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Mr Spock's Greeting

History of Mr Spock's Greeting on Star Trek

History of Mr Spock's Greeting on Star Trek
By Dan Bimrose

If you are familiar with popular culture at all you are familiar with Star Trek. If you are familiar with Star Trek I am sure you know all about Mr. Spock as played by Leonard Nimoy. If you know Spock you know about his Vulcan hand gesture or greeting.

If you hold your right hand up facing the person you are greeting and spread your fingers at the middle finger and the ring finger you will be officially greeting people Vulcan style.

I think the reason why anyone who is not a Trekkie even remembers this is because not everyone can do this. I know I cannot. My fingers just do not work that way. Do not get me wrong I am not disappointed in this. This is not such a big loss. I am more concerned about the fact that I cannot whistle.

For people who can perform this greeting it says very little about you. For people who can perform this greeting and actually do perform this greeting on a regular basis it says a great deal about you.

We can assume that at one point of your life you have received a swirly. You probably spend too much time watching television. More than likely you do not date much and the last girl you were with was on your computer. We all assume that Trekkies are at least somewhat intelligent or at the bare minimum can play a computer like a drum.

How many of you know the origins of the greeting? Actually probably a larger percentage of Trekkies know this answer than I care to think about.

The actual idea can be attributed to Leonard Nimoy. This gesture was actually used a few thousand years ago. Long before television, Star Trek, Atari game systems and only shortly after John McCain was born.

It is based on the Hebrew letter "chim" and was used by Hebrew priests as a special sign during religious ceremonies.

In my defense I happened on this little tidbit in doing some research for a manuscript. I found it mildly interesting so I decided to share it with you.

There you have it. "Live long and prosper."

Dan Bimrose is the creator of coffeeandprozac.com a website devoted to making people think, laugh or cry. Daily Opinions, Editorials and Stories He suggests dropping bread crumbs so that you can find your way back on a daily basis. Dan has also just unveiled his latest website tuesdaysreleases.com which provides a convenient place for people to discover the latest DVD movies which have been released at their local video store.

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