Talk:Pull my finger

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[edit] Articles for Deletion debate

This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash^talk 23:44, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad they opted for "keep." I added a line to the article referencing the phrase's use as a "meme," because I've heard references to "pull my finger" for years and no one ever has actually followed through with the joke. I came to Wikipedia today specifically to look this up in confidence it would be here. That's one of the many functions of WP -- to pull together in one place references and explanations of a variety of people, places, phenomena, and tie things together and expand on them in a way that's hard to find in any other single resource. Clearly, WP has "bigger fish to fry" -- I've worked on a number of articles related to figures in Holocaust-era rescues and Central American politics -- but this kind of article is part of WP's mission, too. Lawikitejana 18:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pull my finger doesn't really work?

I've always been under the impression that pulling ones finger will actually induce flatulance. Do you mean to tell me that that is not true?

Yes. (Also, sign your comments!) Stylish Alastor the Stylish 20:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History?

At what point did this joke enter the American conscience? For some reason I am inclined to think it had a WWII era origin. bd2412 T 03:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)