Am I the only one interested in fixing this?

We, as people with hands and fingers, have used them for eons to serve us in a variety of ways, scratching, grabbing, holding and communicating.

With so many people on the earth communicating with our hands there are just not enough signs to go around and so we have been doubling up creating lots of confusion as to what people really mean with their sign.

In the US, at least if someone gives us a hand sign and we don't understand it we can ask what they mean. But in some foreign countries, not only do our signs not necessarily mean the same thing, they can mean something completely different and not in a good way. Talk about making new friends in new places.

Here it is especially problematic. Groups compete for ownership of the same sign. For example, is this a photo of rockers at a concert or University of Texas fans at a night game? Who knows. Look at their faces, it's clear they are as frustrated as I am about not having their sign understood.

I suggest we ease everyones confusion by creating a national registry of hand signs. Sort of like the Registry of Astronomical Stars where you can name a star and it will be hansomly bound in paper form in the Library of Congress for a small fee. This would end the confusion and I could create a small side business.