re: The Starbucks salute

This thread is still hopping? I would have figured after we covered all the bases yesterday with people getting outraged, people not caring, people screwing around and people getting outraged about that because they were too dense to get the sarcasm.

The serious answer is that it isn't a "big deal" but the salute is a gesture of mutual respect so if you can't operate it with a basic correctness for whatever reason, just don't do it at all.

Don't do it with a coffee cup, don't do it while holding your dog, don't do it while scratching your balls. Don't do it while painting a house, don't do it while petting a mouse (OK, channeling my inner Dr. Seuss with that last example)