On its latest album, "Up, On & Over," the Hartford, Connecticut, sextet turns out rootsy folk rock that calls for hand clapping, foot stomping, and hearty singing along.
Meanwhile, most deadlines have passed for the Bush campaign to call for hand counts where local officials would interpret the voting Bush's way.
The guidelines call for hand-washing and banning hand-to-mouth contact close to the animals.
"I call them culinary masturbation," he said, referring to what he described as painfully earnest foodie essays or complicated recipes that invariably call for "hand-grown organic yams".
Expert and elite opinion swung behind the Baker-Hamilton report, which called for handing more of the problems off to the Iraqi military and wooing Iran and Syria.
In the chorus, she fuses the romantic and the religious, a move that has been applied to more than one pop classic: "To call for hands of above, to lean on".
These are protesters who, while calling for freedom, hand out biscuits and bottles of water, shield policemen from the rain and hang up notices apologising to local residents for "any inconvenience caused".
Their hands were unbelievably skilful at pasting up posters, handling paving stones, spraying on walls... all the while calling for more hands to pass on the message they'd received, but not completely deciphered".
Can you hear Okayplayers, incense smugglers and backpackers worldwide calling for the right hand of the perpetrator to be hacked-off and turned into filling for patties?
For all the songs' misery, 3 Doors Down played them like potential arena-rock, calling for singalongs and hands in the air.
