There is a school in Canandaigua NY called Finger Lakes Community College. Until about 1990 its name was Community College Of The Finger Lakes.
The problem was incoming mail. It is a standard that each line in an address is limited to 32 characters (including spaces); anything after that is truncated.
The college officials got so fed up with always seeing their mail addressed to “COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF THE FINGER” that they changed the name of the school.
A short story first published in 1956, “The Splendid Source” by Richard Matheson, claims that there’s a benevolent conspiracy creating and spreading risque jokes. Pretty much all of them. And the organization goes way back. As one of its leaders explains about when it began:
“That is history’s secret,… veiled behind time’s opacity. Our venture does have its honored past, however. Great men have graced its cause — Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Dickens…. Shakespeare, of course…. Horace and Seneca…. Yea, in the palaces of Tutankhamen was our work done…. Scraped on rock, in many a primordial cave, are certain drawings. And there are those among us who believe that these were left by the earliest members of the Brotherhood. But this is only legend…”
I’m told this story was adapted into a 2010 episode of Family Guy.
New York City, circa 1885. A slow-moving horse-drawn carriage cut another one off while doing 5 in a 3 zone. The victimized coachman pointed to the Lord and shouted, “I hope God saw that!” …But he had stubbed his index finger earlier that day, so he resorted to using the next finger over to point upwards, and thus a trend began and stuck.
Incidentally, the other driver’s horse had been drinking. A cop on foot pulled over the horse and the coachman and put them in a jail cell and a stable (yes, in that order.)
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member 10 months ago
In response to the question, “Got enough snow this year, Earl?”
Dean 10 months ago
Florida came in second.
dlasher 10 months ago
Absolutely true:
There is a school in Canandaigua NY called Finger Lakes Community College. Until about 1990 its name was Community College Of The Finger Lakes.
The problem was incoming mail. It is a standard that each line in an address is limited to 32 characters (including spaces); anything after that is truncated.
The college officials got so fed up with always seeing their mail addressed to “COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF THE FINGER” that they changed the name of the school.
Doug K 10 months ago
Or maybe an amoeboid organism made an obscene gesture with a pseudopod at another protozoan.
Michael Jones 10 months ago
We made the Comics
Schark80 Premium Member 10 months ago
I guess that makes Cayuga Lake #1. Oh, whine, wine, wine.
DHBirr 10 months ago
A short story first published in 1956, “The Splendid Source” by Richard Matheson, claims that there’s a benevolent conspiracy creating and spreading risque jokes. Pretty much all of them. And the organization goes way back. As one of its leaders explains about when it began:
“That is history’s secret,… veiled behind time’s opacity. Our venture does have its honored past, however. Great men have graced its cause — Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Dickens…. Shakespeare, of course…. Horace and Seneca…. Yea, in the palaces of Tutankhamen was our work done…. Scraped on rock, in many a primordial cave, are certain drawings. And there are those among us who believe that these were left by the earliest members of the Brotherhood. But this is only legend…”
I’m told this story was adapted into a 2010 episode of Family Guy.
rmercer Premium Member 10 months ago
I would think… that would just be one lake…
Alverant 10 months ago
I heard using the middle finger as an obscene gesture goes back thousands of years.
oakie817 10 months ago
not nice to point
rickmac1937 Premium Member 10 months ago
Good one
Just-me 10 months ago
Makes some sense in a screwball sort of way…
The Brooklyn Accent 10 months ago
I learned a while back that the French refer to the middle-finger gesture as “le doigt d’honneur”—“the finger of honor.”
EnlilEnkiEa 10 months ago
New York City, circa 1885. A slow-moving horse-drawn carriage cut another one off while doing 5 in a 3 zone. The victimized coachman pointed to the Lord and shouted, “I hope God saw that!” …But he had stubbed his index finger earlier that day, so he resorted to using the next finger over to point upwards, and thus a trend began and stuck.
Incidentally, the other driver’s horse had been drinking. A cop on foot pulled over the horse and the coachman and put them in a jail cell and a stable (yes, in that order.)
Buckeye67 10 months ago
If Shoe is right, I guess you can blame it on ice age glaciers.
ekke 10 months ago
But not Upper or Lower Finger Lake; the other one!
T... 10 months ago
How do birds do it, on this “bird” comic…(For those of you who… Birds w/fingers?)
Walter Parmantie Premium Member 10 months ago
wildlandwaters 10 months ago
Since there’s 11 of ’em, I wonder which one it would be??
rfherald Premium Member 10 months ago
This is the September 9th issue on September 8th, a day early. A time warp?