You made it all up? I think you missed the timing, but it's been the sign of the cuckold in parts of Europe for a long time.BostonAg74 said:
One of my proudest moments in college was the time I convinced a Texas sorority girl that the hook 'em sign was derived from a hand signal used in ancient Greece whereby Eunuchs would greet each other on the street. The two middle fingers turned down, representing missing testicles, were actually the most significant element of the gesture, and the extended outside fingers served no other purpose than to draw attention to the middle fingers.
In all fairness, she was pretty drunk, but considering the fact that I made the whole thing up on the spot, I was still pretty proud of myself.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/Rude-hand-gestures-of-the-world/rude6/
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Informing a friend that his wife has been unfaithful is an unhappy and delicate task. Fortunately, in many countries, it is simple to do: one simply gives him the Corna. A very old sign, the Corna dates back at least 2,500 years and represents a bull's horns (bulls were commonly castrated to make them calmer).