Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often eluded John. He lacks the anguish and ragged emotional edge of the existential rock star; he's closer to Neil Sedaka than to Bruce Springsteen. And there's something uncool-refreshingly so-about his naked need to be loved across the footlights. "Even if I had only one finger left," he once said, "I'd play for you." That's the credo of the compulsive showman, who loves to get people to sing along with all the tunes (Your Song, Daniel, Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock, I'm Still Standing) that have snaked into the pop repertoire...
...sounds like fun. It is, but it's not what some of you may be thinking (you perverts). Supposedly, the finger term comes from the classic yellow page slogan, "Let your fingers do the walking," referring to the easy method of flipping pages to find someone's phone number. When you finger a person on the 'net (type fingerscyang@fas.harvard.edu for example), you can sometimes discover such information as home and office phone numbers, the last time and location that person logged on, and of course that person's .plan...
...after renaming it, I got a talk request from someone I didn't recognize...the guy said, 'Hi. You don't know me, but you used to have a cool stereogram on your .plan. Do you think you could put it back for those of us who liked to finger you?' It kind of freaked me out, but hey, I guess that means that my .plan is being read...
...finger junkie who prefers shorter, more manageable .plans, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" by Stephanie A. Salm '98 (e-mail: sasalm@fas) is a good bet. Inspired by an article she read last year, Salm links any actor or actress to Kevin bacon within six steps or less. For example, a past .plan revealed, "Macaulay Culkin was in Getting Even with Dad with Ted Danson who was in Made in America with Whoopi Goldberg who was in The Lion King with James Earl Jones who was in JFK with Kevin Bacon." Salm remarks, "I invite people to e-mail...
Armed with your newfound insight into the art of semi-cyber-snooping into the lives of others, go ahead and don't be shy. Reach out and finger somebody today...