YOU'LL NEVER GUESS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR BODY

And you thought it was the brain...! No, silly, the best part of your body is your index finger. In recent years it has clearly surpassed even the always-popular middle-finger salute. Lets consider...

* In sports, the index finger is jubilantly raised with every score. Why? Usually to roar to the world that we-are-the-one! Occasionally to point to the god the scorer believes in. Either way, that jutting index finger speaks valiant volumes

* In rock concerts, the index finger is periodically aimed right into the audience. It says this-one-is-for-you-baby or hey-take-a-good-look-at-the-privilege-of-me

* In politics, it's deployed as a challenge or a call. It jabs the air in front of your audience whenever you wish to make the point bigger (or perhaps whenever the point you're making needs some fury to fudge your facts)

* In courts, the index finger is usually the weapon of choice for the attorneys who are portraying the accused or defendant with words that need an exclamation mark for the jury

* In the streets, the index finger is what squeezes the weapons the dangerous few use to control the innocent many

* In every day life -- now here is where the human index finger has found its greatest destiny....! It's used day and night to command our world with our ever-ready universal remote! to text our friends! to access our Kindles and koodles and whatever other exotic whatchamacallits we just had to absolutely have!. Oh my friends, that little index finger is today master of all it surveys

Which brings us back to our initial assumption that the brain is the most important. You see now? How silly of us!