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Left Handed Salute Before Speech?

posted 14 years ago by broadsword2004
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Anyone notice how he salutes with his left hand at the beginning before his speech? Why is this? Was that a fluke in the film or osmething?

[–] rickathedj 14 years ago

I just watched it yesterday on AMC (and DVRed it.) He saluted with his right hand. Did you by any chance watch it on Youtube or something? I have seen videos reversed there to prevent copyright sensors detecting them.

[–] broadsword2004 13 years ago

Yup, saw it on Youtube, that would explain it then.

[–] rickathedj 13 years ago

The timing of your post was amazing. It was just a couple days ago that I heard people reversing videos to slip them past copyright violation detection on Youtube. I watched a scene from House on Youtube and it looked like he was driving a car with the steering wheel on the right. I asked the poster and he explained the copyright detection.

[–] wildgoose419 13 years ago

Then, let's reverse the reversed copy.

[–] ak47wong 13 years ago

It's only a matter of time before the copyright detectors wise up to this trick, then people will have to start posting videos upside-down or played backwards.

[–] pgharett-676-553123 10 years ago

A little off topic, but my dad used to salute Democrats and commies with a left-handed Nazi salute, when he saw them on tv.

[–] hg_b1 8 years ago

My old man did the same in the German navy but with a regular salute.