That gave me a chuckle I desperately needed. Thanks. On 4/12/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 4/12/06, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > > On 1:48 PM Joy Nicholson wrote: > > > With the risk of re-opening a new flame war, this thread makes me > wish > > > we had subject labels for this mailing list. I've probably deleted > > > half the messages, because "giving the finger" just looks way too > much > > > like spam. > > > > Spam for what? Certainly not erectile dysfunction drugs. > > Ahem. Certain advertisers sometimes pretend that they have images of > individuals, presumably attractive, performing certain acts. These > acts might well involve a finger, perhaps being inserted into, well, > certain possible locations. > > Alternatively, political spam might suggest "giving the finger" to a > least favorite political individual and/or party. > > And finally, certain individuals who specialize in medical fraud might > request aid on behalf of some poor waif whom they pretend has had a > digit amputed. > > "Little Timmy had his poor little finger cut off. Won't you help us > give him one, so that he can play baseball again?" > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20060413/df8ebb62/attachment.htm