LISA
Me Gusta
When my daughter did Spanish GCSE we started watching films in Spanish to help her get used to the language. I don’t speak Spanish so relied on Subtitles. For her A Levels we went a step further and changed the language on Netflix to Spanish… all of it. I mostly left her in charge of the remote control.
She’s just left for Manchester University, to study linguistics and Spanish. We forgot to change the telly back though. It’s OK although my Spanish hasn’t improved there’s pictures and symbols like home and thumbs up you know. Anyway I kinda like it.
RICHARD
Well-thumbed
Let’s have a big thumbs up for the opposable thumb!
That marvellous evolutionary miracle which has allowed us to create tools, develop the written word, and made using chopsticks so much less fiddly than it would otherwise have been.
Just imagine if evolution had decided to follow an entirely different direction?
What if we had no thumbs at all? Or, even worse, opposable toes?
We’d all be walking on our hands, eating meals with our feet, and sock design would have followed a wholly different path.
Thankfully it didn’t, because I’m not sure I’m ready for a foot-focussed society!
LIZZIE
Thumbs up to the guitar player and his song and his hair and his boots and his eyes, contacts, and… No, this doesn’t work. She stretched. The damn guitar was more interesting than everything else put together, and it wasn’t even a nice guitar. Why did she have to praise the guy and pretend the whole concert had been amazing? No. She was going to be honest, brutally honest if need be. She opened a new message. “Thumbs up to the guitar player and the song and the hair, wow! And the boots, nice!” She sighed. Yup. Perhaps next time.
SERENDIPIDY
How are you doing so far?
You see, I’ve been getting something of a bad press lately. A lot of talk about how they’ve found signs of torture when they discover the bodies.
Personally, I think they’re focussing on the wrong thing; after all, surely they should be more concerned about the killings?
However, I feel I have a duty to give the public what they want.
So, if you’re feeling OK, can you give me a thumbs up?
And, I’ll just go ahead and slip the thumbscrews on!
You will scream if I tighten them too much, won’t you?
NORVAL JOE
Sabrina rolled her eyes and gave Linoliamanda the thumbs up, and said, “Yeah. Sure. We all know that Billbert can fly. Now, tell us the real reason you followed him all the way to Eureka.”
Linoliamanda showed spunk Billbert had never seen before when she folded her arms, glared at Sabrina, and said, “I don’t have to tell you anything.”
Sabrina sniffed. “You do if you want to be anywhere near Billbert. My coven just devined that there is a plot to capture Billbert and use him for their devices. It’s convenient you suddenly show up at the same time.”
PLANET Z
Every time an Astros pitcher strikes out a batter, the gigantic Minute Maid Park scoreboard plays an animation of a cartoon astronaut planting a flag with the number of K’s.
And then something weird happens…
Falling into a wormhole.
Falling into a crater.
But after every horrible thing, he gives a thumbs up to show he’s okay.
When they first started showing the cartoon astronaut animations, he didn’t give a thumbs up afterwards.
But I guess it was too scary for kids, so they added the thumbs up to show he’s okay.
Still, he’s probably shit his space suit pants.