# Tom Selleck's hands **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365 "2024-04-16T13:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/1 "2024-04-16T13:45:23Z")
I finally got some time to catch up with the _Blue Bloods_ episodes I haven’t had the time to watch until now. Over the last coule of seasons, something was bugging me about Tom Selleck and I couldn’t put my finger on it until now. Almost every second he’s on screen now and talking, he’s waving his hands around. When did that start? He’s certainly a good enough actor to know that’s very distracting. So, I’m asking: have any of you noticed this with Tom Selleck? What’s the possible reason why he’s doing that now? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/2 "2024-04-16T13:52:45Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > So, I’m asking: have any of you noticed this with Tom Selleck? What’s the possible reason why he’s doing that now? - He’s seeing [sandwiches](http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.com/) and is trying to grab one. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/3 "2024-04-16T15:10:34Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He’s seeing [sandwiches](http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.com/) Now _I’M_ seeing sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/4 "2024-04-16T15:13:30Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He’s seeing [sandwiches](http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.com/) and is trying to grab one. I get a malware warning from that link. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/5 "2024-04-16T15:29:19Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > He’s seeing [sandwiches](http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.com/) and is trying to grab one. > > I get a malware warning from that link. - I just ran it through several online malware scanners and they’re all coming up clean. Any details in the alert you got? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/6 "2024-04-16T15:38:46Z")
Are you sure the hand waving is him and not an attribute of the character whom he is playing? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/7 "2024-04-16T16:19:49Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I get a malware warning from that link. You don’t know what you’re missing. The page worked for me and I don’t know what you’re missing, either. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/8 "2024-04-16T21:43:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Any details in the alert you got? Here’s what I got # The connection to [selleckwaterfallsandwich.com](http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.com) is not secure You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS. Learn more ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/9 "2024-04-16T21:54:09Z")
I do believe this is it. You watch hands and he’s doing something else with his mouth. Covered quite effectively with that brush under his nose. I think it’s “modified method\*” acting. \* I made that up In other words, you see these things so I ain’t really gotta work here. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/10 "2024-04-16T23:04:55Z")
That particular warning just means it’s an old fashioned HTTP webserver, not a new-fangled HTTPS webserver. And that’s important because using an old fashioned webserver allows your ISP to replace advertising (from Google Adv service) with advertising placed by your ISP. (Yes, that was a real thing). In general, having an old-fashioned web server, like we did 10 years ago, allows your ISP or VPN provider, or the ISP or VPN provider of the web server, to read any content on a web page as it goes past, or mix any content, which, in theory, means they could read or re-write your banking login, which, in theory, means you should insist on HTTPS for banking or any login, which, in theory, is why you got the warning… Or perhaps you got the warning because you are using a web browser built by the biggest and most important web advertising company in the world, and they have a interest in convincing people to protect their advertising revenue. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/11 "2024-04-16T23:34:07Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > > > He’s seeing [sandwiches](http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.com/) and is trying to grab one. > > > > I get a malware warning from that link. - > > I just ran it through several online malware scanners and they’re all coming up clean. > Any details in the alert you got? No, and it said “may contain malware” but it doesn’t say any more about what kind of malware. It also allows one to continue on, but “strongly” recommends against it, and to continue I would have to add the site to a list of exclusion sites. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/12 "2024-04-17T00:42:19Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Are you sure the hand waving is him and not an attribute of the character whom he is playing? I’m sure it’s not. If it were, it woudl (IMHO) be mentioned by other characters. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You watch hands and he’s doing something else with his mouth. Covered quite effectively with that brush under his nose. Speaking of…that mustache has got to go. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/13 "2024-04-17T00:48:20Z")
Noooooo! I like the s’tache ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sellecks-hands/1000365/14 "2024-04-17T01:06:48Z")
Can anyone find a YT video demonstrating this? Any video proof beyond watching the show? My wild ass guess, without seeing it, is he is emulating Trump who continually looks like he is playing an invisible accordion. And I’m saying that because I saw Selleck promoting reverse mortgages on some awful channel while I was visiting a relative. I don’t know if that was Fox News, Newsmax, or the Hallmark channel, but those are three you would normally see at this house. I think viewers of all those skew to the right. Not sure what his real political leanings are, but preying on the elderly seems fitting for the right. > **[Life Accordion To Trump](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S65jqrHQi_c%2F)** > > Sit back to the soothing tunes.