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From: brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor)
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Subject: Re: another finger etymology
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Date: Thu, 4-Aug-83 10:42:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  4 10:42:01 1983
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Well...

	I can't quite put my finger on who you are...

	"Dat lousy stinking stool pigeon fingered Johnny...."

	"Duh coppers fingered him for snatching duh hot ice...."

I guess you have to watch a lot of old gangster movies --- somehow
the origin of FINGER as a unix command seemed obvious in light of
Edward G Robinson films.

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   Brian Kantor, UCSD.  {philabs,ucbvax} !sdcsvax!brian
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