Because if you look on the Florida map Pinellas County looks like a crooked thumb sticking out. That's why they called The Crooked thumb
Go there and have a beer or three.
Call them
Exactly correct
A SH woman wrote a book about Pinellas County. In it she related the shape of Pinellas as a Crooked thumb. The CT owners read the book and used that simile.
Nothing to do with him.
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