Thanks for noticing, jenn! i put some time into that and decided that two just looked like a spaz attack and four looked like you just walked out of a public bathroom that had run out of paper towels.
Also, I got caught in the middle of my research by my 12-year-old son who just backed slowly out of the room. What we don't do for our Wordie, eh?
dc: Good call on the jazz hands. It would have never crossed my consciousness, but they really do have an expiration date, and it's after approximately three repetitions.
jazz hands are when you hold both of your hands up to either side of your face, fingers spread apart, and wag your hands back and forth rapidly about 3 times. It punctuates whatever you just said or did with that final bit of razzmatazz so often lacking in work-a-day conversations.