Nadya,

Check out my previous reply and the www link. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. There was no such thing as thumb up in Roman Thumbology.

Ric

>>>Sergey,
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>I wonder if there's anyone around here who's an expert on Roman Thumbology. <bg>
>>
>>I'm not expert but I'm pretty sure that thumbs-up meant "live" and thumbs-down - "die".
>
>I'm 100% sure in it too.