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[paul1404]

I was introduced to “nodding” quite recently by Bev, who is a master nodder by all accounts, and was wondering how many of you also nod, because I have been nodding with varying degrees of success. Although on one occasion I was reported to the authorities but no formal charges were made and I was let off with a “Police caution”
I think I have got the nodding down to a fine art, and prefer the double nod as opposed to the single nod, but I am interested to learn any new techniques other nodder's use.
I have also made enquiries to the Guinness book of records to see what the record is for the most nods in 1 day as I can do as many as 180 per minute in sprint mode, I will be going for the shortest (.178 of a second) and longest(12 hours, 3 minutes 34 seconds) nod categories as well.
I am taking the opportunity of intensive training over the next 3 weeks as I am going on a cruise were there is 3000 passengers and 1780 staff to nod at on a 24 hour, seven days a week basis.
Would any body be interested in forming a nodder's club were we could meet up for social nodding a few times a year, if so please forward your interest on to Bev aka S W Winger who will be glad to issue with your membership forms and a welcome nod of course.

[mcwriter]

I have to assume you are referring to the "non-verbal nod" and I see no mention of the "expressive nod" nor differentiation between the "downward nod" and the "upward nod".

I know there are purists out there, so I hope this type of information will be made available for membership purposes.

What are specific nod categories by Guiness? Which particular category will you be shooting for? I should like to cheer you on.

[S&W Winger]

Oh Pauly, Pauly, Pauly, have taught you Nothing? Alas, I have failed miserably as a teacher of the Complete Art of the Chair Nod...this is a Secret Nod, thus only those chosen and indoctrinated would even begin to comprehend...I thought Tinbasher lent some understanding of this aspect when we discussed the Biker Wave, no? Well, I do see you are Nodding well upon my wall [hopefully this I am not mistaking for head-banging]...

OK, well then, the Nod has been outed....hopefully this will not water-down its use and effectiveness in our special fellowship...but omg! I could just see it now: Mum's with prams Nodding, cabbies offering Nods, door-to-door salespeople soon Nodding to one another, omg a whole World Nodding, soon even in unison...but I digress...again, since you have outed the Nod, I do admire your efforts to be as best as possible at The Nod...therefore, a few pointers, as I have tried to impart upon your wall:

1. the Nod as the slow Nod
2. the Nod as slow chin down Nod
3. the upward chin Nod
4. the double Nod
5. the side glance Nod
6. the rapid Nod
7. rarely, the rapid multiple Nod
8. various Nodding techniques

These all have purposes and special uses, along with several of their sub-classifications, all to be discussed exclusively in private. While we rarely find rapid Nods useful or healthy, given as some of us do have cervical issues, there are a few specific instances where rapid Nodding will not only suffice, but it is absolutely necessary...therefore, I still applaud your endeavor in this category...

However, it the graceful slow nod that we find not only the most useful, but also the most meaningful...it carries with It the most weight of all nods...thus, I find your ambitions in this direction to be the most admirable...master the Art of the Graceful Slow Nod, and you will Nod your way well in the World, making connections, receiving special considerations, allowances, and treatment...oh, but all this is Secret...

Nod on, my friend, Nod on [never out! unless of course great Fun has preceeded it]...

[roo]

haha hope you nod that much DAD yer head falls off

[S&W Winger]

roo, on 11 February 2011 - 03:48 PM, said:

haha hope you nod that much DAD yer head falls off

Oh, roo, you ol' Bobblehead...you are just jealous of Pauly's rapid advancement...perhaps the infection has gone to your brain...

[Rune Rider]

Is this the guy who started it all 60 years ago?

[S&W Winger]

Ah yes Runer, the secret language of babies...who better but Noddy to tell us how it's done! Though, language eludes them, communication does not! And all this time Mums with their prams thought their infants were simply nodding out...

[mcwriter]

It is with awe that I tiptoe backwards and out of a room of secret nodding.

I shall take this with the utmost discretion and shall not reveal what I have learned here, and shall endeavor to hold my head still when passing the occasional nod, never showing with a glance that I suspect membership, no never.

