Swine Flu: The Porn Star Protection

"Let me shake the hand that wrote Ulysses!" an admirer is said to have demanded of James Joyce. "Argh, you wouldn't want to do that," responded the Irish imp, "Ye've no idea what else it's done."

Shift the spotlight to Ron Jeremy, "legendary porn star," who explains "the porn handshake:"

Apparently ... when two porn stars meet on set instead of shaking hands, for who knows where those hands have been, they touch right elbow to right elbow. So I started doing this, because of my damaged hand, and for a while this became known as the "quant handshake." It only really caught on within a very small circle and then died out.

So Paul Wilmott, suggesting that it might make a pretty good protection against swine flu (though what this is doing in a blog on quant finance is an exercise left to the reader). I say it might also explain this: