Opposable

But only probably 2% of that 2% would be likely to click on this article in the gaming section (called Opposable Thumbs), a review of a game called Prototype which features a paragraph describing it thusly:

Long or Short Capital 2009

If I’d spent all this time writing a children’s book about an industrious Central Park squirrel that learns to drive a city bus, I would be no less surprised to have dropped off my manuscript at the publisher and then stepped on the M104 to find Chippy the Opposable-Thumbed Squirrel at the wheel than to find Congress passing laws denying people the right to file a writ of habeas corpus in 2006.

Nathan Englander - An interview with author 2010

Opposable thumbs have unintended consequences, I guess.

Think Progress » Kerry: ‘The only thing Republicans say yes to are Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, tea partiers, and Fox News.’ 2010

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Daughter of Curse You, Opposable Thumbs | Live Granades 2010

Opposable Thumbs: Just to be clear, you would prefer people went around nude in public buildings?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Government as Proprietor, and the Second Amendment 2009

Opposable big toes and nail-bearing tips on the fingers and toes confirm the fossil is a primate, and a foot bone called the talus bone links Ida directly to humans, Hurum said.

47 Million Year Old Primate Fossil Discovered | Impact Lab 2009

He cites the recent popularity of several books, such as Daniel Pink's "A Whole New Mind -- Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future" (never mind that the idea of ruling anything, much less the future, is entirely left brain), Roger Martin's "The Opposable Mind," and his own book, "The Laws of Simplicity," which has been translated into 14 languages.

Design for Learning: RISD 2008

Aside from the “Opposable Thumbs” chick pic at the end, that was a complete waste of time.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Coleco to do a new console? 2005

BONADUCE: Opposable thumbs is what separates me from wolves, and that ` s all.

CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007 2007

Opposable thumbs, big brains, civilization/technology/control firmly in place.

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