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"HOTTTTTTTTTT!" The aggrieved shout from the bathroom startled the two inhabitants of the dining area. A rapid stomping of feet heralded the door to the bathroom being flung open by an upset redhead clad only in a pair of towels wrapped tightly around her hair and torso. She leveled an accusing finger at Shinji. "That bath was too HOT!"
Advice and Trust, chapter 3

"You ever point your finger at me again, I'll break it off and shove it up your ass."
Al Reilly, Q & A (1990)

"Since Kennedy looked handsome on camera, he won the debates. But tricky Dick Nixon did get one up on Jack. After they shook hands before the debate, Nixon suddenly scowled and pointed his finger accusingly at Jack, making for a stern winning picture of what Adlai Stevenson liked to refer to as Richard the Black Hearted."
Gore Vidal on the 1960 U.S. Presidential debates, Point to Point Navigation

Jon: Do you not see that mouse?!
Garfield: Do you not know that it's impolite to point?!

Spider-Man '67: How dare you point at me!
Spider-Man 2099: You were pointing first!
Officer O'Malley: Which one pointed first?
J. Jonah Jameson: Spider-Man pointed first, obviously!

He thrust a forefinger at her. "Then let me manage! You get dressed. I'm taking you home. I'm going to give you a sleep-treatment. I'm going to get you a force-ray massage. When you wake up, you will eat, and eat what I order for you. If you disobey me in any of this, you will have to get another manager. Clear?"

Maro tapped the table and pointed at me, which was vaguely alarming until ART identified it as a gesture of empathic agreement.

Judge: Such a sense of power and intensity... It's enough to send a shiver down the spine of anyone being pointed at.
Luke: No puzzle is a match for the power of the professor's pointing finger!
Phoenix: (I guess no one remembers I'm known for pointing like that too...)

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