History of the middle Finger.
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The history of the middle finger
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?
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 they would 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 hanged 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 everything!
By Mistyblue.
Was reading through some past threads and thought this was really interesting and thought u retards out there would like to be enlightened by this extraordinary fact which even the great WAATTAA! nv knew. kudos to Mistyblue. -
but the origin of "Fuck you" is yet a different story, how come?
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Fornication under consent by the King?Originally posted by the.raven:but the origin of "Fuck you" is yet a different story, how come?
please enlighten us all...
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wad's the origin?Originally posted by the.raven:but the origin of "Fuck you" is yet a different story, how come?
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yea how did that come about? =)Originally posted by the.raven:but the origin of "Fuck you" is yet a different story, how come? -
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huh simi?
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History of the f-word
http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/history.htm -
people probaly twisted it around and hence the word got mix up together with the middle finger..
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because at tt time, having sex in england is a crime without the king's permission. so when ppl got his consent to do it, they will hang a sign which reads 'fornication under the consent of the king' at their door so that other ppl won't disturb them...