Editing High five (section)

===Too slow===
The "too slow" variation is a sequence of high five and low five, often accompanied by a rhyme such as "Up High. Down Low ..."<ref name=weinraub/><ref name=mightbegiants>[http://www.songlyrics.com/they-might-be-giants/high-five-lyrics/ "High Five!"], a song by [[They Might Be Giants]] from the album ''[[Here Come the 123s]]'' (2008).</ref> During the down low sequence, the initiator will surprise the counter-party by pulling their hand back at the last moment, tricking the other person into swiping at empty air, completing the rhyme with "Too slow!" <ref>Robison, Jim. "Handshakes Complicate Simple Greetings." [[Orlando Sentinel]], 1985-09-15, p. 6.</ref> There are variations on this theme, with additions of "to the side" and other hand positions for the partner to contact the initiator's hand.<ref>Elizabeth Tucker. ''Children's Folklore: A Handbook'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7WVaMZAu2PEC&pg=PA55 p. 55]</ref>

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HFE Too Slow 1.JPG|"Up high."
HFE Too Slow 2.JPG|"Down low."
HFE Too Slow 3.JPG|Victim misses.
HFE Too Slow 4.JPG|"Too slow!" (with optional [[Finger gun|finger-guns]])
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The origin of the too slow variation has not been established, but the earliest documented instance is a 1982 news article in the ''[[Evansville Courier & Press]]''. A robot named Fubar interacted with customers: "'Gimme three brother' he tells a shopper as he extends a golden hand with that many fingers. Then with a rapid-fire retort he confuses the greeter with "Take It back! Up high! Down low! Too slow!"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greer |first=Bill |date=February 24, 1982 |title=Gimme Three. For this wisecracking robot, clownin' around is mechanical |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-courier-and-press-first-docum/96231656/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=[[Evansville Courier & Press]] |location=[[Evansville, Indiana]] |page=1}}</ref> Other notable sources have made reference to it; for example a 1983 journal is quoted as saying, "Whether we hammer, or hoe, whoop or holler, as they say, slap five up high, down low, you're too slow, we do it with the rhythmic motif that leads to harmony."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Too slow |journal=[[Journal of Transpersonal Psychology]] |date=1983 |volume=15-16 |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBB9AAAAMAAJ }}</ref> The title song for ''Lay on Five'', a [[List of BBC children's television programmes|BBC children's television programme]] broadcast in 1985–86 featuring [[Floella Benjamin]], ended "..too slow to Lay on Five."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/9781|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528122245/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/9781|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 May 2009|title=Lay on Five|work=Film & TV Database|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=5 May 2012}}</ref> The too slow variation is in the 1987 film ''[[The Principal]]'' in a scene where Principal Rick Latimer ([[James Belushi]]) does it to Arturo Diego ([[Jacob Vargas]]).<ref>The too slow variation is in the official trailer of ''[[The Principal]]'' at 1 min 40 seconds. {{YouTube|id=8760ji7Ax1k|title=The Principal trailer}}</ref> In the ''New York Times'' archives, the earliest reference is from 1993 when [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] did it with the son of a film-crew member while on the set of ''[[Last Action Hero]]'', saying: "Let's have five. Five high. Five low," at which point Schwarzenegger pulled his hand away saying "Too slow." The boy reportedly laughed.<ref name="weinraub">[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/04/garden/on-the-set-with-arnold-schwarzenegger-big-guy-big-star-big-deal-baby.html "ON THE SET WITH – Arnold Schwarzenegger; Big Guy. Big Star. Big Deal, Baby."], Bernard Weinraub, ''The New York Times'', March 4, 1993.</ref> Schwarzenegger did it originally in the 1991 film ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'', when John Connor ([[Edward Furlong]]) teaches the Terminator (Schwarzenegger) to "Gimme five. Up high, down low, too slow."<ref>''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'' (1991).</ref> In 2008, [[They Might Be Giants]] released the song "High Five!" on an album for children titled ''[[Here Come the 123s]]'', with lyrics "High five! Low five! Slap me five! Down low! Too slow!," a gesture described in the song as "old school"<ref>[http://www.lyricsmania.com/high_five!_lyrics_they_might_be_giants.html High Five!], lyrics</ref> a slang term usually meaning something from a prior generation.<ref>See "old school," ''The Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English'', Routledge, 2008. p. 713. {{ISBN|978-0-415-37182-7}}</ref> 

The rhyme bears a striking resemblance to a very old [[work song]], possibly medieval, used by blacksmiths to teach apprentices how to best operate a bellows in a way that maximized its efficiency by opening it fully and quickly, while closing it slowly. The didactic rhyme is "Up high. Down low. Up quick. Down slow; And that's the way to blow."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/page_id__111.aspx?path=0p2p46p |title=Rhymes from Hertfordshire |work=harpenden-history.org.uk |author=R. A. Salaman |date=1977 |access-date=May 22, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/aboutbehaviorism00skin |page=[https://archive.org/details/aboutbehaviorism00skin/page/122/mode/2up 122] |title=About Behaviorism |publisher=Knopf |author=B. F. Skinner |author-link=B. F. Skinner |year=1974 |isbn=0394492013 }}</ref>