June 5, 2008...5:37 pm

The Obama “Pound”

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We’ve been talking about it the newsroom.  What do you call that gesture that Barack and Michelle Obama did onstage after he clinched the nomination?  This one: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqHpI_ppENo

Some people are calling it a “fist bump.”  Others insist it’s a “pound.”  I even saw it described as a “closed-fist high five.” 

They’re all wrong.

Anyone who’s forty-something knows it’s the Wonder Twins deal.  You remember:  “Wonder Twin powers… ACTIVATE!”

I found this tribute on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5KnuK4ayaI&feature=related

So from now on, he’s Zan, not Barack.  And she’s Jayna, not Michelle.  And if they win in November, they really will be the Wonder Twins.

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