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What the pluck..........
Middle Finger History aka MFH
        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 yew thought yew knew everything!!

'Ya'll take care'' --BJAY--

 

Although an interesting story, its not quite true. However if you watch the
British comedy you will notice that they use two fingers instead of the
American 1. The two finger salute would give more credit to the story than
the single finger. However follow the link and you'll see why this
interesting story is not quite true.

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.htm
--
Elmer McKeegan

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What the pluck..........
Middle Finger History aka MFH
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 yew thought yew knew everything!!

'Ya'll take care'' --BJAY--

 

(Elmer McKeegan)
Although an interesting story, its not quite
Although an interesting story, its not quite true. However if you watch
the British comedy you will notice that they use two fingers instead of
the American 1. The two finger salute would give more credit to the
story than the single finger. However follow the link and you'll see why
this interesting story is not quite true.
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.htm
-Elmer McKeegan


Yow, that's a good version as well.
But I think all 'us' southern boys, know the real deal about
‘‘giving the fanger-’’ and the instrumental use, of that
particular, mid fanger. heh-heh

'Ya'll take care'' --BJAY--

 

Obcene gestures come in many "finger forms".
Making a circle out of our thumb and index finger with the other 3 fingers
raised, means "OK" to us here in the US. That doesn't necessarily apply to
other countries though.
When Joe and I were stationed in Germany, a German friend told me not to
make that particular finger signal (the OK sign), because to them it meant I
was calling the other person an "asshole". She told me this *after* I had
already made that mistake and wondered why the German in another vehicle had
gotten so irrate after I signaled "OK" to him, when he motioned me to go on
ahead of him. She said it would have been better to flip him off, because
he probably would have found that humorous. Go figure.

Like the saying goes, "When in Rome...."

As for the MF Salute, if someone were to flip me the bird, I'd most likely
give the "feather" back to them. They wouldn't be worth the whole bird.

 

Bjay,obcene gestures come in many "finger forms". Making a circle out of
our thumb and index finger with the other 3 fingers raised, means "OK"
to us here in the US. That doesn't necessarily apply to other countries
though.
When Joe and I were stationed in Germany, a German friend told me not to
make that particular finger signal (the OK sign), because to them it
meant I was calling the other person an "asshole". She told me this
*after* I had already made that mistake and wondered why the German in
another vehicle had gotten so irrate after I signaled "OK" to him, when
he motioned me to go on ahead of him. She said it would have been better
to flip him off, because he probably would have found that humorous. Go
figure.
Like the saying goes, "When in Rome...."
As for the MF Salute, if someone were to flip me the bird, I'd most
likely give the "feather" back to them. They wouldn't be worth the whole
bird. Sunny-



That's funny, that you pissed off the german motorist, thinking you were
being nice, and so 4th.
Oh yow, I rmemeber, the first I'd heard that other cultures don't think
our good ole USA ''hand gesture OK'' is OKAY.
was when our troops arrived over there in the first Gulf War, in 1990.
They were told to not go around doing the ''okay sign'', that it was the
sign of calling them an assHole.
I think I recall that the ''OKay sign'' was started by the GI's in WWII.
bjay-

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