History About The Middle Finger
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 5:38 p.m. - Subject: History About The Middle Finger |
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History About The Middle Finger
Isn’t history more fun when you know something about it?
Giving the Finger
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the Renowned English longbow and therefore be incapable of fighting in the future.
This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew").
Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! "PLUCK YEW!"
Since ’pluck yew’ is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative ’F’, and thus the words often used in conjunction with the ne-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."
Pretty interesting, honn?
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 5:40 p.m. - Subject: |
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No. Not at all.
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'The Overlord'
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 5:49 p.m. - Subject: |
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Ahahaha! That is funny! You made a joke!
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BLOCKED, EXPIRES Oct 06, 2008
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 5:51 p.m. - Subject: |
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I saw this in Mail-Call.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 5:54 p.m. - Subject: |
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And this is not a joke, it’s a fact which we don’t really care about...
So fuck you noobtard for wasting our time.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:21 p.m. - Subject: |
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Sorry garlock, I’m straight.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:33 p.m. - Subject: |
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Too bad.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:35 p.m. - Subject: |
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that story made me laugh a little actually.
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:37 p.m. - Subject: |
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I’m always available Garlock. ;). Yea, but that’s KINDA cool. Not really though. Sorry dude.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:38 p.m. - Subject: |
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FALSE
You fail.
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'Mr. Boombastic'
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:43 p.m. - Subject: |
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Like I would read that.
Post it as an egg so I can zero it.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:46 p.m. - Subject: |
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The middle finger part is true i think. It was either that, or it was that the other soldiers would show their middle fingers to the captured ones once they where released at the end of the war.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:48 p.m. - Subject: |
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That is pretty interesting, and AE’s thing to.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 6:58 p.m. - Subject: |
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bullshit.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 7:03 p.m. - Subject: |
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I thought that was how V for victory was started.
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 7:18 p.m. - Subject: |
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It was V for VENDETTA you noob.
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'The Overlord'
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 7:24 p.m. - Subject: |
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Of course this tale t’isn’t true. Whoever wrote it was a very clever comedian, tho.
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 7:43 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: Of course this tale t’isn’t true. Whoever wrote it was a very clever comedian, tho.
Well, we all know I didn’t come up with it. I just copied and pasted. But how do you know for sure it’s not true?
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 7:54 p.m. - Subject: |
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Historians say otherwise.
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'The Overlord'
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| Posted: Jul 16, 2007 7:54 p.m. - Subject: |
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Uh, look at AE’s post for one. Two, don’t you have bullshit detectors? I do, and boy were they going off. Pluck yew? Hahahaha! That’s funny. Giving the bird? How coincidental. Very For Unlawful Carnal Knowlege-ing funny.
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