Perhaps I shouldn't, but I always wondered...why thumbs? Aren't your second fingers longer, and so more handy in close quarters because of that fact? It seems to me that to get your thumbs into a good position, you'd have to kind of twist your wrist to strike...maybe. Or is it because the thumbs are stockier and more resistant to breakage?
Anyway, just a thought. Jack's long thumbnails always remind me of Agar's long nails in The Great Train Robbery. Though of course they're for vastly different purposes.
[SIZE="1"]To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." -- Sun Zi
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[COLOR="Green"]Django: This is the way things are; you can't change nature.
Remy: Change IS nature, Dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide.
Django: Where are you going?
Remy: With luck, forward.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
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[SIZE="1"]"The thing I treasure most in life / Cannot be taken away..."[/SIZE]