So enlighten me. What EXACTLY the HECK does it mean when

[Strong Atheist]

you put two fingers up in a "V" (the rabbit ears) behind someones' head? I have seen it for decades, but don't really know it's EXACT meaning ...

[LaurenG]

1. Devil horns!

the person getting the "fingers" is a "devil" and they look really stupid in the family picture.

[Strong Atheist]

2. Hmmmmmm. I think there may be other meanings, as well ... nt.

[LostinVA]

4. That's what I always figured, too

[Orsino]

3. It's just bunny ears...

...so as to make the honoree look silly.

[Strong Atheist]

5. I always suspected it may have had something of a GOTCHA!

cuckolding type of meaning...

[Vidar]

6. Correct. From Shakexpearian era--horns of a cuckold.

Not sure why a cuckold has horns, however.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. It must be a mythical beast.. whose wife is getting shagged by another.

[Orsino]

11. I believe that that is the origin...

...but I see it done to women as well as men nowadays, and I suspect that the old imagery is no longer being referenced even unconsciously by most of us.

[Derailer]

13. cuckolding you say?

[wildhorses]

8. learn something new everyday in this place...

I thought it was just for fun...
cos it sure is fun doing it...making the sign I mean...

[WCGreen]

9. My favorite Martian....

[pooja]

10. It singnals that you are horny!!!

That's what my friends and I were taught bunny ears meant. So if someone put the v on you, you were horny. Along with green M&M's... they make you horny. And if you wore green on Thursday, you were horny. I don't think we really new what horny was all that well because we were only 7 and 8.

[Strong Atheist]

12. Welcome to D.U.!

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