Fortunately, the foam finger has been around long enough that it will survive this incident. As for Miley Cyrus, let's hope she can outlive this event and also survive." ...

Miley Cyrus and her foam finger — onstage with Robin Thicke performing his "Blurred Lines" — provided can't-look-away moments at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP ...

The foam finger is Iowan Steve Chmelar's baby. He created it in 1971. So when Miley Cyrus began touching Robin Thicke's manhood and pantomiming digital penetration with her foam finger at the VMAs ...

He continues, "Fortunately, the foam finger has been around long enough that it will survive this incident. As for Miley Cyrus, let's hope she can outlive this event and also survive." ...

Now the inventor of the foam finger Miley used to, um, dance with during the VMAs is speaking out against the “We Can’t Stop” singer’s desecration of the No. 1 team-support novelty.

After all the finger wagging in the wake of Miley Cyrus' Video Music Awards performance, one giant foam finger (and the man who created an early version of it many years ago) is getting some ...