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Re: On Courtesy Classes




Poster: Nordaim <samann@cs.millersv.edu>

> I beleave I read somewhere the custom of handshaking was to show not that one
> was unarmed but rather that one did not have a weapon in hand, or something
> like that. 

	If I remember this one correctly (and the story is correct), the
handshake was an attempt to shake loose any weapons that a person may have
had fastened to their wrist. 

	I don't know, just sharing my mind.

	Scott	(Alfred Grai)

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