On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Philip Hart wrote: #Like, what planet? Shrugging is reportedly a universal human gesture. All sorts of things are reported. I don't think the shoulder shrug is a universal gesture. I do think that something like the same meaning is universal, but expressed in different ways in different communities. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel