Bling Bling in the ATL: The Tongue-In-Cheek Gene

8.31.2004

The Tongue-In-Cheek Gene

On a similar note, Cousin 007 recently revealed that he is rediscovering the insult 'up yours.' I like it. And the Jenna Bush route, sticking out your tongue. I've been doing the anatomically impossible insults for a few years now - I think it started 3 yrs ago, with my friend A's habit of telling me to stop breaking her balls.

I think retro-kid-cute could be a lot of fun, and just as empowering.

It wasn't surprising when on her first day of campaigning, Jenna Bush did what we all are tempted to do when verbal arguments fail. She stuck out her tongue...As Charles Darwin argued back in the 19th century in his classic "The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animal," all humans signal the same state of mind with the same movements. Stick out your own tongue. Doesn't it feel bratty? The gesture engages the so-called paleocircuits of the hypoglossal nerve, which are connected to negative stimulation of the amygdala portion of the brain. These neural linkages also explain why some people stick out tongues while studying hard or performing jobs that involve precise manual dexterity. Tongue-show, as the scientists call it, has been shown in experiments to indicate dislike, disagreement and disgust. Some scientific journals refer to it as the "yuck-face."

Our cranial nerves control expression, and these nerves and the connected muscles constrict when we are having unpleasant thoughts, causing wrinkled noses and protruding tongues. They widen and flatten into open smiles when we're safe and happy. Scientists believe that these expressions began as ways to protect ourselves from dangerous substances. For the children of presidents and presidential candidates, news photographers are definitely dangerous.

At any rate, the human tongue is a paltry thing. Even when stuck out, it lengthens a pathetic 25 percent. Some people have longer and more flexible tongues than others - Jenna's appears normal - but other mammals, like anteaters, can double the length of their tongues. Salamanders and chameleons, whose tongues are attached to their pelvic regions, can shoot their tongues out more than half the length of their bodies, unfurling them at a rate of 20 feet per second.

// posted by MMIMIKA @ 6:40 PM

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