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The opinion that "The phrase was originated by actor and comedian Martin Lawrence" is stated as fact but no evidence is given. Without evidence that just goes into the 'maybe, maybe not' category.

This is not an "opinion", it is a fact. Here's a link for you people who didn't grow up around Black Americans [1]. Do some research and watch some of Martin Lawrence earlier standup routines, and then check out his hit tv series "Martin", then it should be obvious where this phrase originated from. When this phrase was first used, it was only used amongst Black Americans. But, as always, some white americans indulged heavily into Black culture, and before you know it become popular culture, and then other white americans are given credit for thing originated by black americans (hint: rock-n-roll, disco, and just about every slang phrase). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.17.106.111 (talk) 23:06, 5 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I don't think we can justifiably attribute the phrase to black Americans. The sources are insufficient. {{sofixit}}? I don't wanna...--Orgullomoore 13:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I remember the original talk to the hand in terminator 2 which predates Martin's sitcom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.156.32.29 (talk) 19:30, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That was Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, 2003, in the strip club and then in the convenience store. I think you've conflated the bar scene (T-2) and the strip club scene (T-3) where in both scenes the callous contraption absconds with some poor schmuck's duds.JohndanR (talk) 04:37, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"The hand cares"

I know someone who used to say, "Talk to the hand; the hand cares." (I'm not even sure if the gesture was part of the insult.) But I don't see that particular variation of accompanying dialogue in the article; does anyone else know it this way? B7T (talk) 14:34, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think it's much older (17th century maybe ??) than the 1990s and I think it's Yiddish and goes back to Yiddish palmistry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypotaxis (talk • contribs) 23:56, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 23:07, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk to the hand (expression) → Talk to the hand — This is the primary topic for this title; everything else is an allusion to the expression, and none of the items has become so notable as to be the first thing that comes to mind. Bigbluefish (talk) 17:52, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Also, there is only one other article named "Talk to the Hand", which is Talk to the Hand (song), a non notable song that was never released and shouldn't even have an article. 90.219.50.171 (talk) 23:08, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, no need to disambiguate. – ukexpat (talk) 17:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Attitudes

Can there be a section added about attitudes which clearly say "Talk to the hand" such as Wikipedia's edit protecting of talk pages after already edit protecting the related article? Sheogorath 149.254.186.177 (talk) 04:16, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]