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| President Bush’s Hook em Horns salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan. That’s what it means in the Nordics when you throw up the right hand with the index and pinky fingers raised, a gesture popular among heavy metal groups and their fans in the region. For Texans, the gesture is a sign of love for the University of Texas Longhorns, whose fans are known to shout out “Hook ’em’ horns!” |
| Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was caught on camera making the horn- gesture behind the Spanish Foreign Minister, Josep Pique, in an official EU photograph of 2002, causing an international embarrassment. Afterwards, he said he was “just kidding”. |