[S&W Winger]

mcwriter, on 11 February 2011 - 08:35 PM, said:

It is with awe that I tiptoe backwards and out of a room of secret nodding.

I shall take this with the utmost discretion and shall not reveal what I have learned here, and shall endeavor to hold my head still when passing the occasional nod, never showing with a glance that I suspect membership, no never.

Oh my McArtist...but do you not even know? You are already a member by close association...you have the basics down as noted in your first post...and I am absolutely certain that YOU of all AB people have been nodding for years...

[mcwriter]

Hmmm? Sorry, I nodded off....you didn't hear me say that, of course it wasn't me, I know nothing! (nod)

[S&W Winger]

<nod> to McArtist...


Oh um, and Pauly dear...thank you so much for inviting EVERYONE to join...

...seems my mailbox is filled with inquiries into the Nodders Club...

[paul1404]

I can now see were I was going wrong, I making the old mistake of quantity over quality, so I thank you kindly for your helpful advice which I will put into practice. I would also like it confirmed that the angle to stop the downward nod is 40 degrees, because when I go further then the standard 40 degrees everybody in the nearby vicinity starts to ask me if I have drop something and a mass search ensues. So far on these recoveries I have been given a piece of old chewing gum, a 2p coin, a used match and someone tied up my shoe lace.

Edited by paul1404, 11 February 2011 - 10:59 PM.

[MTB John]

The art of nodding has been long established in New Zealand...
We even write songs about it..

[roo]

heres 1 for you paul

[spot]

Is there a good training regimen for nodding? I have trouble with neck muscle control. I though perhaps a good training session a few times a week might help.

(Of course, nothing helps with the rest of the stupid body, so why should I think anything might help the neck?)

[S&W Winger]

spot, on 12 February 2011 - 06:32 AM, said:

Is there a good training regimen for nodding? I have trouble with neck muscle control. I though perhaps a good training session a few times a week might help.

(Of course, nothing helps with the rest of the stupid body, so why should I think anything might help the neck?)

spot, spot, spot...if we could help Pauly, we could help you! YES! For further details, write to our secret Nodders Club, enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope today! Be sure to join our emailing list for news of casual get-togethers, new techniques, conferences, welcomes to new members, upcoming website news [password protected of course], and more...!

And now that Pauly has outed the Nod and thus our formerly secret club, it only seems a fitting honour to make him the newest instructor in nodding...thus, spot, you will be working closely with Pauly...good bye and good luck...oops, I mean, enjoy the intensive training, sure to at least allow side to side movement more readily...

[Edinburgh Colin]

I thought it was me that seemed to be on the funny drugs but I can see that you all must have been on something too! I am away for a couple of days and you start this and I missed it, Damn seems I will have to catch up when I can keep my head still enough to read the posts, my neck is getting sore practising and trying to be good enough to join. On the other hand if I can teach my pals Haggis and Nessie to nod on que will I qualify for membership, BEV ?

[S&W Winger]

MTB John, on 12 February 2011 - 12:35 AM, said:

The art of nodding has been long established in New Zealand...
We even write songs about it..

Uh, thanks for the contribution of jazzy musical nodding, John Boy...I did nod...-out before the 2 minute warning...g'night John Boy...

[MTB John]

Edinburgh Colin, on 12 February 2011 - 08:24 AM, said:

Damn seems I will have to catch up when I can keep my head still enough to read the posts

Will......help.......all...............communications...........recorded
.......it...........if..........future...............................are......................thus?

Edited by MTB John, 12 February 2011 - 11:21 AM.

[Edinburgh Colin]

MTB you are obviously on the best drugs of all of us or is this a particularly cruel hangman game!

[MTB John]

And the best part is I don't even have to pay for them......
Wouldn't mind that snorts and ladders game but. Think you could pop across and buy me one??

[paul1404]

I am writing to the Olympic committee and asking if synchronized nodding can be recognised as an Olympic sport.
Would any one be interested in joining the team? If so please contact Bev at her usual address and mark the correspondence “Nodders, London Olympics 2012”.
As this is only a demonstration, team members from various countries will be allowed to compete in the same team. Please be quick as we only have 12 positions to fill and be sure to give to Bev your neck measurements for the appropriate neck brace to be made if you are selected. You should be made aware under Olympic rules neck spasms are not permitted.

