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What's interesting is you may reply, "hey, how are you?", and lots of people may be satisfied with that. Neither party actually answers how they are, yet the handshake is complete.

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I refuse out of principle, but agree, that works.

I just use "Howdy".

Which is short for "How do you do?"

Good point! I guess my principles only extend so far.

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