>>Sergey,
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>>Are you sure?? I distinctly remember thinking, "Oh, that's backwards from all I ever learned." IOW, my first thought would be to agree with you and Steve but as I mentioned I had heard otherwise.
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>>I wonder if there's anyone around here who's an expert on Roman Thumbology. <bg>
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>I'm not expert but I'm pretty sure that thumbs-up meant "live" and thumbs-down - "die".
Yes - that's what I learned at school, too. And that's why "thumbs up" is supposed to be a positive remark, and "thumbs down" a negative one.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
