Isn't it to do with the middle non-swearing finger (proper name of it...anyone?) sharing muscles with the sweary finger and the little finger? If you turn your hand palm face up and stretch your fingers away from your palm there's far more of a hollow underneath non-sweary finger at the knuckle-level (on the palm side.)

I would guess that being able to do it is to do with the strength of the muscles that your fingers use.

On a not-quite-associated note
Bug: Does playing piano result in having good grip as well?

catalinbond: Can you advertise? Please? I wants me some asparagus....and I'm cheap.

I just saved my pet brick from being left in an old house (my brother was still staying in the house.) Actually, the house (and the brick - called Roy) is in Sheffield not far from the PGF office (he's a pure Crookes-bred brick, even says so on him.) So, if you were willing to offer him a good home.......

How about an Ewok?

Now the Star Wars craze is over there's many abandoned Ewoks littering the country.

I would like to celebrate contacting my supervisors for the first time in two months......with a shed load of work. Ah, the dysfunctional relationship continues.

I'd like to point this out in my crusade against the Tory spin machine.

36.1% of the vote, even if its the majority of the vote, does not constitute a mandate to govern without an absolute majority of seats. If you have a problem with this then what you are talking about is constitutional reform.....which is what the Conservatives are opposed to.

The main point is that we are not a democracy, we run a majoritarian system and no party has a majority.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/election2010/results/constituency/b16.stm

At least he wasn't last!

Evil is on the march again :-(

8-1 to the forces of good!*

*I'm of Irish Catholic descent....Sinn Fein is thus seen as good, the DUP as bad.

1-0!

Get in there lads.

I have to listen, I study Politics....it would be wrong not to.

I have some good advice........get a job!

I guess so. First, who the hell spells their name "Garryck"? Anyhow, from his website
"He trained to become a driving Instructor. they moved to Wales where they had 2 children (one lives locally and the other lives in Cornwall with his wife). Garryck set up his own business later returning back to Chelmsford where he set up Chelmsford School of Motoring. Later he went through a divorce and a year later met a chelmsford girl they married and five years later moved to Cornwall and had two daughters where they still live.Garryck sold his Cornish business and moved back to Chelmsford last year. he was divorced while in Cornwall thereafter he became a mature Student and completed his Bsc at Plymouth University in Law. While in Cornwall Garryck was secretary of FNF and Trained as a Mediator working for Cornish Mediation. In Chelmsford Garryck worked a Driving Instructor but stopped recently due to work shortages. He is involved in a local Housing Forum and has been involved in further training.

Hobbies

Amateur Dramatics, Swimming, The Theatre, Stand Up, Travelling, Burns Night. Philosophy, History, Reading both Fiction and Non Fiction, New Technologies, Popular Music & Dressing up."

Checking off the info from the article
Four children
Driving Instructor
Cornwall
Amateur Dramatics
"Dressing up"
Again, the name.8-)

And a little bit more to depress you. His website bio tallies with the events http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/1881488.why_gee_gee_was_sacked/

While I know his electoral chances are less than Torquay winning the Premiership 5 seasons from now (come on lads!) I was just on my g-mail account and guess what was advertised to me! Yes, that's right, our one and own Garryck. The only reason I picked up on it was because it mentioned Essex, and I didn't figure many political parties had started in Essex recently. Looks like he's really throwing (wasting) his money behind this with google adverts.