And Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter met when they both worked at Time magazine. Not sure either of them ever met Homer.
You mean blind, bruise-covered Homer?
Or perhaps fat, donut-eater Homer
Good Gadfrey, he does have one set of stumpy little fingers, doesn’t he?
I’ll bet he has to strain to reach a seventh chord when he plays th’ piano.
As I remarked in another thread, the epithet still rankles The Donald, to whom , according to Graydon Carter, who originally applied it, Trump still sends pictures of his hands:
If this account is true (and I have no reason to doubt it), the hilarious part is that what Trump objects to is the “short-fingered” part.
I guess he has no problem with the “Vulgarian” part.
Ah, the sad plight of the Queens nouveau riches, a searing envy for the long and elegant fingers of the true elite.
I know it probably doesn’t have anything to do with the history and meaning of the phrase but to me it envokes a vision of someone giving the “bird” and having such short fingers it really doesn’t work.
When I saw this thread title, I assumed it was just a euphemistic translation of Fat Fingered F***.
I have heard this phrase (though not often), while I have never heard the phrase “short fingered vulgarian”. I’m not sure exactly what it means, except that it is most assuredly not complimentary, but it is great fun to say.