http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/wolffiles55.htmlThe First Finger
The first literary reference to The Finger in a 423 B.C. version of Aristophanes’ The Clouds.
Socrates: ... Polite society will accept you if you can discriminate, say, between the martial anapest and common dactylic -- sometimes vulgarly called "finger-rhythm."
Strepsiades: Finger-rhythm? I know that.
Socrates: Define it then.
Strepsiades: [Extending his middle finger] Why it's tapping time with this finger. Of course, when I was a boy [raising his phallus], I used to make rhythm with this one.
