Cartoon hands: three fingers or four fingers? (fingers = number of non-thumb hand digits)

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closure

rong

I've since learned no one likes a distant poll closing date

I've also learned come people think of the thumb as a 'finger'

come people

I call the thumb a finger because of a trivial pursuit question over 20 years ago. Just because it's short and squat and single-jointed and opposable, why discriminate? Thumbists.

Wouldn't it be weird to have a thumb that was exactly like a finger?

imo, three fingers + one thumb is embedded deep in cartoon DNA, whereas four fingers and a thumb should be considered mutant and freakish anywhere outside of Prince Valiant or Mary Worth and other strips of their ilk.