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From: ibyf@ihlpa.UUCP (Scott)
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Subject: Re: Where does the finger chopping story come from?
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 09:43:29 EST
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> I remember reading a very interesting book of short stories that included
> the story about the man who wagers people cars against their fingers 
> which he amputates.  This is the story that was on the pilot for Alfred
> Hitchcock Presents.  Does anyone know the author? (perhaps Heinlein???)

My Dad once told me that there was a place he visited while he was in           Austrailia (during the big war) where if you could make your cigarette
lighter light ten times in a row, they gave you a car, but if you didn't
they cut off a finger.  He also likes to add that he met a woman driving a new 
RR that was missing both little fingers and the left ring finger.  BTW, 
We're talking cut off (as in with a butcher knife) not amputated.


					Addison
					ihlpa!ibyf

My brother? I always thought of him as mom and dad's science project.