fox4zero,

I just used the term "bunny ears" to describe it so everyone would know what I meant. Because I had to describe a visual gesture with words it seemed like a good way to express it. I don't actually think that rabbits have anything to do with the gesture.

Also, you said that kids from the Bronx wouldn't know about "Welsh archers, Norman invaders, Agincourt, cuckolds or shagging" but that's the really intriguing thing about folklore: it gets passed down from generation to generation until the origins get lost, so knowing where it came from and what it means doesn't necessarily go with actually doing the gesture.

Helen