X-Nico

2 unusual facts about thumb


Hop-o'-My-Thumb

Heinrich Leutemann and Carl Offterdinger illustrated a German fairytale collection, Mein erstes Märchenbuch (My first Fairytale Book), published at the end of the 19th century.

Little Suck-a-Thumb

Little Suck-a-Thumb (1992) is a short film by writer/director David Kaplan, a psychosexual interpretation of the infamous cautionary tale from Heinrich Hoffman's storybook Struwwelpeter.


1984 Kansas City Chiefs season

Quarterback Bill Kenney suffered a broken thumb during the preseason and was sidelined until the season’s seventh week.

2003 Cricket World Cup Final

Captain Ricky Ponting (140 from 121 balls, 4 fours, 8 sixes) and Damien Martyn (88 from 84 balls, 7 fours, 1 six) (playing with a broken thumb) then completed a partnership of 234 runs in 30.1 overs, an Australian record for one-day cricket.

Abductor pollicis longus muscle

A small, lens-shaped radial sesamoid embedded into the APL tendon is a primitive state found in all known Carnivora genera except in the red and giant pandas and the extinct Simocyon where it is hypertrophied (enlarged) into a sixth digit or a so called "false thumb", a derived trait that first appeared in ursids.

Ball of the thumb

Thenar eminence, most fleshy portion of the palm of the human hand, located adjacent to the second joint of the thumb

Bow draw

The Hadza, who do not use quivers, may hold other arrows with the free thumb and little finger.

Brian Hoyer

It was announced later in the week that Hoyer would be the Browns' starting quarterback for Week 4, as starting quarterback Brandon Weeden remained out with a thumb injury.

Classical guitar technique

In the tremolo technique, the thumb plays a bass note followed by the fingers which play the same treble note three times: pami, pami, pami etc. (Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega is a famous example of this technique).

Comparative foot morphology

Recently, scientists at the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom have discovered that the elephant possesses a sixth false toe — a sesamoid, located similarly to the giant panda's extra "thumb".

Devils Thumb

In 1977, author Jon Krakauer climbed the East Ridge of the Devils Thumb, a feat described in detail in his book Eiger Dreams, Ventures Among Men and Mountains.

Diagonal method

Diagonal Method, a rule of thumb in photography, painting and drawing

Dilawar Hussain

He returned with a bandage over his head, was hit on the thumb by Nobby Clark, but top scored with 59.

Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk

When Isabel Blanco injured her thumb during the championship, Sørlie Lybekk was called to join the team, and received a gold medal from the championship without playing.

Excited and Scared

Later, Tom is watching horror movies with his sons (the thumb-cutting scene from Two Thousand Maniacs!) when the doorbell rings.

Fingering

In the 1980s Lindley and Boxall showed that the above relies solely on C.P.E. Bach's testimony: all the extant fingerings from J.S.Bach and his circle use the ancient methods, with very limited use of the thumb.

God's thumb

Adansonia, a tree that is known in African folklore as "God's Thumb"

Heather Albert

Albert broke her right clavicle and dislocated her thumb in March 2004, when she was brought down in an incident involving Rebecca Quinn during a track race at the Alkek Velodrome, Houston.

Hook 'em Horns

A variant of the Horns, formed upside down with the thumb pointed outward, is often used by rivals of the Longhorns and is considered insulting, especially when performed by a player or coach of the team in question.

I'd Rather Suck My Thumb

I'd Rather Suck My Thumb is the fourth album by American blues guitarist Mel Brown recorded in 1969 for the Impulse! label.

J. G. Anschütz

1813 Small bore match Rifle - parallel forestock, thumb hole grip, adjustable cheek rest, extendable butt plate with hook and accessory for 3P shooting

Joypad

D-pad, a flat, usually thumb-operated directional control on most modern video game controllers and remote controllers

Kim Poor

Her painting for his first album, "Voyage of the Acolyte", won Album Cover of the Year for 1976 and was exhibited at the Thumb Gallery, London, in 1979.

Larry Eigner

As he matured into an artist, Eigner overcame many physical obstacles and limitations to achieve a mastery over the material text, producing his typescripts on a 1940 Royal manual typewriter using only his right index finger and thumb.

Miniature golf

The first standardized minigolf courses to enter commercial mass-production were the Thistle Dhu ("This'll Do") course 1916 in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and the 1927 Tom Thumb patent of Garnet Carter from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

Nepenthes deaniana

Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer recorded a plant from Mount Pulgar (now known as Thumb Peak) matching the description of N. deaniana.

