# Tug on my bone, watch it grow straighter

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tug-on-my-bone-watch-it-grow-straighter/111544
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 30, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tug-on-my-bone-watch-it-grow-straighter/111544 "2002-05-30T14:34:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tug-on-my-bone-watch-it-grow-straighter/111544/1 "2002-05-30T14:34:11Z")

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Dislocated middle finger, that feels good. Makes typing and work all that much easier when I now have a cartoonish 4 fingered hand thanks to all of the medical tape.

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### Author: ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tug-on-my-bone-watch-it-grow-straighter/111544/2 "2002-05-30T23:36:57Z")

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ouch!

please tell me you have a splint on it. it would be ever so handy!

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### Author: ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tug-on-my-bone-watch-it-grow-straighter/111544/3 "2002-05-30T23:41:27Z")

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My pinky is broken. (And it has a splinter in it, but that’s another thread)[.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117523) I didn’t even think I **used** my pinky to type. Boy, was I wrong.

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### Author: ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tug-on-my-bone-watch-it-grow-straighter/111544/4 "2002-05-31T00:13:02Z")

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I fractured my middle finger a few years ago. I had a splint on it and it looked like I was giving everybody the finger. I wore that for several months and I got in the habit of using my ringer finger to type instead of my middle finger. I only wore the splint for two months and it took twice as long for me to reteach myself to use the middle finger again.