Derek and Beano Celebrate National High Five Day

There really is a day for everything! Today is Nation High Five day which happens the 3rd Thursday in April and what better way to celebrate than with 99.9 high fives? As you can see we started off strong, then we realized that this many high fives hurt. We had to do the ol' alternating trick.

The use of the phrase as a noun has been part of the Oxford English Dictionary since 1980 and as a verb since 1981. The gesture takes its name from the "five" fingers and the raising of the hand "high". This is opposed to the "low" five which has been a part of the African-American culture since at least World War II. It's probably impossible to know exactly when the low first transitioned to a high, but there are many creation myths.Magic Johnson once suggested that he invented the high five at Michigan State. Others have suggested it originated in the women's volleyball circuit of the 1960s