” fives, but everyone keeps forgetting.
I high-fived a couple of people just the other night. I think that was the first time in years.
My girlfriend and I pulled off the Top Gun Windmill Five once. It was pure poetry in it’s simplicity and awesomeness.
It is still quite alive in my office, however, some people don’t know how to do it properly. In many cases, an attempt at a high five consists of someone stiffening their hand and awkwardly, weakly running it into my hand. A proper high five should be casual and accurate, with a satisfying slap.
Someone really needs to write up a “dos and donts” of high fives.
Coding excellence is usually celebrated with a fist pound in my office. High fives seem to be reserved for team awesomeness somehow.
Well obviously, since someone else was there to “five” me, it was my coding excellence as part of a team effort, silly!