idahomili.blogg.se - Cross fingers and toes meme

Lock, Shock, and Barrel from The Nightmare Before Christmas do this after Jack Skellington tells them to leave Oogie Boogie out of their plot to capture Santa Claus.

Cera and the others do this while saying that they won't go there, but because Cera and Spike are both quadrupedal dinosaurs (a Triceratops and Stegosaurus, respectively), they do this with their hind feet, while Ducky and Petrie play this straight.

In The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists, after Littlefoot left with Ali to the Land of Mists, Littlefoot's grandparents warn Cera and the others not to go to the Land of Mists.

Spidey shook on it but had his fingers crossed behind his back.

When Superman and Spider-Man had an intercompany Crossover, Supes asked Spidey to turn himself over to the police after their adventure since he was wanted at the time.

When Crabbe notices he has his fingers crossed behind his back and accuses him of lying, Reid admits that he's not actually bald. O'Clocke, "us bald guys gotta stick together".

In Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman, Reid tells Mr.

In the premier episode of Power Rangers Dino Fury, Amelia does this when he boss Jane asks her if she has permission to investigate the local historical site Dinohenge.

All four of them promise with fingers crossed behind their backs.

In Kickers, Inc., Jack Magniconte (the only team member with actual powers) makes the rest of the team promise to stay on their sea plane while he carries out a dangerous rescue mission on a Caribbean island.

G'Nort's archenemy Scarlet Skier did it when granted a parole.When he tries to collect, she reveals that she crossed her fingers. Dexter's Laboratory: In comic book story "Salt and Pepper", Dexter and Dee Dee make a deal where she'll stay away from his lab forever.Then he reveals that-whoops!-had his fingers crossed! He runs away gleefully singing about how he's going to disembowel him, and Siryn tears off after him. Deadpool tells her that he won't, to her relief.

Siryn makes Deadpool promise not to kill him when they find him. At one point Deadpool's healing factor was breaking down, so he and his Love Interest Siryn decide to track down the Weapon X doctor who gave him his powers in the first place.A discreet crossed finger or leg on film would be an indicator back home that the message was falsified in some way. A simple example as such would be military prisoners of war being forced to participate in videos/photos either making it look like their captors was caring for them, or that the prisoners were renouncing their political beliefs. It can also be used as an Out-of-Character Alert, both in-universe and Real Life, to signal to other people that a statement or gesture was made under coercion or otherwise insincerely. Therefore, the trope is generally associated with characters who are very young or just act like they are. In real life, this gesture is mainly used by children, especially since it's not a reasonable thing for an adult to do - someone willing to break perceived rules of propriety and conduct would generally just lie, especially since crossing your fingers risks telegraphing your falsehood to those you're trying to deceive.

There's a number of guesses out there as to why it became a common gesture for lying, but the general idea is that it somehow either protects you from the consequences of lying or absolves you from being held to your word to begin with. Our advice for those whiners? You guessed it: Try going an entire day without using your thumbs to pick things up and see if you’re still against this family asking for help to fix their kid’s hands.Truth in Television, of course, which is the reason why it works as a visual cue, often in the form of An Insert. I mean, it’s not like we were looking for another example to prove our point, but the fact that some people took issue with this poor family raising money for a life-changing operation goes to show that human beings love to bitch about everything. Hong Hong’s parents have been given mixed advice from doctors, and they have been told a surgery to remove the extra digits and add reconstructed thumbs could set them back almost $30,000.ĭespite asking the Internet for help and raising almost $6,000 through donations so far, Hong Hong’s parents have decided to stop the “crowdfunding efforts” for the time being because of “mixed comments they’ve received,” and that’s beyond sad. But what makes Hong Hong’s case so dire is the fact that he was born without any thumbs. Usually passed down in families, polydactyly occurs once in every 1,000 births.