Crossed fingers and coercion

I first became aware of the international ‘sign of coercion’ when I saw this picture in 2005…

Here’s the backstory;

“The picture shows that this soldier has been thru Survival School and learned his lessons well. He’s giving the sign of “coercion” with his left hand. These hand signs are taught in survival school to be used by POW’s as a method of posing messages back to our intelligence services who may view the photo or video. This guy was obviously being coerced into shaking hands with Hillary Clinton. It’s ironic how little she knew that he would so inform us about the photo—perhaps because she’s never understood our military to begin with.” Source: Picture of a U.S. soldier shaking hands with Hillary Clinton but not happy about it-Truth!

All of this to explain my current Facebook profile picture. I lost a bet to my son’s girlfriend’s father last year when the Packers lost to the Lions 0-7. He was kind enough to purchase the hat for the picture, so at least it didn’t cost me anything except my pride and a few hundred Facebook friends in Green Bay…

As good as the Lions are playing this season, I think we’ll still end up having the last laugh in February. In the meantime, I’ve got a great hat that actually fits — hard for me to come by — that I can use for mucking the stalls, etc., when I’m working on the farm…