But it all begs the question, why? The foam finger began with an Iowa high school student named Steve Chmelar. In 1971, Chmelar built a giant hand from hardware cloth and paper mache with an ...

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It's been a while since Code Switch correspondent Gene Demby and I gathered in a studio to talk sports for the Pop Culture Happy Hour spinoff we call The Giant Foam Finger ... which has led to ...

A crew member on a Royal Caribbean ship was instead filmed waving a giant foam hand as the ship pulled out of St Maarten, oblivious to two passengers left behind on the dock. Footage shared on ...

The weapon is the hand cannon and it literally is what its name implies: a giant foam hand. You’ve seen them before at sporting events and NBA owner Robert Sarver of the Phoenix Suns has become ...

But Chmelar did have a point to make about Cyrus, and her giant white hand with painted red nails ... "Fortunately, the foam finger has been around long enough that it will survive this incident.

Beyonce made sure to pay homage to the Brooklyn Nets during her show at the Barclays Center yesterday by parading around stage with a giant foam hand not long before her hip-hop mogul husband Jay-Z ...