# Touch your nose?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 17, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253 "2001-04-17T05:04:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/1 "2001-04-17T05:04:04Z")
This seems to be a new Doper catch phrase. Can someone bring me up to date? I can’t find it’s origin. Thank you in advance.
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### Author:  [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/2 "2001-04-17T05:07:16Z")
oh, well, if you didn’t get the news letter from the secret society, then I can’t tell you.
Sorry.
I’ve said too much already.
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### Author:  [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/3 "2001-04-17T05:09:10Z")
::looks at **Kricket** , touches his nose and winks::
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/4 "2001-04-17T05:36:02Z")
Aww, fond memories. My partner in grime (read: we were archaeology majors together and bestest friends) and that was one of our cute little in joke thingies.
And the pinky shake. But if I tell you about that, I’d have to kill you. 😉
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/5 "2001-04-17T05:46:50Z")
Its a great heart warming type of thing… um… its korean.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2001, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/6 "2001-04-17T06:24:50Z")
Unless Rasa is serious: Thanks a lot, guys. [Rilch goes to corner to sulk, taking her Peeps along for comfort]
Are you serious, Rasa? If so, I still don’t get it!
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### Author:  [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/7 "2001-04-17T16:36:57Z")
yes, very heartwarming and moving. It is compelling how truthfull you feel.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/8 "2001-04-18T05:10:28Z")
Oh, come on, people…Just tell me!
{Rilch approaches altar, kneels and spreads out offering of Peeps]
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/9 "2001-04-18T05:41:18Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \*
> \*\*Oh, come on, people…Just tell me!
>
> {Rilch approaches altar, kneels and spreads out offering of Peeps] \*\*
you had me untill the Peeps part…
_touches he nose_ honest, no sarcasm.
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### Author:  [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/10 "2001-04-18T15:57:40Z")
Must not give in to peeps!
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2001, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/11 "2001-04-18T17:23:46Z")
Hi, \*\*Rilchiam \*\*! I think this comes from ME (of all people) and **Astrogirl** (Nee: **Astrofiancee** )…
I am a big, fat whitey from the states; and she is Korean… both of us are pranksters to a high degree!
We discovered, early on in our relationship, that we needed some way to tell when the other person was serious (given the cultural differences, we initially had a hard time with _who_ was joking _when_…)
**Astrogirl** (Nee: **Astrofiancee** )… found a solution: if you touch your nose, you cannot be fibbing…
Thereby leading to the humiliating vision of me, touching my nose while discussing various topics with you-know-who all over Seoul! [sup]part of me wishes that we had never reached this agreement, but there it is![/sup]
_touching my nose_
So: “touch your nose” and various incarnations of that phrase mean “be serious! You cannot lie now!”
[sup]Astroboy is humiliated… but what else is new?[/sup]
'Night all!😃
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2001, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/12 "2001-04-18T20:55:43Z")
Oh come on Astro. You know its adorable. Thats why people adopted it… hehe
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/13 "2001-04-19T01:25:20Z")
Oh, is that all! Thank you, Astro; thank you. Accept these Peeps as a small token of my gratitude.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touch-your-nose/62253/14 "2001-04-19T06:35:13Z")
Peeps! I _love_ Peeps!