Netgear Digital Entertainer

USB storage devices such as iPods, thumb drives, and some digital cameras with USB interfaces can be attached directly to the units for playback of media on those USB devices.

Port Huron and Northwestern Railway

In addition the PH&NW operated three branch lines: Sand Beach, which was a continuation of the original Croswell line and ran up the Lake Huron coast; Port Austin, which split from "Sand Beach" at Palms and went through Bad Axe before reaching the northern tip of the Thumb; and Almont, which ran due west from Port Huron.

Profanity in American Sign Language

The well-known OK gesture, when held with the thumb on top at the level of the chest means "asshole", as seen in the film Mr. Holland's Opus.

Sexual fetishism

In 1951, Donald Winnicott presented his theory of transitional objects and phenomena, according to which childish actions like thumb sucking and objects like cuddly toys are the source of manifold adult behavior, amongst many others fetishism.

Sigurd stones

In parts of Great Britain under Norse culture, the figure of Sigurd sucking the dragon's blood from his thumb appears on several carved stones, at Ripon and Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire, at York and at Halton, Lancashire.

Sin Quirin

He has been Grammy nominated twice, both times with Ministry, the first for 'Under my Thumb' from Cover Up – 2008 and the second time around for 'Señor Peligro' from the live 2009 album Adios... Puta Madres.

Sporterising

For example, a manufacturer might have replaced a pistol grip with a thumb-hole stock, or a flash suppressor with a muzzle brake,in order to comply with legislation such as the (now expired) US Federal Assault Weapons Ban.

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

The wax thumb-print reproduction idea was devised by, and bought from, Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870–1907), who also helped plot The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901).

The Bravest Man in the Universe

The album cover, photographed by Jamie-James Medina, features Womack's hand with his thumb twisted backward.

The Conquest of Granada

Furthermore, Henry Fielding, in Tragedy of Tragedies, or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1730) also takes aim at the silliness of some of The Conquest of Granada. The build up of the lofty aims of the "Preface" to the play seem mismatched to the performance of the play.

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb is a 1993 stop-motion animated film made by bolexbrothers, and funded by the BBC, La Sept, producer Richard Hutchinson and Manga Entertainment, which also distributed the film on video.

Thumb Fun

Daffy opens his gift and finds that it is an (American Automobile Association-approved) Acme Hitchhiker's Thumb, which he vainly tries to use all winter for a ride.

Thumb position

While traditional methods rarely discuss playing on the A or E string in thumb position, French pedagogue Francois Rabbath (and his disciples such as Paul Ellison) advocate the performance of notes on the A and E strings.

Electric bassists such as Brian Bromberg and Steve Bailey have applied the thumb position technique to their instruments, due to the fact that they share a common tuning.

Thumb Wars

The production for Thumb Wars started in 1997 with Steve Oedekerk, Paul Marshal, Tom Koranda, Mark DeCarlo and Jim Jackman.

Thumb Wrestling Federation

Thumb Wrestling Federation: TWF is based on large Professional Wrestling promotions such as the World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly World Wrestling Federation).

Thumbs signal

More recently, these gestures are associated with movie reviews, having been popularized by critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert on their televised review show Siskel & Ebert — the thumb up meaning a positive opinion of a film; the thumb down meaning a negative one.

Tom Thumb

The title of "The Great" may be intended as a reference to the politician Sir Robert Walpole, himself often called "The Great." Henry Fielding's tragedy Tom Thumb was the basis for an opera constructed by Kane O'Hara.

Truce term

Other gestures, reported in ones and twos, included miming an injection into the arm, licking the thumb, making a T-shape with the hands, three fingers held up and the "Vulcan" sign from Star Trek.

Under Your Thumb

"Under Your Thumb" is a single released by English duo Godley & Creme, from their 1981 album Ismism.

W. K. Burton

He was also a childhood friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who turned to him for background information for The Engineer’s Thumb; Doyle's book, The Firm of Girdlestone, is dedicated to Burton.

Wipe Out Kids Cancer

WOKC's mainstay event is the Tom Thumb Run for the Children Fun Run and Addison Oktoberfest 5K, which is held in conjunction with the Town of Addison’s Oktoberfest celebration in September.


see also