Lögberg-Heimskringla - 26.09.1974, Side 3

LÖGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA, FIMMTUDAGINN 26. SEPTEMBER 1974
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WHAT'S WITH THE LITTLE FINGER?
As a member of the human anatomy, the little fingar is
of such small consequence that it’s practically ignored when
the RCMP has occasion to check on its four associates. The
idea is that it never does anything and so never leaves a'
mark anywhere.
Though the fifth finger may continue to fool the rest
of us, it seems that it has revealed itself to the RCMP as an
ever idle bystander, nice to have on a hand because we’ve
grown used to it, but completély outside the realm of use-
fulness.
It’s as decorative as a kiss curl on a cherub’s cheek and
juSt as useful. It crooks itself prettily when a thumb and
forefinger pick up a teacup, it wears its nail daintily and is
a small source of income for manicurists and people who
deal in cosmetics.
As for those who operate unsanctioned enterprises on
the outer edges of the law, the RCMP feels they have little
to fear from their tiniest fingers, which are inclined to curl
in or jut out and keep themselves clean when a job is in
process, leavingjio traecable track anywhere. They can be
safely cherished as handy eccessories for holding such
Status symbols as diamond rings when the owners scale the
heights in their field. It is even said that if this extra digit
gets in the way of a finger-printer, the no-account impress-
ion it leaves is tossed in the æaste basked, since it just hasn’t
been known to involve itself with such arduous labors as
car theft, burglary, abduction, shoplifting or murder.
Gosh, I’d be afraid to underestimate the little finger to
that extent, having depended on it for certain muscle jobs
most of my life.
But dare I point out that the police may be missing
out in their scientific approach to the nature of the little
finger, unless of course, organists, pianists and typists are
above or beyond those activities that draw police attention?
Those people appear to be so in a class by themselves when
it comes to relations with their little fingers that it is not
entirely improbable tha't they may be a singular race.
If anything, their 'little fingers exceed tJhe others in
strength and agility. Keyboards are deliberately designed to
get the most out them and I, for one, would hate to face the
consequences if the P’s and Q’s, A’s and Z’s, semi colons,
periods and question marks on my typwriter were left to
the mightiest members of my hand.
It could get me into troble^
Imagine a Q-less queen, a prince wi'thout his beginn-
ing, attire without an A, and zodiac without a Z, and what
with no semi colons, periods and question marks? Think of
the poor proof reader tussling with a sentence like this:
“Serching for the odic in the morning aer, I cme uon ic-
tures of the ueen and her rince rigly ttired.”
Said proof reader could translate it this way perhaps:
“Perching for the exotic in the morning air. I came up
with strictures on the teen and her rinse legally retired.”
The translation is pretty far out, mind you, but so was
my copy, and proof readers know that when a sentence gets
of the track there is no lirnit to where it will go.
This is what I would have said with the full cooperation
of my smallest fingers:
“Searching for the zodiac in the morning paper, I came
u{x>n pictures of the queen and her prince regally attired.”
If kept in trirti, those small pinkies are quite capable of
hooking a pail of honey and carrying it home when the big-
gies are otherwise occupied, just in case we eccentrics with
well developed little fingers in our pay, get absent minded
in supermarkets, those scientiffic sleuths who treat them
as nobodys might do well to check tiny fingerprints on jam
jars, honey pails, vinegar jugs and all things with good
hooks and handles. C.G.
NÝ ÍSLENSK PRENTSMIÐJA
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um í Montreal og náði þar
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Var sérgrein hans líffræði
(biology), en í Kaliforníu
ríkisháskólanum. í Santa
Barbara mun hann leggja
stimd á þróunarvistfræði —
(evo’lutionary ecology).
Kona Einars, Betty Papaz-
ian, er af armenskum upp-
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al, þar sem Betty var við
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hlotið doktors gráðu í “coun-
selling psychology.” — Áður
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skólanum í Lebanon. Eftir
að hún lauk námi í Montreal
kenndi hún þessa fræðigrein
þar.
Þau hjón búast við að
flytja til íslands að fimm ár-
um liðnum og setjast þar að,
en Betty langar til að fara
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heimsókn, því hún hefur
ekki enn séð föðurland eig-
inmannsins.
ÍSLAND HYLLT
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innar. Hann segir að Islands-
vikan eigi að vera mönnum
hvöt til að kynna sér sögu
og menningu þjóðarinnar.
Um 100 manns voru við-
staddir þegar Islandsfáni var
dreginn að hún á borgar-
ráðshúsinu í Los Angeles. —
Frú Halla Linker, kona Hal
Linker ræðismanns íslands í
Los Angeles, klædd skaut-
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Borgarstjórinn í Seattle
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ir athygli að tveimur merk-
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lans, 1100 landnámsafmæli
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