Citations:Trudeau salute

English citations of Pierre Trudeau salute

1992 August 14, Tonis Kasvand, "Re: traffic etiquette", in ont.general, Usenet:
If, on the other hand, don't feel like being polite...give them a Pierre Trudeau salute.
2009, unidentified newspaper, as quoted in "Martin S.", "Improper signal" (2009 August 9), in alt.funnytown, Usenet:
As he was pulling back onto the highway he gave Constable Bettina Schwarze of the OPP's Highway Safety Division the "Pierre Trudeau salute," so she pulled him over again and handed him a $110 fine for using an improper hand signal.

2003, Spider Robinson, Callahan’s Con, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 50:
“Flipping old Nyjmnckra the Pierre Trudeau Salute may indeed have pissed her off. […] ”

1995 December 11, "jkodish", "Re: No human rights in Alberta", in ab.politics and can.politics, Usenet:
So I raise my finger in the Trudeau salute, and pat yet another loser on the head.
1996, Arthur Black, Black in the Saddle Again,^[1] Stoddart, →ISBN:
[…] and under no circumstances to inflame the natives by giving them the Trudeau salute.
2007, David T. Jones and David Kilgour, Uneasy Neighbors, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 291:
To those critical of the United States, our inclination is more to return a “Trudeau salute” than to bow in agreement.

1998 April, Spider Robinson, “Hail on the Chief”, reprinted in The Crazy Years: Reflections of a Science Fiction Original, BenBella Books (2004), →ISBN, page 67:
And as the motorcade crawled past, and Mr. Quayle waved and smiled—I swear to you—all of us in that lineup gave him the Trudeau Salute.
2008, Andrew F. Maksymchuk, From Muskeg to Murder: Memories of Policing Ontario’s Northwest, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
By morning, all that remained was the chimney, rising from the ashes and rubble, standing tall and straight as if giving the “Trudeau Salute” to last night’s fiery fiend.