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MollyBloom · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants

So, today my students, much more mature mentally and academically, were asking the definition of certain hand gestures. The Boy Scouts "Be Prepared" was one, the "Victory" sign was another, "Live Long and Prosper" was another, then "The Shocker" came up, with them laughing. I told them I couldn't tell them, which I knew would raise curiousity, but I did not care anyway. I just told them it was an inappropriate sign.

So, during lunch I told the story to the Korean teachers (5 women, 5 men, but the latter were absent), and they were so curious to know what it meant. I thought for about 5 minutes how I should explain this to them without being crude. I did some motions with my fingers, to show where they went, and they were hooting and hollering! "OOh...is it good?" "Ahh....are there advantages to this?" "Do the men like it?" One girl was seriously begging me for more tips. It was so, so weird, yet I felt a little bit more open with them. Catharsis? Perhaps. Nothing like talking about sex over kimchi.

it was interesting to think how this is widespread in the US, but no one, except the Kyopos, knew of this act. Are the majority of Korean women conservative in bed? Do they try wild stuff? Will this rock their sexual world?

hubba bubba · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

Can someone translate this please?

tophatcat · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Location: under the hat

translation: gumbly gosh, dehhhh, wishy washy! That's as close as I can get it.

toddswift · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: Seoul

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

I think Mith knows sanskrit, he could help

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

Wikipedia offers the following definition of "the shocker":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_shocker

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Is it like the "come here" gesture. I love that one.

kimchi story · Joined: 23 Nov 2006

That's hilarious.

I would have told the class "two for the pink, one for the stink" and left it there.

The trick is to say it fast so nobody gets it and then shoot them an indignant look when they ask you to repeat it...

still chuckling...

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I actually used it once. It's sort of like holding a bowling ball.

MollyBloom · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

If they were asking if men like it, I don't think you were explaining it properly. Nothing I enjoy more than two fingers prodding my ballzac, let me tell ya.

Zolt · Joined: 18 May 2006

Lol, trying to imagine the scene. Did you *really* have to explain that one in detail?

hubba bubba · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...

They get it from the WWE wrestler, Matt Hardy, who uses a similar hand gesture. But it has a different meaning