randy_byers | O Power (Reply)

This story has been making the rounds, so pardon me if you've already seen it. The New York Times reported this weekend that the hand sign that University of Oregon fans use to mean "O" (see picture above) is the American Sign Language sign for "vagina". An old UO classmate of mine posted a link to the story on Facebook, and of course our old crowd were all, "That's awesome! Vagina power, hell yes!"

It was amusing, then, to discover that the New York Times story treats this as an "oops". Apparently it's embarrassing to make vagina signs? I don't know. Even funnier was my brother, who roots for Oregon State University and hates the UO, who e-mailed the link to everybody in the family with the subject-line "Thought you might like to know" and the comment "just saying". Pretty ironic coming from somebody who roots for a team called the Beavers!