Elbow taken as six handbreadths; three to the elbow and three from the elbow to the shoulder. Another measure was the "cubit" (from "cubital"). This was taken to be the length of a man's arm from the elbow to the end of the middle finger. Though the elbow is similarly adapted for stability through a wide range of pronation-supination and flexion-extension in all apes, there are some minor differences. In arboreal apes such as orangutans, the large forearm muscles originating on the epicondyles of the humerus generate significant transverse forces on the elbow joint. The structure to resist these forces is
The finger him giving the middle finger to a photographer during a 1969 concert at San Quentin State Prison, released as "At San Quentin". However, the photo remained fairly obscure until 1998, when producer Rick Rubin made it the centerpiece of an ad in "Billboard" criticizing country radio for not giving airplay to Cash's Grammy-winning album "Unchained". Cameron Diaz made the gesture during a photo shoot for "Esquire". Harold Lloyd shot the finger to his own reflection in a Coney Island funhouse after getting paint on his suit in "Speedy", his final silent feature, from 1928. Athletes, including Stefan Effenberg, Ron Artest,