Pinkies

I'm an emacs user, and having the control key down at my thumbs instead of out beyond my pinkies was a huge improvement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of their finger-like claws was a third the length of their entire body, although in fact it's not their middle fingers which were elongated, but their pinkies, meaning that they were also the fanciest dinosaurs of all time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The American stereotype of the British is that they are stodgy and uptight, wearing powdery wigs and raising their pinkies as they consume tea and crumpets. ❋ Pablo Andreu (2011)

But while cricket is genteel, conjuring up images of tea-drinking vicars with pinkies extended on the village green, the organised chaos of hurling is more reminiscent of a couple of gangs of horny-handed rival villagers setting about each other with pitchforks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tarasova, who blustered into our session just as I was completing a triple axel with joyful exuberance flying out of my overly balletic pinkies, clapped her hands in delight. ❋ Johnny Weir (2011)

This idealized sweetness is throughout the work and is displayed with small flourishes like exquisite flowers, extended pinkies, rhinestone bracelets and ornamental curls. ❋ Tracey Harnish (2012)

Excellent choice...lock pinkies together...the very poem amongst several other choice ones I had in mind! ❋ Unknown (2011)

Right now, he could probably snap you in half with his pinkies. ❋ Diana Pharaoh Francis (2011)

Madeleine Begun Kane has a limerick she wrote just for the spats over healthcare in the U.S. (watch your pinkies!): ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gone are references to pinkies being twisted off which, I guess, was a metaphor for an argument between academics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After Mamadou and the lizard man shook hands, they stood talking with their pinkies linked while the lizard darted and danced around them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If Barack Obama had let thousands die in New York, New Orleans and Iraq, these gutless wonders would be donning their suits of media armor and girding themselves for a pinkies-raised verbal squabble. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But nowhere, as far as I can tell, does he tell them to crook their pinkies and pass the sandwiches like disciples of an etiquette class. ❋ Unknown (2010)