[paul1404]

URGENT fellow Olympic nodders I have just received this “TOP SECRET” video. This is Chinas secret weapon for the 2012 London Olympics, you have been warned!!!!

[paul1404]

S&W Winger, on 12 February 2011 - 08:30 AM, said:

MTB John, on 12 February 2011 - 12:35 AM, said:

The art of nodding has been long established in New Zealand...
We even write songs about it..

Uh, thanks for the contribution of jazzy musical nodding, John Boy...I did nod...-out before the 2 minute warning...g'night John Boy...

I was under the impression from “grand master Bev” that when activating a nod only movement from the head was permitted, we must keep the standards up, other wise we will be bending our knees when we nod as well, and almost converting it into a bow or even worse a duck.

Edited by paul1404, 12 February 2011 - 01:37 PM.

[pistol_pete]

MTB John, on 12 February 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:

Edinburgh Colin, on 12 February 2011 - 08:24 AM, said:

Damn seems I will have to catch up when I can keep my head still enough to read the posts

Will......help.......all...............communications...........recorded
.......it...........if..........future...............................are......................thus?

are you having another earthquake John?

[jenny407]

Bowing (nodding??) in respect to this wonderfully strange and insight-ful thread. Thanks, paul! Thanks, Bev!

I read it with pleasure, remembering special nods of 2CV (tiny Citroen) drivers years ago - to all in Germany, only to those with the same colour in France .... (my first car ever, red!). Quite a community of drivers.

And here? Well, I did feel I ought to tiptoe out, like mcwriter - but then read Bev's very kind words to ABs. Might I join in the secret - not-so-secret any more nodding society? With a very small nod only, perhaps? If I may ...? =)

Jenny (trying a small nod)

[MTB John]

jenny407, on 12 February 2011 - 05:24 PM, said:

Bowing (nodding??) in respect to this wonderfully strange and insight-ful thread. Thanks, paul! Thanks, Bev!

I read it with pleasure, remembering special nods of 2CV (tiny Citroen) drivers years ago - to all in Germany, only to those with the same colour in France .... (my first car ever, red!). Quite a community of drivers.

And here? Well, I did feel I ought to tiptoe out, like mcwriter - but then read Bev's very kind words to ABs. Might I join in the secret - not-so-secret any more nodding society? With a very small nod only, perhaps? If I may ...? =)

Jenny (trying a small nod)

I think you may be eligible for membership but only after severing all ties to the tulip tiptoe team..

[S&W Winger]

MTB John, on 12 February 2011 - 07:07 PM, said:

jenny407, on 12 February 2011 - 05:24 PM, said:

Bowing (nodding??) in respect to this wonderfully strange and insight-ful thread. Thanks, paul! Thanks, Bev!

I read it with pleasure, remembering special nods of 2CV (tiny Citroen) drivers years ago - to all in Germany, only to those with the same colour in France .... (my first car ever, red!). Quite a community of drivers.

And here? Well, I did feel I ought to tiptoe out, like mcwriter - but then read Bev's very kind words to ABs. Might I join in the secret - not-so-secret any more nodding society? With a very small nod only, perhaps? If I may ...? =)

Jenny (trying a small nod)

I think you may be eligible for membership but only after severing all ties to the tulip tiptoe team..

John-Boy, spoken like a true Nodding trooper...<nod>

OK, jenny, as I do believe you have "special" qualifications anyway...

And jeez all your is making my knees hurt...you do play with us on this playground after all...<nod>

[but you're on probation]

[Edinburgh Colin]

so you never answered if I am eligible with me mates Haggis n Nessie?

[S&W Winger]

Edinburgh Colin, on 13 February 2011 - 12:04 AM, said:

so you never answered if I am eligible with me mates Haggis n Nessie?

Ah Colin, I suppose if we let in the likes of jenny and McArtist...there's room for wee Haggis and Nessie Nodders...thought I did see Nessie nodding in that one photo...