Four Fingers?

January 6th, 2009

Filed under: Medicine, TV

In the morning, as I get ready for work, I tend to watch Headline News. It’s quick and concise, though admittedly a little light on details sometimes.

They also run lots of ads and soundbites for their own evening shows. In particular, they run frequent clips of Nancy Grace, their so-called “legal analyst.” Several times each morning, they run an ad featuring this sound bite from her:

“When you’re pointing a finger at someone, you have four fingers pointed back at you.”

What? How? I can’t believe this is the sound bite that they chose to run every day for her — it’s blatantly wrong. For one thing, it’s not clever or original — school teachers have been saying it for decades — only they’ve been saying it right: when you point a finger at someone, you have three fingers pointing back at you. The only way you can have four fingers pointed back is to have some sort of weird double jointed thumb.

It seems her grasp of anatomy is on par with her grasp of the law.

11 Responses to “ Four Fingers? ”

  1. Dr Archeville
    January 7th, 2009 at 8:27 am

    Or, she’s an alien, one for whom weird double-jointed thumbs are the norm.

    I’d wager Skrull. Or possibly Dire Wraith.

  2. BitterCupOJoe
    January 7th, 2009 at 9:13 am

    How does she hold a torch and a pitchfork with hands that screwed up?

  3. Tv Miler
    January 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am

    And if it gives such validity to finger pointing directions, then it disregards the other four fingers on your other hand who are suspiciously pointing in various directions unknown to the other four.

  4. Lianne
    January 7th, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    What about women who don’t ball up their firsts when they point cuz they have really long fingernails. They can 3 finger OR 4 fingers pointing at the floor. IT BOGGLES!!!!

  5. JohnC
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    Haha! I love you guys. Thanks for putting a smile on my face this morning :)

  6. Synth
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Or if you make a fist and point with your thumb, then you can have 4 finger pointing at you ;)

  7. fluffy
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    I think she’s referring to the fact that she’s also pointing at you, because if anyone points fingers at things, it’s Nancy Grace.

  8. Chris
    January 7th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    What has two thumbs and doesn’t give a rat’s patoot about Nancy Grace?

    This guy!

    (Um…try to imagine me pointing my two thumbs at myself.)

  9. Chris
    January 7th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Oh…and THERE ARE FOUR FINGERS!

  10. Mr. B
    January 7th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    I can’t believe that she said that.

    Now I can’t keep from thinking about the ‘hand comparison’ scene, in “Enemy Mine” with Dennis Quaid.

    Kutta – fingers.
    Not the same.
    Well, of course they’re not the same.
    I mean, you’re a Drac. I’m a human.
    Look.
    You have three fingers.
    One, two, three.
    I have five fingers.
    One, two, three,…
    four, five.
    Zammis get four, five?
    No.
    You’re a Drac.

    http://videodetective.com/photos/011/000465_44.jpg

    If you need to get your news fast and abbreviated, you should try The Daily Beast. They give a decent thumb nail of the days events.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/

  11. dr pepper
    December 19th, 2009 at 2:34 am

    I disagree. Nancy Grace does not point fingers, she has them wrapped tightly around whatever bones she’s currently gnawing.

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