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Old June 22nd, 2007, 01:19 PM   #1
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The History of the Middle Finger!


Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know
it, and 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."

IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!

And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.
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Old June 22nd, 2007, 01:21 PM   #2
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lmao wow that was interesting
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lol
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Good joke! LOL
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lmao my father threatend to chop mine off last night
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Old June 22nd, 2007, 06:02 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by My'Stang0pens
lmao my father threatend to chop mine off last night
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Old June 22nd, 2007, 08:33 PM   #7
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this really isnt a joke... thats for real how it got started... good post WP!
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haha thats ownage

yo coastie

pluck yew!
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lol how are you gonna wtf face your own post?
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*sigh*
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pluck you MSO!

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pluck yew too!!

haha u like that fogged
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