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How I Met Your Mother's Barney: Great Fist-Bumps

Oct 7, 2008 11:18 AM ET
by Barney Stinson

The fist-bump. One bro's way of telling another bro, "Clever joke," or, "Thanks for taking the heffer so I could get the hottie," or, "Don't worry, I won't tell your girlfriend/wife." It's essentially the only acceptable form of bro-to-bro contact with the obvious exception of the high five.

While the fist-bump has gained much notoriety in the past few years, its origins date back to the dawn of bro-kind. But one thing has withstood the test of time — don't ever put your fist down until it's been most properly bumped.

Can you match these points on the timeline with history's most momentous fist-bumps?

4.5 billion BC
3083 BC
220 BC
1517 AD
1522 AD
1792 AD
1947 AD
1968 AD
1969 AD
1985 AD
2008 AD
8383 AD

A) Eli Whitney fist-bumps cotton
B) God fist-bumps Adam
C) Rocky vs. Drago fist-bump before their fight in Rocky IV
D) Martin Luther fist-bumps his 95 theses onto the door of the church
E) Tommie Smith and John Carlos fist-bump atop the Olympic podium
F) Magellan sails around the world to fist-bump himself
G) Barack Obama fist-bumps his wife, Michelle
H) Hieroglyphics in Egypt depict a Pharaoh fist-bumping a cat
I) China builds the Great Wall to prevent the Mongolians from fist-bumping them into oblivion
J) Chuck Yeager breaks the sound/fist-bump barrier (Other guy's arm falls off; never done again)
K) Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin make the first space fist-bump
L) The first ever alien/Homo sapien fist-bump