> > The History of the Middle Finger
> >
> > Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know
> > it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope
> > that they, too, will feel edified. Isn't history more fun when you know
> > something about it?
> >
> > 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 they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English
> > longbow 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! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to
> > say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed
> > to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction
> > with the one-finger-salute! 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.'
> >
> > AND TO THINK IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO OUR ENEMIES TODAY! And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.
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