I'm one of the dirty-fingernailed people. No, it's not a code word for anything. My fingernails really DO get dirty.
I do not get them manicured (although I wouldn't turn it down once - just to try it out) - nor do I cut them fast enough. They're strong as.. um.. nails. Women are jealous of their strength.
But they're dirty.
I look at them right now - it's the only dirty part of me. I'm a clean guy, really. I'm not sexy. I'm not hot, nor cool. I wash.
But the fingernails remain dirty.
Why?
I hope it's because of an absent minded professor kind of smarts.
People say they feel smarter when I help them with a problem. I don't make them feel stupid.
Computer on the blink? TV acting up? For some reason, people say, "Keeen!!! such-and-so-thing is BROKEN!' I come by, say, "Show me what's wrong". And... oops - suddenly, it works.
Weird, to me.
Must be stranger to them.
Sometimes I do have to fix something.
Wanna know the secret? Turn it off. Wait five seconds. Turn it on again.
I'm not the first dirty-fingernailed smart seeming person around.
But I'm the only one writing this message that nobody will read.
Howz that, then?