>>>>>I'm not sure he broke any rules, because no one will tell us what the "little finger" comment means.
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>>>>It like when a parent wags their finger at the little child they are scolding. Its a harmless comment.
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>>>And here I thought it probably had something to do with sticking a finger in a dike (dyke?)
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>>Jim, did you mean that to sound as provocative as it does?
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>No, I surely did NOT!
>After reading this and Jos' I went to my dictionary and found that "dike" and "dyke" refer to both a ditch/wall to hold back water OR a lesbian.
>I was pretty sure that "dike" referred to a lesbian, but I had no intention of making that 'connection'.
>We all remember the story of the kid who 'saved Holland' by putting his fuinger in a dike/dyke and I was thinking that perhaps the Belgians had some derogatory connotation in that regard, since PeterV called it derogatory.
>That's all. Truly. As I think you surmised.

Methinks thou doth protest too much ... :)