Iain wrote:
>Hmmm, Adrian has just mailed me to say that it's due
> to pulling back on the "hammers" of a shotgun with the
> thumb. Could be. Shows how much I know because I've
> never even held a shotgun. So, which is it? Wringing
> the necks of birds or killing the buggers with a
> shorgun? The most work my thumb gets these days is trying
> to open the cellophane on CDs!
>
>"CD purchaser's thumb"
Before I decided that GP was an easier life than orthopaedic surgery (shows
how dumb you can be), I remember a heated debate on this subject, with the
consultant suggesting that it was due to cocking a shotgun hammer, while his
very academic registrar retaliated by finding a reference to it that
predated the advent of percussion caps in shotgun cartridges.
Still, I wouldn't necessarily believe what an orthopod says...
Prit
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