A-ok

The hand gesture performed by connecting the thumb and index finger into a circle (the O), and holding the other fingers straight or relaxed in the air, is a commonly-used form of nonverbal communication. In many parts of the world, it is synonymous with the word OK, denoting approval, agreement, or that all is well. In other contexts or cultures, this same gesture may have different meanings or connotations, including negative or offensive ones.

Unicode symbol U+1F44C (👌) represents this gesture.

A-OK

The gesture is sometimes called the A-OK sign, a reference to a phrase that became popular during the American space program of the 1960s.

A-ok (also, A-okay or A-OK /ˌ.ˈk/) is a more intensive word form of the English term OK.

US Air Force Lt. Col. John "Shorty" Powers popularized the expression "A-ok" while NASA's public affairs officer for Project Mercury, and was reported as attributing it to astronaut Alan Shepard during his Freedom 7 flight. However, the NASA publication This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury says in a footnote: "A replay of the flight voice communications tape disclosed that Shepard himself did not use the term." and that "Tecwyn Roberts of STG and Capt. Henry E. Clements of the Air Force had used 'A.OK' frequently in reports written more than four months before the Shepard flight." Apparently, the first documented use of "A-ok" is contained within a memo from that Tecwyn Roberts, a Flight Dynamics Officer, to Flight Director (entitled "Report on Test 3805", dated Feb 2, 1961) in penciled notes on the countdown of MR-2 (Mercury-Redstone 2), dated Jan[uary] 31, 1961. In his book The Right Stuff author Tom Wolfe wrote that Powers had borrowed it from NASA engineers who used it during radio transmission tests because "the sharper sound of A cut through the static better than O".

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If you think that I'm invincible
It's going to pull me down
If you think that I'm invisible
It's going to pull me down
It's somewhere I don't want to go
It's ok
If you think I'm indestructible
It's going to pull me down
if you think that I'm a miracle
It's going to pull me down
To somewhere I don't want to go
It's ok
I don't know what you want from me
But it's probably already gone
I don't care what you think of me
Your opinion means nothing at all
Don't say I'm ok
I'm not ok
Don't say I'm not trying
Trying to do what's right
Now it's time to walk away
I don't know what you want from me
But it's probably already gone
I don't care what you think of me
Your opinion means nothing at all
Don't say I'm ok




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