Re: fingers

> take me some time to decode. To me, a "pointer" is a data type in a
computer
> program, a variety of dog, a helpful tip, and several other things that
> would have to occur to me before I thought of a finger.
Ditto. It's also true for me of "index" when stripped of "finger": a set of
pointers for in a program or a book, etc.

> It is a shame the middle finger doesn't have a name all its own in
English;
> it's only distinguished by being between its neighbours. I suppose we
could
> call it the "giving-the-finger finger" (or "bird finger", to use another
> colloquialism of dubious universality...).
In certain NeoPagan trads, each finger is assigned an element: e.g. thumb =
water, index = fire, middle = spirit, ring = earth, pinky = air.