Betsy on Dec 15 2007, 06:55 PM, said:
Yeh where I live the funny slur between towns is "Oh they're from six finger (insert town here)". Lots of old families round here. te he
I was all ready to come back with a "man, that's a slur against the good people of the mountains" when I remembered my father telling stories about families with an extra thumb where he grew up. Apparently, they used it as a cigarette holder.
Klass all the way, that.
--Jay "Just the 10 fingers and toes" lemurph
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