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I'm getting old.....

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Finger, but close. :facepalm:

phalanx [ˈfælæŋks]
n pl phalanxes, phalanges [fæˈlændʒiːz]
1. (Military) an ancient Greek and Macedonian battle formation of hoplites presenting long spears from behind a wall of overlapping shields
2. any closely ranked unit or mass of people the police formed a phalanx to protect the embassy
3. a number of people united for a common purpose
4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Fourierism) a group of approximately 1800 persons forming a commune in which all property is collectively owned
5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy any of the bones of the fingers or toes Related adj phalangeal
6. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany
a. a bundle of stamens, joined together by their stalks (filaments)
b. a form of vegetative spread in which the advance is on a broad front, as in the common reed. Compare guerrilla
[via Latin from Greek: infantry formation in close ranks, bone of finger or toe]


HTH

Although bones in the foot are usually called tarsal and metatarsal, ask Mr W Rooney, he has a habit of bending them until they break.

This thead is beginning to remind me of Friends and Phoebe Phalange SFW
 
don't know if it is the yanks moosing up our language again as I always knew it as a body of men ....

but there is also this definition:

phalanx (flngks)
Plural phalanges (f-lnjz)
Any of the small bones of the fingers or toes in humans or the digits of many other vertebrates.
 
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I'm confused, am I dick for the gag about single mums or for calling the police because a child was in danger.

Neither.

Because you're a tight fisted, tax dodging, money grabbing b'stard who buys his cut price wine at the service station and is too tight to buy the kid a packet of fags! Whatever were you thinking?
 
Because you're a tight fisted, tax dodging, money grabbing b'stard who buys his cut price wine at the service station and is too tight to buy the kid a packet of fags! Whatever were you thinking?

Hang on that's me! :eek

The only difference is I'm not tight-fisted (if only!), and I would have bought the kid some fags - You're never too young to start :D
 
This is general. If you can't take it don't give it.

And elk are not moose. Granted they are close to moose but they are a different species in the deer family.

To which I can only add deery, deery me.

Cheers for the lesson, knobrot.
 

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