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0 pointsmindslight6y ago0 comments

We shall not talk about it due to the connotations of its name, but rest assured those responsible have been liquidated.

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shantly6y ago

I'm pretty sure it was intended in the sense of "to finger a suspect" (cf git blame) rather than anything vulgar.

I think the tendency to take anything, in nearly any context, that could even maybe be vulgar, as vulgar 100% of the time, is actually relatively recent.

zrobotics6y ago

Have you ever read Shakespeare's work? Taking things in a vulgar context, especially for humor, is certainly nothing new.

shantly6y ago

No I mean just refusing to let any mention of some normal use of a word go without taking it that way. I'm reasonably up on my Shakespeare (LOL "up on" LOL) so I know of the joys of double entendre and innuendo. It just seems like any innocent word or phrase that could be taken that way now must be avoided in a way that it didn't have to be as recently as 2-3 decades ago—which is a source of a good deal of humor for us now, as we mine historical media for things unavoidably funny to the modern, finely-tuned-to-spot-imaginary-sexual-references-in-everything mind, despite (often—not always) the same slang being in use back then.

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mrami6y ago

IIRC - it's from the yellow pages "let your fingers do the walking", although I could have made up that association.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYpJ1IgGoc0

garmaine6y ago

It was a joke response to AT&T’s tagline of the era “reach out and touch someone.”

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shantly6y ago

I'm pretty sure it was intended in the sense of "to finger a suspect" (cf git blame) rather than anything vulgar.

I think the tendency to take anything, in nearly any context, that could even maybe be vulgar, as vulgar 100% of the time, is actually relatively recent.

zrobotics6y ago

Have you ever read Shakespeare's work? Taking things in a vulgar context, especially for humor, is certainly nothing new.

shantly6y ago

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mrami6y ago

IIRC - it's from the yellow pages "let your fingers do the walking", although I could have made up that association.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYpJ1IgGoc0

garmaine6y ago

It was a joke response to AT&T’s tagline of the era “reach out and touch someone.”

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse